Year Keynote Speaker
2006 John Macionis
2005 Nancy Denton
2004 Jonathan H. Turner
2003 Richard D. Alba
2002 Elizabeth G. Cohen
2001 Earl Babbie
2000 Dennis Wrong
1999 Louis Kriesberg
1998 Judith Lorber
1997 Jeffery Noyes
1996 George Zito
1995 Irving Louis Horowitz
1994 Murray Strauss
1993 Immanuel Wallerstein
1991 Jeff Noyes and Doris Wester Miga
1990 Charles V. Willie
1989 William Kornblum
1988 William C. McCord
1986 Alfred McClung Lee
1985 Robert Merton
1984 Amitai Etizioni
1983 Arthur J. Vidic
1982 J. Milton Yinger
1981 Robin M. Williams, Jr.
1979 Lewis M. Killian
1978 Alfred McClung Lee
1977 Lord Albert Murray, M.P.
1976 Irwin Deutscher
1975 Alfred McClung Lee
1974 Rose L. Coser
1973 Lewis A. Coser
1972 John Weakland
1971 Emanual A. Schegloff
1969 Peter Munch
1968 Irwin T. Sanders
1965 George C. Homans