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Tony Affigne, Providence College
Treasurer 2005-07

Tony Affigne is professor and chair of political science, and faculty associate in Black studies, at Providence College. He holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and M.P.A. from the University of Rhode Island. At Providence College, Professor Affigne teaches courses in American and comparative politics, Black studies, Latino studies, and environmental studies.

Affigne's research looks at racial regimes in postcolonial societies, comparing similar racial orders which persist in otherwise dissimilar cultures, and exploring intersections of patriarchy and racialism. For the lead article in Amerasia Journal's special edition on Asians in the Americas (2002), Affigne and co-author Pei-te Lien showed how racial regimes across the hemisphere manifest similar systems of social and economic marginalization.  In September 2000 he was lead writer for a 21-author "Symposium on Latino Politics in the United States," published in PS: Political Science and Politics, profiling seminal work on Latino participation, social movements, immigration, public policy, gender, and identity.  For Race and Politics (Jennings, ed., Verso 1997), Affigne's turnout analysis of Atlanta's 1993 electorate showed profound linkage failure, disconnecting Black elites from much of the Black electorate, and from other communities of color.  Professor Affigne's earlier research on ecological crisis, tracing Chernobyl's political reverberations in Scandinavia, was published in Green Politics One (Wolfgang Rudig, ed., Edinburgh 1990).  In 2002 Affigne served as associate editor for the International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics (Frankland and Barry, eds., Routledge).

An APSA member since 1988, Affigne was co-founder of the APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics in 1995, co-founder of the Latino Political Science Caucus, and member of APSA's Committee on the Status of Latinas y Latinos. He previously served on the APSA Council, chaired the APSA Latino Fund, and was member of the Ralph J. Bunche Award Committee. He has twice served on APSA's Annual Meeting Program Committee, and frequently presents at scholarly meetings of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the Western, Midwest, and Northeastern Political Science Associations.