PRESIDENT

Rodney E. Hero is professor of political science and Haas Chair in Diversity and Democracy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on American democracy and politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino politics, racial/ethnic politics, state and urban politics, and federalism. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism, received the APSA’s Ralph J. Bunche Award (1993). He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics (selected for the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award, 1999), and Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America (2007). He is also coauthor of Black-Latino Relations in U.S. National Politics: Beyond Conflict or Cooperation (2013), MultiEthnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (2006), Newcomers, Insiders and Outsiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early 21st Century (2009), Latino Lives in America (2010); and Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac (2012).

His work has also appeared in various scholarly journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly and others. He was one of six co-principal investigators on the Latino National Survey (completed in 2006). He has also served on the editorial boards of several political science journals, among them are: APSR (2001–07 and 2013–present), AJPS (1994–97), JOP (2001–04, 1991–93), PRQ (2000–06, 1994–96), Urban Affairs Review (1998–2000), and Political Behavior (2005–09).

He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University (1975) and PhD from Purdue University (1980). Before joining the Berkeley faculty he held positions at the University of Notre Dame (2000–10), at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1989-2000), and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (1980-88).

He served as president of the Midwest Political Science Association (2007–08), on the executive council (1995–97) and as vice president of the APSA (2003–04), president of the Western Political Science Association (1999–2000), and president of the Latino Caucus of the APSA (2010–11).

He has served on numerous APSA committees: Siting and Engagement (2009–12), Development (2003–2005), Committee to Select Editor(s) of APSR (for editorship during 2007–2011); Nominations Committee (2001 and 2002, Chair in 2001), Committee on International Programs (1993–95), James Madison Award committee (Spring 2008), Charles Merriam Award Committee (1996–97), and the William Anderson Award Committee (1993, Chair), among others. He will emphasize recognizing, respecting, and fostering the discipline’s substantive theoretical, methodological, and demographic diversity

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and a former Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. She holds lectureships in the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2011, she held the John W. Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress, and in 2013–14, she was a Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University Law School.

Hochschild studies and teaches about the intersection of American politics, history, and political philosophy; she focuses especially on race, ethnicity, and immigration. She also studies educational and social welfare policies, the politics and ideology of genomic science, and public opinion and political culture. Recently, Hochschild coedited Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford University Press 2013) and coauthored Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (Princeton University Press 2012). Her most recent book, also coauthored, is Facts in Politics: What Do Citizens Know and What Difference Does It Make? (University of Oklahoma Press 2014).

Hochschild was founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, and a recent coeditor of the American Political Science Review. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former cochair of the annual convention and vice-president of the APSA, a former member of the boards of trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and General Social Survey, and a former member of the DBASSE Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson, Mellon, Spencer, and Guggenheim Foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other organizations. Hochschild taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton universities before moving to Harvard in 2001. She received her PhD from Yale University and her BA from Oberlin College.

VICE PRESIDENTS

E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a syndicated columnist with The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. His latest book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent, published this spring by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of Why Americans Hate Politics —winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize and a National Book Award nominee—They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era, Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps and the Politics of Revenge, and Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. A nationally known and respected commentator on politics, Dionne appears weekly on National Public Radio and regularly on MSNBC and NBC’s Meet the Press. Dionne graduated from Harvard University and received his doctorate from Oxford.

Joanne Gowa’s interests include international relations, international political economy, and the relationship between democracies and international disputes. She is the author of Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods; Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade; and Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace, and author of articles on political economy, trade and monetary policy, and democracy and disputes. She received an MPA degree from the Woodrow Wilson School and a PhD from the department of politics, both at Princeton University. She is a member of the editorial boards of World Politics and International Organization and is a trustee emerita of Tufts University. Gowa has been a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in international security, a MacArthur Foundation Grant for Research and Writing, and a National Science Foundation POWRE grant. Before teaching at Princeton, she taught in the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously been a member of the APSA Council and has also served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review.

Fredrick C. Harris is professor of political science and director of the Center on African American Politics and Society at Columbia University. His research interests include American politics with a focus on race and politics, political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African American politics. His publications include Something Within: Religion in African American Political Activism, which was awarded the V.O. Key Book Award by the Southern Political Science Association, the Best Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

He is also the coauthor of Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism,1973–1994, which received the W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Ralph Bunche Award from the APSA. His article “It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement,” published in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest, received the Mary Parker Follet Award for best article by the APSA’s Organized Section on Politics and History. He is coeditor with Cathy Cohen of the Oxford University Press book series “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.”

