As noted in the October issue of PS, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., the Marie E .and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, became APSA's 108th president on September 4, 2011, at the close of the APSA Annual Meeting. Eight new members of the APSA council were elected fall 2011. The new members are Paul Gronke, Reed College; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University; and Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester.
NEW APSA COUNCIL Members
Paul Gronke (PhD Michigan '93, MA Essex '84, BA Chicago '82) is a professor of political science at Reed College, director of the Early Voting Information Center (http://earlyvoting.net) and co-editor of the Election Law Journal. He has published more than two-dozen peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and a book: The Electorate, the Campaign, and The Vote (Michigan 2000). He has contributed to policy reports for the Pew Center on the States, the Election Assistance Commission, and the states of Oregon and Maryland. Gronke's academic interests include elections, election administration, public opinion, Congress, and research methods.
Gronke has served as department chair for seven years and has been on Reed's campus wide planning committee and Dean's Search committee. He sat on APSA's Trust and Development Committee, the Western Executive Council, served as communications director for the EPOVB Section of APSA, and was section head for the Southern and Western meetings.
Ange-Marie Hancock received her PhD in 2000 (University of North Carolins, Chapel Hill). An Irvine Dissertation Fellowship brought her to the University of San Francisco; she later taught at Penn State and Yale before joining the University of Southern California in 2008. She is an associate professor of political science and gender studies.
Hancock is an internationally recognized scholar of intersectionality. Her first book, The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the “Welfare Queen” (2004), won the W. E. B. Du Bois Best Book Award (NCOBPS) and Best First Book Award (Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the APSA). Her 2007 article, “When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition” remains the most cited article published in Perspectives on Politics. She has authored several articles and chapters; and most recently co-edited a Political Research Quarterly mini-symposium. Her newest book is Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics (2011). With Nira Yuval-Davis, she is co-editor of the Politics of Intersectionality monograph series, the first book series on intersectionality in the world.
David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Acting Dean of Social Sciences (2011-2012) at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Hierarchy in International Relations (2009), as well as Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 (1988); Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century (1999), and World Politics: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions (2010). In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he is the co-editor of ten volumes including most recently The Credibility of Transnational NGOs: When Virtue is Not Enough (forthcoming 2012) and Politics in the New Hard Times: The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming). Lake has served as research director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, co-editor of the journal International Organization, chair of UCSD's political science department, and associate dean of social sciences at UCSD. He is the founding chair of the International Political Economy Society, and the immediate past President of the International Studies Association. The recipient of the UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 2008-2009. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1984 and taught at UCLA from 1983 to 1992.
Taeku Lee is a professor and chair of political science and a professor of law at University of California, Berkeley. His primary teaching and research areas are in racial politics, public opinion, political participation, and social movements. He is the author of Mobilizing Public Opinion (Chicago, 2002), which received the J. David Greenstone and the V.O. Key book awards; coauthor of Why Americans Don't Join the Party (Princeton, 2011); and coauthor of Asian American Political Participation (Russell Sage, 2011). He has also co-edited Transforming Politics, Transforming America (Virginia, 2006) and Accountability through Public Opinion (World Bank, 2011) and is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States.
Lee's prior service to the APSA includes book award committees, the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section Executive Council, the Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans, and the Task Force on Political Science in the 21st Century. Lee sits on several editorial boards (including the American Political Science Review), is on the American National Election Studies Board, and has served in advisory and consultative capacities for community-based non-profits, international organizations, think tanks, and foundations.
Kenneth J. Meier is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holder of the Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, where he also directs the Project for Equity, Representation and Governance and the Carlos H. Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity Endowment. He is also a professor of public management at the Cardiff University School of Business, Cardiff University (UK.).
Meier is a scholar of public administration and public policy who examines issues of equity, particularly in regard to race, ethnicity, gender, and class. His recent books include Public Management: Organizations, Governance and Performance (Cambridge University Press, with Larry O'Toole) and The Wit and Humor of Political Science (APSA, with Lee Sigelman, Bernie Grofman, and Ken Newton). He edited the American Journal of Political Science and is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He has served as president of the Midwest Political Science Association, the Southwest Political Science Association, and the Public Management Research Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. His career research contributions have been recognized by the John Gaus Award from APSA and the C. Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration.
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. She is the author, most recently, of How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2004; co-winner of the APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and winner of the Mattei Dogan Award of the Society for Comparative Research) and coeditor of two volumes on institutional change, Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency and Power (Cambridge University Press, 2010, with James Mahoney) and Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (Oxford University Press, 2005, 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 (Cologne, Germany), and has also held appointments as a research fellow or visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), Sciences Po (Paris), and the Copenhagen Business School. She was chair of the Council for European Studies (2002–06) and president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008–09).
