ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES
Committee on Departmental Services
The Committee on Departmental Services advises on publications and other services for members of the association’s Departmental Services Program.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Priscilla Regan, George Mason University, Chair
Jarvis Hall, North Carolina Central University
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Tony Messina, Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)
KC Morrison, Mississippi State
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Thomas Keck, Syracuse University
George Lovell, University of Washington
Committee on Teaching and Learning
The Committee on Teaching and Learning develops and promotes activities within APSA and the political science community regarding political science and the practices and policies of higher education, including undergraduate, graduate, professional, and life-long education. The committee addresses issues of course and curriculum preparation and assessment, the professional development of college and graduate teaching, pedagogies and strategies of teaching and learning for the diversity of our students and program missions, instructional technologies and other resources, and higher education policy. It encourages studies in these areas, promotes supportive projects and materials development, and advises the APSA Council. The committee also advises the APSA Council on the practices and policy for the annual APSA Teaching and Learning Conference.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Tressa E. Tabares, American River College
Sherri L. Wallace, University of Louisville
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Stephen Meinhold, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Chair
Desiree Pedescleaux, Spelman College
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University
Alison McCartney, Towson University
Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee
Dick Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chad Raymond, Salve Regina University
Sara Moats, Florida International University
Audrey Haynes, University of Georgia
Chera LaForge, Indiana University East
APSA Ad Hoc Working Group on Assessment
Lawrence Baum, The Ohio State University
Michelle Deardorff, Jackson State University
Lynne Ford, College of Charleston
John Ishiyama, University of North Texas
Joseph P. McCormick II, Penn State University, York
Candace Young, Truman State University, Chair
Committee on Civic Education and Engagement
The APSA Committee on Civic Education and Engagement focuses on the contributions that higher education, and political sciences in higher education institutions, are making or could make to enhancing the quantity and quality of civic engagement among young Americans.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Kristin Goss, Duke University, Chair
Brian M. Harward, Allegheny College
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Walter Wilson, University of Texas, San Antonio
ACTIVE COMMITTEES
Centennial Center Advisory Board
The Centennial Center Advisory Board oversees practices of the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, raises funds for center activities, and makes final decisions on awarding of Centennial Center scholarships and grants.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester
Sharon Ann Navarro, University of Texas at San Antonio
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Phil Keefer, Inter-American Development Bank
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Costas Panagopoulos, Fordham University
Toni Michelle Travis, George Mason University
International Political Science
The Committee on International Political Science Recommends policy to the APSA council with regard to international membership issues, oversees relationships with other national and international political science associations, and supports the inclusiveness of the APSA’s work and activities in ways that transcend national boundaries.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Yun-han Chu, Academia Sinica
Mark Tessler, University of Michigan
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Hilde Coffe, Victoria University of Wellington, Chair
Laura Morales, University of Leicester
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Karen Anderson, University of Southampton
Todd Eisenstadt, American University
ANNUAL MEETING COMMITTEES
Annual Meeting Committee
The committee on the annual meeting is designed to oversee the practices and policies of the APSA Annual Meeting.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Stacia L. Haynie, Louisiana State University
Tyson D. King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College, Chair
Committee on Siting and Engagement
This committee addresses the application of APSA siting policy for the APSA Annual Meeting, the Teaching and Learning Conference, and other major APSA meetings, and plans for a program of public engagement in the community once a site has been selected.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Robin A. Kolodny, Temple University
Maruice Mangum, Texas Southern University
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Melissa Michelson, Menlo College
Justin Vaughn, Boise State University
David Wilson, University of Delaware
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Ben McKean, Ohio State University
Rachael Cobb, Suffolk University, Chair
Theodore J. Davis, Jr., University of Delaware
COUNCIL COMMITTEES
Administrative Committee
The Administrative Committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the council.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
David Lake, University of California, San Diego
Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Texas A&M University
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
Martha Finnemore, George Washington University
Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee supervises the conduct of APSA’s audit and oversees that adequate internal controls exist for the Association’s accounting and finance. The audit committee is comprised of three members: two from the council and one from the trust and development board of trustees. Members and the chair are named by the president with the advice and consent of the council.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
David Stasavage, New York University
Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa
Charles Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Committee on Elections
The Committee on Elections supervises the conduct of APSA’s elections. Three members are appointed after the election from among newly elected and continuing council members.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Byron D’Andra Orey, Jackson State University
Mark Warren, University of British Columbia
David Lublin, American University
Finance Committee
The Finance Committee examines and interprets the trends in APSA finances and oversees patterns of revenues and expenditures relative to budget.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley, Chair
Frank Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michelle Deardorff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Committee on Rules
