The Society for the Study of Social Problems

The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)

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Founded	1951
Founder	Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee
Type	Professional Organization
Focus	Pursuit of Social Justice through Social Research
Location	University of Tennessee 901 McClung Tower Knoxville, TN 37996-0490 United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Dr. Héctor L. Delgado, Executive Officer Michele Smith Koontz, Administrative Officer & Meeting Manager
Publication	Social Problems
Website	www.sssp1.org

The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), founded in 1951 by Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee, is a non-profit interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in the application of critical, scientific, and humanistic perspectives to the study of vital social problems.

SSSP Presidents

The following is a list of Presidents of the Society from its founding in 1951 to 2018.

#	Name	Term
1	Ernest W. Burgess, University of Chicago	1952–53
2	Alfred McClung Lee, Brooklyn College	1953–54
3	Herbert Blumer, University of California, Berkeley	1954–55
4	Arnold M. Rose, University of Minnesota	1955–56
5	Mabel Elliott, Chatham College	1956–57
6	Byron Fox, Syracuse University	1957–58
7	Richard Schermerhorn, Western Reserve University	1958–59
8	Alfred R. Lindesmith, Indiana University	1959–60
9	Alvin W. Gouldner, Washington University	1960–61
10	Marshall B. Clinard, University of Wisconsin	1961–62
11	Marvin B. Sussman, Western Reserve University	1962–63
12	Jessie Bernard, Pennsylvania State University	1963–64
13	Irwin Deutscher, Syracuse University	1964–65
14	Howard S. Becker, Northwestern University	1965–66
15	Melvin Tumin, Princeton University	1966–67
16	Lewis Coser, Brandeis University	1967–68
17	Albert J. Reiss, Jr., University of Michigan	1968–69
18	Raymond W. Mack, Northwestern University	1969–70
19	Kai Erikson, Yale University	1970–71
20	Albert K. Cohen, University of Connecticut	1971–72
21	Edwin M. Lemert, University of California-Davis	1972–73
22	Rose Coser, SUNY-Stony Brook	1973–74
23	Stanton Wheeler, Yale Law School	1974–75
24	S.M. Miller, Boston University	1975–76
25	Bernard Beck, Northwestern University	1976–77
26	Jacqueline Wiseman, University of California-San Diego	1977–78
27	John I. Kitsuse, University of California-Santa Cruz	1978–79
28	Frances Fox Piven, Boston University	1979–80
29	James E. Blackwell, University of Massachusetts-Boston	1980–81
30	Egon Bittner, Brandeis University	1981–82
31	Helena Z. Lopata, Loyola University-Chicago	1982–83
32	Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University	1983–84
33	Joan W. Moore, University of Wisconsin	1984–85
34	Rodolfo Alvarez, University of California-Los Angeles	1985–86
35	Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Northwestern University	1986–87
36	Doris Y. Wilkinson, University of Kentucky	1987–88
37	Joseph R. Gusfield, University of California-San Diego	1988–89
38	Murray Straus, University of New Hampshire	1989–90
39	James A. Geschwender, SUNY-Binghamton	1990–91
40	Stephen J. Pfohl, Boston College	1991–92
41	William Chambliss, George Washington University	1992–93
42	Barbara Katz Rothman, CUNY-Baruch College	1993–94
43	James D. Orcutt, Florida State University	1994–95
44	Peter Conrad, Brandeis University	1995–96
45	Pamela A. Roby, University of California-Santa Cruz	1996–97
46	Beth B. Hess, County College of Morris	1997–98
47	Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California-Berkeley	1998–99
48	Robert Perrucci, Purdue University	1999-00
49	John F. Galliher, Missouri University-Columbia	2000–01
50	Joel Best, University of Delaware	2001–02
51	Nancy C. Jurik, Arizona State University	2002–03
52	Kathleen J. Ferraro, Northern Arizona University	2003–04
53	Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University	2004–05
54	Claire M. Renzetti, University of Dayton	2005–06
55	Valerie Jenness, University of California - Irvine	2006–07
56	Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut	2007–08
57	Steven E. Barkan, University of Maine	2008–09
58	JoAnn L. Miller, Purdue University	2009–10
59	A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton College	2010–11
60	Wendy Simonds, Georgia State University	2011–12
61	R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College	2012–13
62	Anna Maria Santiago, Case Western Reserve University	2013–14
63	Marlese Durr, Wright University	2014–15
64	David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine	2015–16
65	Donileen R. Loseke, University of South Florida	2016–17
66	Luis A. Fernandez, Northern Arizona University	2017–18

Further reading

• Galliher, John F., and James M. Galliher. 1995. Marginality and Dissent in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: The Case of Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee. Albany: SUNY Press.

External links

• Official website
• Information about Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee