The APSA Nominating Committee is pleased to present the slate of nominees for APSA officers. In developing the slate, the committee was guided by the association’s constitution that requires due regard to “geographical distribution, fields of professional interest, types of institution, race, gender, ethnicity, methodological orientation, gender identity, sexuality, and other important forms of diversity.”
Many individuals and several APSA committees and groups proposed names, which aided us in our work. In particular, proposals from the status committees and organized sections are indispensable to ensuring broad and diverse representation of the multiple constituencies of APSA. We thank everyone who took the time and trouble to write.
At its two-day meeting in Washington, DC, in February, the committee considered all the suggested nominations received as well as all recommendations made for APSA Council or officers over the previous four years. We cast our net broadly, with particular attention to regional balance within the United States as well as representation from outside the United States. We sought to select nominees with records of excellence in scholarship, teaching, and public service as well as a broad commitment to advancing the multiple goals of APSA. We believe we are presenting to the membership a slate of nominees each of whom is distinguished in his or her own right and who together are representative of the diverse membership of our multifaceted association.
The 2013-14 Nominating Committee members are Kristi Andersen, Syracuse University; James D. Fearon, Stanford University, Chair; Kerry L. Haynie, Duke University; Jeffrey Herbst, Colgate University; Michael A. Jones-Correa, Cornell University; and Elizabeth Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University. The committee’s term expires August 31, 2015.
Detailed information about the nominees is published here in the July issue of PS: Political Science and Politics. Unless there is any contestation, elected officers will assume office following action at the APSA Annual All-Member Business Meeting at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting in Washington. If there is a contest, an election will be held by ballot of the entire membership. Procedures for nominations are documented in Article V (1, 2) of the APSA Constitution and Section 4 of the Business Meeting Rules.
Nominees for office and council seats, with their biographical information and statement, follow.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Jennifer Hochschild
Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and a former Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. She holds lectureships in the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2011, she held the John W. Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress, and in 2013–14, she was a Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University Law School.
Hochschild studies and teaches about the intersection of American politics, history, and political philosophy; she focuses especially on race, ethnicity, and immigration. She also studies educational and social welfare policies, the politics and ideology of genomic science, and public opinion and political culture. Most recently, Hochschild coedited Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford University Press 2013) and coauthored Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (Princeton University Press 2012). Her forthcoming book, also coauthored, is Facts in Politics: What Do Citizens Know and What Difference Does It Make? (University of Oklahoma Press,2014).
Hochschild was founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, and a recent coeditor of the American Political Science Review. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former cochair of the annual convention and vice-president of the APSA, a former member of the boards of trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and General Social Survey, and a former member of the DBASSE Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson, Mellon, Spencer, and Guggenheim Foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other organizations. Hochschild taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton universities before moving to Harvard in 2001. She received her PhD from Yale University and her BA from Oberlin College.
Statement of views: “APSA is a busy, complex, and thriving organization, full of people with great expertise and strong views. One task of the president is to obey the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. Within that context, the next task is to foster experimentation and innovation. APSA publications are one of many examples: given our excellent journals and reports, should the association enter the realm of blogging or other social media? promote e-journals, or open access? Develop interactive research platforms for classroom use? Promote more public engagement? I am honored to work with colleagues on these and other important issues.”
VICE PRESIDENTS
E. J. Dionne, Jr.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a syndicated columnist with The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. His latest book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent, published this spring by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of Why Americans Hate Politics —winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize and a National Book Award nominee —They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era, Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps and the Politics of Revenge, and Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. A nationally known and respected commentator on politics, Dionne appears weekly on National Public Radio and regularly on MSNBC and NBC’s Meet the Press. Dionne graduated from Harvard University and received his doctorate from Oxford. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and their three children.
Joanne Gowa
Joanne Gowa’s interests include international relations, international political economy, and the relationship between democracies and international disputes. She is the author of Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods; Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade; and Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace, and author of articles on political economy, trade and monetary policy, and democracy and disputes. She received an MPA degree from the Woodrow Wilson School and a PhD from the department of politics, both at Princeton University. She is a member of the editorial boards of World Politics and International Organization and is a trustee emerita of Tufts University. Gowa has been a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in international security, a MacArthur Foundation Grant for Research and Writing, and a National Science Foundation POWRE grant. Before teaching at Princeton, she taught in the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously been a member of the APSA Council and has also served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review.
Statement of views: “I am very much looking forward to working as a vice-president of APSA. It is a genuine honor to be able to serve an organization that has done so much to advance the interests of political scientists whether they work as academics, policy makers, journalists, or in think tanks.”
Fredrick Harris
Fredrick C. Harris is professor of political science and director of the Center on African American Politics and Society at Columbia University. His research interests include American politics with a focus on race and politics, political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African American politics. His publications include Something Within: Religion in African American Political Activism, which was awarded the V.O. Key Book Award by the Southern Political Science Association, the Best Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
He is also the coauthor of Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism,1973–1994, which received the W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Ralph Bunche Award from the APSA. His article “It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement,” published in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest, received the Mary Parker Follet Award for best article by the APSA’s organized section on Politics and History. He is coeditor with Cathy Cohen of the Oxford University Press book series “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.”
Professor Harris’s most recent books are The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Oxford University Press 2012) and, with Robert Lieberman, Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Post-Racist Era (Russell Sage Foundation Press 2013). The Price of the Ticket received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Non-Fiction. Harris’s essays have appeared in Dissent, the London Review of Books, New York Times’ Sunday Review, Souls, Society, and the Washington Post (Perspectives). Harris has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Visiting Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, and serves as a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Statement of views: “I have been a member of APSA for more than 20 years. In addition to my service on different APSA-related award and search committees, I have a commitment to enhancing the diversity and the inclusiveness of the association. As part of the council I hope to serve as a voice for underrepresented constituencies in the profession, especially for minority scholars and scholars from non-PhD. granting departments.”
SECRETARY
Linda L. Fowler
Linda L. Fowler is professor of government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, having moved there in 1995 to direct the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences. Prior to her affiliation with Dartmouth, she was professor of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She holds her BA from Smith College and her PhD from the University of Rochester.
After serving in administration at Dartmouth, Fowler resumed full-time teaching and scholarship in 2004.
Fowler studies the US Congress and has written two books on candidate recruitment, Political Ambition: Who Decides to Run for Congress (Yale 1989) and Candidates, Congress, and the American Democracy (Michigan 1993). She has published many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in American politics, including a 2006 article on changes in the Senate committee system, which received the Congressional Quarterly 2006 Award for the best paper on legislatures at APSA’s Annual Meeting. In 2006, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study congressional oversight of defense and foreign policy by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. The resulting book, The Decline and Fall of the Senate in U. S. Foreign Policy, 1947–2008, will be published by Princeton University Press in early 2015.
Fowler has devoted considerable time to the profession in a variety of roles, including: chair of the Legislative Studies Section and board member of the Political Organizations and Parties Section; membership of editorial boards for Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, and Congress and the Presidency; two stints as program chair for legislative studies at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and one as program chair for legislative studies at the Midwest Political Science Association; membership on multiple APSA award committees and several standing committees.
Fowler is a frequent commentator on American politics in various media outlets. She testified about term limits before the House Judiciary Committee and served as outside evaluator for one of the Congressional Research Service’s orientation conferences for new members. She was a member of an IREX delegation to the former Soviet Union to discuss citizen participation and a member of the first APSA delegation to the Japanese Political Science Association. Prior to obtaining her PhD, Fowler worked at the Environmental Protection Agency and for a member of the US House of Representatives.
Fowler hopes that her broad experience in political science will provide a useful perspective in the Council’s deliberations.
COUNCIL MEMBERS 2014–2016
Michelle D. Deardorff
Michelle D. Deardorff is professor and department head at the University of Tennesssee at Chattanooga. Prior to 2013, she was a tenured faculty member at Jackson State University, a historic black university in Mississippi, and from 1991–2003, she taught at Millikin University a small private institution in Illinois. She earned her BA from Taylor University (IN) and her MA and PhD from Miami University, Ohio. Deardorff’s teaching and research have focused on the constitutional and statutory protections surrounding gender, race, and religion. She is currently completing work on Pregnancy and the American Worker, which examines the lower federal courts’ interpretation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in relationship to pregnancy protections in employment. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humantities, the National Science Foundation, and the Small Business Administration. Deardorff is a founding member of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, a coalition of academics who promote civic engagement and popular sovereignty through the study of the struggle for civil rights in the United States. She is the coauthor of Constitutional Law in Contemporary America, American Democracy Now 3d, and coeditor of Assessment in Political Science. She has served as chair of the Political Science Education section (2005–2009) and the Teaching and Learning Standing Committee (2011–2014), as well as been a member of the APSA search committee for an executive director (2012–2013). She serves on the editorial boards of College Teaching and the Journal of Political Science Education.
Statement of views: “I have been a member of APSA since graduate school and have observed how the organization and the discipline have become more receptive of diversity in methodology, scholarly perspectives, institutional focus, and in political scientists themselves. As result, we ask different research questions, we address new and continuing societal needs, and we are more open to the truly broad nature of the academy from high school civics teachers to two and four year teaching institutions, state regional MA programs, as well as PhD-granting and R-1 institutions. As a member of the Council, I want to push APSA to continue pursuing ways to meet the needs of political scientists who are teaching our next generation of citizens, leaders, and academics and to consider how we can best engage the general public and decision-makers with the findings of our research.”
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon is associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University. She received her BS from Georgetown University and an MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. She has served on departmental and college diversity committees and is currently serving as associate department head. Her research examines how democratic institutions affect representation and participation, with a regional focus on Latin America and special emphasis on the representation of women. In collaborative research focused at the national level, she examines the participation and representation of women in presidential cabinets and the determinants of women’s representation on high courts. In research focused at the subnational level, she examines the consequences of decentralization for the functioning of government, the representation of citizen preferences, and the participation of citizens. Her research combines statistical techniques with in-depth field research in specific countries. She has done field research in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela and has been funded by the National Science Foundation as well as the Tinker Foundation. Her research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. She is coeditor (with Michelle Taylor-Robinson) of the forthcoming book Representation: The Case of Women.
Statement of views: “I am tremendously honored to be nominated for the council. As the major association for our profession it is important that APSA remain open and welcoming to all members. I am committed to methodological pluralism and to ensuring the participation of academics from teaching and research institutions, as well as those outside the academy. I am deeply committed to diversity and believe that we must continuously strive to ensure that our profession reflects diversity in all its forms (and not simply race, ethnicity, and gender). A focus on diversity should also include identifying and (hopefully) eliminating barriers to success that individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups face at all career stages. This includes, but is not limited to, issues such as the recruitment of diverse graduate student pools, closing the leaky pipeline for women as they move through the ranks from Assistant to Full Professor, and gender imbalance in the ranks of contingent faculty. As a member of the council I hope to be able to make a difference on issues that would strength and improve the work-life of all members of the academy.”
Frances E. Lee
Frances E. Lee is a professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland,College Park. Her research focuses on American public policymaking and governing institutions, especially on the US Congress.
She is the author of Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (2009), which received the APSA’s Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics in 2010 and the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on the US Congress in 2009. She is also coauthor, with Bruce I. Oppenheimer, of Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others.
She is coeditor of Legislative Studies Quarterly, responsible for submissions relating to the US Congress. She is also coauthor of a comprehensive textbook on the US Congress, Congress and Its Members.
Statement of views: “As a member of the council, I would focus on sustaining and strengthening political science across several key dimensions. (1) For the profession to have value to outsiders, it must communicate its contributions. This means a willingness to disseminate our findings to broader publics, both on campus and beyond, and to value scholars who contribute to these efforts. (2) With respect to the training and mentorship of the next generation of political scientists, I am concerned with the daunting challenges that younger scholars face in starting their careers. These challenges have been especially severe in recent years, given the austerity in academic hiring, where the number of job postings has not yet recovered to the level before the 2008 financial crisis. (3) I want to help preserve the diversity of methodological approaches in political science, one of the historic strengths and hallmarks of the discipline. (4) Finally, as a female political scientist in a profession in which women remain underrepresented at about a quarter of the professoriate, I would be alert to issues that are of special concern to women’s advancement.”
David Lublin
David Lublin is professor of government at American University. He received his BA from Yale and his AM and PhD from Harvard. David’s research has spanned American and comparative politics with a common thread being the impact of electoral institutions on the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities.
David has authored three books: The Paradox of Representation: Racial Gerrymandering and Minority Interests in Congress (Princeton 1997), The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change (Princeton 2004), and Minority Rules: Electoral Systems, Decentralization and Ethnoregional Parties (Oxford 2014).
