President-Elect
Mark Warren
Bio: Mark E. Warren currently holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy at the University of British Columbia and transitioned to Professor Emeritus as of July 1, 2022. Warren’s research focuses on contemporary democratic theory and democratic innovations. He is author of Democracy and Association (Princeton University Press, 2001), which won the Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize awarded by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, as well as the 2003 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. He is editor of Democracy and Trust (Cambridge University Press 1999), and co-editor of Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly (Cambridge University Press 2008). Warren’s work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Political Theory. He is currently working with an international team on a project entitled Participedia (www.participedia.net), which uses a web-based platform to collect information about democratic innovations around the world. Participedia will enable evidence-driven comparative research into this rapidly developing area of governance, and will serve as a resource for governments and democracy advocates.
Vice Presidents
Andy Aoki
Bio: Andy Aoki is professor of political science at Augsburg University, where is also the M. Anita Gay Hawthorne Professor of Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies and a senior fellow in the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship. He is currently the president of the Augsburg Faculty Senate and interim chair of the Department of Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies. He received his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his BA in political science from the University of Oregon. He was a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Caucus, an American Political Science Association Related Group. He has also twice been elected as president of the APSA Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, served as a member of the APSA council, and on several APSA committees. His has published work on immigration, Asian American and other ethnoracial politics, multicultural education, and popular culture and politics. His current projects include research into historical racialization of Asian immigrants to the United States, comparing that to the racialization of other groups perceived to be non-white.
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon
Bio: Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Dr. Escobar-Lemmon’s research focuses on women’s representation with an emphasis on Latin America as well as federalism, decentralization, and local governance. She is the co-author or co-editor of three Oxford University Press books including Representation: The Case of Women and Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players and Abundant Tokens, both with Michelle Taylor-Robinson. Most recently she published Reimagining the Judiciary: Women’s Representation on High Courts Worldwide with Valerie Hoekstra, Alice J. Kang, and Miki Caul Kittilson. With data collection funded by the National Science Foundation, this project asks where and when women join a country’s highest courts. The book sheds light on the confluence of domestic and international factors that contribute to gender-diverse judiciaries. Additionally, her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, Latin American Politics & Society, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. She is a member of the Women & Politics Research Section and the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section, having served as an officer for the later.
Brett Ashley Leeds
Bio: Brett Ashley Leeds is Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Rice University. She also serves as co-Editor of International Organization. Leeds’s research focuses on the design and effects of international agreements (particularly military alliances), and also on connections between domestic politics and foreign policy. Most recently, she is the co-author of Domestic Interests, Democracy, and Foreign Policy Change (Cambridge Elements in International Relations series, 2022). In 2008, Leeds received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, which is presented annually to a scholar in International Relations within ten years of PhD who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research. In 2019, Leeds won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conflict Processes Section of APSA in recognition of scholarly contributions that have fundamentally improved the study of conflict processes. She served as President of the International Studies Association during 2017-18 and President of the Peace Science Society during 2018-19.
Council
Jason P. Casellas
Bio: Jason P. Casellas is an associate professor of political science at the University of Houston. He received his PhD in Politics from Princeton University in 2006. He specializes in American politics, with research and teaching interests in Latino politics, legislative politics, and state and local politics. He is the author of Latino Representation in State Houses and Congress (New York: Cambridge University Press) and co-author of Governing Texas, a leading textbook in Texas government. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University, a United States Studies Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sydney, and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2016, he was selected by the Spanish Embassy for the Hispanic Leader Program in Madrid. In 2023, he will be the John G. Winant Visiting Professor in American Government at the University of Oxford. His work has also appeared in many peer-reviewed journals.
Pearl K. Dowe
Bio: Pearl K. Dowe is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science and African American Studies with a joint appointment between the university’s Oxford College and Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent research focuses on African American women’s political ambition and public leadership. Her manuscript The Radical Imagination of Black Women: Ambition, Politics and Power is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her most recent publication Resisting Marginalization: Black Women’s Ambition and Agency published in 2020 received the Anna Julia Cooper Best Paper Award from the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics. Dowe’s published writing includes co-authorship of Remaking the Democratic Party: Lyndon B. Johnson as Native-Son Presidential Candidate (University of Michigan Press: 2016) and editorship of African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics and Policy Reflection in the New South (Mercer University Press, 2010). Dowe has presented widely at professional conferences and given frequent news-media interviews about American political topics. She has served on several committees for the American Political Science Association, and previously served on the executive council of the Southern Political Science Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. She currently is co-editor of the National Review of Black Politics.
Leigh Jenco
Bio: Leigh Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics, having previously served in the department of political science at the National University of Singapore. She holds degrees from Bard College (BA) and the University of Chicago (MA and PhD). Her monographs—Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (Oxford UP, 2015)—pioneered the engagement of normative political theory with the intellectual history of modern China. Her current research focuses on how early modern Chinese intellectuals theorized the value of cultural, economic, and gendered others. She has published articles on democratic theory, late imperial and modern Chinese intellectual history, and interpretive methods in such journals as Political Theory and the American Political Science Review; most recently she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (2020). She has held visiting positions at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and the University of Heidelberg, and served as PI of the major grant East Asian Uses of the European Past (funded by the European Commission). She has served the profession as associate editor of the American Political Science Review (2016-2020) and Contemporary Political Theory (2010-2017), as well as on several APSA committees and workshops, and numerous editorial and advisory boards.
Susan McWilliams Barndt
Bio: Susan McWilliams Barndt is Professor of Politics and Coordinator of the Program in Public Policy Analysis at Pomona College, where she has won the Wig Award for Excellence in Teaching three times. McWilliams is the co-editor (with Jeremy Bailey) of the peer-reviewed journal American Political Thought and the American Political Thought book series at the University Press of Kansas. She is the author of The American Road Trip and American Political Thought (Lexington, 2018) and Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory (Oxford, 2014). McWilliams is also the editor of A Political Companion to James Baldwin (Kentucky, 2017) and a co-editor of several books, including The Best Kind of College: An Insiders’ Guide to America’s Small Liberal Arts Colleges (co-edited with John Seery, SUNY, 2015). For her work, McWilliams has received awards including the Graves Award in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the Quarry Farm Fellowship from the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies. She received her BA in Russian and political science from Amherst College and her MA and PhD in politics from Princeton University.
Aseem Prakash
Bio: Aseem Prakash is a Professor of Political Science, the Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Founding Director of the Center for Environmental Politics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the Founding Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series in Business and Public Policy as well as the Cambridge University Press Elements in Organizational Response to Climate Change. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Environmental Change and Society and an International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, University of Oxford. He served as the Vice President of the International Studies Association during 2015-2016. His recent awards include the American Political Science Association’s 2020 Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award for “lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics,” the International Studies Association’s 2019 Distinguished International Political Economy Scholar Award as well its 2018 James N. Rosenau Award for “scholar who has made the most important contributions to globalization studies” and the European Consortium for Political Research’s 2018 Regulatory Studies Development Award that recognizes a senior scholar who has made notable “contributions to the field of regulatory governance.
Bassel F. Salloukh
Bio: Bassel F. Salloukh is Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of the Politics and International Relations Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He obtained his MA and PhD (Honor List) in Political Science from McGill University, Canada, and his Honors BA (Summa Cum Laude) in Political Science from McMaster University, Canada. His main fields of specialization include Comparative Politics (Global South and Middle East), Political Theory (Philosophy of Reconciliation and Interculturalism), and International Relations (Middle East IR). Salloukh is a member of the Arab Political Science Network’s (APSN) Advisory Committee, the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Steering Committee, the American Political Science Association (APSA) MENA Politics Section’s Workshops Planning Committee, and Editor at Middle East Law and Governance. His most recent publications include the co-authored The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon (Pluto Press, 2015) and articles in PS: Political Science and Politics, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, International Journal of Middle East Studies, International Studies Perspectives, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Middle East Law and Governance. His current research focuses on a critique of power-sharing arrangements in post-colonial and postwar states, and the political economy of Lebanon’s postwar collapse.
Christina J. Schneider
Bio: Christina J. Schneider is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Future of Democracy Initiative at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego. In 2013, she was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union. She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz. Before joining UCSD, she worked at the University of Konstanz, the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Oxford University, and Princeton University. Her research focuses on the domestic politics of cooperation in international organizations, such as the European Union or international development institutions, with a focus on democratic representation. Her current research focuses on questions surrounding international cooperation and democratic resilience. Her two books are published with Cambridge University Press, and her articles appear in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of European Public Policy, and Public Choice.
Erica Townsend-Bell
Bio: Erica Townsend-Bell is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University. She served as a member of APSA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, an APSA grants reviewer, and as section chair for MPSA and WPSA. She currently serves as a member of the American Political Science Review’s editorial board. She teaches courses in race and gender politics, social movements and qualitative methods, with an expertise in intersectionality, comparative equality, and Latin American politics. Her research areas focus on the politics and policy of intersectionality, comparative racial and gender politics, and the politics of inclusion. Her work has been published in a variety of academic outlets, including Political Research Quarterly, Signs, European Journal of Women and Politics, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Revista de Ciencia Política, The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics, and Politics and Gender, among others.
