Bingham Powell, University of Rochester

G. Bingham Powell, Jr. is the Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, where he is a former department chair and director of graduate studies. He has Ph.D. and MA degrees in political science from Stanford University (1968) and a BA in public and international affairs from Princeton University (1963).

Powell's scholarly work has been conducted in the field of comparative politics. He has published work on political participation, conflict, government stability, party systems, election rules, economic voting, representation, and the role of elections in shaping government commitments and policies. His book Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Harvard University Press, 1982) won APSA's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the “best book published in the U.S. during 1982 on government, politics, or international affairs.” In 2000, this book received the George H. Hallett Award from APSA's Representation and Electoral Systems section for “a book that is at least ten years old and that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.” His book Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions (Yale University Press, 2000) was a cowinner of the 2002 Mattei Dogan Award, for the “best comparative book of the year,” by the Society for Comparative Research. He is also the author of Social Fragmentation and Political Hostility (Stanford University Press, 1970,) and coauthor of Comparative Politics: System, Process and Policy (Little, Brown, and Co., 1978,) and Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach (Little, Brown, and Co., 1966.) His most recent articles focus on explaining ideological congruence between citizens and their representatives.

Bing Powell teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Rochester. He received the University Award for Graduate Teaching in 1999. He was awarded the university's Goergen Award “for distinguished achievement and artistry in undergraduate teaching” in 2009. He is also the coauthor and co-editor of two undergraduate textbooks, Comparative Politics Today (Longman, 2007), now in its ninth edition, and European Politics Today (Longman, 2009), now in its fourth edition.

Powell's service to the profession includes serving as editor of the American Political Science Review from 1991 to 1995. His contributions to APSA include service as vice president of the Council and as organizer of panels for sections on Comparative Political Behavior and Teaching Political Science at the APSA Annual Meeting. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 1991, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Luis Fraga, University of Washington

Luis Ricardo Fraga is the Russell F. Stark University Professor, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Director of the Diversity Research Institute, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington (UW). He is responsible for developing strategies and policies with the provost, vice provosts, deans, and department chairs to recruit, promote, and retain faculty at UW. He has been a member of the faculty at Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Oklahoma. He was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, from 2003 to 2004, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, from 1989 to 1990.

He received his AB, cum laude, from Harvard University and his MA and Ph.D. from Rice University. He specializes in the politics of race and ethnicity, urban politics, immigration policy, education politics, and voting rights. He has published two recent books: the coauthored Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple University Press, 2010) and United States Government: Principles in Practice (Holt McDougal, 2010), a secondary school textbook. He is also coauthor of Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2006). He was a member of the APSA Standing Committee on Civic Engagement and Education that coauthored Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). He has published in scholarly journals and edited volumes including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Dubois Review, and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy.

He is currently the co-chair of APSA's Presidential Task Force on Political Science in the Twenty-First Century. He served as secretary of APSA from 2006 to 2007. He received the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award for exemplary mentoring of graduate Latina/o students by APSA's Committee on the Status of Latina/os in the Profession in 2001 and this same award for exemplary mentoring of Latino/a junior faculty in 2004. He served on the Executive Council of the APSA from 1998 to 2000. He chaired APSA's Committee on the Status of Latina/os in the Profession from 1993 to 1995. He also served as president of the Western Political Science Association from 1997 to 1998.

Fraga is one of six principal investigators on the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the first-ever 16 state–stratified survey of Latinos in the United States. While at Stanford, he received 11 awards for teaching and advising. The Luis R. Fraga Fellowship in Institutional Transformation was established in his honor at the Haas Center for Public Service upon his departure from Stanford University.

Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University

Nancy Rosenblum received a BA in 1969 from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973. She is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard and was previously chair of the department of government. She is a faculty associate at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics and at the Center for American Political Studies. Previously, she served on the faculty and as a department chair at Brown University. Her most recent book is On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship. Other publications include Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (Princeton University Press, 2000), for which she won the APSA David Easton Prize in 2002; Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thought (Harvard University Press, 1987); and Thoreau: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1996). She is editor of and contributor to Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair (with Martha Minow; Princeton University Press, 2003); Civil Society and Government (with Robert Post; Princeton University Press, 2001); and Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies (Princeton University Press, 2000). She is also a contributor to the forthcoming APSA Presidential Task Force volume Religion and Democracy in America. Rosenblum has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004. Her professional appointments include associate editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, member of the editorial board of Political Theory, president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation.