He has received multiple National Science Foundation grants and a German Marshall Fund fellowship. Recently, David merged his Election Passport website into the Constituency-Level Election Archive, as part of a cooperative effort to build the best resource possible.
The US Supreme Court has cited David’s work on redistricting and he has worked as an expert on that topic for the US Department of Justice. The US Department of State has invited him frequently to speak about American elections, minority representation, and electoral institutions in places such as Cyprus, Ghana, and Kosovo.
David has been very active in public service. Recently, he completed three terms on the Town Council of Chevy Chase, Maryland, including two years as mayor. David served as Equality Maryland’s president during the successful referendum fight for marriage equality. Now, he sits on the board of a nonprofit that provides housing to people with psychiatric disabilities. In his spare time, David writes a blog on Maryland politics.
Statement of views: “The effort to defund political science at the National Science Foundation and the relative paucity of political scientists compared to economists in the media shows that work needs to be done to demonstrate both what we know and how that knowledge can be brought to bear on real-world problems. Beyond that effort, I would like to increase cooperation among APSA sections even as we encourage their independence and growth.
As my research and political involvement indicate, I feel strongly about the need for inclusion—not just of people from different backgrounds and experiences but also with respect for the vitality that various methodological approaches and colleagues at different types of institutions bring to our discipline. My own work is at times descriptive, qualitative, and quantitative. I have taught at a large public university as well as my current private institution. My hope is that APSA will value teaching and research of all types as we move forward together.”
Marc Lynch
Marc Lynch is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, and director of its Institute for Middle East Studies. His research focuses on the many dimensions of political communication and information technology in the Arab world. He has written three books, including State Interests and Public Spheres (Columbia University Press 1999), Voices of the New Arab Public (Columbia University Press 2006), and The Arab Uprising (PublicAffairs 2012), and is the editor of The Arab Uprisings Explained (Columbia University Press 2014). His research has explored topics such as Arab public opinion, the war in Iraq, Islamist movements, and the Arab uprisings. He is currently engaged in a large-scale mixed-method study of the role of the internet on the Arab uprisings and the war in Syria.
Lynch received his PhD from Cornell University in 1997, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Williams College before joining George Washington University. In 2009, he founded the Project on Middle East Political Science, an international network supporting scholars in the subfield supported by the Carnegie Corporation, the SSRC, and the Luce Foundation. He founded and edited the Middle East Channel for Foreign Policy magazine from 2010-14, and is now a contributing editor at the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. He is also the codirector of the “Blogs and Bullets” project for USIP and an adjunct scholar at the Center for a New American Security. Within the APSA, he served on the 2013 APSA Presidential Ad Hoc Committee on Publications and is a member of the Perspectives on Politics editorial board.
Statement of views: Lynch’s work over the last half-decade has focused on supporting the research, publishing, and public engagement of political scientists working on the Middle East. As a member of the APSA Council, he would focus on developing the profession’s ability to engage effectively in the public realm without compromising on rigorous scholarship. This includes efforts to effectively communicate scholarly findings from journals and books to a broader public in order to inform and engage public policy, and the cultivation of an ethos of public engagement across the discipline. He also will focus on promoting the full engagement of area studies experts with the full scale of the political science discipline.”
Tasha Philpot
Tasha Philpot is an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also affiliated with the Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She received her BA from Marquette University, her MPP from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and PhD in politicalsScience from the University of Michigan.
Philpot specializes in American politics, with particular interests in African American politics, political psychology, public opinion and political behavior, political communication, and political parties. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has been published in The American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Black Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, National Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics. In addition, she is the author of Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln ( University of Michigan Press 2007), which examines the circumstances under which political parties can use racial symbols to reshape their images among the electorate and the coeditor of African-American Political Psychology: Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era ( with Ismail K. White, Palgrave Macmillan Press 2010).
Statement of views: “If elected to the APSA Council, I will work to ensure that APSA provides a forum for productive debate across the issues important to the membership. I will also address the issue of substantive and methodological diversity in our discipline’s top journals and its impact on the careers of political scientists from underrepresented groups. Finally, I hope to strengthen the infrastructure in place for ensuring that graduate students and early-career faculty receive adequate mentorship.”
David Stasavage
David Stasavage is currently professor and chair in the department of politics at New York University where he has taught since 2006. He previously held a position at the London School of Economics. He completed his PhD at Harvard in 1995. Stasavage is a specialist of political economy, comparative politics, and the use of historical evidence in political science. He is the author of P ublic Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State, France and Great Britain, 1688–1789 (Cambridge 2003) as well as States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton 2011). He has also published a number of articles on a diverse set of topics including inequality, progressive taxation, the foundations of political representation, public debt, transparency in government, democracy and public goods provision, oligarchy and growth, and the link between religiosity and the demand for social insurance. Stasavage has also served as a coeditor of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science and an associate editor of International Organization.
Statement of views: “As an APSA Council member I will support maintaining the excellence and diversity of our discipline. My own research has drawn on a variety of different approaches over the years. The fact that I have held positions both in the United States and abroad has also made me aware of the importance of APSA’s international membership. Political science today faces important challenges due to funding and budgetary restrictions. It is also facing a number of new opportunities as changes in the media have given political scientists important new public outlets for their work. In this era of change we need a strong APSA Council more than ever to help show that the work we do is relevant and important for societal debate.”
Mark E. Warren
Mark E. Warren holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on contemporary democratic theory and democratic innovations. Warren 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 coeditor 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 titled 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.
Statement of views: “It is a privilege to be part of a discipline so essential to our fast-changing world. The difference between good and bad political institutions is the difference between lives that are full and self-directed, and those of mere survival or worse. We political scientists have an enormous responsibility to contribute evidence-based direction to building of good institutions that enable good lives. We do so when we combine attention to normatively significant problems with conceptual precision, rigorous research design, multiple methodologies, and credible interpretations of people, their cultures, and their circumstances. These capacities are, in large part, functions of our diversity as a discipline: of problems, of methods and approaches, and of social locations and connections.
We need a professional organization that not only reflects these diversities, but also builds them into strengths. The APSA works because it has embraced this pluralism while reminding us of the shared purposes that make us a discipline. It has been instrumental in crafting political science into the living, breathing, essential discipline that it is today. I strongly support APSA’s initiatives in the areas of diverse inclusions, conversations across fields, approaches, and institutions, and innovative teaching. An urgent challenge we are now facing is to explain to the public and to our political leaders why our research and teaching is central to good societies, mindful of our dependence on public support of higher education and research. I will work to support and deepen APSA initiatives in all these areas.”
Continuing Council Officers and Members
INCOMING PRESIDENT
Rodney E. Hero
Rodney E. Hero is professor of political science and Haas Chair in Diversity and Democracy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on American democracy and politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino politics, racial/ethnic politics, state and urban politics, and federalism. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism, received the APSA’s Ralph J. Bunche Award (1993). He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics (selected for the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award, 1999), and Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America (2007). He is also coauthor of Black-Latino Relations in U.S. National Politics: Beyond Conflict or Cooperation (2013), MultiEthnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (2006), Newcomers, Insiders and Outsiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early 21st Century (2009), Latino Lives in America (2010); and Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac (2012).
His work has also appeared in various scholarly journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly and others. He was one of six co-principal investigators on the Latino National Survey (completed in 2006). He has also served on the Editorial Boards of several political science journals, among them are: APSR (2001–07 and 2013–present), AJPS (1994–97), JOP (2001–04, 1991–93), PRQ (2000–06, 1994–96), Urban Affairs Review (1998–2000), and Political Behavior (2005–09).
He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University (1975) and PhD from Purdue University (1980). Before joining the Berkeley faculty he held positions at the University of Notre Dame (2000-10), at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1989-2000), and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (1980-88).
He served as president of the Midwest Political Science Association (2007–08), on the executive council (1995–97) and as vice president of the APSA (2003–04), president of the Western Political Science Association (1999–2000), and president of the Latino Caucus of the APSA (2010–11).
