Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, became the Association's 100th president on August 30th at the Association's annual Business Meeting. Outgoing APSA President Theda Skocpol of Harvard University presented Rudolph with the Association gavel, marking the first time in the Association's history that a standing woman president passed the gavel to an incoming woman president. Joining Rudoloph in guiding the Association are six new officers. Eight new members of the council will be elected in an all member election during the month of October. Details on the results of the election will be available in the January issue of PS.

Rudolph earned her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University, with a dissertation on party in the context of Asian democracy in 1975. She has served the American Political Science Association in several roles: vice president in 1973–1974; charter member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession; and member of the Committee on the Future of the Profession, numerous award committees, and the recent Public Presence Advisory Group.

As William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at Chicago, her intellectual interests are in political economy and political sociology understood as macrohistorical enterprises; state formation in Europe and Asia; the politics of identity and difference; and religious movements in transnational space.

A complete intellectual biography on Rudolph appears in this issue of PS (page 823).

Assuming the position of president-elect is Margaret Levi of the University of Washington, where she is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of Political Science and International Studies. Levi earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington.

Levi has authored three books, including Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press, 1988) and Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and has co-edited five others. In progress is a coauthored volume with Karen Cook and Russell Hardin, building on a multi-year Russell Sage Foundation project on trust and trustworthiness. Concurrently, she is working on a range of issues having to do with labor unions and with global justice campaigns. Some of the work builds on the WTO History Project, which she co-directed, and some derives from joint research with David Olson on union democracy. She also continues to write on issues concerning the analytic narrative approach to the study of complex historical and comparative processes.

She has served the Association in a variety of roles including vicepresident, president of the Organized Section on Political Economy, as Annual Meeting Program cochair with James Alt, on the Executive Council, and on the Civic Education Task Force.

The other officers for 2003–2004 are:

Vice Presidents: Rodney Hero, University of Notre Dame; Gary King, Harvard University; and Ira Katznelson, Columbia University

Treasurer: Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley

Secretary: Judith Goldstein, Stanford University