“I have three principal concerns as I contemplate APSA in the current season. The first is that our professional association do everything possible to secure a safety net for new and recent Ph.D.s facing a shrinking job market: aggressively circulating information; advocating for postdoctoral fellowships and research positions; creating systems of fellowship and support for the many fine young scholars who find themselves in temporary posts; and ensure routes ‘back in’ for those who may spend several years in part-time positions, in positions outside their own area of work, or without a position at all.

“My concern as a political theorist is to encourage the integration of political theory and political science by means of programming that cuts across subfields, pairing theory and empirical pieces in professional journals, and encouraging collaborative research projects like the APSA presidential task forces.

“Finally, I am committed to the ongoing business of bolstering participation in the Association: widespread deliberation about programs and efforts to bring in graduate students and younger scholars from every region and institution.”

Larry Bartels, Princeton University

Larry M. Bartels is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. His research and teaching focus on American electoral politics, public opinion, and policymaking. His most recent book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press, 2008), received the APSA's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the year's best book on U.S. national policy and the Leon D. Epstein Award for an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties. It was also cited by Barack Obama on the campaign trail and lauded as one of the year's best books on economics by David Leonhardt of the New York Times. Bartels's first book, Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (Princeton University Press, 1988), received the APSA's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the year's best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Bartels has also received awards and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, among others. He has served as chair of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies, president of the Political Methodology section of APSA, and chair of the national task force on campaign reform that produced the edited volume Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence (with Lynn Vavreck; University of Michigan Press, 2000). In 2001, he was the pivotal nonpartisan member of the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission and a defendant in a major federal voting rights case, Page v. Bartels.

“I am a life member of APSA and a regular participant in the activities of the association and its organized sections. I believe that APSA can and should do more (1) to enhance the intellectual quality and collegiality of its annual meetings for all participants; (2) to encourage serious funding of political science research and training by federal agencies, foundations, and private donors; and (3) to coordinate efforts to cushion the impact of the current economic crisis on the careers of adjunct faculty, graduate students, and other vulnerable members of the profession.”

Susan Peterson, College of William and Mary

Susan Peterson is Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Wendy and Emery Reves Professor of Government and International Relations, and Director of the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William and Mary. Her research and teaching explore the interaction among ideas, institutions, and the international system, and she is particularly interested in how domestic political institutions shape individual preferences, decision-making processes, and foreign policy. She is the author of Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict (University of Michigan Press, 1996) and the co-editor of Altered States: Domestic Politics, International Relations, and Institutional Change (Lexington, 2002). Her research also appears in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Security Studies, Foreign Policy, International Journal, International Studies Quarterly, Politics & Gender, and several edited volumes. Her current research explores both the relationship between pandemic disease and national security and the domestic determinants of U.S. global AIDS policy. Peterson is a principal investigator of the TRIP (Teaching, Research, and International Policy) Project, an extensive data-collection effort on the discipline of international relations that examines how academic communities in different countries shape policy discourse and foreign policy and, in turn, how international events shape the discourse within these different academic communities. She sits on the editorial board of Security Studies, for which she served as editor from 2003 to 2006. She also serves on the Academic Advisory Council of America Abroad Media.

Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University

Jeffrey M. Berry is the John Richard Skuse Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He received his AB from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.

Berry's research has focused on interest groups, citizen advocacy, urban politics, and nonprofits. The central theme that runs through his scholarship is a concern with how ordinary citizens get their collective voice heard by those in government. His books include Lobbying for the People: The Political Behavior of Public Interest Groups (Princeton University Press, 1977); The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (with Kent E. Portney and Ken Thomson; Brookings Institution Press, 1993); The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups (Brookings Institution Press, 2000); A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution Press, 2005); and Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why (with Frank R. Baumgartner, Marie Hojnacki, David C. Kimball, and Beth L. Leech; University of Chicago Press, 2009). Among his awards are APSA's Gladys Kammerer Award and the Urban Politics section's best book award for The Rebirth of Urban Democracy, the Policy Studies Organization's Aaron Wildavsky Award for The New Liberalism, and APSA's Political Organizations and Parties section's Leon Epstein Prize and its Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award for A Voice for Nonprofits.

Berry's current research involves a study of environmental advocacy and sustainability in 50 large American cities (with Kent Portney), and a study of the “Outrage Industry” (talk radio, cable TV, blogs, and ideological citizen groups; with Sarah Sobieraj). His service to APSA includes membership on the Professional Ethics and Academic Freedom Committee and the Civic Education and Engagement Committee (which wrote Democracy at Risk). He also served as president of the Political Organizations and Parties section.

“Moving forward, I am most concerned about the declining state of the professoriate. Under financial pressure, colleges and universities continue to reduce the number of faculty who hold full-time tenure track positions. Conversely, the proportion of faculty in adjunct or part-time positions continues to rise. The implications of this trend, especially for the quality of undergraduate instruction and advising, are disturbing. As a member of the APSA Council, I hope I can join with the Association's leadership and with that of other academic disciplines in working on this issue.”

Christopher Gelpi, Duke University

Christopher F. Gelpi (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994) is a professor of political science at Duke University. His primary research interests are the sources of international militarized conflict, strategies for international conflict resolution, and the sources of public attitudes toward foreign policy issues. He is currently engaged in research on American public opinion and the use of military force, as well as on statistical models for forecasting military conflict and transnational terrorist violence. He has published works on American civil–military relations and the use of force, the impact of democracy and trade on international conflict, the role of norms in crisis bargaining, alliances as instruments of control, diversionary wars, deterrence theory, and the influence of the international system on the outbreak of violence. He is the author of The Power of Legitimacy: The Role of Norms in Crisis Bargaining (Princeton University Press, 2002), coauthor (with Peter D. Feaver) of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004), and coauthor (with Peter Feaver and Jason Reifler) of Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts (Princeton University Press, 2009). Some of his other work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Security, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Political Behavior, Political Science Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida

Kerstin Hamann, professor of political science at the University of Central Florida, received her Ph.D. in political science, an MA in West European studies, and an MA in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, she was a student at T[..]ubingen University, Germany. Hamann is the recipient of the University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, numerous college-wide teaching and research awards, and the University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Her research focuses on Spanish politics, comparative political economy (Western Europe), and comparative industrial relations. In addition, she has conducted extensive research in the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her books include Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe: Voting for Social Pacts (with John Kelly; Routledge, 2010); Assessment in Political Science (co-edited with Michelle Deardorff and John Ishiyama; American Political Science Association, 2009); and Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective (co-edited with Bonnie Field; Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Her book The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain is forthcoming. Her research has been published in numerous book chapters and journals, including Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Publius, Journal of Political Science Education, and PS: Political Science & Politics. Hamann's research has been funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Pew Foundation Program in Course Redesign, and the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Iberian Studies and the Journal of Political Science Education.

Hamann has been an active member at APSA, where she currently chairs the Committee on Teaching and Learning. She has also served as vice chair, council member, program co-chair, and best-paper awards committee chair of the Political Science Education section. She has been actively involved in the Teaching and Learning Conference. She is a cofounder and steering committee member of the Iberian Politics Related group. She is particularly concerned with promoting all aspects of teaching and learning across the discipline, which forms one of APSA's core objectives.

Fredrick Harris, Columbia University

Fredrick C. Harris is a professor of political science and the director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society (CAAPS) at Columbia University. He is the author of Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism (Oxford University Press, 1999), which was awarded the V.O. Key Award for the Best Book on Southern Politics by the Southern Political Science Association, the Distinguished 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 author, with R. Drew Smith, of Black Churches and Local Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973–1994, with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian McKenzie (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2006 W. E. B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2007 Ralph Bunche Award for “best book in ethnic and racial pluralism” from APSA.

Recently published articles include “The Macro Dynamics of Black Political Participation in the Post-Civil Rights Era” with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian McKenzie in the Journal of Politics; and “It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement” in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest. The latter received the Mary Parker Follet Award for best article by APSA's Politics and History section.

He is co-editor with Cathy Cohen of the Oxford University Press book series “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities” and served as co–principal investigator of a major preelection race relations election poll with the ABC News Polling Unit in 2008. Professor Harris's current book projects are The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Fall of Black Politics, which explores the implications of the Obama candidacy for black politics, and a textbook tentatively titled In Search of A Perfect Union: African Americans and the Transformation of American Democracy, with Andrea Simpson. Both books are forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Professor Harris has served on various APSA committees, including the Task Force on Religion and Politics, the Franklin Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee, and the Gladys Kammerer Book Award, and has twice served on the search committee for the editorship of Perspectives on Politics. Before teaching at Columbia University, Professor Harris was assistant, associate, and full professor of political science at the University of Rochester.

Simon Hix, London School of Economics

Simon Hix is a professor of European and comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence in 1995. He has written several books, including The Political System of the European Union (Palgrave, 2005, second edition), Democratic Politics in the European Parliament (with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland; Cambridge University Press, 2007), and What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It (Polity, 2008). His papers have been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Japanese Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Common Market Studies. He is director of the Political Science and Political Economy Research Group at the LSE, associate editor of the Journal of European Union Politics, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He has won two prizes from APSA: the Lawrence Longley Prize for the best article on representation and electoral systems published in 2004, and the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics in 2007. In 2004, he won a Distinguished Scholar Award from the U.S.–U.K. Fulbright Commission, and in 2000, he won the Bernard Crick Prize for outstanding teaching from the British Political Studies Association. He has held visiting positions at a variety of institutions, including Berkeley, Stanford University, the University of California, San Diego, Sciences-Po in Paris, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the College of Europe in Bruges, and the Korean Institute for International Economic Policy. He has been a consultant to the British government, the European Parliament, the Asian Development Bank, and numerous private organizations.

Mala Htun, New School for Social Research

Mala Htun is an associate professor of political science at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Her scholarly work explores the question of when and why states grant liberal rights and otherwise promote the interests of historically oppressed groups such as women and ethnic and racial minorities. She teaches courses on comparative politics, gender and politics, and Latin American politics.

She is the author of one book, Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and was almost finished with the second, Sex, Race, and Representation (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), when she got married and produced two children. When not changing diapers or picking up toys, she works on what will be her third book. A collaboration with Laurel Weldon, this National Science Foundation–funded project explores women's rights and gender equality policies through comparative analysis of 71 countries.

Htun won the Heinz Eulau award from the APSA in 2005 for her article, “Is Gender Like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups.” She has been a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard, the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame, and the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Japan. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and an AB from Stanford.

“I am honored to be nominated to serve on the APSA council. I believe political science should include a range of rigorous modes of inquiry including ethnography, comparative history, critical theory, formal modeling, statistics, experiments, and others. Graduate training needs to emphasize these diverse approaches. In addition, I want to promote the interests of families and make success in our profession compatible with a full home life. Finally, I plan to push our discipline to engage with pressing ‘real world’ concerns while maintaining its philosophical and scientific integrity.”

Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine

Etel Solingen is the Chancellor's Professor in the department of political science at the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent book, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2007), was the recipient of APSA's 2008 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and the 2008 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award for the best book on international history and politics. The links between comparative and international politics have been a longstanding focus of her work, which includes Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1998); Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining (Stanford University Press, 1996); Scientists and the State: Domestic Structures and the International Context (editor, University of Michigan Press, 1994); and over 60 articles and chapters on international relations theory, comparative and international political economy, democratization and economic reform, international security, internationalization, comparative regionalism, institutional theory, and science and technology. Her empirical foci have been East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe, and she has lectured extensively around the world. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award on Peace and International Cooperation, a Social Science Research Council (SSRC)–MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World, a Japan Foundation/SSRC Abe Fellowship, a Center for Global Partnership/Japan Foundation Fellowship, and an APSA Excellence in Mentorship Award (Women's Caucus), among others.

Solingen is currently the review essay editor of the journal International Organization and vice president of APSA's International History and Politics section. She has also served as vice president of the International Studies Association (ISA); president of the International Political Economy section of ISA; chair of the steering committee of the University of California's systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; a member of the executive committee of APSA's Qualitative and Multi-Methods section; a panel organizer for the International Collaboration division of the APSA Annual Meeting; and a member of APSA's Task Force on U.S. Standing in World Affairs, the APSA Committee on International Political Science, and the Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee. She is a member of the APSA sections in Comparative Politics, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Comparative Democratization, Political Economy, International History and Politics, and International Security and Arms Control. Solingen has participated in various Track Two meetings on conflict resolution throughout the Middle East, East Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

“As Council member, I would be committed to advancing inclusion, methodological pluralism, and the expansion of APSA's international ties.”

Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Dara Strolovitch is an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. She received her BA from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her teaching and research focus on interest groups and social movements; representation; and the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Her 2007 book, Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2007), won the APSA's Kammerer Award; the Political Organizations and Parties section's Epstein Award; the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award; and the Association for Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action/Independent Sector's Hodgkinson Prize. Her work has also appeared in several edited volumes and in journals including the Journal of Politics, American Journal of Sociology, National Women's Studies Association Journal, Social Science Quarterly, and the Du Bois Review. She has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University, and she has received grants from sources including the National Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. With Burdett Loomis and Peter Francia, she is currently co-editing the CQ Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying. Her current research examines the effects of rhetorics of crisis and catastrophe on advocacy organizations.

Dara has served as program co-chair for APSA's Race and Ethnic Politics section (2010), chair of the MPSA's Committee on Nominations (2010), and member of the APSA's LGBT Status Committee. She has also served on the MPSA's Breckenridge Award committee, the Political Organizations and Parties section's Epstein Award committee, and the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section's George Award committee. She serves on the Perspectives on Politics editorial board and served previously on the board of the Journal of Politics.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to be considered for the APSA Council. My teaching, research, and service reflect my commitments to increasing racial, class, and gender equity and diversity; to interdisciplinarity, cross-subfield conversations, and disciplinary openness; to intellectual, methodological, and epistemological pluralism; to integrating research and teaching; and to theoretically engaged, rigorous, problem-driven, and policy-relevant research. I am committed to bolstering APSA's ongoing efforts to address these issues as they affect members at every career stage and at all types of institutions. I am also committed to furthering APSA's efforts to develop resources for political science educators, to reach out to scholars outside of the U.S., and to tackle the challenges associated with the financial crisis and recession, particularly as they affect public colleges and universities.”

Carole Pateman, University of California, Los Angeles

Carole Pateman is a distinguished professor of political science at UCLA and an honorary professor in the School of European Studies (EUROS) at Cardiff University (UK). During 2006–08 she was research professor at EUROS.

Her research interests are broad-ranging but lie particularly in democratic theory and early modern and modern political theory, especially theories of original contracts and contemporary contract theory, all of which she has for many years approached with a feminist eye. She has also written about political obligation and is interested in some policy questions about the welfare state, including the right to a decent standard of living. At present, she is continuing her research on the idea of a basic income for all citizens. A book about her work, Illusion of Consent (edited by Daniel O'Neill, Mary Shanley, and Iris Young) was published in 2008.

Her recent publications include Justice and Democracy (2004; edited with Keith Dowding and Robert Goodin). Her latest book, Contract and Domination (2007; co-authored with Charles Mills) takes her research in a new direction, analyzing the doctrine of terra nullius and its role in the colonization of the southern and northern New Worlds, and the intersection of racial and sexual power structures. Her earlier publications include Participation and Democratic Theory (1970); The Problem of Political Obligation (1979; 2nd ed. 1985); The Sexual Contract (1998), which received the Victoria Schuck Award in 1989 and the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 2005; and The Disorder of Women (1989). She has also published numerous book chapters and articles in journals.

Carole Pateman was born and educated in England and, although she left school at 16, later received her D.Phil from Oxford University. Her career has been international; she has lived in four continents and taught in three. From 1991–94 she served as (the first woman) president of the International Political Science Association. During 1980–81 she was president of the Australasian Political Studies Association. She was a member of the Council of the APSA 1985–87. She currently serves as a member of the International Advisory Board for the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.

She continues to be a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the British Journal of Political Science and the American Political Science Review, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy. She is also the series editor of the Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics.

She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 1996, she was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the UK Political Studies Association in 2004, and in 2007, she was elected to the British Academy. She has been a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980. She holds honorary degrees from the Australian National University, the National University of Ireland and Helsinki University.

Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan

Arthur Lupia is the Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and research professor at its Institute for Social Research. He studies how information and institutions affect policy and politics with a focus on how people make decisions when they lack information. He draws from multiple scientific and philosophical disciplines and he integrates many research methods. His work provides insights on voting, civic competence, legislative-bureaucratic relations, parliamentary governance, and political communication.

His articles have appeared in a wide range of academic journals. His books include The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?; Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Reacts to Direct Democracy; Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality; Positive Changes in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings; and The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science.

He is active in developing new opportunities for social scientists. As a founder of TESS (Time-Shared Experiments for the Social Sciences), he has helped hundreds of researchers run innovative experiments using nationally distributed subject pools. As an original and regular contributor to NSF's EITM (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models) program, he has helped to develop curricula that show young scholars how to better integrate advanced empirical and theoretical methods into effective research agendas. As a principal investigator of the ANES (American National Election Studies), he has introduced many procedural, methodological, and content innovations to one of the world's best-known scientific studies of elections.

His awards include the 2007 Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the 1998 Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and had a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He served on the APSA Governing Council from 2006 to 2008. He has served APSA in numerous other capacities, including being an APSR editorial board member and president of the Political Psychology section.

Cristina Beltrán, Haverford College

Cristina Beltrán is an associate professor of political science at Haverford College. A political theorist, she holds a BA in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University. Beltrán teaches courses on modern and contemporary political theory, Latino politics in the United States, democratic theory, feminist political theory, and American political thought. She was the 2008 Haverford College recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Broadly cast, Beltrán's research interests center on questions of membership, identity, inequality, and the way in which these forces shape deliberation and participation in the public sphere. She is the author of Performing Unity: Latino Politics and the Pursuit of Visibility (2009). Her work has also appeared in scholarly journals such as Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, and various edited volumes, and she currently serves on the editorial board for the journal Polity.

Beltrán has been a regular and active participant in ASPA meetings since 1999. She has served as president of the Women's Caucus of the Western Political Science Association (2009) and as a member of numerous APSA committees, including the Task Force on Graduate Education in Political Science (2002–04), the Committee on Teaching and Learning (2004–06), the Annual Meeting Review Committee (2005–07), the Alice Paul Award Committee of the Women's Caucus (2005–06), and the Leo Strauss Award Committee for the best dissertation in the field of political philosophy (2008–09). She has been a longtime member of the Latino/a Caucus within APSA and has served on the APSA Committee on the Status of Latina/os in the Profession.

Yun-han Chu, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation/Academia Sinica/National Taiwan University

Yun-han Chu is a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and professor of political science at National Taiwan University. He also serves concurrently as president of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Professor Chu received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in 1987. He was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University in 1990–91 and has been appointed as an adjunct visiting professor at Peking University since 2007. Professor Chu specializes in the politics of Greater China, East Asian political economy, and democratization. He served on the planning committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) from 2000 to 2009. He has served as the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, a regional network of survey on democracy, governance, and development covering more than 16 Asian countries, since its founding in 2000. He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, Pacific Affairs, China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and the Journal of East Asian Studies.

He is the author, coauthor, editor, or co-editor of 13 books. Among his recent English publications are Consolidating Third-Wave Democracies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), China under Jiang Zemin (Lynne Reinner, 2000), The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2008). His works have also appeared in World Politics, International Organization, Journal of Politics, China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Pacific Affairs, and Asian Survey, among others. Professor Chu served as president of the Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei) from 2002–04.

Mark Graber, University of Maryland

Mark A. Graber is a professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law and a professor of government at the University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Graber is also the author of three books and numerous articles on constitutional law, history, theory, development, and politics. His main disciplinary interests are pedagogical. As a profession, we should be concerned with the increased roles of adjuncts in the political science classroom. Consider the diminishing number of undergraduates who find two tenured or tenure-track professors to write their letters of recommendation. If, as is the case at many universities, adjuncts routinely teach introductions to comparative politics and civil liberties for an economic pittance, then perhaps all universities and colleges should rely on adjuncts. He does not believe that as a profession, we have confronted this issue or explained what tenured and tenure-track professors contribute to the classroom.

He is also concerned about the increasing narrowness of thinking in the discipline and the academy at large. Once upon a time, people like him were scholars. Then they became political scientists. Afterwards, they were progressively reduced to being members of the law and courts subfield, part of the constitutionalism wing of the law and courts subfield, historical institutionalists in the constitutionalism wing of the law and courts subfield, and so on. As a white, married, Jewish male with three daughters (“children” would be too general), who is a historical institutionalist in the constitutional wing of the law and courts subfield, he is increasingly expected to talk only with the other three members of the field who might meet that description. He would like to be a scholar again, an ambition he suspects animates many of us. To this end, he believes APSA should continue ongoing efforts to have us broaden our intellectual focus, provide increased opportunities for interactions between political scientists in different fields, and promote extensive contacts with scholars in other buildings whose work ought to be of interest.

Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and chair of the department of political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studied at the University of Zurich and received both her MA (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. Her interests are in comparative politics and political economy, with an area focus on Latin America and the Caribbean and Western Europe, particularly on comparisons between these regions. She is the author of The Politics of Workers' Participation: The Peruvian Approach in Comparative Perspective (1980); coauthor of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica (with John D. Stephens, 1986); coauthor of Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John D. Stephens, 1992); coauthor of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with John D. Stephens, 2001); co-winner of the Outstanding Book Award 1991–92 from the American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section; and winner of the Best Book Award 2001 from the APSA Political Economy section. She has also contributed articles to, among others, World Politics, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Social Research, Political Power and Social Theory, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Economic Perspectives. She received the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University of North Carolina in 2004. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany; the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala; the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame; and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

She is strongly committed to advancing political science through research, teaching, and work in professional organizations. She has served APSA in various capacities, such as president of the Comparative Politics section 2001–03, member of the Nominating Committee 2001–02, member of the Taskforce on Difference and Inequality in the Third World 2004–06, and member of three different award committees. She also strongly believes that political science, along with the social sciences more broadly and the professional associations promoting them, benefit from engaging with each other and from doing so across national borders.

Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution

Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Between 1987 and 1999, he was director of governmental studies at Brookings. Before that, Mann was executive director of the APSA.

Born on September 10, 1944, in Milwaukee, he earned his BA in political science at the University of Florida and his MA and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He first came to Washington in 1969 as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O'Hara.

Mann has taught at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, and American University; conducted polls for congressional candidates; worked as a consultant to IBM and the Public Broadcasting Service; chaired the Board of Overseers of the National Election Studies; and served as an expert witness in the constitutional defense of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. He lectures frequently in the United States and abroad on American politics and public policy and is also a regular contributor to newspaper stories and television and radio programs on politics and governance.

Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the APSA's Frank J. Goodnow and Charles E. Merriam Awards.

Mann's published works include Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections; Vital Statistics on Congress; The New Congress; A Question of Balance: The President, the Congress and Foreign Policy; Media Polls in American Politics; Renewing Congress; Congress, the Press, and the Public; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy; Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook; The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Inside the Campaign Finance Battle: Court Testimony on the New Reforms; The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook; and Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship and Congressional Redistricting. He has also written numerous scholarly articles and opinion pieces on various aspects of American politics, including elections, political parties, Congress, the presidency, and public policymaking.

