Between 1886 and 1960, the presidents of the American
Philological Association (APhA) came from 30 institutions, while
the presidents from the American Economic Association (AŒA)
came from 22 (in both cases, the institution is counted as the one
to which the person had affiliation upon beginning to serve his
or term). Since 1960, presidents from the APhA have hailed from
30 institutions while those of the AŒA have hailed from just
17.
The following figure presents the number of institutions
to which presidents of the respective associations were affiliated
in the year of their election over rolling ten-year periods from
the founding of each association until 2011. For the APhA, nine
different institutions were represented in the median rolling decade
- that is, in a given decade, about two presidents were affiliated
with the same institution. For the AŒA, seven different institutions
were represented, and the ten presidents of the AŒA who served
during 1993-2002 came from just four institutions.
Figure. Presidents’ Institutional Affiliation,
1879–2011
(Rolling ten-year tally ending in the indicated
year)
Sources: AŒA,
APhA.