He has served on numerous APSA committees: Siting and Engagement (2009–12), Development (2003–2005), Committee to select editor(s) of the APSR (for editorship during 2007–2011); Nominations Committee (2001and 2002, Chair in 2001), Committee on International Programs (1993–95), James Madison Award committee (Spring 2008), Charles Merriam Award Committee (1996–97), and the William Anderson Award Committee (1993, Chair), among others. He will emphasize recognizing, respecting, and fostering the discipline’s substantive theoretical, methodological and demographic diversity
TREASURER
Kathleen Thelen
Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. She received her BA from the University of Kansas and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her empirical research focuses on the political economy of the rich democracies, and she has also made contributions to the literature on historical institutionalism. Her most recent book, tentatively titled Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. Other recent works include How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan (Cambridge 2004, winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and the Mattei Dogan Award of the Society for Comparative Research), Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency and Power (Cambridge 2010, coedited with James Mahoney) and Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (Oxford 2005, coedited with Wolfgang Streeck).
Thelen has strong connections abroad, particularly in Europe. She is a Permanent External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Germany), and has also held appointments as a research fellow or visiting professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Nuffield College (Oxford), Sciences Po (Paris), and the Copenhagen Business School. She was chair of the Council for European Studies (2002–2006) and president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008–2009). Her past contributions to the APSA include service as an officer in several organized sections (Comparative Politics, Politics and History, Qualitative Methods, and European Politics and Society).
MEMBERS
Amrita Basu
Amrita Basu is the Paino Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College from 2007 to 2010. She received her BA from Cornell University and her PhD from Columbia University. Her main areas of scholarly interest are religious nationalism, social movements, and women’s activism in South Asia. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women’s Activism in India and Episodic Violence: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Democracy (in progress), and editor or co-editor of six books and four special issues of scholarly journals. She co-directed a workshop on political science and the liberal arts funded by the Mellon Foundation. A selection of papers from the workshop will be appearing in a special issue of Polity.
Professor Basu’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has served on advisory committees of the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United Nations Development Program. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Political Science Review, American Political Science Review, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism and Critical Asian Studies and was the South Asia editor for The Journal of Asian Studies, the Asian Studies Association’s professional journal.
Kenneth Benoit
Kenneth Benoit is a professor of quantitative political science and currently head of the department of methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his PhD from the department of government at Harvard University (1998) after completing a BA in political science at the University of South Carolina (1991). He spent 12 years full-time in the department of political science at Trinity College Dublin, where he retains an affiliation as a part-time professor. He currently sits on the editorial boards of the APSR, Electoral Studies, and Political Science Research and Methods (where he is also an associate editor).
Benoit current work focuses on quantitative and automated text analysis of political documents, with a focus on measuring ideology. He has published widely on party competition, electoral systems, campaign spending effects, and Eastern European elections and electoral institutions. He is currently PI on a five-year project on text analysis funded by the European Research Council.
Christine Di Stefano
Christine Di Stefano is associate professor and associate chair of political science at the University of Washington. She received her BA from Ithaca College and her MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory, coedited with Nancy J. Hirschmann (Westview) and Configurations of Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory (Cornell University Press). She served as president of the Western Political Science Association during 2010–2011. Her service to the profession also includes the editorial boards of PS: Political Science and Politics, Women & Politics, Politics and Gender, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and executive boards for several organized sections, as well as several award committees. In addition, she has served as chair of the Organized Section for Research on Women and Politics. Her most recent research is on the politics and ethics of interspecies relations.
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also an honorary professor of political science at Aarhus University in Denmark. His research focuses on political preference formation and communication. He also researches the relationship between citizens’ preferences and public policy, and how political elites make decisions under varying institutional conditions.
Druckman has published more than 75 articles and book chapters in political science, communication, economic, science, and psychology journals. He coedited the Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science. He has served as editor of the journals Political Psychology and Public Opinion Quarterly as well as the University of Chicago Press’s series in American politics. He currently is the co-Principal Investigator of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). He also sits on the board of the National Election Studies, has served as president/chair of the APSA sections on experimental methods and political psychology and was a vice president of the International Society for the International Society of Political Psychology.
Druckman’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including over 15 best paper/book awards and grant support from several entities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and also in 2012 received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. His teaching/advising has been recognized with the Outstanding Award for Freshman Advising, and an Outstanding Faculty citation by Northwestern’s Associated Student Government.
Hank C. Jenkins-Smith
Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is a professor in the OU political science department, and is a director in the University’s Center for Risk, Crisis and Resilience (www.crcr.ou.edu) and the Center for Applied Social Research (http://casr.ou.edu/about.html).
