The APSA Nominating Committee met at APSA on February 19, 2016, and has nominated the following candidates for APSA council positions. Each has agreed to serve if elected.
The candidates will be certified at the All-Member Business Meeting September 1, at 12:00 p.m., in Philadelphia at the Annual Meeting. If there are no additional nominations from the membership for each office, the new members will be elected there; if there is a contest for any of the council positions, we will hold an all-member election in the autumn.
The nominating committee is Sheri Berman, Barnard College-Columbia University (Chair); Luis Fraga, University of Notre Dame; Sara Mitchell, University of Iowa; Fred Harris, Columbia University; Tarek Masoud, Harvard University; and Christopher Gelpi, Ohio State University.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
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. Thelen is a comparativist whose work focuses on the origins and evolution of political- economic institutions in the rich democracies. Her latest book, Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (2014), received the Barrington Moore Prize and was co-winner of Best Book in the European Politics and Society Section. A previous work, How Institutions Evolve, was selected for the 2006 Mattei Dogan Award, and shared the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. Thelen has also contributed to the literature on institutional analysis, including Advances in Comparative Historical Analysis (2015) and Explaining Institutional Change (2010), both coedited with James Mahoney, Beyond Continuity (2005, with Wolfgang Streeck) and Structuring Politics (1992, with Sven Steinmo). Her article “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics” remains the most cited and most downloaded contribution to the Annual Review of Political Science. Her work has also appeared in a number of journals, including World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Politics & Society, among others.
Thelen has been awarded fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin), Radcliffe Institute, Oxford University, the Max-Planck-Society, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation, among others. She is a permanent external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and has held visiting appointments in Europe (Sweden, UK, France, Denmark) and Latin America (Mexico, Argentina). She was chair of the Council for European Studies (2002–2006) and president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008–2009). Along with Erik Wibbels, she edits the Cambridge University Press Series in Comparative Politics. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2015) and its German equivalent, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (since 2009).
Thelen has been active in the association, most recently as a member of APSA Council and Treasurer. She has also served on numerous committees and as an officer in several Organized Sections—Comparative Politics (president), Politics and History (president), Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (vice-president), and European Politics and Society (treasurer).
Statement of Views: I would work to enhance participation and to promote diversity within our association and profession, seeking especially to enhance opportunities for women and minorities to flourish and thrive. I am committed to methodological pluralism and dedicated to teaching and mentoring and would strive to ensure that these activities are sufficiently recognized and rewarded.
VICE PRESIDENTS
Elaine C. Kamarck
Elaine C. Kamarck is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program and the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution. She is also a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Kamarck is an expert on government innovation and reform in the United States, OECD countries, and developing countries. In addition, she also focuses her research on the presidential nomination system and American politics and has worked in many American presidential campaigns. Kamarck is the author of Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates 2nd Ed. (Brookings Institution Press 2016). She is also the author of How Change Happens: The Politics of US Public Policy (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2013) and The End of Government…As We Know It (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2007). She served in the Clinton administration as a senior advisor to the vice president where she ran the National Performance Review, also known as the “reinventing government initiative.” She has been a member of the Democratic National Committee and the DNC’s Rules Committee since 1997. She has participated actively in four presidential campaigns and in ten nominating conventions—including two Republican conventions.
Statement of Views: Political science has great utility in the world of policy and politics. Whether it is analyzing the implications of policy change, understanding the cultural context of international conflict, or interpreting public opinion polls, the discipline has much to offer the staffer or the aspiring politician. As both an academic and a practitioner, I believe that for some in the profession there can be a virtuous circle—where academic rigor helps a person succeed in public service and where the experience of public service establish new insights and new paths for research.
Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his JD from the Yale Law School and his PhD from the Yale political science department, where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Shapiro has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town, The University of Oslo, Sciences Po in Paris, Keio University in Tokyo, and Nuffield College, Oxford. Recently, his articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and elsewhere. His new book, Politics Against Domination, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016. Shapiro’s current research concerns the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth.
