The American Academy of Political and Social Science is governed by a Board of Directors, which sets broad policies and priorities.The Board includes:
Kenneth Prewitt, President
Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University
Dominique Brossard
Professor and Chair, Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin
Janet Currie, Treasurer
Susan Fiske
Eugene Higgin Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Claudine Gay
Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences; Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University
Rodney Hero
Raul Yzaguirre Chair, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Sherman James
Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Duke University
David Leonhardt
Columnist, The New York Times
Rebecca Maynard, Chair
Professor Emerita of Education and Social Policy , University of Pennsylvania
Paula D. McClain
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Professor of Public Policy; Dean, Graduate School, Duke University
Suzanne Mettler
John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University
Mary Ann Meyers, Secretary
Senior Fellow, The John Templeton Foundation
Dorothy E. Roberts
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Mary Waters
John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard University