Presidents and Executive Politics

Membership

Section List

The purpose of this section is to further research on the presidency and other political executives.

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2011 - 2012 Officers

President:
M. Stephen Weatherford
University of California, Santa Barbara
Political Science
Mailcode 9420
Santa Barbara CA 93106-9420
weatherford@polsci.ucsb.edu

Vice President & President-Elect:
Lyn Ragsdale
Rice University
School of Social Sciences
Baker Hall Room 180D
6100 Main St.
Houston TX 77005
lkragsdale@rice.edu

Secretary/Treasurer:
Steven E. Schier
Carleton College
Political Science
One North College St
Northfield MN 55057-1332
sschier@carleton.edu

2012 Program Chair:
Daniel E. Ponder
Drury University
Political Science
900 N. Benton
Springfield MO 65802
deponder@drury.edu

PEP Report Editor:
Melvin C. Laracey
University of Texas, San Antonio
Political Science & Geography
UTSA Downtown Campus
501 West Durango Blvd.
San Antonio TX 78207
mlaracey@utsa.edu

PEP Webmaster:
José D. Villalobos
University of Texas, El Paso
Political Science Department
Benedict Hall 306
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, TX 79968
jdvillalobos2@utep.edu

Steering Committee:
Randall Adkins, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Lara Brown, Villanova University
Steven Schier, Carleton College
Wayne Steger, DePaul University
Justin Vaughn, Cleveland State University
Jose Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso
David Yalof, University of Connecticut
Kevin McMahon, Trinity College
Meena Bose, Hofstra University
MaryAnn Borrelli, Connecticut College
Janet Martin, Bowdoin University
Jeffrey Peake, Bowling Green State University
Terry Moe, Stanford University
James Pffifner, George Mason University
Christopher Kelley, Miami University of Ohio
David E. Lewis, Vanderbilt University
Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University (ex officio)
Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson University (ex officio)
Mel Laracey, University of Texas at San Antonio (ex officio)

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Richard E. Neustadt Award is given for the best book on the U.S. presidency published during the previous year. Nominations should be submitted by February 1, 2012. One copy of each book should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

Award Committee Members:
Matthew J. Dickinson
Middlebury College
Political Science
Munroe Hall 209
Middlebury VT 05753
dickinso@middlebury.edu

Janet M. Martin
Bowdoin College
Government & Legal Studies
9800 College Station
Brunswick ME 04011
jmartin@bowdoin.edu

James P. Pfiffner
George Mason University
School of Public Policy
3351 Fairfax Drive, 3B1
Arlington VA 22201
pfiffner@gmu.edu

Lara Michelle Brown
Villanova University
Political Science
800 Lancaster Ave
SAC, Room 266
Villanova PA 19085
lara.brown@villanova.edu

Julia Azari
Marquette University
Political Science
Wehr Physics 468A
PO Box 1881
Milwaukee WI 53201-1881
Julia.Azari@Marquette.edu

The Founders Award honoring Dom Bonafede will be given for the best paper presented by a Graduate Student at either the preceding year's APSA annual meeting or at any of the regional meetings in 2011-2012. Nominations should be submitted by May 1, 2012 One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

Award Committee Members:
Jeffrey E. Cohen
Fordham University
Political Science
441 East Fordham Rd
Bronx NY 10458
posc@fordham.edu

Martha Joynt Kumar
Towson University
Political Science
8000 York Rd
Baltimore MD 21252
joyntkumar@aol.com

Kevin J. McMahon
Trinity College
Political Science
205 Downes Memorial
300 Summit St
Hartford CT 06106-3100
kevin.mcmahon.1@trincoll.edu

Andrew J. Polsky
Hunter College, CUNY
Political Science
695 Park Ave
New York NY 10065
apolsky@hunter.cuny.edu

The Founders Award honoring Peri Arnold will be given for the best paper authored by a PhD-holding scholar at the previous year's APSA annual meeting. Nominations should be submitted by February 1, 2012 One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

Award Committee Members:
Victoria A. Farrar-Myers
University of Texas, Arlington
Political Science
PO Box 19539
601 South Nedderman
Arlington TX 76019-0539
victoria@uta.edu

Paul J. Quirk
University of British Columbia
Political Science
1866 Main Mall, Rm C425
Vancouver V6T 1Z1
Canada
quirk@politics.ubc.ca

B. Dan Wood
Texas A&M University
Political Science
4348 TAMUS
College Station TX 77843-4348
bdanwood@polisci.tamu.edu

Nigel Bowles
University of Oxford
St Anne's College
Woodstock Rd
Oxford OX20 1DL
United Kingdom
nigel.bowles@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

The Best Undergraduate Paper completed in the academic year 2010-2011. Nominations should be submitted by May 1, 2012 One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

Award Committee Members:
Larry Berman
University of California, Davis
Political Science
One Shields Ln
Kerr Hall
Davis CA 95616
lsberman@ucdavis.edu

David A. Yalof
University of Connecticut
Political Science
Unit 1024, 341 Mansfield Rd
Storrs Mansfield CT 06269-1024
david.yalof@uconn.edu

Shirley Anne Warshaw
Gettysburg College
Political Science
300 N. Washington Street
Gettysburg PA 17325
swarshaw@gettysburg.edu

Richard Holtzman
Bryant University
History and Social Sciences
1150 Douglas Pike
Smithfield RI 02917
rholtzma@bryant.edu

The George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award will be given for the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the 2010 or 2011 calendar year (January 1, 2010-December 31, 2011). The recipient will receive a $250 award. To be considered for the award, nominees must submit the following documents to each member of the Award Committee: (1) a hard copy of the dissertation, (2) an electronic version of the dissertation (preferably in pdf), and (3) a letter of nomination (from, e.g., the dissertation chair, the department chair). Nominations are to be submitted by February 1, 2012.

Award Committee Members:
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
University of Pennsylvania
Washington Semester Program
1608 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
tenpas@sas.upenn.edu

Kenneth R. Mayer
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Political Science
110 North Hall
1050 Bascom Mall
Madison WI 53706
kmayer@polisci.wisc.edu

Jose D. Villalobos
University of Texas at El Paso
Political Science
Benedict Hall 111
500 West University Ave
El Paso TX 79968
jdvillalobos2@utep.edu