Statement of Views: In my view political science is at its best when it starts with consequential problems in the political world and then deploys the best available scholarly methods to bear in addressing them. I have been critical of theory and method driven approaches to the subject. Too often their proponents start with preferred models or methods, inverting the enterprise so as to produce scholarship that is either contrived or unimportant. I believe that the APSA should foster and reward problem driven research and that its officers should represent the discipline to the outside world as a source of useful knowledge that has the potential to improve politics.
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and professor of sociology by courtesy at Ohio State University (PhD, University of Texas, 1993.) She directs the Program in Statistics and Methodology (PRISM) at Ohio State University. She has served as the faculty representative to the Ohio State Board of Trustees in 2013 and as the divisional dean for social and behavioral sciences starting in 2014. Box-Steffensmeier served as president of the Midwest Political Science Association and the Political Methodology Society as well as treasurer of APSA. She has twice received the Gosnell Award for the best work in political methodology and the Emerging Scholar Award of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Organized Section in 2001. She was an inaugural fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is named after her in recognition of her contributions in political methodology and her support of women in this field. She helped found the Visions in Methodology (VIM) Conferences for women in political methodology as well. She received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the political science department in 2013, Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award from Ohio State University in 2009, Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences from ICPSR in 2013, Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar award in 2012, Political Methodology Career Achievement Award in 2013, and Women’s Caucus for the Midwest Political Science Association’s Outstanding Professional Achievement for Scholarship and Mentorship in 2016.
Her work focuses on campaigns and elections, Congress, and lobbying as well as event history, time series, and network methodologies. She was a coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, which provides comprehensive overviews and critiques of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Statement of Views: APSA is a critical body for advancing the profession and engaging in the myriad issues facing higher education and the world. Our field has immense collective value for addressing the major issues of our time, and it is important that our members and their work are supported and assisted in doing so. I believe that APSA is positioned to make just such a difference. As our primary organization, it is equally important to foster community and diversity of ideas as well as personal diversity in our profession.
TREASURER
Marion Orr
Marion Orr is the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and professor of political science and Urban Studies at Brown University (BU). Orr is the former director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy at BU. He is also a former chair of BU’s political science department.
He is the author and editor of seven books, including Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore (University Press of Kansas), which won the Policy Studies Organization’s Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best book published in 1999, and The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton University Press), which was named the best book in 1999 by the Urban Politics Organized Section.
His research focuses on American politics with a focus on African American politics, urban politics, the politics of urban schools, and community organizing. Orr is currently writing the first scholarly a biography of Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Michigan’s first Black congressman.
Orr has held a number of fellowships, including an appointment as research fellow at the Brookings Institution, a presidential fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellowship from the Ford Foundation.
Orr has been active in the APSA. He served as a member of APSA’s Council from 2003–2005. He served as president of the APSA’s Urban Politics Organized Section. In addition, he has served on numerous APSA committees, including the Committee on Education and Professional Development, APSA Strategic Planning Committee, Ralph Bunche Book Award Committee, Siting and Engagement Committee, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Award Committee.
Orr is also active and served in leadership roles in other academic societies. From 2000 to 2006 he was an elected member of the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), an international organization devoted to the study of urban issues. In 2005–2006 he served as chair of UAA’s Governing Board. Orr has also served as a member of the executive council of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He has served, or is currently serving, on the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Affairs, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Urban Affairs Review.
Statement of Views: If elected to the council, I plan to support efforts that encourage diversity within the discipline. I will support initiatives that increase the ethnic and racial diversity of the APSA. While much progress has been made, more work is needed to expand opportunities for graduate training and to increase the number of racial and ethnic minorities on political science faculties. I will urge APSA staff to collect the necessary data so that the Council can more effectively address the recruitment and retention of African Americans, Latinos, and other racial and ethnic minorities within the discipline.