Professor Harris’s most recent books are The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics (Oxford University Press 2012) and, with Robert Lieberman, Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Post-Racist Era (Russell Sage Foundation Press 2013). The Price of the Ticket received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Non-Fiction. Harris’s essays have appeared in Dissent, the London Review of Books, New York Times’ Sunday Review, Souls, Society, and the Washington Post (Perspectives). Harris has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Visiting Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, and serves as a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

TREASURER

Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. She received her BA from the University of Kansas and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her empirical research focuses on the political economy of the rich democracies, and she has also made contributions to the literature on historical institutionalism. Her most recent book is Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge University Press 2014). Other recent works include How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan (Cambridge 2004, winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and the Mattei Dogan Award of the Society for Comparative Research), Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency and Power (Cambridge 2010, coedited with James Mahoney) and Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (Oxford 2005, coedited with Wolfgang Streeck).

Thelen has strong connections abroad, particularly in Europe. She is a Permanent External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Germany), and has also held appointments as a research fellow or visiting professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Nuffield College (Oxford), Sciences Po (Paris), and the Copenhagen Business School. She was chair of the Council for European Studies (2002–2006) and president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008–2009). Her past contributions to the APSA include service as an officer in several organized sections (Comparative Politics, Politics and History, Qualitative Methods, and European Politics and Society).

SECRETARY

Linda L. Fowler is professor of government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, having moved there in 1995 to direct the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences. Prior to her affiliation with Dartmouth, she was professor of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She holds her BA from Smith College and her PhD from the University of Rochester.

After serving in administration at Dartmouth, Fowler resumed full-time teaching and scholarship in 2004.

Fowler studies the US Congress and has written two books on candidate recruitment, Political Ambition: Who Decides to Run for Congress (Yale 1989) and Candidates, Congress, and the American Democracy (Michigan 1993). She has published many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in American politics, including a 2006 article on changes in the Senate committee system, which received the Congressional Quarterly 2006 Award for the best paper on legislatures at APSA’s Annual Meeting. In 2006, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study congressional oversight of defense and foreign policy by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. The resulting book, Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Relations, will be published by Princeton University Press in early 2015.

Fowler has devoted considerable time to the profession in a variety of roles, including chair of the Legislative Studies Section and board member of the Political Organizations and Parties Section; membership of editorial boards for Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, and Congress and the Presidency; two stints as program chair for legislative studies at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and one as program chair for legislative studies at the Midwest Political Science Association; and membership on multiple APSA award committees and several standing committees.

Fowler is a frequent commentator on American politics in various media outlets. She testified about term limits before the House Judiciary Committee and served as outside evaluator for one of the Congressional Research Service’s orientation conferences for new members. She was a member of an IREX delegation to the former Soviet Union to discuss citizen participation and a member of the first APSA delegation to the Japanese Political Science Association. Prior to obtaining her PhD, Fowler worked at the Environmental Protection Agency and for a member of the US House of Representatives.

Fowler hopes that her broad experience in political science will provide a useful perspective in the council’s deliberations.

COUNCIL MEMBERS 2014–2016

Michelle D. Deardorff is professor and department head at the University of Tennesssee at Chattanooga. Prior to 2013, she was a tenured faculty member at Jackson State University, a historic black university in Mississippi, and from 1991–2003, she taught at Millikin University a small private institution in Illinois. She earned her BA from Taylor University (IN) and her MA and PhD from Miami University, Ohio. Deardorff’s teaching and research have focused on the constitutional and statutory protections surrounding gender, race, and religion. She is currently completing work on Pregnancy and the American Worker, which examines the lower federal courts’ interpretation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in relationship to pregnancy protections in employment. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humantities, the National Science Foundation, and the Small Business Administration. Deardorff is a founding member of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, a coalition of academics who promote civic engagement and popular sovereignty through the study of the struggle for civil rights in the United States. She is the coauthor of Constitutional Law in Contemporary America, American Democracy Now (3rd Edition), and coeditor of Assessment in Political Science. She has served as chair of the Political Science Education section (2005–2009) and the Teaching and Learning Standing Committee (2011–2014), as well as been a member of the APSA search committee for an executive director (2012–2013). She serves on the editorial boards of College Teaching and the Journal of Political Science Education.

Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon is associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University. She received her BS from Georgetown University and an MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. She has served on departmental and college diversity committees and is currently serving as associate department head. Her research examines how democratic institutions affect representation and participation, with a regional focus on Latin America and special emphasis on the representation of women. In collaborative research focused at the national level, she examines the participation and representation of women in presidential cabinets and the determinants of women’s representation on high courts. In research focused at the subnational level, she examines the consequences of decentralization for the functioning of government, the representation of citizen preferences, and the participation of citizens. Her research combines statistical techniques with in-depth field research in specific countries. She has done field research in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela and has been funded by the National Science Foundation as well as the Tinker Foundation. Her research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. She is coeditor (with Michelle Taylor-Robinson) of Representation: The Case of Women (2014).

Frances E. Lee is a professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on American public policymaking and governing institutions, especially on the US Congress.

She is the author of Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (2009), which received the APSA’s Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics in 2010 and the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on the US Congress in 2009. She is also coauthor, with Bruce I. Oppenheimer, of Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others.