Steve Walt is Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he served as academic dean from 2002 to 2006. He previously taught at Princeton and the University of Chicago.
Walt's professional interests include international relations theory, security studies, and research methods. He has authored four books: The Origins of Alliances (1987), Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power (2005), and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with John Mearsheimer, 2007). He has published over 40 scholarly articles in journals such as International Security, the American Political Science Review, and International Organization. Walt is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy, and writes a daily blog (http://walt.foreignpolicy.com).
Walt is co-editor of Cornell Studies in Security Affairs and on the editorial boards of International Relations, Security Studies, and the Journal of Cold War Studies. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Watson Institute and his APSA duties include the Ad Hoc Committee on the National Science Foundation (1999-2000) and section head for National Security Studies at the 1990 Annual Meeting. Walt is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Angelia R. Wilson received her D. Phil in political philosophy from the University of York, UK and has taught at the University of Manchester for almost 20 years. Her publications include numerous articles and book chapters as well as five books in fields of political theory, comparative public policy, and sexuality politics: Below the Belt: Religion, Sexuality and the American South; Activating Theory; A Simple Matter of Justice?; Situating Intersectionality (under review) and Why Europe is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why American Never Will Be) (under review). Wilson has been a consultant on issues of gender and sexuality for the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Church of England, the Children's Society, the Department of Trade & Industry and NHS Primary Care Trusts.
Wilson has an active service record in APSA. She was one of the founders of the Sexuality and Politics Section and has chaired the LGBT Caucus. She served on the Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered in the Profession from 2006 to 2009 and is an active member of the Religion and Politics Section. As of January 2012, she will be the co-editor of Politics & Religion.
Continuing Council Members, 2010–12
Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University; Michael C. Desch, University of Notre Dame; Christopher F. Gelpi, Duke University; Simon Hix, London School of Economics; Mala N. Htun, University of New Mexico; Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania; and Dara Z. Strolovitch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities continue their two-year terms.
Figure 1 Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University
Figure 1 Michael C. Desch, University of Notre Dame
Figure 1 Christopher F. Gelpi, Duke University
Figure 1 Simon Hix, London School of Economics
Figure 1 Mala N. Htun, University of New Mexico
Figure 1 Laura Katz Olson, Lehigh University
Figure 1 Dara Z. Strolovitch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
APSA COUNCIL Officers
Joining APSA president G. Bingham Powell, Jr. in guiding APSA is president-elect Jane Mansbridge and five new officers: vice-presidents, Morris Fiorina, Stanford University; Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida; and Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; treasurer, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, University of Nebraska, Omaha; and secretary, Lisa L. Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Brief biographical statements are included here; for full details, visit www.apsanet.org/council.
G. Bingham Powell, Jr. is the Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, where he is a former department chair and director of graduate studies. He has PhD and MA degrees in political science from Stanford University (1968) and a BA in public and international affairs from Princeton University (1963.)
Powell's scholarly work has been in the field of comparative politics. He has published work on political participation, conflict, government stability, party systems, election rules, economic voting, representation, and the role of elections in shaping government commitments and policies. His book Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Harvard 1982) won APSA's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award “for the best book published in the US during 1982 on government, politics, or international affairs.” In 2000 this book was given the George H. Hallett Award, “for a book that is at least ten years old and that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems,” by APSA's Representation and Electoral Systems Section. His book Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions (Yale 2000) was a co-winner of the 2002 Mattei Dogan Award, for the “Best Comparative Book of the Year,” by the Society for Comparative Research. He is also the author of Social Fragmentation and Political Hostility (Stanford 1970), and co-author of Comparative Politics: System, Process and Policy (Little, Brown 1978), and Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach (Little, Brown 1966). His most recent articles focus on explaining ideological congruence between citizens and their representatives.
Jane Mansbridge, president-elect is the Charles F. Adams Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She holds an MA in history and a PhD in political science from Harvard University and a BA from Wellesley College. Her research lies at the intersection between democratic theory and empirical social science, with a focus on political inequalities and the democratic processes that can counteract those inequalities. Her first book, Beyond Adversary Democracy, studied deliberation and inequality in two small direct democracies. Her second book, Why We Lost the ERA, co-recipient of the Kammerer award in 1987 and the Victoria Schuck Award in 1988, studied flawed deliberation within a social movement. She also edited Beyond Self-Interest, Feminism (Schools of Thought in Politics series) with Susan Moller Okin, and Oppositional Consciousness with Aldon Morris. Recent articles include “A ‘Selection Model’ of Political Representation,” “Rethinking Representation,” and “The Place of Self-Interest and the Role of Power in Democratic Deliberation” (a deliberative co-authorship with eight colleagues).