If elected to the council, I will support efforts that push APSA, and its leading journals, toward methodological diversity. My view is straightforward: the APSA should reward scholarship that is methodologically sound, relevant, and has substantive value.
Finally, I believe the APSA should make a real effort to connect with, and make the organization more hospitable toward, political scientists who are employed at small colleges and those working outside of academia. If elected to the council, I will support policies and programs designed to bring these political scientists back into the APSA.
COUNCIL
Matt A. Barreto
Matt A. Barreto is cofounder and managing partner of the polling and research firm Latino Decisions which he cofounded with Gary Segura in 2007. Barreto is also professor of political science and Chicana/o studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2012 Time Magazine called Latino Decisions the “gold-standard in Latino American polling,” and Barreto’s research was recognized in the 30 Latinos who made the 2012 election by Politic365. He was listed in the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2012 by the European politics magazine LDSP and was named one of the top 15 leading Latino pundits by Huffington Post, which said Barreto was “the pollster that has his finger on the pulse of the Latino electorate.” In 2015, Barreto was hired by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to run polling and focus groups on Latino voters.
In 2010 Barreto implemented the first ever weekly tracking poll of Latino voters during the 2010 election, which Latino Decisions continued in 2012. Working closely with Segura, he has also overseen large multi-state election eve polls, battleground tracking polls, extensive message testing research, and countless focus groups. He has been invited to brief the US Senate, the White House, and congressional committees, and has been a keynote speaker at many of the major Hispanic association conferences including NALEO, LULAC, CHCI, NCLR, and others.
He received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine. Barreto has published more than 40 scholarly research articles and book chapters that examine Latino public opinion, voting behavior, and race politics more generally in America. He is also the author of the two books, Ethnic Cues: The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Behavior (University of Michigan Press 2010) as well as Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America (Princeton University Press 2013). He just completed his third book, Latino America, coauthored with Segura on the growth and influence of Latino voters 2008–2012 presidential elections (Public Affairs Press).
In 2008, Barreto was a co-principal investigator (with Gary Segura) of the American National Election Study Latino oversample, which included the first ever Spanish language translation of the ANES and the first ever oversample of Latino voters. In 2009, he was appointed to the ANES Board of Overseers.
Christina Wolbrecht
Christina Wolbrecht is associate professor of political science and director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.
Wolbrecht’s areas of expertise include American politics, political parties, gender and politics, and American political development. She is the coauthor, with J. Kevin Corder, of Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal (Cambridge 2016), a project supported by the National Science Foundation. She also is the author of The Politics of Women’s Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (Princeton 2000), which received the 2001 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Organized Section of APSA. Wolbrecht’s work on party position-taking, women as political role models, the representation of women, and support for political institutions has appeared in journals including Perspectives on Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. She has coedited books on the American political parties, women as political actors, and democratic inclusion.
Wolbrecht is a coeditor of Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics for Cambridge University Press, and serves or has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Politics & Gender. She has been active in the discipline, chairing or serving on a number of APSA, MPSA, and SPSA committees and caucuses. Wolbrecht is an editorial board member of the #WomenAlsoKnowStuff initiative.
Statement of Views: The APSA should serve the interests of all of its members, at every stage of their careers, in every kind of position, and at every type of institution. I am particularly committed to improving APSA’s efforts on behalf of underrepresented groups in our discipline, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBT scholars. Key issues facing our discipline and profession include challenges to academic freedom, tenure, and research funding, the impact of technological innovation on both teaching and research, and new opportunities for effective and meaningful public engagement. APSA should be at the forefront of defending and advancing its members’ interests on all of these issues.
Colleen J. Shogan
Colleen J. Shogan is the deputy director of National and International Outreach at the Library of Congress and an adjunct assistant professor of government at Georgetown University. At the Library, she supervises programs such as the Center for the Book, National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the National Book Festival, the Publishing Office, the Federal Research Division, the Kluge Center for Scholars, exhibits, visitor services, and K-12 Educational Outreach.
She holds a PhD from Yale University in political science and a BA from Boston College. At Yale, she was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. Her intellectual interests include American political development, the presidency, Congress, and political rhetoric. Her recent research has focused on congressional social media usage. At Georgetown, she teaches a graduate seminar on American political development.
She previously served as the deputy director at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and as a Senate policy staffer. She came to Capitol Hill through the Congressional Fellowship Program as the William E. Steiger Fellow. In the 112th Congress, Shogan participated in the Stennis Fellows Program.
Before working in Congress, Shogan was an assistant professor at George Mason University. Her first book, entitled The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents, was published by Texas A&M University Press. She has also published articles in Perspectives on Politics, Polity, PS: Political Science & Politics, Studies in American Political Development, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Women & Politics, White House Studies, Online Information Review, and Social Movement Studies.
Shogan is a past president of the National Capitol Area Political Science Association and serves on the board of directors for the Presidency and Executive Politics research group and the advisory panel for the Beryl Radin Pracademic Fellowship. She is a member in good standing of the Cosmos Club. Shogan is also a mystery writer and has published two novels set on Capitol Hill with Camel Press.
Statement of Views: I would be honored to serve on the APSA Council. If elected, I bring to the Council a different career path than the typical APSA member. Increasingly, political scientists are interested in exploring careers that combine or alternate work in the academy with government or private sector opportunities. I am strongly committed to supporting these types of opportunities within the discipline. I also bring a proven record in executive leadership, public administration, and strategic management to the Council, hopefully ensuring that good ideas are executed and implemented in a timely, efficient fashion.
Juliet Hooker
Juliet Hooker is associate professor of government and of African and African Diaspora studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a political theorist whose primary research interests include comparative political theory and critical race theory, particularly black political thought, Latin American political thought, political solidarity, and multiculturalism; she has also published on Afro-descendant and indigenous politics and multicultural rights in Latin America. Hooker is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford University Press 2009), and has a forthcoming book Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Intellectual Genealogy (Oxford University Press 2016) that juxtaposes four prominent US African American and Latin American thinkers: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Politics, Groups and Identities, Souls, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Research Review. Hooker recently served as cochair of the APSA Presidential Task Force on Racial and Social Class Inequalities in the Americas (2014–2015), and as associate director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT-Austin from 2009 to 2014. She is an editorial board member of the National Political Science Review journal of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Within APSA she has served on the Okin-Young Award and First Book Award Committees of the Foundations of Political Theory Organized Section. Hooker is an award-winning teacher, and has held visiting fellowships at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame.
Statement of Views: As part of the APSA Council my aim would be to encourage the association to make good on its commitments to diversity of various kinds. Specifically: 1) political science should better engage with other disciplines, 2) a commitment to methodological pluralism should be a cornerstone of inquiry in all subfields, 3) the association should strive to overcome structural and other kinds of barriers to greater racial and gender diversity within the discipline, particularly at the senior levels of the profession, 4) it should encourage and support public engagement beyond the academy, and 5) as a Latin American working in the US academy I feel strongly that APSA should strive to reverse intellectual hierarchies that continue to privilege the Global North.
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is professor, department of government, University of Essex and research associate, Peace Research Institute Oslo. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Colorado. His research interest includes conflict and cooperation, democratization, political geography, political methodology, and data development.
He is the author of Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War (Cambridge University Press 2013, with Lars-Erik Cederman and Halvard Buhaug), Spatial Regression Models (Sage 2008, with Michael D. Ward), All International Politics is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization (University of Michigan Press 2002), and articles in numerous journals including the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and World Politics.
His research has received several awards, including the 2014 Conflict Processes Organized Section best book award, the 2012 Heinz I. Eulau best article award and the 2000 Helen Dwight Reid dissertation award from APSA, and the 2007 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association. He has received grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, European Research Council, National Science Foundation, and the Research Council of Norway.
Gleditsch has been head of the APSA Conflict Processes Organized Section 2014–2016 and chairs an APSA dissertation award committee for 2016. He has also been a vice president of the International Studies Association (2014–2015) and chaired its Committee on Professional Rights and Responsibilities (2014–2016). He has served as coeditor for Research and Politics (2015–2016) and the British Journal of Political Science (2010–2013) and is a member of several editorial boards.
Statement of Views: I have been a member of APSA since starting my PhD in 1995, and would consider it a privilege to serve on the council. If elected, I would focus on three issues. First, I am committed to working with the Council to try to ensure that APSA represents the interests and reflects the diversity of its members. Second, as someone with strong links to US political science but not a US citizen or currently living in the United States, I feel very strongly about the internationalization of political science, and would like to see APSA strive toward increasing international collaboration in the discipline and participation in APSA activities. Third, I would work on the council for APSA to play an important role in upholding academic freedom and contribute to debates on science in public life.
Mark Crescenzi
Mark Crescenzi is a Bowman and Gordon Gray Term Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC). He received is BA from the University of California, Irvine, and his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has been teaching at UNC since 1999. His research centers on the study of peace and conflict processes, with a focus on the effects of reputation on conflict, cooperation, and coordination; the link between regime dynamics and violence within and between states; and the role of economics in interstate conflict. His research has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Politics. He published a book with Lexington Press in 2005 on economic interdependence and international conflict, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations, the causes of conflict in world politics, and conflict management and resolution.
Crescenzi served as section president of the Conflict Processes Organized Section from 2010 to 2012, and has served on the section’s council. In 2015–2016, he also served on the Committee to Rename the Helen Dwight Reid Award. In addition to his work with APSA, he has been active in the International Studies Association, Midwest Political Science Association, and Peace Science Society, and has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Politics.
Statement of Views: It is a privilege to be nominated to serve on the APSA Council. I have been active in the association for two decades, going back to when I was a graduate student. This association is at its best when it helps us excel at research, teaching, networking, and engagement. I hope to contribute by improving APSA’s resources for these priorities. I am committed to advocating for diversity in APSA governance and participation, as well as in teaching and research within the profession. Investing in career development at all stages for women and minorities improves our ability to create knowledge, educate students, and engage with our communities. I am also interested in promoting the research and career development of junior faculty and graduate students.
Omar G. Encarnación
Omar G. Encarnación is professor of political studies at Bard College, where he teaches comparative politics and Latin American and Iberian studies. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of transitions to democracy, the role of civil society in the process of democratization, and the policy choices that new democracies make to cope with a difficult and painful past. He is the author of four books, including, Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2016), and more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and reviews published in Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Mediterranean Quarterly, West European Politics, Acta Politica, Human Rights Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Ethics & International Affairs, South European Society and Politics, and Studies in Comparative International Development. His political commentary appears in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wilson Quarterly, Current History, Orbis, Global Dialogue, World Policy Journal, The Irish Times, and World Politics Review.
Encarnación received his PhD from the department of politics of Princeton University, and taught at Sarah Lawrence College prior to coming to Bard. While at Princeton, he was the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Princeton University’s Presidential Fellowship, the Council for European Studies Pre-dissertation Fellowship, and a Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship to Spain. Since completing the PhD, he has been awarded a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship and research grants from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the National Research Council, and has been named a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute in Madrid, Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and the political science department of New York University. He has worked as a consultant for the US State Department, the World Bank, and Freedom House. Past service for APSA includes cofounding the Iberian politics group and serving as program chair for the comparative democratization section.
Statement of Views: I look forward to my service in the APSA Council, which I regard as an honor. My priorities will be: 1) advocating for support for scholars at liberal arts colleges; 2) improving the teaching of political science at the undergraduate level; and 3) enhancing the profile of under-represented groups in the discipline.
Renée Bukovchik Van Vechten
Renée Bukovchik Van Vechten is an associate professor of political science at the University of Redlands. She earned a BA in political science from the University of San Diego and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Van Vechten’s political science research examines legislative processes and behavior, including the impacts of political reforms such as term limits. Her work on state-level politics and policy is evident in her textbook, California Politics: A Primer, and she has a chapter in the APSA book, Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen. Her scholarship on pedagogical practices has extended to research methods, online discussion forums, simulations, and internships. Van Vechten served as chair of the APSA Political Science Education Organized Section from 2013 to 2015. She was the section’s program chair for the 2013 Annual Meeting, and has been a track moderator for the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2014–2016. Service to the association includes membership on awards committees and the Presidential Task Force on Technology (2015–2016), and helping to facilitate the transfer of sponsorship of the Journal of Political Science Education to APSA. Van Vechten is also active in the Western Political Science Association, having cochaired a conference-within-a-conference on teaching and learning (2015, 2016). She has received several teaching awards, including the Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science (via APSA) in 2008.
Statement of Views: Nationally and locally our discipline needs greater purchase on inclusiveness in its many forms, and if elected, I will work to make APSA relevant to more members of the profession. Building on APSA’s current efforts to achieve greater representation, we must establish more consistent two-way communication with political scientists in all types of institutions of higher education. As a council member who recognizes and values the central role of teaching and learning in our discipline, I would be committed to delivering resources that will enable faculty to research, teach, and mentor more effectively and efficiently. I strongly endorse the annual Teaching and Learning Conference.
Through APSA, we must also respond more nimbly to external pressures that take the form of systemic underfunding of political science programs, defunding of research, and the commodification of university degrees, trends that are mirrored in mounting public demands for cheaper ways of delivering more marketable degrees, the value of which is judged by post-graduation earnings reports. I believe APSA has a vital role to play in steering public policy through disseminating research findings to the public, preparing generations for civic engagement, advocating for better work-life conditions of faculty and future colleagues, and advancing methodological, theoretical, and pedagogical diversity among our ranks.
Continuing Council Members
INCOMING PRESIDENT
David A. Lake
David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses broadly on international relations. He is the author of The Statebuilder’s Dilemma: Legitimacy, Loyalty, and the Limits of External Intervention (Cornell University Press 2016), Hierarchy in International Relations (Cornell University Press 2009), Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century (Princeton University Press 1999), and Power, Protection and Free Trade: International Sources of US Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939 (Cornell University Press 1988). He is also the coauthor of a comprehensive textbook, World Politics: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions (third edition, Norton 2016) and coeditor of nine volumes on international political economy, international security, and international organizations. His research articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, International Security, World Politics, and others.
Lake received his PhD from Cornell University in 1984 and was on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, 1983–1992. At UCSD, Lake has served as research director for international relations at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1992–1996 and 2000–2001), chair of the political science department (2000–2004), associate dean of social sciences (2006–2015), and director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research (2013–present). In the profession, he has served as coeditor of the journal International Organization (1997–2001), cofounder of the Political Science Network within the Social Science Research Network (2007), founding chair of the International Political Economy Society (2005–2012), and president of the International Studies Association (2010–2011). The recipient of UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005) and Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (2013), 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 also received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society of Women in International Political Economy in 2012 and has helped train more than 60 PhD students at UCLA and UCSD.
Within the American Political Science Association, Lake was the founding chair of the Section on Political Economy 1990–1992), a member of the editorial search committee for Perspectives on Politics (2004), program cochair (2007), a member of the APSA Trust and Development Committee (2009–2011), a member of the Governing Council (2011–2013), chair of the Rules Committee (2012–2013), and chair of the ad hoc Committee on Governance Reform (2013–2016).
Roxanne L. Euben
Roxanne L. Euben is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She holds a PhD from Princeton University in politics and Near Eastern studies and a BA in political philosophy from Wesleyan University. Her publications include Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton University Press), with Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton), and Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton). Her work has also been published in Perspectives on Politics, Political Theory, The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics International Studies Review, Common Knowledge, Current History, Theory and Event, and Political Psychology.
She is now serving as a member of the APSA Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms and served as Secretary to the APSA Council in 2009–2010. Her past service to the APSA has also included chairing the Leo Strauss Award Committee as well as serving on the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award Committee and the Foundations of Political Theory Council. She is currently on the editorial boards of the APSR, Polity, The Journal of Intercultural Studies, Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society, and on the executive editorial board of Political Theory. She has previously served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Politics (2004–2007) and The International Studies Review (1999–2003).
Euben’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation, and her research was recognized with the Frank L. Wilson Best APSA Paper Award. She has also won two teaching awards, the Pinanski Teaching Prize at Wellesley College and the Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of South Carolina. Her current research is on humiliation and gender.
Amaney A. Jamal
Amaney A. Jamal is the Edward S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Jamal also directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development. She currently is president of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). The focus of her current research is democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Arab world. Her interests also include the study of Muslim and Arab Americans and the pathways that structure their patterns of civic engagement in the US. Jamal’s books include Barriers to Democracy (winner 2008 APSA Best Book Award in comparative democratization), which explores the role of civic associations in promoting democratic effects in the Arab world; Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects (coauthor, 2007); and Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11 (coauthor, 2009). Her most recent book, Of Empires and Citizens, was published by Princeton University Press, fall 2012. In addition to her role as director of Princeton’s Workshop on Arab Political Development, Jamal is coprincipal investigator of the Arab Barometer Project, winner of the Best Dataset in the Field of Comparative Politics (Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award 2010); co-PI of the Detroit Arab American Study, a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study; and senior advisor on the Pew Research Center projects focusing on Islam in America (2006) and Global Islam (2010). She received her PhD from University of Michigan in 2003. In 2005, Jamal was named a Carnegie Scholar.
Jamal has served on many APSA-related committees. For example, she currently serves on the APSA Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Task Force; she previously served as the treasurer for the Comparative Democratization Section; and she was the Midwest program cochair in 2012/13. Jamal also serves on the editorial boards of World Politics, Politics and Religion, and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.
Brett Ashley Leeds
Brett Ashley Leeds is professor of political science at Rice University. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her PhD from Emory University. Her research focuses primarily on the design and effects of international agreements. Much of her work has focused on security issues, particularly the politics of military alliances. Her articles have appeared in many journals including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Organization, and International Studies Quarterly, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Leeds was the 2008 recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, which recognizes a scholar under age 40 or within 10 years of defending his or her dissertation who is judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most significant contribution to the study of international relations and peace research. She was the 2014 recipient of the Susan S. Northcutt Award, also from the International Studies Association, which recognizes a person who actively works toward recruiting and advancing women and other minorities in the profession and whose spirit is inclusive, generous, and conscientious.
Leeds has served APSA as president of the Conflict Processes Section 2012–2014, as a member of the 2007 annual meeting program committee, and on three different award committees. She is currently a member of the ad hoc Committee on Governance Reform. She has been active in several other scholarly organizations as well, including the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society. She has served as associate editor of two journals—International Studies Quarterly and the American Journal of Political Science.
James Mahoney
James Mahoney is the Gordon Fulcher Professor in Decision-Making and professor of political science and sociology at Northwestern University. He is a comparative-historical researcher with interests in national development, political regimes, Latin American politics, and qualitative methodology.
Mahoney is the author of Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which received five major book awards, and of the earlier prize-winning book, The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). He is also coeditor of Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Mahoney’s article publications have been recognized with several awards, and he has received grants from the National Science Foundation, including a Career Award.
Mahoney has been president or chair of four different Organized Sections of American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Association. He has received two mid-career achievement awards for his work on methodology. He is coeditor of the Strategies for Social Inquiry book series at Cambridge University Press.
