LISA ANDERSON

Lisa Anderson was appointed president of The American University in Cairo in 2011. Prior to joining AUC in 2008, Anderson served as the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations at Columbia University, where she served in various positions including dean of the School of International and Public, chair of the political science department, and director of Middle East Institute. Before joining Columbia, she was assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University.

Anderson is the author of Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Columbia University Press, 2003) and The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830–1980 (Princeton University Press, 1986); editor of Transitions to Democracy (Columbia University Press, 1999); and coeditor of The Origins of Arab Nationalism(Columbia 1991).

Anderson’s many leadership positions have included serving as president of the Middle East Studies Association, chair of the board of the Social Science Research Council, and a member of the APSA Council (2004–2006) as well as serving on the board of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs. She is member emerita of the board of Human Rights Watch, where she served as cochair of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, cochair of the International Advisory Board of the Von Humbolt Foundation, and member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle East Studies. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Anderson holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She earned a PhD in political science from Columbia University, 1981, where she also received a certificate from the Middle East Institute. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Monmouth University in 2002, and an honorary degree from American University in Paris in 2015.

SARAH A. BINDER

Sarah Binder is professor of political science, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. She specializes on Congress and legislative politics and has received several awards for her work on government affairs.

Binder is a former coeditor of Legislative Studies Quarterly; a coauthor with Forrest Maltzman of Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary (Brookings, 2009); author of ► Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings, 2003), Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and coauthor with Steven S. Smith of Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings, 1997). Her other work on congressional politics has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere.

Her book on legislative gridlock was awarded the 2003 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book published on legislative politics. She was also a member of the recent APSA Task Force on Negotiating Agreement in Politics.

Binder received her PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1995 and BA from Yale University in 1986. She joined Brookings in 1995 and George Washington University in 1999. Between 1986 and 1990, she served as legislative aide and press secretary to representative Lee Hamilton (D-Indiana).

TIMOTHY J. FEDDERSEN

Timothy J. Feddersen is the Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics and a professor in the managerial economics and decision sciences department at Northwestern University.

His research centers on the manner in which elections aggregate dispersed information; the linkage between information and participation in elections; modeling ethically motivated agents in games; bargaining in legislatures; and the informal role of activists in the economy. Feddersen is currently investigating how money in politics impacts the emergence of income inequality as well as the value of transparency in advisory committees. His research has been published in American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, and elsewhere.

Feddersen received his PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 1992 and joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 1995. He currently teaches several classes in the Kellogg School of Management including Leadership and Strategic Crisis Management, Values-Based Leadership and Strategy in the Nonmarket Environment.

MARTIN GILENS

Martin Gilens is professor of politics at Princeton University. His research examines representation, public opinion, and mass media, especially in relation to inequality and public policy. Gilens is the author of Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America (Princeton University Press, 2012), winner of the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in the past year, as well as Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (University of Chicago Press, 1999), winner of the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in the political psychology published in the past year and the Philip E. Converse Award for an outstanding book of enduring significance published at least five years before. He has published on political inequality, mass media, race, gender, and welfare politics in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Gilens holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Yale University and University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty at Princeton. His research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, and he has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

SALLY HASLANGER

Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT. She has published on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, feminist theory and critical race theory, with a recent emphasis on issues concerning ideology, social practices, and social critique. Her book Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (Oxford University Press, 2012) collects papers published over the course of 20 years that link work in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language with social and political issues concerning gender, race, and the family. It was awarded the 2014 Joseph B. Gittler Prize for “outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences.” In 2012, Haslanger gave the prestigious Carus Lectures at the Pacific APA, titled “Doing Justice to the Social.” In 2015 she was the Spinoza Professor at the University of Amsterdam, giving a series of lectures, workshops, and seminars on “Critical Theory and Practice.” In addition, she has coedited Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (Cornell University Press, 2005) with Charlotte Witt, Theorizing Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 2005) with Elizabeth Hackett, and Persistence (MIT Press, 2006) with Roxanne Marie Kurtz. Haslanger was named the Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year in 2010 by the Society for Women in Philosophy, and served as the president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division in 2013–14.

DOUGLAS RIVERS

Douglas Rivers is professor of political science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research has focused on the development and application of statistical methods to political science, especially voting and elections. He has made methodological contributions to survey sampling, ideal point estimation, discrete choice modeling, selection bias, and causal inference. As a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he is responsible for some of the key technological innovations that have transformed survey research over the past two decades. In 1998, he cofounded Knowledge Networks with his Stanford colleague Norman Nie and created the first general population Web survey panel using probability sampling. Nie and Rivers received AAPOR’s Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Innovators in 2001 for this work. Declining response rates and changes in communications technology have made conventional probability sampling increasingly difficult and costly. In 2004, he founded Polimetrix (now part of YouGov) to develop matched sampling techniques for opt-in survey panels. The combination of non-parametric matching methods and low-cost data collection have been used in the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and numerous other political science studies. He serves on the boards of the American National Election Study, the Roper Center, and YouGov PLC.

DAVID STASAVAGE

David Stasavage is 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 University 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 University Press, 2003) as well as States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton University Press, 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, and he currently serves on the APSA Council.

KATHLEEN THELEN

Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her work focuses on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies. Her most recent works are Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Advances in Comparative Historical Analysis (with James Mahoney, Cambridge University Press, 2015). Her awards include the Barrington Moore Book Prize (2015), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSR (2005), the Mattei Dogan Award for Comparative Research (2006), and the Max Planck Research Award (2003). She was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2009. She received an honorary degree at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (2013).

Thelen was Treasurer of the APSA (2012–15). She has served as president of APSA’s Comparative Politics Section (2011–13), chair of the Council for European Studies (2002–2006), president of the APSA Section on Politics and History (2007–2008), as president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008–2009). She is general editor, along with Eric Wibbels, for the Cambridge University Press Series in Comparative Politics, and a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne, Germany.