The Committee on Rules reviews APSA’s by-laws and rules of procedure for governing the conduct of the annual business meeting and proposes revisions as they are deemed necessary.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Cameron Thies, Arizona State University
James Mahoney, Northwestern University
GOVERNANCE COMMITTEES
Governance Reform Ad Hoc Committee
David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego, Chair
Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University
Terri Givens, Menlo College
Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida
Jonathan Koppell, Arizona State University
Ashley Leeds, Rice University
Joanne Miller, University of Minnesota
Jeffrey Segal, Stony Brook University
Dara Strolovitch, Princeton University
Development Committee
The Development Committee proposes development goals and policies to the Council, oversees their eventual implementation, and has oversight of APSA Awards.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Joanne Gowa, Princeton University
Matthew C. Moen, University of South Dakota
Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms Committee
The responsibility of the Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms is to protect the rights of political scientists and ensure that the ethical policies of the Association are followed.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Scott W. Desposato, University of California, San Diego
Term expiring August 31, 2017
David Campbell, University of Notre Dame
Susanna Wing, Haverford College
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Virginia Sapiro, Boston University, Chair
Michael Fortner, CUNY Graduate Center
Samantha Frost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Noah Pickus, Duke University
Nominating Committee
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Sheri Berman, Barnard College-Columbia University, Chair
Luis Fraga, University of Notre Dame
Sara Mitchell, University of Iowa
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Fred Harris, Columbia University
Tarek Masoud, Harvard University
Chris Gelpi, Ohio State University
Organized Sections Committee
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Carol S. Weissert, Florida State University, Chair
Holly Brasher, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Lori Weber, California State University, Chico
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Carol Mershon, University of Virginia
Willem Maas, York University
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEES
Committee on Publications
The Committee on Publications oversees and coordinates existing APSA publications, explores possible relationships with political science journals not sponsored by APSA, and, when appropriate, develops proposals for new publications.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Karen Beckwith, Case Western Reserve University
John Geer, Vanderbilt University
Term expiring August 31, 2017
Alan Ware, Oxford University, London
Publications Planning Ad Hoc Committee
The charge to the Publications Planning Committee is to look broadly at the needs, opportunities and issues for the future of scholarly publications and communications of the association, and to make recommendations for new initiatives or changes in approach. In conducting its analysis, the committee considers the evolving technologies and formats for electronic media and open access, the formats and editorial arrangements for the existing publications and communications of the association, including standing journals, eNewsletters, organized section journals and newsletters, ideas for eJournals, and the future prospects for the editorial arrangement and structure for PS: Political Science and Politics. The committee also considers how the APSA scholarly journals are balanced regarding the needs of scholarly production, research audiences and teaching, junior faculty and emerging scholars, association members, press and policy makers, and the attentive public.
Term expiring September 30, 2018:
Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University, Chair
Larry M. Bartels, Vanderbilt University
Simone Chambers, University of Toronto
Derrick L. Cogburn, American University
Eric Crahan, Oxford University Press
Yoshiko M. Herrera, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
Karen M. Kedrowski, Winthrop University
Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Rahsaan Maxwell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ricardo Ramirez, University of Notre Dame
Kaare Strom, University of California, San Diego
Ex-Officio Members
Phillip Ardoin, Appalachian State University, Editor, PS: Political Science and Politics
Paul Gronke, Reed College, Editor, PS: Political Science and Politics
Jeffrey C. Isaac, Indiana University, Editor, Perspectives on Politics
John Ishiyama, University of North Texas, Editor, APSR
STATUS COMMITTEES
Status of Asian Americans in the Profession
The Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of Asian American and Pacific Islander political scientists.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Natalie Masuoka, Tufts University
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside
Term expiring September 4, 2017
Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University
Rebecca Deen, University of Texas, Arlington, Chair
Term expiring August 31, 2018:
Okiyoshi (Oki) Takeda, Aoyama Gakuin University
Julie Merseth, Northwestern University
Status of Blacks in the Profession
The Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of African Americans within the discipline.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Shayla C. Nunnally, University of Connecticut
James Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco, Chair
Term expiring September 4, 2017
Michael Fauntroy, Howard University
Atiya Stokes, Bucknell University
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis
Porsha Cropper, Abt Associates
Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession
The Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of Latino scholars within the discipline.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Christina Elizabeth Bejarano, University of Kansas
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Texas A&M University
Term expiring September 4, 2017
Maria Chavez, Pacific Lutheran University
Eric Juenke-Gonzalez, Michigan State
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Linda Mancillas, Georgia Gwinnett College, Chair
Stephen Nuno, Northern Arizona University
LGBT Status in the Profession
This committee assesses the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) scholars in the profession, advances the research on LGBT issues, develops curriculum materials, and works to ensure tolerance toward LGBT political scientists.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Patrick J. Egan, New York University
Mary Caprioli, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Term expiring September 4, 2017
Shawn Schulenberg, Marshall University
Ellen Andersen, University of Vermont
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Jami Taylor, University of Toledo, Chair
Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
The Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession monitors and reports on the status of women in the profession, advances research on women and on issues of concern to women, develops and assesses curriculum materials, and works to ensure fair and equal treatment of women in the profession.
Term expiring August 31, 2016
Stefanie Chambers, Trinity College
Leela Fernandes, University of Michigan
Term expiring September 4, 2017
Nadia Brown, Purdue University
Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University, Chair
Term expiring August 31, 2018
Denise Walsh, University of Virginia
Amy Atchison, Valparaiso University
Workable Solutions to Advancing Women in the Profession Ad Hoc Committee
The goal of the committee is not to collect more data about the position of women in political science but to begin the process of ensuring that such focused and systematic policies are put in place. The committee will be concerned with actual and potential solutions to the problem; it will identify and bring together promising policies that already exist in some universities with suggestions for new policies that offer workable solutions. The package of policies will then be publicized as “best practice” throughout our discipline so that everyone is aware of what can and should be done. The APSA has no enforcement powers, but it does have the power of publicity and the support of women in our profession.
Kristen Monroe, University of California, Irvine, Chair
Martha Ackelsberg, Smith College
Angela Lewis, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Donna Shalala, University of Miami
Michele Swers, Georgetown University
AWARD COMMITTEES
John Gaus Award Committee
Lael Keiser, University of Missouri, Columbia, Chair
Frances Berry, Florida State University
Dan Carpenter, Harvard University
Frank J. Goodnow Award Committee
Anne Schneider, Arizona State Unviersity, Chair
Tom Remington, Emory University
Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia
Hubert H. Humphrey Award Committee
Raphael Sonenshein, California State University, Los Angeles, Chair
Les Lenkowsky, Indiana University
Tony King, University of Essex
Carey McWilliams Award Committee
Steve Livingston, George Washington University, Chair
Josh Tucker, New York University
Andrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway, University of London
Distinguished Teaching Award Committee
Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville, Chair
Jacqui Briggs, University of Lincoln
Richard Holtzman, Bryant University
Ithiel de Sola Pool Award Committee
Danielle Vinson, Furman University, Chair
Mat Baum, Harvard University
Andy Gelman, Columbia University
DISSERTATION AWARDS
Term Expiring August 31, 2016
E.E. Schattschneider Award Committee
Lina Newton, Hunter College, Chair
Kent Portney, Texas A&M University
Dan Hopkins, Georgetown University
Edward S. Corwin Award Committee
Amy Steigerwalt, Georgia State University, Chair
Anthony Lang, University of St. Andrews
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester
Gabriel A. Almond Award Committee
Arthur Spirling, New York University, Chair
Marc Howard, Georgetown University
Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University
Howard D. Lasswell Award Committee
Jennifer Clark,University of Houston, Chair
Chris Koski, Reed College
Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz
Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex, Chair
Susan Hyde, Yale University
Paul Poast, University of Chicago
Leo Strauss Award Committee
Jill Hargis, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Chair
Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics
Lars Toender, University of Copenhagen
Leonard D. White Award Committee
Rosemary O’Leary, University of Kansas, Chair
Susan Miller, University of South Carolina
Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University
William Anderson Award Committee
Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina/University of Amsterdam, Chair
Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin
Shanna Rose, Claremont McKenna College
BOOK AWARDS
Ralph J. Bunche Award Committee
Christina Greer, Fordham University, Chair
Kanchan Chandra, New York University
Marc Helbing, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Gladys M. Kammerer Award Committee
Eleanor Powell, University of Wisconsin, Chair
Sara Anzia, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College
Victoria Schuck Award Committee
Jill Vickers, Carleton University, Chair
Shauna Shames, Rutgers University at Camden
Fiona Mackay, University of Edinburgh
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Committee
John Mollenkopf, City University of New York, Chair
Ashu Varshney, Brown University
James Robinson, University of Chicago
PAPER AND ARTICLE AWARDS
Heinz Eulau Award Committee
Chair: Aseem Prakash, University of Washington
American Political Science Review
Michelle Dion, McMaster University
Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
Perspectives on Politics
Martin Gilens, Princeton University
Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po
Franklin L. Burdette Award Committee
Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College, Chair
Jake Bowers, University of Illinois
Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva
