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Home  › Membership  › Organized Section Membership  › Section List  › 30. Politics, Literature, and Film Politics, Literature, and Film The study of literature and film offers political scientists a particularly stimulating mode of inquiry into political institutions and principles, and into the ways of life that sustain them and are, in turn, shaped by them. Indeed, the creation of this division is itself a sign of the complex and changing landscape of the study of politics. The section explores the way in which literature "broadly understood to include film and other literary genres" provides unique insights into the nature of political life and the study of politics. Website: www.apsanet.org/~politicsandlit/   2011 - 2012 Officers Chair: Carol L. McNamara Utah State University Political Science 0725 Old Main Hill Logan UT 84322-0725 carol.mcnamara@usu.edu Chair-Elect: Lilly Goren Carroll University Political Science 100 North East Ave Waukesha WI 53186  lgoren@carrollu.edu Secretary/Treasurer: Ann Ward University of Regina Campion College 3737 Wascana Pkwy Regina S4S 0A2 Canada  Ann.Ward@uregina.ca Newsletter Editor: Lilly Goren Carroll University Political Science 100 North East Ave Waukesha WI 53186  lgoren@carrollu.edu 2012 Program Chair: Carol L. McNamara Utah State University Political Science 0725 Old Main Hill Logan UT 84322-0725 carol.mcnamara@usu.edu Executive Council: Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University Charles Rubin, Duquesne University Natalie Taylor, Skidmore College Brian Smith, Montclair State University  Awards Previous Award Recipients  The Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on a politics, literature and film panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.  Nominations are due by October 1, 2012. Award Committee Members: Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University, ldtrepan@svsu.edu Charles Rubin, Duquesne University, rubin@duq.edu Paul Corey, Humber College, paul.corey@humber.ca Joseph Lane, Emory & Henry College, jhlane@ehc.edu