Research Committees

Past Boards

Sociology of Knowledge

President Kurt H. WOLFF, USA
Secretary V. MILIC, Yugoslavia
(replaced in 70' by
Jerzy SZACKI, Poland)

Sociology of Mass Communication

Founded: 1959

President Kurt H. WOLFF, USA
Secretary Edgar MORIN, France
President Edgar MORIN, France
Vice-Presidents Elihu KATZ, Israel
Igor PETROV, USSR
Secretary José VIDAL-BENEYTO, Spain
Newsletter Editor Alfred WILLENER, Switzerland
President José VIDAL-BENEYTO, Spain
Secretaries Marino LIVOLSI, Italy
Thelma McCORMACK, Canada 
(till 1975)
Members Elihu KATZ, Israel
Gerald KLINE, USA
Kurt LANG, USA
Lawrence H. STREICHER, USA
Tamas SZACSKO, Hungary
France VERG, Yugoslavia
Kazimierz ZYGULSKI, Poland

Fused into Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture

President José VIDAL-BENEYTO, Spain
Vice-Presidents Kurt LANG, USA
Jacques LEENHARDT, France
Denis McQUAIL, Netherlands
Tamas SZACSKO, Hungary
Alfred WILLENER, Switzerland
Secretary Marino LIVOLSI, Italy
Members Claudio AGUIRRE-BIANCHI, Chile
Lothar BISKY, GDR
Juan CORRADI, Argentina
M. ESSAYAS, Ethiopia
Elihu KATZ, Israel
Antonina KLOSKOWSKA, Poland
Valery KOROBEINIKOV, USSR
William PHELAN, Canada
Dieter PROKOP, FRG
France VERG, Yugoslavia
President José VIDAL-BENEYTO, Spain
Vice-Presidents Kurt LANG, USA
Jacques LEENHARDT, France
Marino LIVOLSI, Italy
Denis McQUAIL, Netherlands
France VERG, Yugoslavia
General Secretariat Claudio AGUIRRE-BIANCHI, Chile
Peter DAHLGREN, Sweden
Cécile ROUGIER, France
Members Roberto AMARAL-VIEIRA, Brazil
Giovanni BECHELLONI, Italy
Lothar BISKY, DDR
Juan CORRADI, Argentina
Gerald KLINE, USA
Antonina KLOSKOWSKA, Poland
Valery KOROBEINIKOV, USSR
Gladys LANG, USA
Silvia MOLINA, Mexico
Ruben OLIVEN, Brazil
Michael REAL, USA
Philip SCHLESINGER, United Kingdom
Tamas SZECSKO, Hungary
Editor Leonard HENNY, Netherlands
President Paul BEAUD, Switzerland
Vice-Presidents Jacques LEENHARDT, France
Marino LIVOLSI, Italy
Secretaries Miguel AGUILERA MOYANO, Spain
Fançoise MESSANT-LAURENT, Switzerland
Honorary President José VIDAL-BENEYTO, Spain. 
Members Jesus MARTIN BARBERO, Colombia
Nicholas GARNHAM, United Kingdom
Thar LALIB, Tunisia
José MARQUES DE MELO, Brazil
Ottheim RAMMSTEDT, Germany
Richard SENNETT, USA
Slavko SPICHAL, Yugoslavia
Pal TAMAS, Hungary
Janet WOLFF, USA
President Paul BEAUD, Switzerland
Vice-Presidents Jeffrey A. HALLEY, USA
Jacques LEENHARDT, France
Robert TESSIER, Canada
Secretary Françoise MESSANT-LAURENT, Switzerland
President Gaetan TREMBLAY, Canada
Vice-President Jeffrey A. HALLEY, USA
Secretary Gerhard KUEMMEL, Germany
Honorary President Paul BEAUD Switzerland
President Gaetan TREMBLAY, Canada
Secretary Gaetan TREMBLAY, Canada
Vice-President Jeffrey A. HALLEY, USA
President Christiana Constantopoulou, Panteion University, Greece
Vice-President Jeffrey Halley, University of Texas, USA
Secretary Hermilio Santos, Brazil
Webmaster Diana Papademas, USA
President Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU, Panteion University, Greece
Vice-Presidents Jeffrey HALLEY, University of Texas, USA
Diana PAPADEMAS, USA
Treasurer Fiorenza GAMBA, Italy
Secretary  Olivier CHANTRAINE, University Charles de Gaulle, France
Newsletter editor Isleide FONTENELLE, Brazil
Board members Daniela FRUMUSANI, Romania 
Ryoichi HORIGUCHI, Japan 
Nataliya IKONNIKOVA, Russia 
Oksana LYCHKOVSKA, Ukraine 
Elias SAID-HUNG, Colombia 
Krzysztof STACHURA, Poland
President Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU, Panteion University, Greece
Vice-President/Secretary General Luc BONNEVILLE, Ottawa University, Canada
Vice-President/Newsletter Editor Olivier CHANTRAINE, University of Lille 3, France
Vice-President/Treasurer Daniela FRUMUSANI, Bucharest University, Romania
Social Media Administrator Laurence LAROCHELLE, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
International Correspondents (volunteers) Olga ECHEVSKAYA, University of Novosibirsk, Russia
Larisa FIALKOVA, University of Haifa, Israel
Indhu RAJAGOPAL, York University, Canada
Virendra SINGH, University of Allahabad, India
José A. RUIZ SAN ROMAN, University Complutense, Spain (Responsible for the RC14 sessions in Spanish)
President Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU, Panteion University, Greece
Vice-President Jose A. RUIZ SAN ROMAN, Universidad Complutense, Spain
Secretary Christiane WAGNER, Unicamp, Brazil
Treasurer Daniela ROVENTA-FRUMUSANI, University of Bucharest, Romania
Newsletter Editor, and
Website/Social Media Manager
Laurence LAROCHELLE, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
Board Members Parvez Ahmad ABBASI, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India
Luc BONNEVILLE, University of Ottawa, Canada
Oksana LYCHKOVSKA-NEBOT, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

Program Coordinator for XX ISA World Congress 2023 was:
Christiana CONSTANTOPOULOU