Mansbridge has been active in the Caucus for Women in Political Science, co-founded the Organization of Women Faculty at Northwestern, was a member of the Task Force on Women at Harvard, and was the founding faculty chair of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Morris P. Fiorina, vice president 2011–12, is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He received a BA from Allegheny College and a PhD from the University of Rochester and taught at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard before Stanford.
Fiorina has written widely on American government and politics, with special emphasis on topics in the study of representation and electoral accountability. He has published numerous articles and written or edited 10 books, including Congress-Keystone of the Washington Establishment; Retrospective Voting in American National Elections; Divided Government, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel Abrams and Jeremy Pope); and Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics (with Samuel Abrams). Recently, he was named the 2008 Harold Lasswell Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. At Stanford, Fiorina teaches the introductory course in American politics and various seminars.
Kerstin Hamann, vice president 2011–12, professor of political science at the University of Central Florida, received her PhD in political science, an MA in West European studies, and an MA in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. She previously attended Tübingen University, Germany. Hamann is the recipient of UCF's University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Awards, and numerous college-wide teaching and research awards.
Her research focuses on Spanish politics, comparative political economy (Western Europe), and comparative industrial relations. She has also conducted extensive research in the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her books include The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain (2011); Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe: Voting for Social Pacts (with John Kelly, 2011); Assessment in Political Science (coedited with Michelle Deardorff and John Ishiyama, 2009). Her research has also been published in edited volumes and journals, including Comparative Political Studies and the British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Niraja G. Jayal, vice president 2011–12, is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She served as chair of the Centre (2002–04 and 2008–09) and as director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (2004–07). She is the author of Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 1999); and editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (2010); Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2001); and Local Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2005). Her current book project is about contestations over ideas of citizenship in India across the twentieth century. As with her previous work, this is also located at the intersection of the normative and the empirical.
In 2009, she delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. She was Visiting Fellow in Democracy and Development at Princeton University (2009–10). She has held a Senior Fellowship of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi, and visiting fellowships at, among others, the University of Melbourne and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. She directed a project on “Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia,” funded by the Ford Foundation, as well as an all-India survey of women's participation in institutions of local governance.
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, treasurer, 2011-12 is a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). His main areas of research are energy and trade policy in Latin America and comparative democratization. He received his PhD from the University of Georgia (1998). He is the author of Power to the People: Energy and the Cuban Nuclear Program (2001) and Cuba's Energy Future: Strategic Approaches to Cooperation (2010). His papers have been published in, among other places, the Political Science Quarterly, the Nonproliferation Review, and Urban Affairs Review. He is director of the Intelligence Community Scholars Program at UNO and was the founding assistant director of the Office of Latino/Latino American Studies at UNO. He served on the APSA Council (2008-2010).
Lisa L. Martin, secretary 2011–12 , is a professor of political science and the Glenn B. and Leone Orr Hawkins Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation (Princeton University Press, 2000) and Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions (Princeton University Press, 1992). Her journal publications have focused on the role of institutions in international politics, considering how international institutions are both the object of state choice and have consequences for patterns of cooperation among states. Her work uses multiple methods, combining case-study, quantitative, and formal analysis. She is currently chair of the APSA Publications Committee and was co-chair of the APSA Program Committee in 2010. She served as editor-in-chief of International Organization from 2002 to 2006 and currently serves on numerous editorial boards and prize committees.
Seeking Recommendations for Council Membership and Officers
The APSA Nominating Committee welcomes your suggestions for candidates for the 2012–13 APSA council. Next year, eight council seats, three vice presidencies, and the offices of president-elect, and secretary are open. Council members serve staggered two-year terms. The president-elect, vice presidents, and secretary all serve one-year terms. The committee encourages all members of APSA to suggest names for consideration. Those members wishing to do so explain why they believe the person's accomplishments, background, and views would make them a good choice for a leadership position in APSA. Nominations due January 13, 2012.
The committee hopes to nominate a slate of accomplished scholars and practitioners who reflect the diverse membership of the association. To help the committee achieve this goal, they rely on the membership to forward suggestions and recommendations of candidates representing a broad spectrum of backgrounds, institutional settings, intellectual interests, professional experiences, and geographical regions.
Send your recommendations for the council to the nominating committee at [email protected].
