# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Social and political sciences)

This list is a subsection of theList of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of theUnited StatesNational Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.

## Social and political sciences

| Name | Institution | Year |
| Richard Alba | CUNY Graduate Center | 2020 |
| John Aldrich | Duke University | 2024 |
| Gabriel Almond (d. 2002) | Stanford University | 1977 |
| Luc Anselin | University of Chicago | 2008 |
| Robert Axelrod | University of Michigan | 1986 |
| William O. Aydelotte (d. 1996) | University of Iowa | 1974 |
| Larry Bartels | Vanderbilt University | 2012 |
| Hubert M. Blalock Jr. (d. 1991) | University of Washington | 1976 |
| Peter Blau (d. 2002) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1980 |
| Lawrence Bobo | Stanford University | 2004 |
| Allan Bogue (d. 2016) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1985 |
| John Bongaarts | Population Council | 2002 |
| Kenneth E. Boulding (d. 1993) | University of Colorado Boulder | 1975 |
| Larry Bumpass | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2001 |
| Angus Campbell (d. 1980) | University of Michigan | 1980 |
| Donald T. Campbell (d. 1996) | Lehigh University | 1973 |
| Andrew Cherlin | Johns Hopkins University | 2016 |
| Nicholas Christakis | Yale University | 2024 |
| Ansley J. Coale (d. 2002) | Princeton University | 1973 |
| James Coleman (d. 1995) | University of Chicago | 1972 |
| Dalton Conley | Princeton University | 2018 |
| Philip Converse (d. 2014) | University of Michigan | 1973 |
| Karen Cook | Stanford University | 2007 |
| Gary W. Cox | University of California, San Diego | 2005 |
| Eileen M. Crimmins | University of Southern California | 2016 |
| Karl Deutsch (d. 1992) | Harvard University | 1976 |
| Paul DiMaggio | New York University | 2022 |
| Greg Duncan | University of California, Irvine | 2010 |
| Jorge Durand | University of Guadalajara | 2004 |
| Richard Easterlin | University of Southern California | 2002 |
| Kathryn Edin | Princeton University | 2014 |
| Paula England | New York University Abu Dhabi | 2018 |
| James Fearon | Stanford University | 2012 |
| Richard Fenno (d. 2020) | University of Rochester | 1983 |
| John Ferejohn | Stanford University | 1988 |
| Morris Fiorina | Stanford University | 1998 |
| Ronald Freedman (d. 2007) | University of Michigan | 1974 |
| Noreen Goldman | Princeton University | 2024 |
| Leo Goodman | University of California, Berkeley | 1974 |
| Mark Granovetter | Stanford University | 2020 |
| Robert Groves | Georgetown University | 2011 |
| John L. Hagan | Northwestern University | 2017 |
| Kathleen Harris | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2014 |
| Robert M. Hauser | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1984 |
| Albert O. Hirschman (d. 1987) | Institute for Advanced Study | 1987 |
| George C. Homans (d. 1989) | Harvard University | 1972 |
| James House | University of Michigan | 2007 |
| Michael Hout | University of California, Berkeley | 2003 |
| Vincent Hutchings | University of Michigan | 2022 |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson | University of Pennsylvania | 2020 |
| Alex Inkeles (d. 2010) | Stanford University | 1981 |
| Christopher Jencks | Harvard University | 1997 |
| Robert Jervis (d. 2021) | Columbia University | 2021 |
| Arne L. Kalleberg | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2024 |
| Robert Keohane | Princeton University | 2005 |
| Ronald C. Kessler | Harvard University | 2008 |
| Nathan Keyfitz (d. 2010) | Harvard University | 1997 |
| Donald Kinder | University of Michigan | 2017 |
| Gary King | Harvard University | 2010 |
| Thomas Kuhn (d. 1996) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1979 |
| David D. Laitin | Stanford University | 2007 |
| Ronald Lee | University of California, Berkeley | 1992 |
| Margaret Levi | Stanford University | 2015 |
| Stanley Lieberson (d. 2018) | Harvard University | 1992 |
| Seymour Martin Lipset (d. 2006) | Stanford University | 1973 |
| James G. March (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1973 |
| Robert D. Mare (d. 2021) | University of California, Los Angeles | 2010 |
| Douglas Massey | Princeton University | 1998 |
| David R. Mayhew | Yale University | 2013 |
| Richard McKelvey (d. 2002) | California Institute of Technology | 1993 |
| Sara McLanahan (d. 2021) | Princeton University | 2011 |
| David Mechanic | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 1991 |
| Jane Menken | University of Colorado at Boulder | 1989 |
| Robert K. Merton (d. 2003) | Columbia University | 1968 |
| Helen Milner | Princeton University | 2019 |
| Robert A. Moffitt | Johns Hopkins University | 2019 |
| Susan Murphy | Harvard University | 2016 |
| Diana Mutz | University of Pennsylvania | 2021 |
| Ernest Nagel (d. 1978) | Columbia University | 1985 |
| Theodore Newcomb (d. 1984) | University of Michigan | 1974 |
| Johan Olsen | University of Oslo | 2011 |
| Bernice A. Pescosolido | Indiana University | 2021 |
| Alejandro Portes | Princeton University | 2000 |
| Samuel H. Preston | University of Pennsylvania | 1987 |
| Adam Przeworski | New York University | 2021 |
| Robert Putnam | Harvard University | 2001 |
| Adrian Raftery | University of Washington | 2009 |
| Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa | University of Antananarivo | 2006 |
| Stephen Raudenbush | University of Chicago | 2012 |
| Barbara Reskin | University of Washington | 2006 |
| William H. Riker (d. 1993) | University of Rochester | 1993 |
| Matilda White Riley (d. 2004) | Bowdoin College | 1994 |
| Luis Rosero-Bixby | University of California, Berkeley | 2013 |
| Robert Sampson | Harvard University | 2006 |
| Gary Segura | University of California, Los Angeles | 2023 |
| William H. Sewell (d. 2001) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1976 |
| Kenneth Shepsle | Harvard University | 1990 |
| Beth A. Simmons | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Burton Singer | Princeton University | 1994 |
| Theda Skocpol | Harvard University | 2008 |
| Brian Skyrms | University of California, Irvine | 1999 |
| Mario Luis Small | Columbia University | 2022 |
| Neil Smelser (d. 2017) | University of California, Berkeley | 1993 |
| Susan Stokes | University of Chicago | 2022 |
| Charles Tilly (d. 2008) | Columbia University | 1981 |
| Florencia Torche | Princeton University | 2020 |
| James Vaupel (d. 2022) | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research | 2004 |
| Sidney Verba (d. 2019) | Harvard University | 1983 |
| Kenneth Wachter | University of California, Berkeley | 1999 |
| Barbara F. Walter | University of California, San Diego | 2023 |
| Mary C. Waters | Harvard University | 2010 |
| Duncan J. Watts | University of Pennsylvania | 2023 |
| Barry Weingast | Stanford University | 2011 |
| Bruce Western | Columbia University | 2015 |
| Harrison White (d. 2024) | Columbia University | 1975 |
| David R. Williams | Harvard University | 2019 |
| Robin Murphy Williams (d. 2006) | University of California, Irvine | 1982 |
| William Julius Wilson | Harvard University | 1991 |
| Yu Xie | University of Michigan | 2009 |
| Min Zhou | University of California, Los Angeles | 2023 |