Sexuality and Politics

Membership

Section List

The objective of the Sexuality and Politics Section is to bring together scholars working in a variety of areas within political science to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and to foster intellectual community and expertise within the APSA. There is a growing body of scholarship within the discipline of political science that addresses the issue of sexuality within a variety of subfields including public policy; local, state and national governance; international relations, elections, public administration and political theory.

2011-2012 Officers

President:
Michael J. Bosia
Saint Michael's College
Political Science
1 Winooski Park
Colchester VT 05439
mbosia@smcvt.edu

Vice President and Program Chair:
Charles Anthony Smith
University of California, Irvine
Political Science
5253 Social Science Plaza B
Mail Code 5100
Irvine CA 92697-5100
casmith@uci.edu

Treasurer:
Andrew Flores
University of California, Riverside
Political Science/Legal Studies
900 University Avenue
Riverside CA 92521
aflor017@ucr.edu‎

Communication Officer:
Meredith L. Weiss
University at Albany, SUNY
Political Science
Milne Hall 213A
135 Western Ave
Albany NY 12222
mweiss@albany.edu

Membership and Outreach Officer:
TBD

Newsletter Editor:
Jeremiah Garretson
Stony Brook University, SUNY
Political Science
S713 Social and Behavioral Sciences
Stony Brook NY 11794-4392
jeremiah.garretson@stonybrook.edu

2013 Program Chair:
Laura Sjoberg
University of Florida
Political Science
234 Anderson Hall
PO Box 117325
Gainesville FL 32611-7325
sjoberg@ufl.edu

Executive Council:
Ronald Holzhacker, University of Twente (2010-2012) r.l.holzhacker@rug.nl
Heather M. Smith, Lewis and Clark College (2010-2012) hsmith@lclark.edu
Justin Phillips, Columbia University (2011-13) jhp2121@columbia.edu‎
Miriam Smith, York University (2011-13) mcsmith@yorku.ca

Awards

The Best Conference Paper Award is given for the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting. Self-nominations are welcome as are nominations from panel chairs and discussants. Membership in the Sexuality and Politics section is not a prerequisite. Nominated papers must be submitted to each Award Committee Member by February 1, 2012 electronically as a .pdf attachment.

Award Committee Chair:
Ella Myers
University of Utah
Political Science
260 S. Central Campus Drive
Room 252
Salt Lake City UT 84112
‎ella.myers@poli-sci.utah.edu

Award Committee Members:
Beth Kiyoko Jamieson
The Fund for New Jersey
94 Church Street
Suite 303
New Brunswick NJ 08901
‎Kjamieson@fundfornj.org

Christine (Cricket) Keating
Ohio State University
Women's Studies
286H University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus OH 43210
keating.60@osu.edu

Best Dissertation Award, Sexuality and Politics Section
The Sexuality & Politics Section Best Dissertation Award will be given for the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years. The award is open to all scholarship that falls under the broad rubric of sexuality and politics, including studies concerning the regulation of sexuality, political responses to the regulation of sexuality, the uses of sexuality as a political construct, the intersections of sexuality with gender, race, and class, or LGBT politics and mobilizations. This award will next be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting.