{{Short description|American historian (born 1936)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''John Richard Sisson''' (born October 16, 1936) was the acting President of Ohio State University from December 15, 1997, to June 30, 1998, after Elwood Gordon Gee left the office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://president.osu.edu/past_presidents.php |title=Office of the President: Past Presidents |publisher=Ohio State University |accessdate=2009-04-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090407044930/http://president.osu.edu/past_presidents.php |archivedate=2009-04-07 }}</ref>
Sisson graduated from Ohio State with a Bachelor of Arts in international studies in 1958 and a Master of Arts in political science in 1960. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1967. After completing his education, Sisson held administrative and academic positions at the United States Military Academy, UCLA, and Ohio State University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/alumni.htm|title=The Department of Political Science Distinguished Alumni Award|publisher=Ohio State University|accessdate=2009-04-04|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907225824/http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/alumni.htm|archivedate=2008-09-07}}</ref> At Ohio State Sisson was Provost from 1993 to 1998. Sisson returned to teaching comparative politics 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 University of California, Los Angeles March 1984 international conference on the pre Independent phase of the Indian National Congress and published by the University of California Press.<ref name="SissonWolpert1988">{{cite book|last1=Sisson|first1=Richard|authorlink1=John Richard Sisson|last2=Wolpert|first2=Stanley|authorlink2=Stanley Wolpert|title=Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-independence Phase|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfOSxFVQa8IC&pg=PR9|date=1 January 1988|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06041-8|pages=9–10}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Masselos|first=Jim|title=''Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase'' by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert|journal=Pacific Affairs|date=Summer 1989|volume=62|issue=2|pages=265–266|jstor=2760602|doi=10.2307/2760602}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Kopf|first=David|authorlink=David Kopf|title=''Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase'' by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert|journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History|date=Autumn 1989|volume=20|issue=2|pages=340–341|jstor=204875|doi=10.2307/204875}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Hirschmann|first=Edwin|title=''Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase'' by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert|journal=The American Historical Review|date=April 1990|volume=95|issue=2|pages=568–569|jstor=2163915|doi=10.2307/2163915}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Fisher|first=Michael H.|title=''Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase'' by Richard Sisson; Stanley Wolpert|journal=Journal of Asian History|year=1988|volume=22|issue=2|pages=198–199|jstor=41930730}}</ref>
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, Bimal Prasad, Barbara N. Ramusack, Rajat Kanta Ray, Peter Reeves, Damodar Sardesai, Sumit Sarkar, Lawrence L. Shrader, William Vanderbok and Eleanor Zelliot.<ref name="SissonWolpert1988" />
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