John Richard Sisson (born October 16, 1936) was the acting President of

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from December 15, 1997, to June 30, 1998, after Elwood Gordon Gee left the office. Sisson graduated from Ohio State with a

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in international studies in 1958 and a

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in political science in 1960. He went on to the

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and received a

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in 1967. After completing his education, Sisson held administrative and academic positions at the

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, and Ohio State University. At Ohio State Sisson was Provost from 1993 to 1998. Sisson returned to teaching

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at Ohio State University until his retirement in 2002. In 2002 the political science department at Ohio State University honored Sisson as its "Distinguished Alumnus". of the year. Sisson served as editor alongside Stanley Wolpert of the volume of papers presented at the

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March 1984 international conference on the pre Independent phase of the

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and published by the

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. Participating scholars in the conference include Dilip K. Basu, Judith M. Brown, Basudev Chatterji, Walter Huser, Stephen Northrup Hay, Eugene Irschick, Raghavan N. Iyer, D. A. Low, James Manor, Claude Markovits, John R. McLane, Thomas R. Metcalf, W. H. Morris Jones, V. A. Narain, Norman D. Palmer, Gyanendra Pandey,

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, Barbara N. Ramusack,

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, Peter Reeves, Damodar Sardesai,

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, Lawrence L. Shrader, William Vanderbok and

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