PRESIDENT-ELECT
TAEKU LEE
Bae Family Professor of Government, Harvard University
Biography: Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University and also Professor Emeritus at UC-Berkeley, where he taught for twenty years. Lee’s teaching and research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and political behavior, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association; he serves on the Boards of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the ANES, and the GSS, as well as the National Advisory Committee for the US Census Bureau. At Berkeley he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and Associate Dean at the School of Law. Born in South Korea, Lee grew up in rural Malaysia, lower Manhattan, and suburban Michigan. He is a proud graduate of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (AB), Harvard University (MPP), and the University of Chicago (PhD).
VICE PRESIDENT
JAMIE DRUCKMAN
Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Biography: Jamie Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He also is an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. As of January 2024, he will be a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. His work focuses on preference formation, communication, inter-group relations, and experimental methods. He has published more than 160 papers and co-edited, co-authored, or authored five published or forthcoming books. He served as the chair of the Political Psychology and Experimental Research sections of the APSA and currently chairs the Election, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section. He also has been an APSA council member. He served as co-editor of the journals Political Psychology and Public Opinion Quarterly as well as the University of Chicago Press’s series in American Politics. He serves on the boards of the American National Election Studies and the Russell Sage Foundation. He currently is the co-Principal Investigator of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), the editor of the Cambridge Elements Series on Experimental Political Science, a co-Principal Investigator of the COVID States Project, and a co-Principal Investigator for the Strengthening Democracy Challenge.
LILLY GOREN
Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, Carroll University
Biography: Lilly J. Goren is Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She teaches American government, the presidency, politics and culture, gender studies, politics and literature, and political theory. Her research often integrates popular culture and literature as a means to understanding politics. She is co-editor, with Nicholas Carnes, of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (University Press of Kansas, 2022). Her other published books include Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (Bloomsbury Publishers, 2015); Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012)—winner of both the 2014 Susan Koppelman Book Award and the 2014 Peter C. Rollins Book Award; You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture (University Press of Kentucky, 2009); and Not in My District: The Politics of Military Base Closures (Peter Lang, 2003), as well as articles in Politic & Gender, Society, Political Research Quarterly, White House Studies, and The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. Goren is one of two co-hosts of the New Books in Political Science podcast on the New Books Network. She has twice served as chair of the American Political Science Association’s Politics, Literature, & Film section, and she is currently serving as president of the APSA’s Presidents and Executive Politics Section. She has also served as an elected member to the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association. Goren served a multi-year term as co-chair of the Standing Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Association for Political Theory. Goren was a Fulbright Fellow to the University of Bonn in the summer term, 2018. Professor Goren earned her AB in political science and English from Kenyon College and has an MA and a PhD in political science from Boston College, and is a regular contributor to local, national, and international media. And she likes to knit and read mysteries.
CAMERON THIES
Dean of James Madison College and MSU Foundation Professor, Michigan State University
Biography: Cameron G. Thies is Dean of James Madison College and MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University. Thies is a scholar of international relations who has published broadly in foreign policy analysis, conflict processes, international political economy, and international relations theory. He has previously served as editor of Political Science Research & Methods and Foreign Policy Analysis, and now serves as the deputy lead editor of the Journal of Politics. He was named the Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis (2016), the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar (2017), and the Ole R. Holsti Distinguished Scholar (2020) of the International Studies Association. Thies also served as the President of the International Studies Association (2019-2020). Thies has served on the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association (2015-18), multiple times as a mentor for the APSA Mentoring Program, and as a member of the American Political Science Review editorial board, in addition to other service roles in the association throughout the years.
TREASURER
SARA WALLACE GOODMAN
Chancellor’s Fellow and Dean’s Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
Biography: Sara Wallace Goodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her research examines citizenship and the shaping of political identity through immigrant integration. She is the author of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-author of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID (Princeton University Press, 2022), and author of Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Her work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, and other venues. Goodman’s research has been cited in major news outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, BBC, and The Guardian. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Hellman Fellows Fund. Goodman has served as past-President of the APSA Migration & Citizenship section (2017-2019) and the EU Studies Association (2020-2023).
COUNCIL
JULIA AZARI
Professor of Political Science, Marquette University
Biography: Julia Azari is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. Her research interests include the American presidency, political parties and political communication. Her work is motivated by questions about institutional legitimacy and the interaction between formal and informal rules. She is the author of Delivering the People’s Message: the Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate, published by Cornell University Press. Her scholarly work has been published at The Forum, Perspectives on Politics, Social Science History, and in numerous edited collections. Her work has been supported by several presidential library grants as well as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress’s Kluge Center in 2019. She has written about political parties, elections, and the American presidency for FiveThirtyEight, Vox, The New York Times, Politico, the Washington Post’s The Monkey Cage, the LSE-USAPP blog, and Grid News. She holds a PhD from Yale University.
MICHAEL GOODHART
Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies, and Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Biography: Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies, and Philosophy (by courtesy) at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in academic and professional governance for much of the past decade, serving for six years as Director of the Pitt Global Studies Center, for three years as elected co-president of the Association for Political Theory (2017-2020), and as chair of the APSA Presidential Task Force on Democracy, Social Justice, and Economic Security in a Volatile World (2010–12). Goodhart has also been actively involved in the APSA Human Rights organized section. He serves on three editorial boards: Perspectives on Politics, Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, and The Journal of Human Rights. He is author or editor of five books and some three dozen articles and book chapters on democracy, human rights, injustice, and related topics. He was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and he was Guest Professor in the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, from 2008-2010.
ALICE J. KANG
Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Biography: Alice J. Kang is an associate professor of political science and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kang is a scholar of women and gender in comparative politics with a world regional focus on Africa. She teaches courses related to African politics, democracy and citizenship, and women and politics. Kang is co-author of Reimagining the Judiciary: Women’s Representation on High Courts Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2021) with Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, and Miki Caul Kittilson. Their book received the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. She is also author of Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), which examines the impact of women’s and conservative movements in policymaking in the Republic of Niger. Her other works have been published in journals such as African Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Politics & Gender, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Research & Methods, and Politics & Gender. She has served as an associate editor of Politics & Gender.
ALISON RIOS MILLETT MCCARTNEY
Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Honors College, Towson University
Biography: Alison Rios Millett McCartney (PhD from University of Virginia) is professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Honors College at Towson University. A member of the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal of Political Science Education, she is co-editor of three books published by APSA: Teaching Civic Engagement Globally (2021), Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines (2017), and Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen (2013), and author of several book chapters, journal articles, national and international conference presentations, and webinars on political science pedagogy. She received the APSA Political Science Education section’s Distinguished Service award, the P20 Partnership Award from Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic, the University of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Mentoring, the Towson University Presidential Community Partnership award, and the Towson University Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty award twice. Some of her recent service to the profession includes being a member of the APSA Presidential Taskforce on Re-Thinking the Political Science major, co-chairing the 2023 Teaching and Learning program at the International Political Science Association World Congress, serving as founding co-chair of TLC at APSA, and serving as past president and past executive board member of APSA’s Political Science Education section. Currently, she also is a member of the Steering Committee of the AAC&U American Democracy Project, member of the Executive Board of the Maryland Collegiate Honors Council, and co-creator and co-chair of the Towson University-Baltimore County Model United Nations conference, a free civic engagement program for local youth.
TAMIR MOUSTAFA
Professor of International Studies and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair, Simon Fraser University
Biography: Tamir Moustafa is Professor of International Studies and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Washington and his BA in political science from University of California, San Diego. His research interests include judicial politics, religion and politics, authoritarianism, politics of the Middle East, and the politics of knowledge production. His books, all published by Cambridge University Press, include The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt; Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (with Tom Ginsburg); and Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada), Carnegie, Fulbright, and others, and he has held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley, Princeton, and Harvard. His work has been recognized by APSA through various honors, including dissertation, article, and book awards. He has an active service record, including work in several APSA sections, adjudication for the APSA/NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, participation in the APSA Mentor program, and service on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review (2020-2024), among other roles.
DANIEL NIELSON
Director of Government Department Graduate Studies, Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development, and professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Biography: Daniel Nielson is Professor of Government and Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Government Department. He is co-founder and former Chief Social Scientist of AidData. He is a former professor of political science and co-founder of the Global Politics Lab at Brigham Young University. Dan received his PhD in international affairs from UC San Diego and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, Duke University, and the College of William and Mary. He has been principal investigator on major grants from NSF, US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Hewlett and Gates Foundations. Dan’s research focuses on the control of corruption, international development, foreign aid, and international organization. He has performed field research in Brazil, Ghana, India, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. He specializes in the use of transnational field experiments to learn about causal effects in political economy. Dan co-authored Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism (Cambridge, 2014) and co-edited Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge 2006). He has published articles in PNAS, Science Advances, AJPS, IO, JOP, BJPS, and CPS, among other journals.
CANDIS WATTS SMITH
Associate Professor of Political Science and Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Duke University
Statement of Views: Candis Watts Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science and Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University, where she also received her BA, MA, and PhD in Political Science. Her research expertise highlights the role race, racism, and structural inequality play in shaping the American political landscape. She the author or co-author of Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Identity (NYU Press, 2014), Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making Black Lives Matter (NYU Press, 2019); Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2020); and The History of Race and Politics in America, 1968-Present (Audible Original, 2022). Smith has served APSA in several capacities including, as Chair for Section 32 (Race, Ethnicity, and Politics), as the co-president of the REP section, as a member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Blacks, and twice as a panel member for the NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for Political Science. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals as well as associate editor at Politics, Groups, and Identities and at Public Opinion Quarterly.
SHATEMA THREADCRAFT
Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy and Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Biography: Shatema Threadcraft is an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies, philosophy and political science at Vanderbilt University and a Laurance V. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She works on African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory and Feminist Philosophy. She is the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s 2017 Sara A. Whaley Award for the best book on women and labor, the 2017 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Race, Ethnicity and Politics Organized Section (Best Book in Race and Political Theory). She was the 2017-2018 Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Political Studies at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 2009- 2012. Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. ■
