Status of Blacks in the Profession

The Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of African Americans within the discipline.

Committee Members

Term expiring 2010

Alice M. Jackson, Morgan State University

Robert Starks, Northeastern Illinois University, Co-Chair

Term expiring 2011

Clarissa Peterson, DePauw University, Co-Chair

Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, University of Rochester

Term expiring 2012

Eric L. McDaniel, University of California, Berkeley

Claudine Gray, Harvard University

Recent Committee Projects and Activities

Survey of African American Portrayal in Introductory Textbooks in American Government/Politics: A Report of the APSA Standing Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession (.pdf)

Related Materials

Mentoring and African-American Political Scientists, from the April 2005 issue of PS: Political Science & Politics

Related Programs and Activities