She is coeditor of Legislative Studies Quarterly, responsible for submissions relating to the US Congress. She is also coauthor of a comprehensive textbook on the US Congress, Congress and Its Members.

David Lublin is professor of government at American University. He received his BA from Yale and his AM and PhD from Harvard. David’s research has spanned American and comparative politics with a common thread being the impact of electoral institutions on the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities.

David has authored three books: The Paradox of Representation: Racial Gerrymandering and Minority Interests in Congress (Princeton 1997), The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change (Princeton 2004), and Minority Rules: Electoral Systems, Decentralization and Ethnoregional Parties (Oxford 2014).

He has received multiple National Science Foundation grants and a German Marshall Fund fellowship. Recently, David merged his Election Passport website into the Constituency-Level Election Archive, as part of a cooperative effort to build the best resource possible.

The US Supreme Court has cited David’s work on redistricting and he has worked as an expert on that topic for the US Department of Justice. The US Department of State has invited him frequently to speak about American elections, minority representation, and electoral institutions in places such as Cyprus, Ghana, and Kosovo.

David has been very active in public service. Recently, he completed three terms on the Town Council of Chevy Chase, Maryland, including two years as mayor. David served as Equality Maryland’s president during the successful referendum fight for marriage equality. Now, he sits on the board of a nonprofit that provides housing to people with psychiatric disabilities. In his spare time, David writes a blog on Maryland politics.

Marc Lynch is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, and director of its Institute for Middle East Studies. His research focuses on the many dimensions of political communication and information technology in the Arab world. He has written three books, including State Interests and Public Spheres (Columbia University Press 1999), Voices of the New Arab Public (Columbia University Press 2006), and The Arab Uprising (PublicAffairs 2012), and is the editor of The Arab Uprisings Explained (Columbia University Press 2014). His research has explored topics such as Arab public opinion, the war in Iraq, Islamist movements, and the Arab uprisings. He is currently engaged in a large-scale mixed-method study of the role of the internet on the Arab uprisings and the war in Syria.

Lynch received his PhD from Cornell University in 1997, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Williams College before joining George Washington University. In 2009, he founded the Project on Middle East Political Science, an international network supporting scholars in the subfield supported by the Carnegie Corporation, the SSRC, and the Luce Foundation. He founded and edited the Middle East Channel for Foreign Policy magazine from 2010–14, and is now a contributing editor at the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. He is also the codirector of the “Blogs and Bullets” project for USIP and an adjunct scholar at the Center for a New American Security. Within the APSA, he served on the 2013 APSA Presidential Ad Hoc Committee on Publications and is a member of the Perspectives on Politics editorial board.

Tasha Philpot is an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also affiliated with the Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She received her BA from Marquette University, her MPP from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

Philpot specializes in American politics, with particular interests in African American politics, political psychology, public opinion and political behavior, political communication, and political parties. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has been published in The American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Black Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, National Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics. In addition, she is the author of Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln ( University of Michigan Press 2007), which examines the circumstances under which political parties can use racial symbols to reshape their images among the electorate and the coeditor of African-American Political Psychology: Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era ( with Ismail K. White, Palgrave Macmillan Press 2010).

David Stasavage is currently professor and chair in the department of politics at New York University where he has taught since 2006. He previously held a position at the London School of Economics. He completed his PhD at Harvard in 1995. Stasavage is a specialist of political economy, comparative politics, and the use of historical evidence in political science. He is the author of Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688–1789 (Cambridge 2003) as well as States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton 2011). He has also published a number of articles on a diverse set of topics including inequality, progressive taxation, the foundations of political representation, public debt, transparency in government, democracy and public goods provision, oligarchy and growth, and the link between religiosity and the demand for social insurance. Stasavage has also served as a coeditor of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science and an associate editor of International Organization.

Mark E. Warren holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on contemporary democratic theory and democratic innovations. Warren is author of Democracy and Association (Princeton University Press 2001), which won the Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize awarded by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, as well as the 2003 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. He is editor of Democracy and Trust (Cambridge University Press 1999), and coeditor of Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly (Cambridge University Press 2008). Warren’s work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Political Theory. He is currently working with an international team on a project titled Participedia (www.participedia.net), which uses a web-based platform to collect information about democratic innovations around the world. Participedia will enable evidence-driven comparative research into this rapidly developing area of governance, and will serve as a resource for governments and democracy advocates.

CONTINUING APSA COUNCIL MEMBERS

Continuing their two-year terms are Amrita Basu, Amherst College; Kenneth Benoit, London School of Economics and Political Science; Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington; James N. Druckman, Northwestern University; Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, University of Oklahoma; David C. Kang, University of Southern California; John Sides, George Washington University; Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut.

Amrita Basu, Amherst College

Kenneth Benoit, London School of Economics and Political Science

Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington

James N. Druckman, Northwestern University

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, University of Oklahoma

David C. Kang, University of Southern California

John Sides, George Washington University

Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut