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The purpose of this section is to help make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world.

Website: www.apsanet.org/~new

Section Journal: New Political Science, www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/07393148.html

2009-10 Officers:

Chair:
Clyde W. Barrow
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Center for Policy Analysis
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth MA 02747-2300
cbarrow@umassd.edu

Secretary:
William L. Niemi
Western State College of Colorado
Behavioral and Social Sciences
North Adams Street
Gunnison, CO 81231
wniemi@western.edu

Treasurer:
Meredith L. Weiss
University of Albany, SUNY
Political Science
Milne Hall 213A
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
mweiss@albany.edu

New Political Science Editors:
Nancy S. Love
Pennsylvania State University
Political Science
219 Pond Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
nsl1@psu.edu

Mark S. Mattern
Baldwin Wallace College
Political Science
275 Eastland Road
Berea, OH 44017
mmattern@bw.edu

2010 Program Chair:
Jocelyn M. Boryczka
Fairfield University
Politics
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, CT 06824-5195
jboryczka@aol.com

Coordinating Committee:
Michael Forman, University of Washington, Tacoma
Laura Katz Olsen, Lehigh University

Caucus Representatives:
Jocelyn Boryczka, Fairfield University
Jennifer Leigh Disney, Winthrop University

Honorary Member:
Frances Fox Piven, CUNY, Graduate Center

Awards

• Previous Award Recipients 

Nominations should be sent to the Award Committee Chair ONLY, except in the case of the Michael Harrington Award.  In this case, letters of nomination should be sent to the Harrington Award Chair and a copy of the nominated book must be sent, via mail, by the publisher to each committee member. The nominated book must have a 2009 publication date and cannot be a collection.

The Christian Bay Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at the previous year's APSA annual meeting. Nominations should have been to sent to the Award Committee Chair, Clyde W. Barrow by March 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Clyde W. Barrow
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Center for Policy Analysis
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth MA 02747-2300

Committee Members:
Joel  Lefkowitz, SUNY-New Paltz
Carisa R. Showden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

The Michael Harrington Book Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarships can be used in the struggle for a better world.   Nominations must be made in writing to the Award Committee Chair, Joseph G. Pescheck, by the publisher.  A copy of the nominated book must be sent via mail, by the publisher to each committee member by April 1, 2010 in order to be eligible for consideration.  The nominated book must have a 2009 publication date and cannot be a collection.

Award Committee Chair:
Joseph G. Peschek
Hamline University
Political Science
1536 Hewitt
Saint Paul, MN 55104

Committee Member:
Nicholas J. Kiersey
Ohio University, Chillicothe
Department of Political Science
University Drive 101
Chillicothe, OH 45601

Diana M. Judd
William Paterson University
Department of Political Science
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ 07470

The Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award is given for a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher and activist. Nominations should be sent to the Award Committee Chair, Bradley J. Macdonald by April 1, 2010.

Award Committtee Chair:
Bradley J. Macdonald
Colorado State University
Political Science/C346 Clark
1782 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Committee Members:
Alethia Jones, SUNY, Albany
Lorraine C. Minnite, Barnard College

The Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward Award is given for an active group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, "to make the study of politics relevent to the struggle for a better world," into practice. Nominations should be sent to the Award Committee Chair, Leo Panitch by April 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Leo Panitch
York University
Political Science
4700 Keele St.
Toronto M3J 1P3 Canada

Committe Members:
Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto
Anna M. Agathangelou, York University