Rory M. McVeigh (University of Notre Dame) has been elected the 119th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and Dina G. Okamoto (Indiana University-Bloomington) was elected ASA Vice President. They will begin their terms as President-Elect and Vice President-Elect on September 1, 2026. In September 2027, they will succeed Alford Young, Jr. (University of Michigan) and Jessica Calarco (University of Wisconsin-Madison), respectively, as President and Vice President. McVeigh will also chair the Program Committee, shaping the 2028 ASA Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore, MD.
McVeigh is the Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at Notre Dame. A former chair of ASA’s Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section (2022-2023) and former co-editor of American Sociological Review (ASR) (2015-2020), his research examines the structural roots of social conflict and the long-term impacts of social movements, often using experimental approaches to study the defense of power and privilege. He is the author of The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan (2009) and, with Kevin Estep, The Politics of Losing (2019) and has published widely in leading journals including ASR, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces.
Okamoto is the Class of 1948 Herman B. Wells Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University. Her research explores race, ethnicity, immigration, and social movements, with a focus on immigrant incorporation, intergroup dynamics, and collective action. She is the author of Redefining Race (2014) and is completing a book on how rising ethnoracial diversity shapes intergroup attitudes in the U.S. She has received research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York and has held fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.