Past Presidents of AAAL

  • 2023-2024 - Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University
  • 2022-2023 - Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala, Colorado State University—Fort Collins
  • 2021-2022 - Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia
  • 2020-2021 - Kendall King, University of Minnesota
  • 2019-2020 - Laura Collins, Concordia University
  • 2018-2019 - Linda Harklau, Univerisity of Georgia
  • 2017-2018 - Tim McNamara, The University of Melbourne
  • 2016-2017 - Kathleen Bailey, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
  • 2015-2016 - Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University
  • 2014-2015 - Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University      
  • 2013-2014 - Joan Kelly Hall, The Pennsylvania State University
  • 2012-2013 - Jane Zuengler, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • 2011-2012 - Suresh Canagarajah, The Pennsylvania State University
  • 2010-2011 - Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University
  • 2009-2010 - Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University
  • 2008-2009 - Nina Spada, OISE/University of Toronto
  • 2007-2008 - Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University
  • 2006-2007 - Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University
  • 2005-2006 - Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin
  • 2004-2005 - James P. Lantolf, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2003-2004 - Richard Schmidt, University of Hawaii
  • 2002-2003 - Margie Berns, Purdue University
  • 2001-2002 - Bill Grabe, Northern Arizona University
  • 2000-2001 - Pat Carrell, Georgia State University
  • 1999-2000 - Patsy Lightbown, Concordia University
  • 1998-1999 - Merrill Swain, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/UT
  • 1997-1998 - Mary E. McGroarty, Northern Arizona University
  • 1996-1997 - Elinor Ochs, University of California, Los Angeles
  • 1995-1996 - JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • 1994-1995 - Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1993-1994 - Robert Kaplan, University of Southern California
  • 1992-1993 - Sandra Savignon, University of Illinois-Urbana
  • 1991-1992 - Elaine Tarone, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
  • 1990-1991 - Leslie Beebe, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • 1989-1990 - Lyle F. Bachman, University of Illinois
  • 1988-1989 - Jacquelyn Schachter, University of Southern California
  • 1987-1988 - Susan Gass, University of Michigan
  • 1986-1987 - Dell Hymes, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1985-1986 - Courtney Cazden, Harvard University
  • 1984-1985 - Braj Kachru, University of Illinois
  • 1983-1984 - Thomas Scovel, San Francisco State University
  • 1982-1983 - Betty Wallace Robinett, University of Minnesota
  • 1981-1982 - Muriel Saville-Troike, University of Illinois, Urbana
  • 1980-1981 - Eugene Briere, University of Southern California
  • 1979-1980 - Roger Shuy, Georgetown University & Center for Applied Linguistics
  • 1978-1979 - Wilga Rivers, Harvard University

Click here to download messages from AAAL Past Presidents solicited on the occasion of AAAL's 30th anniversary in 2008.