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<html> <head> <title>American Academy of Political and Social Science</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> American Academy of Political and Social Science PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION Founded 1889. "The AAPSS seeks to promote the progress of the social sciences and the use of social science knowledge in the enrichment of public understanding and in the development of public policy. It does so by fostering multidisciplinary understanding of important questions among those who create, disseminate, and apply the social sciences, and by encouraging and celebrating talented people who produce and use research to enhance public understanding of important social problems." Official Website: <a href="http://www.aapss.org/">http://www.aapss.org/</a> Location: <a href="/geo/659/000069452/" class=proflink>Philadelphia, PA</a> Founding Date: 1889<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/183/000129793/">Sissela Bok</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ethicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000275654/">Edward Bouchet</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1918</tt></td> <td>First African-American PhD</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000206772/">Emmet D. Boyle</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jan-1926</tt></td> <td>Governor of Nevada, 1915-23</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000166975/">Stephen B. Burbank</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>UPenn Law Professor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000165448/">Amy Gutmann</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/429/000026351/">Herbert Hoover</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1964</tt></td> <td>31st US President, 1929-33</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000135674/">Kathleen Hall Jamieson</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Annenberg Public Policy Center</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000361227/">Robert Jervis</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000207059/">Thomas Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Labor Leader</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1963</tt></td> <td>UMW President, 1960-63</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000365940/">Robert O. Keohane</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>After Hegemony</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/057/000170544/">Morris E. Leeds</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1952</tt></td> <td>Leeds & Northrup Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000208894/">Breckinridge Long</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1958</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/912/000208288/">Elinor Ostrom</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-2012</tt></td> <td>Common-pool resources</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/018/000166517/">Nell Irvin Painter</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Creating Black Americans</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000206431/">Jaroslav Pelikan</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-2006</tt></td> <td>The Christian Tradition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000080589/">Frances Perkins</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1965</tt></td> <td>First female US cabinet member</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000049747/">Diane Ravitch</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Education reformer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000360497/">Nicholas J. Spykman</a></td> <td><center>Geographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td>Godfather of Containment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000366847/">Alfred Holt Stone</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1955</tt></td> <td>Studies in the American Race Problem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000165421/">Lester Frank Ward</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1841</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1913</tt></td> <td>Dynamic Sociology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000208289/">Oliver E. Williamson</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Transaction cost economics</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=165447" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/672/000000672/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/672/672/s672.jpg" width=128> Ohio delivered for Bush</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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