# List of presidents of the American Philological Association

This is a list of presidents of the American Philological Association, which in 2013 changed its name to the Society for Classical Studies.

## Presidents

| Term | Name |
| 1870 | William Dwight Whitney |
| 1871 | Howard Crosby |
| 1872 | William Watson Goodwin |
| 1873 | Asahel C. Kendrick |
| 1874 | Francis A. March |
| 1875 | J. Hammond Trumbull |
| 1876 | Albert Harkness |
| 1877 | Samuel Stehman Haldeman |
| 1878 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve |
| 1879 | Jotham B. Sewall |
| 1880 | Crawford H. Toy |
| 1881 | Lewis R. Packard |
| 1882 | Frederic D. Allen |
| 1883 | Milton W. Humphreys |
| 1884 | Martin Luther D'Ooge |
| 1885 | William Watson Goodwin |
| 1886 | Tracy Peck |
| 1887 | Augustus C. Merriam |
| 1888 | Isaac Hollister Hall |
| 1889 | Thomas Day Seymour |
| 1890 | Charles R. Lanman |
| 1891 | Julius Sachs |
| 1892 | Samuel Hart |
| 1893 | William Gardner Hale |
| 1894 | James M. Garnett |
| 1895 | John Henry Wright |
| 1895 | Francis A. March |
| 1897 | Bernadotte Perrin |
| 1898 | Minton Warren |
| 1899 | Clement Lawrence Smith (de) |
| 1900 | Abby Leach |
| 1901 | Samuel Ball Platner |
| 1902 | Andrew Fleming West |
| 1903 | Charles Forster Smith |
| 1904 | George Hempl |
| 1905 | Herbert Weir Smyth |
| 1906 | Elmer Truesdell Merrill |
| 1907 | Francis W. Kelsey |
| 1908 | Charles E. Bennett |
| 1909 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve |
| 1910 | Paul Shorey |
| 1911 | John Carew Rolfe |
| 1912 | Thomas Dwight Goodell |
| 1913 | Harold North Fowler |
| 1914 | Edward Capps (de) |
| 1915 | Edward Parmelee Morris |
| 1916 | Carl Darling Buck |
| 1917 | Frank Gardner Moore |
| 1918 | Frank Frost Abbott |
| 1919 | John Adams Scott |
| 1920 | Clifford Herschel Moore |
| 1921 | Walton Brooks McDaniel (de) |
| 1922 | Francis Greenleaf Allinson (de) |
| 1923 | Edward Kennard Rand (de) |
| 1924 | Samuel Eliot Bassett (de) |
| 1925 | Gordon Jennings Laing |
| 1926 | Henry Rushton Fairclough |
| 1927 | Frank Cole Babbitt |
| 1928 | Clarence Powers Bill |
| 1929 | Tenney Frank |
| 1930 | Charles Burton Gulick |
| 1931 | Henry Washington Prescott |
| 1932 | Ivan Mortimer Linforth |
| 1933 | Campell Bonner |
| 1934 | Elizabeth Hazelton Haight |
| 1935 | Berthold Louis Ullman |
| 1936 | George Lincoln Hendrickson (de) |
| 1937 | Henry Arthur Sanders |
| 1938 | William Abbott Oldfather |
| 1939 | Austin Morris Harmon |
| 1940 | Arthur Stanley Pease |
| 1941 | George Miller Calhoun (de) |
| 1942 | Lily Ross Taylor |
| 1943 | Marbury Bladen Ogle |
| 1944 | John Garrett Winter |
| 1945 | George Depue Hadzsits |
| 1946 | Levi Arnold Post (de) |
| 1947 | Norman Wentworth DeWitt |
| 1948 | Cornelia Catlin Coulter |
| 1949 | William Hardy Alexander |
| 1950 | Lucius Rogers Shero |
| 1951 | William Chase Greene |
| 1952 | Jakob Larsen |
| 1953 | Benjamin Dean Meritt |
| 1954 | Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton |
| 1955 | Harry Caplan |
| 1956 | George E. Duckworth |
| 1957 | C. Bradford Welles |
| 1958 | Gertrude Smith |
| 1959 | Robert J. Getty |
| 1960 | Louis A. MacKay |
| 1951 | Robert S. Rogers |
| 1962 | Inez Scott Ryberg |
| 1963 | Howard Comfort |
| 1964 | Gerald F. Else |
| 1965 | Dorothy Mae Robathan |
| 1966 | John Lewis Heller |
| 1967 | Phillip H. De Lacy |
| 1968 | Frederick M. Combellack |
| 1969 | Herbert Bloch |
| 1970 | Malcolm F. McGregor |
| 1971 | Edward Togo Salmon |
| 1972 | Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels |
| 1973 | William Hailey Willis |
| 1974 | Harry Louis Levy |
| 1975 | James Henry Oliver |
| 1976 | Helen North |
| 1977 | William S. Anderson |
| 1978 | Frank O. Copley |
| 1979 | George A. Kennedy |
| 1980 | Bernard M. W. Knox |
| 1981 | Michael H. Jameson |
| 1982 | Michael C. J. Putnam |
| 1983 | Zeph Stewart |
| 1984 | Gordon M. Kirkwood |
| 1985 | Helen H. Bacon |
| 1986 | George P. Goold |
| 1987 | Martin Ostwald |
| 1988 | W. Robert Connor |
| 1989 | Thomas G. Rosenmeyer |
| 1990 | John Peradotto |
| 1991 | Gregory Nagy |
| 1992 | Erich Gruen |
| 1993 | Ludwig Koenen (de) |
| 1994 | Charles P. Segal (de) |
| 1995 | Emily Townsend Vermeule |
| 1996 | Robert A. Kaster |
| 1997 | Susan Treggiari |
| 1998 | Helene P. Foley |
| 1999 | David Konstan |
| 2000 | Julia Haig Gaisser |
| 2001 | Kenneth J. Reckford |
| 2002 | Michael Gagarin |
| 2003 | James J. O'Donnell |
| 2004 | Elaine Fantham |
| 2005 | Eleanor Winsor Leach |
| 2006 | Jenny Strauss Clay |
| 2007 | Ruth Scodel |
| 2008 | Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| 2009 | Josiah Ober |
| 2010 | Dee L. Clayman |
| 2011 | Kathleen M. Coleman |
| 2012 | Jeffrey Henderson |
| 2013 | Denis Feeney |
| 2014 | Kathryn Gutzwiller |
| 2015 | John Marincola |
| 2016 | Roger S. Bagnall |
| 2017 | S. Georgia Nugent |
| 2018 | Joseph Farrell |
| 2019 | Mary T. Boatwright |
| 2020 | Sheila Murnaghan |
| 2021 | Shelley P. Haley |
| 2022 | Matthew Santirocco |
| 2023 | Matthew Roller |
| 2024 | Alison Keith |
| 2025 | Kirk Ormand |
| 2026 | Ralph Rosen |