He is currently working on projects dealing with redistricting, election administration, campaign finance, and congressional performance. He and Norman Ornstein recently published an updated edition of The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Joseph P. McCormick, Pennsylvania State University, York

Joseph P. McCormick, II, is an associate professor of political science and director of academic affairs at the York campus of the Pennsylvania State University. He received a Ph.D., MA, and BA from the University of Pittsburgh. While his graduate training was in American politics with an emphasis on urban politics and public policy, his research and the bulk of his scholarship have been concerned with African American political behavior—e.g., the 1984 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, the politics of deracialization in the late 1980s, and the Million Man March and the politics of racial consciousness in the late 1990s. His work has also been concerned with the scholarship of race and political science. He is past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and past co-chair of the Race, Ethnicity and Politics organized section of APSA, and he has served as a consultant for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

His experience at Howard University as the director of the Master's of Arts in Public Administration Program from 1989 to 2002 and as a committee member and chair of a number of doctoral dissertation committees sensitized him to the importance of mentoring graduate students who seek to pursue careers in the academy. In these roles, he provided his students with constructive criticism and the sort of professional guidance and direction that he feels that he missed as a graduate student.

He currently places the professional development of younger/junior-level scholars from a variety of disciplines at the top of his agenda as a full time administrator. While they are an integral part of his day-to-day responsibilities as the campus administrative officer at Penn State York, he nonetheless maintains professional relationships with a range of political scientists beyond the boundaries of his campus. He has had the good fortune to experience professional life from a variety of institutional perspectives and from both the faculty and administrative side of the academy. He is eager to share these experiences with the next generation of political scientists.

Julie Novkov, University of Albany, SUNY

Julie Novkov is a professor of political science and women's studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She holds an AB from Harvard-Radcliffe (1989), a J.D. from New York University (1992), and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan (1998). Julie's work addresses law, political development, and subordinated identities in the United States. Her publications include the books Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865–1954 (University of Michigan Press, 2008, co-winner of the APSA Ralphe Bunche Award in 2009); Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (University of Michigan Press, 2001); two co-edited volumes; and numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews. Julie's service record in APSA includes organizing panels for the Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence section, serving as president of the Sexuality and Politics section, and chairing the LGBT Status Committee. In the Western Political Science Association, she organized panels for two sections and serves on the Executive Council. In the Midwest Political Science Association, she organized panels for two sections. She directed Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon and was on the editorial advisory board of the Law and Society Review.

She pledges her support for methodological and epistemological diversity, interdisciplinary scholarship, and problem-driven research; responsiveness to APSA members in liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, community colleges, and institutions of higher education outside the United States; academic freedom for all political scientists; competitive elections; support for APSA's status committees as well as for political scientists with disabilities, those who work outside the academy, and those who work contingently in the academy; and a unified response by APSA to the financial crisis that currently besets higher education.

Our best scholarly contributions come when we frame vital substantive questions about politics from different epistemological standpoints and use diverse approaches to answer those questions. Her engagement with a diverse set of scholars has led her to appreciate the strength that pluralism brings to our collective efforts to understand politics. Dialogue and engagement across all scholarly boundaries are vital to our mission.

As a professional association, APSA must proactively address the current economic crisis and its acceleration of the structural changes in the academy. More of us are non-tenure-stream workers. Many of us face retrenchments at our institutions, resulting in higher workloads and lower pay. Internal and external research funds are shrinking. Our graduate student members face an uncertain future. How can APSA ensure that institutions invest in the kinds of education that we as a profession deem worthwhile? How might these changes affect efforts to diversify the academy? How can we respond collectively to the problems we face individually as faculty members, graduate students, and administrators?

S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University

Professor Weldon is the author of Protest, Representation and the Advocacy State (University of Michigan, forthcoming) and Protest, Policy and the Problem of Violence Against Women (University of Pittsburgh, 2002), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Taking a global perspective on national and international politics, Weldon's work on political mobilization and policy impact explores many themes central to democratic and feminist theory, including questions of representation, intersectionality, solidarity, multiculturalism, and state-civil society relations, among others. Weldon's work combines quantitative cross-national analysis with comparative case studies and fieldwork. With Mala Htun of the New School, Weldon is currently involved in an National Science Foundation–funded project investigating women's rights in 70 countries. She has been the recipient of both teaching and research awards. Professor Weldon has served on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and has also served as newsletter editor, program chair, and president-elect of the Women and Politics research section of APSA. She has served on and chaired the Best Dissertation Proposal Award for the Women's Caucus of APSA. She has also served on the council of the Midwest Political Science Association and has chaired and participated in other MPSA award committees.