President
Professor Helen Sullivan
Crawford School of Public Policy
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
helen.sullivan@anu.edu.au
Immediate Past President
Professor Rodney Smith
Department of Government and International Relations
The University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006
rodney.smith@sydney.edu.au
Vice President
Professor Jim Jose
Newcastle Business School (Politics)
The University of Newcastle
Newcastle NSW 2300
jim.jose@newcastle.edu.au
Secretary / Treasurer (2019-2022)
Associate Professor Paul Fawcett
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
paul.fawcett@unimelb.edu.au
Ordinary EC Member (2018 – 2021)
Professor Duncan McDonnell
School of Government and International Relations
Griffith University
Nathan QLD 4111
d.mcdonnell@griffth.edu.au
Ordinary EC Member (2019-2022)
Dr Peter Tangney
College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Flinders University
Bedford Park SA 5042
peter.tangney@flinders.edu.au
Ordinary EC Member (2020 – 2023)
Dr Narelle Miragliotta
Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3800
narelle.miragliotta@monash.edu
Australian Journal of Political Science Co-editor
(2021-2024)
Associate Professor Anika Gauja
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006
anika.gauja@sydney.edu.au
Women’s Caucus Representative (2018-2021)
Dr Jill Shepherd
Centre for Social Research and Methods &
School of Politics and International Relations
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
jill.sheppard@anu.edu.au
APSA Standing Committee on International Relations Representative (2019-2021)
Dr William Clapton
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences
University of New South Wales
Kensington NSW 2052
w.clapton@unsw.edu.au
Postgraduate Caucus Representative (2020-2021)
Sofia Ammassari
School of Government and International Relations
Griffith University
Nathan QLD 4111
sofia.ammassari@griffithuni.edu.au
First Peoples’ Politics Forum Representative (2019-2020)
Dr Sana Nakata
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
snakata@unimelb.edu.au
APSA Executive Assistant
Dr Lei Yu
APSA National Office, School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Room E561, John Medley Building, Parkville VIC 3010
arts-ssps-apsa@unimelb.edu.au
Former APSA Presidents
- Douglas McCallum 1955-66 (UNSW)
- Colin Hughes 1966-67 (Qld)
- Hugo Wolfsohn 1967-68 (La Trobe)
- G.S.Reid 1968-69 (UWA)
- W.A.Townsley 1969-70 (Tasmania)
- T.H. Rigby 1970-71 (ANU)
- R.M. Martin 1971-72 (La Trobe)
- David Corbett 1972-73 (Flinders)
- R.H.Brookes 1973-74 (VUW)
- Roger Scott 1974-75 (Canberra CAE)
- Joan Rydon 1975-76 (La Trobe)
- Colin Tatz 1976-77 (UNE)
- Neal Blewett 1977-78 (Flinders)
- Geoffrey Hawker 1978-79 (Canberra CAE)
- Don Aitkin 1979-80 (ANU)
- Carole Pateman 1980-81 (Sydney)
- Peter Loveday 1981-82 (ANU)
- Elaine Thompson 1982-83 (UNSW)
- Peter Boyce 1983-84 (UWA)
- David Goldsworthy 1984-85 (LaTrobe)
- Marian Sawer 1985-86 (Foreign Affairs)
- John Warhurst 1986-87 (UNE)
- Dean Jaensch 1987-88 (Flinders)
- Campbell Sharman 1988-89 (UWA)
- Richard Higgott 1989-90 (ANU)
- Pat Weller 1990-91 (Griffith)
- Leslie Holmes 1991-92 (Melbourne)
- Marian Simms 1992-93 (ANU)
- Aynsley Kellow 1993-94 (Tasmania)
- Martin Painter 1994-95 (Sydney)
- Graham Maddox 1995-96 (UNE)
- Barry Hindess 1996-97 (ANU)
- Andrew Parkin 1997-98 (Flinders)
- Carol Johnson 1998-99 (Adelaide)
- Mark Considine 1999-2000 (Melbourne)
- Helena Catt 2000-01 (Auckland)
- John Wanna 2001-02 (Griffith)
- Verity Burgmann 2002-03 (Melbourne)
- Murray Goot 2003-04 (Macquarie)
- Judith Brett 2004-05 (LaTrobe)
- Brian Galligan 2005-06 (Melbourne)
- Deborah Brennan 2006-07 (Sydney)
- James Walter 2007-08 (Monash)
- Ann Capling 2008-09 (Melbourne)
- Alan Fenna 2009-10 (Curtin)
- Kath Gelber 2010-11 (UNSW/Queensland)
- Adrian Little 2011-12 (Melbourne)
- Stephanie Lawson 2012- 13 (Macquarie)
- Brian Head 2013-14 (Queensland)
- Linda Botterill 2014-2015 (Canberra)
- Adrian Kay 2015-2016 (Canberra)
- Jenny Lewis 2016-2017 (Melbourne)
- AJ Brown 2017-2018 (Griffith)
- Sarah Maddison 2018-2019 (Melbourne)
- Rodney Smith 2019-2020 (Sydney)