John H. Aldrich, incoming president

John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He received his BA from Allegheny College (1969; Gold Citation, 2009) and his MA (1971) and PhD (1975) from the University of Rochester (Distinguished Scholar Award, 2013), in political science. At Duke he has been department chair and was the founding director and then co-director (with Professor Wendy Wood) of Duke's Social Science Research Institute. At Duke, he also received the inaugural Graduate Mentoring Award.

Aldrich's research has been centered mostly in American politics, but more recently, his work has become more comparative. His first book, Before the Convention (University of Chicago Press, 1980) assessed presidential nomination campaigns in the post-McGovern-Fraser era of primary-centered campaigning. His book Why Parties? (University of Chicago Press, 1995; 2011) won the Gladys Kammerer award in 1996. Since 1980, he has co-authored the Change and Continuity series on American elections (CQ Press), with Paul Abramson and David Rohde, and now being joined by Brad Gomez.

He has been actively involved in various survey research projects, including the American National Election Studies, where he currently serves as chair of its board, and is a member of the Planning Committee for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. An outgrowth of his work on the ANES is Improving Public Opinion Surveys (Princeton University Press, 2012) which he co-edited with Kathleen McGraw. Aldrich co-authored “Foreign Policy and Voting in Presidential Elections” with Eugene Borgida and John Sullivan that won the Heinz Eulau award in 1990 for best article in the APSR.

Aldrich and David Rohde have studied the relationship among political parties, elections, and the Congress. This has led to a number of articles and chapters including ones that received the CQ Press Award (Legislative Studies Section, APSA) in 1966, and the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (SPSA), in 1997.

Aldrich is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio. He was co-PI and then PI for a Summer Institute of Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models. He co-edited the American Journal of Political Science, chaired the APSA Task Force on Interdisciplinarity, has been a member of the APSA Council and its secretary, and was president of the Southern Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association.

Gretchen Casper

Gretchen Casper is an associate professor at Penn State University. She received her BA from Boston College and her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Peace Research Institute of Oslo (Norway), California Institute of Technology, University of Washington (Seattle), and the Institute of Philippine Culture (Manila, Philippines). Her empirical research focuses on the comparative study of democratization and utilizes a range of approaches, including large-N, cross-regional medium-N, and case studies. In addition, she has addressed methodological issues related to measures of democracy commonly used in large-N research. Her current work concerns how elites learn to reinforce democracy during national crises. Her work has appeared in such journals as Political Analysis, Democratization, Armed Forces and Society, and Pilipinas. Previous books include Negotiating Democracy: Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (with Michelle M. Taylor, 1996) and Fragile Democracies: Legacies of Authoritarian Rule (1995).

Brian F. Crisp

Brian F. Crisp is a faculty member in the department of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan (1992) and his BA from Hope College (1985). He has also held tenure-track/tenured positions at Wake Forest University and the University of Arizona, as well as visiting appointments at institutions in Latin America. His work on electoral systems, legislative politics, interbranch relations, and policy choices has been published in a wide array of refereed journals, and his book, Democratic Institutional Design, was published by Stanford University Press. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright Scholars Program. He previously served as co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly and is currently an editorial review board member for The Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Page Fortna

Page Fortna is professor of political science at Columbia University and a member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Her research focuses on the durability of peace in the aftermath of both civil and interstate wars, war termination, and terrorism. She is the author of two books: Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents Choices after Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace (Princeton University Press, 2004). She has published articles in journals such as World Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and International Studies Review. She is currently working on a book on terrorism in civil wars. Her work combines quantitative and qualitative methods, draws on diverse theoretical approaches, and focuses on policy-relevant questions.

Fortna received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association in 2010. She has held fellowships at the Olin Institute at Harvard, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Hoover Institution. She received her PhD in 1998 from Harvard University, and her BA from Wesleyan University. Within APSA, she is an at-large executive committee member of the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, and served on the Hubert H. Humphrey Award Committee (2010–2011).

Juan Carlos Huerta

Juan Carlos Huerta is professor of political science and director of the University Core Curriculum Programs at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Huerta joined the faculty in 1995 and was appointed co-director in 2003, and director in 2010. Huerta's degrees are in political science with the BA from Texas A&M University, and MA and PhD from the University of Houston.

Huerta's political science research examines political representation and includes publications in Social Science Quarterly and the American Review of Politics. Huerta has also published in the Journal of Political Science Education and has a chapter in the APSA book Assessment in Political Science.

Professor Huerta is deeply engaged in promoting teaching and learning in political science and served as Chair of the Political Science Education Organized Section of the APSA from 2009 to 2011. In addition, he served on the program committee for the APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning from 2006 to 2008 and on the 2005 APSA Program Committee for the Annual Meeting.

His service to the APSA includes serving on the Political Science in the 21st Century APSA Presidential Task Force (2009–2011) and the Status Committee for Latinos/Latinas in the Profession (2007–2008). In addition, Huerta is active in the Southwestern Political Science Association having served as vice president and program chair (2007–2008), council, and secretary-treasurer (2010–present).

Huerta leads Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's recognized First Year Learning Communities Program and is actively engaged with learning community development and first year student success at the national level. Huerta has published research on the impact of learning communities on student learning.

Junko Kato

Junko Kato (PhD Yale '92) is a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. Her research has focused on the political economy of industrial democracies, especially comparative taxation and the welfare state and empirical and theoretical studies of party coalitions. She is the author of Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics: Cambridge University Press 2003) and The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan (Princeton University Press 1994). She has also published single-authored articles in journals including American Political Science Review and British Journal of Political Science and co-authored articles in journals including Electoral Studies and Party Politics. She has held visiting positions at institutions both in the United States and Europe such as Harvard and the Stockholm School of Economics. Most recently, she has launched the neuro-cognitive analysis of political behavior and published articles in peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary science journals, for example, PLoS ONE and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Kato has served as an editorial board member for British Journal of Political Science and Japanese Journal of Political Science. She served on the APSA International Committee and chaired the Mancur Olson Award Committee of the APSA Political Economy section.

Joanne M. Miller

Joanne M. Miller is associate professor of political science and adjunct associate professor of psychology and journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. She is the director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology and serves on the governing council of the International Society of Political Psychology. She received her PhD in social psychology in 2000 from The Ohio State University.

Miller is a political psychologist who studies the ways in which the media affect political attitudes and the motivations underlying a wide array of political behaviors (voting, protesting, volunteering, contributing money, becoming a party delegate, and the like). Her work is explicitly interdisciplinary, drawing on theory and research in political science, mass communication, and psychology. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and has appeared journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology. She and her co-authors have received Best Paper Awards from APSA's Political Organizations and Parties organized section and the American Review of Public Administration. She has served on the conference committee for the American Association for Public Opinion Research and as a meeting division co-chair for the International Society of Political Psychology (for the section on Political Decision Making) and is an associate principal investigator for Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.

For the APSA, Miller has served on the prize committees for the best political psychology paper presented at the 2007 and 2011 Annual Meetings and for the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in 2008.

Todd C. Shaw

Todd C. Shaw has been on the faculty of the University of South Carolina, Columbia (USC) since 2003. In August of 2012, he will hold the appointment of USC College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. He researches and teaches in the areas of African American as well as racial and ethnic politics, urban politics, public policy, and community activism. His most recent book—Now Is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism (2009, Duke University Press)—won the 2010 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Shaw's latest project is a multi-method study of Atlanta black politics as shaped by group identity, neighborhood attachments, and social capital. He has served as a member of the executive council of the Southern Political Science Association, as a 2012 program co-chair for the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), and as parliamentarian of NCOBPS. He served as the director of undergraduate studies of the USC department of political science from 2008 to 2011.

Kenneth D. Wald

Kenneth D. Wald is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holder of the Samuel R. Shorstein Professorship in American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida.

Wald studies religious and other cultural conflicts in mass political behavior. He coauthored Religion and Politics in the United States (6th ed.) and The Politics of Cultural Differences, and has produced three other books, an edited volume, numerous journal articles and book chapters. A current or former member of the editorial boards of Politics & Religion, American Politics Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, he also coedits the Cambridge University Press book series, “Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics.”

Wald has served APSA as a member of the Annual Meeting program committee (three terms), the Task Force on Religion and Democracy, and as chair and newsletter editor for the Organized Section on Religion and Politics. In addition he has been appointed to an NSF task force and committees of ICPSR, the American National Election Studies, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Fulbright program, and the British Politics Group. At the University of Florida where he has taught since 1983, Wald has chaired his department and directed an interdisciplinary center.