Jenkins-Smith studies the public policy process, with particular interest in applied public policy problems that involve high levels of perceived risks by stakeholders. He has co-authored books on the public policy process, the evolution of public opinion about energy and security policies, and public perceptions of the American the presidency. In 2010 he won (with Paul Sabatier) the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the APSA Public Policy Section for his coauthored book Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (Westview 1992). Much of his recent work has focused on energy and environmental policies, and has been the basis for both published articles and reports for federal agencies. Jenkins-Smith has served on a number of Committees for the National Research Council, and is an elected member of the National Council for Radiation Protection.
Jenkins-Smith served as president of the APSA Public Policy Section, and was the editor of the Policy Studies Journal (the journal of the APSA Public Policy Section) from 2003 to 2009. He is currently editor of the Policy Studies Journal Yearbook (www.psjyearbook.com).
David C. Kang
David C. Kang is professor of international relations and business at the University of Southern California, with appointments in both the School of International Relations and the Marshall School of Business. At USC he is also director of the Korean Studies Institute and the East Asian Studies Center. Kang’s latest book is East Asia before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Columbia University Press, 2010). He is also author of China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (Columbia University Press 2007); Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (Cambridge University Press 2002), and Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (co-authored with Victor Cha) (Columbia University Press 2003). Kang has published numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, and International Security, and his co-authored article “Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History” was awarded “Best article, 2007–2009,” by the European Journal of International Relations. Kang serves on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals and is an associate editor for the Journal of Asian Studies. He received an AB with honors from Stanford University and his PhD from Berkeley.
John Sides
John Sides is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He studies political behavior in American and comparative politics. His current research focuses on political campaigns, political knowledge, and national identity. With Lynn Vavreck, he is the author of The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Election (Princeton University Press 2013). He has published a textbook on campaigns as well as articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and several other journals. He helped found and contributes to The Monkey Cage, a political science blog. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Washington Monthly.
He currently serves on the Executive Council of Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section of APSA as well as on the editorial boards of American Politics Research and Political Communication. He has served or serves on the advisory board of several survey research projects, including the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project, and The American Panel Survey. He has also served on the Best Dissertation Committee for the International Society for Political Psychology and the Best Book Award Committee for the EPOVB section.
Evelyn M. Simien
Evelyn M. Simien is associate professor of political science, jointly appointed with the Institute for African American Studies, and affiliated with the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Connecticut. She is also an associate editor for Polity (the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association). At the University of Connecticut, she has served as both acting director and associate director of the Humanities Institute. She has also served as president of the Women’s Caucus for Political Science-South. Simien earned her BA from Xavier University of Louisiana, her MA and PhD from Purdue University in political science. Her first book, Black Feminist Voices in Politics (State University of New York Press 2006), uses a national telephone survey of the adult African American population to determine the simultaneous effects of race and gender on political behavior in American presidential elections. She is sole principal investigator of the 2004–05 National Black Feminist Study, which has been used by sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists. Her second book, Gender and Lynching (Palgrave/Macmillan 2011), focuses on African American women who suffered racial-sexual violence at the hands of vigilante lynch mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Her third book, Historic Firsts: How Symbolic Empowerment Changes Politics, is under contract with Oxford University Press. She is the recipient of two teaching awards: the 2007 Teaching Promise Award from the American Association of University Professors, and the 2006 Anna Julia Cooper Teacher of the Year Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Call for Applications and Nominations: Interim Editor for PS: Political Science & Politics
Applications and nominations are sought for an interim editor for APSA’s quarterly journal PS: Political Science & Politics. PS features timely, peer-reviewed articles on contemporary politics written for the informed, general reader and commentary and debate on major issues in the political science profession. Incorporated into PS is “The Teacher,” a dedicated forum for teaching providing resources for college faculty, high school teachers, and students. PS, founded in 1968, also serves as the association’s journal of record, including information on member activities, association business and programs, and council actions. The association encourages applications from university-based political scientists as well as independent scholars.
The interim editor will serve for a one-year term, commencing September 1, 2014, to August 31, 2015. This is a part-time position; hours and salary negotiable. Interested parties should submit (1) statement of interest, (2) qualifications, (3) curriculum vitae, and (4) a list of three references. Submit applications materials, as PDF attachments by e-mail to APSA at hr@apsanet.org.Application review will begin May 15, 2014. The position will remain open until filled. Questions regarding the interim editorship can be directed to journalpublishing@apsanet.org.
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