Women and Politics Research

Membership

Section List

The purpose of this section is to foster the study of women and politics within the discipline of political science.

Website: www.apsanet.org/~wpol/index.htm

2009 - 2010 Officers

President:
S. Laurel Weldon
Purdue University
Political Science
Room 2232 BRNG
100 North University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
weldons@purdue.edu

President-Elect:
Kim L. Fridkin
Arizona State University
Political Science
Lattie Coor Hall 6752
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
kahn@asu.edu

Secretary:
Rina Verma Williams
University of Virginia
Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
New Cabell Hall B-27
Box 400781
Charlottesville VA 22904-4781
rvw3k@virginia.edu

Treasurer:
Heather L. Ondercin
Louisiana State University
Political Science
240 Stubbs Hall
Baton Rouge LA 70803-5433
hondercin@gmail.com

Editors, Politics & Gender Journal:
Kathleen Dolan
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Political Science
3210 N. Maryland Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53211
kdolan@uwm.edu

Aili Mari Tripp
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Political Science
401 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
tripp@polisci.wisc.edu

Newsletter Editor:
Lanethea Mathews-Gardner
Muhlenberg College
Political Science
2400 Chew Street
Allentown PA 18104
mathews@muhlenberg.edu

2010 Program Chair:
Kim L. Fridkin
Arizona State University
Political Science
Lattie Coor Hall 6752
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
kahn@asu.edu

Executive Council:
Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Rutgers University
Pamela Paxton, Ohio State University
Melissa Haussman, Carleton University
Nancy Hirchmann, University of Pennsylvania

Graduate Student Representative:
Shannon Drysdale Walsh, University of Notre Dame

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Best Dissertation Award on women and politics: to be eligible, a dissertation must be completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year. Please mail a copy of the dissertation to each member of the award committee. The deadline for submissions or nominations will be January 15, 2010.

Award Committee Members:
Lisa Garcia Bedolla
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
5639 Tolman Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-1670

Jennifer Nedelsky
University of Toronto
Faculty of Law
78 Queen's Park
Toronto ON M5S 2C5 Canada

Olga A. Avdeyeva
Loyola University Chicago
Political Science
1032 N. Sheridan Road
Damen Hall, 9th floor
Chicago IL 60626

Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon
Texas A&M University
Political Science
2049 Allen Building
College Station TX 77843-4348

Diane-Michele Prindeville
New Mexico State University
Government
Box 30001, MSC 3BN
Las Cruces NM 88003-8001

The Best Paper Award on women and politics should have been presented at the 2009 APSA meetings. Self-nominations are welcome. Please submit paper nominations as an email attachment to each member of the selection committee member. The deadline for submissions or nominations will be February 15, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Laura Woliver, University of South Carolina
woliver@sc.edu

Award Committee Member:
Penny Weiss, Saint Louis University
pweiss1@slu.edu

R. Amy Elman, Kalamazoo College
elman@kzoo.edu

Sarah Childs, University of Bristol
s.childs@bristol.ac.uk

Wendy Smooth, Ohio State University
smooth.1@osu.edu

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory is a new award, co-sponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science. This award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year. Papers will be considered by self-nomination or nomination by other individuals. The award carries a cash award of $600. To be eligible, the article must have been published in 2009. The deadline for submissions will be February 15, 2010. To be considered for this award, one copy of the article should be sent to Wendy Gunther-Canada, President of the Women's Caucus, by mail or electronically as a PDF attachment.”

Wendy Gunther-Canada
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Government
Political Science Program Director
406 Heritage Hall
1401 University Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35294
wgunther@uab.edu