Byron D’Andra Orey
Byron D’Andra Orey earned a BS degree from Mississippi Valley State University, Masters from the University of Mississippi and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a PhD from the University of New Orleans. He has taught at the University of Mississippi and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and he currently teaches at Jackson State University, where he is professor and former chair of the department of political science. During the 2003–2004 academic year, he was selected as a Gallup Professor by the Gallup Organization. His research is in the area of race and politics, bio-politics, and legislative behavior. He has published more than 30 scholarly articles and book chapters.
Orey has received multiple university awards, including Teacher and Researcher of the Year. He has also received the Jewel Prestage Teacher and the Rodney Higgins Mentor awards from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, TESS, Academic Exchange, and the Palestinian American Research Center, and he has worked with colleagues through a grant from the University of California, Irvine for undergraduates to participate in a summer research program.
Bo Rothstein
Bo Rothstein holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where he is cofounder and head of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, which was started in 2004. Rothstein earned his PhD at Lund University in 1986 and served as assistant/associate professor at the department of government at Uppsala University 1986–1995. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, Collegium Budapest for Advanced Study, Harvard University, University of Washington-Seattle, Cornell University, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the Australian National University, and Stanford University. He has served as adjunct professor at University of Bergen and University of Aalborg. His most recent books are The Quality of Government: Corruption, Inequality and Social Trust in International Perspective (University of Chicago Press 2011, also published in Chinese in 2012 by Xinhua Publishers) and the coedited volume Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science (Edward Elgar 2012). Among his other books in English are Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State and Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (both published by Cambridge University Press). He has published in journals such as World Politics, World Development, Comparative Politics, Governance, Comparative Political Studies, and Politics & Society. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2003, he was awarded a Leading Scholars Grant by the Swedish Science Council, and in 2013 he received an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council. He is a regular contributor to the public debate in Sweden and (to a minor extent) internationally on issues such as social justice, social policy, anticorruption, and human well-being.
Cameron G. Thies
Cameron G. Thies is professor and director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He came to ASU in 2013 from the University of Iowa, where he was previously the Harlan E. McGregor Faculty Fellow and chair of the department of political science. Thies conducts research in the areas of state building in the developing world, interstate and civil conflict, international trade, and international relations theory. He has published in journal outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Comparative Political Studies, among others. His most recent book is entitled Intra-Industry Trade: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy (Stanford University Press 2015) with Timothy M. Peterson.
Thies has previously served as council member, program chair, and president of the Foreign Policy Section, as well as program chair for International Security, and council member for Political Psychology. He has also been involved with the Teaching and Learning Conference since its inception, including serving multiple times on its program committee and moderating numerous workshop tracks through the years.
Caroline Tolbert
Caroline Tolbert is the professor of political science and Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa. Her work weaves together a concern with diversity and inequality, elections and representation, and subnational politics and policy. She has contributed to many subfields including digital politics and informatics, voting and elections, electoral systems, public opinion, American state politics, direct democracy, and race and politics.
Tolbert has published more than 50 articles in political science journals and eight books. She is the coauthor of Why Iowa? (2011) on the presidential nominating process. She is also coauthor of Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States (2004) and coeditor of Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform (2003) and Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States (1998). She has written three books on the digital politics, including Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity (2012), Digital Citizenship (2008), and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (2003). Digital Citizenship was ranked as one of the 20 best-selling titles in the social sciences by the American Library Association. She is a coauthor of the American government textbook We the People, with Benjamin Ginsberg, Ted Lowi, and Margaret Weir (W. W. Norton).
Tolbert was named a Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa for outstanding research and teaching. She is the recipient of four best paper awards, awards for frequently cited articles, and two book awards. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Democracy Fund, MacArthur Foundation, HUD, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. She was program chair for the Midwest Political Science Association, president of APSA’s State Politics Section (2011–2013), and one of the founders of Visions in Methodology (VIM) conferences to mentor women scholars. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
