Southern Rural Sociological Association
...an educational and scientific organization established to foster the study, understanding, and application of rural sociology in the South.
2022-2023 President Anne Cafer
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Population Studies
The University of Mississippi
Lamar 543, P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677-1848
Phone: 662-915-7433
Email: amcafer@olemiss.edu
2021-2022 President
Buddhi Gyawali
Associate Professor of Geospatial Applications
College of Agriculture, Food Science & Sustainable Systems
Kentucky State University
Cooperative Extension Building, Room 225
400 East Main Street
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-597-6029
Email: buddhi.gyawali@kysu.edu
2020-2021 President
David Nii O. Tackie
Research Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
104 Morrison Mayberry Hall
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL 36088
Phone: 334-727-8813
2019-2020 Louisville, Kentucky-Jin Young Choi, Sam Houston State University
2018-2019-Birmingham, Alabama-John J. Green, University of Mississippi
2015-2016-Jacksonville, Florida-Marion Simon, Kentucky State University
2016-2017-Mobile, Alabama-
2014-2015-Robert Zabawa, Tuskegee University
2013-2014-Keiko Tanaka, University of Kentucky
2012-2013-Andrew Zekeri, Tuskegee University
2011-2012-Thomas Gray, USDA Rural Development
2010-11 - Anna Kleiner, Southeastern Louisiana University
2009-10 - Terrence W. Thomas, North Carolina A&T University
2008-09 - Gene Theodori, Sam Houston State University
2007-08 - Enefiok Ekanem, Tennessee State University
2006-07 - Don Albrecht, Texas A & M University
2005-06 - Patricia H. Dyk, University of Kentucky
2004-05 - Ntam Baharanyi, Tuskegee University
2003-04 - Glenn D. Israel, University of Florida
2002-03 - Douglas H. Constance, Sam Houston University
2001-02 - Donald R. McDowell, North Carolina A&T University
2000-01 - Jack Thigpen, North Carolina State University
1999-00 - Rosalind P. Harris, University of Kentucky
1998-99 - Robert L. Moxley, North Carolina State University
1997-98 - Dreamal I. Worthen, Florida A & M
1996-97 - Libby V. Morris, University of Georgia
1995-96 - Nathaniel B. Brown, Fort Valley State
1994-95 - Tom Ilvento, University of Kentucky
1993-94 - Gladys Lyles, Tuskegee University
1992-93 - Quentin A.L. Jenkins, Louisiana State University
1991-92 - John K. Thomas, Texas A & M
1990-91 - Rusty Brooks, University of Georgia
1989-90 - Alton Thompson, North Carolina A & T
1988-89 - Peggy J. Ross, Economic Research Service, USDA
1987-88 - E. Yvonne Beauford, Fort Valley State
1986-87 - Lionel J. (B0) Beaulieu, University of Florida
1985-86 - Howard Ladewig
1984-85 - G. Richard Wetherill, U.S. Forest Service
1983-84 - Ronald C. Wimberley, North Carolina State University
1982-83 - Gerald C. Wheelock, Alabama A&M University
1981-82 - Wolf Frese, Mississippi State University
1980-81 - Bill Boykin,
1979-80 - Ed McLean, Clemson University
1978-79 - Harsha Mookherjee, Tennessee Tech University
1977-78 - Virginia Purtle, Christopher Newport University
1976-77 - Max Miller,
1975-76 - Art Cosby, Mississippi State University
1974-75 - V.A. Boyd,
1973-74 - Maurie Voland,
1972-73 - Ray Sollie,
1971-72 - John Dunkelburger, Auburn University
1970-71 - Bill Kuvlesky
1969-70 - Dan Alleger,
1968-69 - Dan Alleger,