Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Membership

Section List

The purpose of this section is to foster communication among scholars, recognize leadership in the field, facilitate research and publication opportunities, encourage undergraduate and student interest, and create a permanent forum for developing and refining appropriate theoretical models in the study of race and ethnicity.

Website: www.apsanet.org/~rep

2008 - 2009 Officers

Co-Chairs:
Pei-te Lien
University of California, Santa Barbara
Political Science
Department of Political Science
MC 9420
Santa Barbara CA 93106-9420
plien@polsci.ucdb.edu

Michael A. Jones-Correa
Cornell University
Government
305 White Hall
Ithaca NY 14853-4601
mj64@cornell.edu

Secretary:
Jason P. Casellas
University of Texas, Austin
Government
1 University Station A1800
Austin TX 78712-0119
casellas@mail.utexas.edu

Treasurer:
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Providence College
Black Studies/Political Science
Howley Hall 315
549 River Avenue
Providence RI 02918
jjordanz@providence.edu

REP Newsletter Co-Editors:
Kim Geron
California State University East Bay
Political Science
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward CA 94542-3041
kim.geron@csueastbay.edu

Catherine Paden
Simmons College
Political Science
300 The Fenway
Boston MA 02115
catherine.paden@simmons.edu

Listserv Editor
Paula Mohan
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Political Science
305 Salisbury Hall
Whitewater WI 53190
mohanp@uww.edu

Executive Council
James Lai, Santa Clara University
Niambi Michele Carter, Duke University
Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Rutgers University
Tyson King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lorrie Frasure, University of California, Los Angeles
Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, California State University, Long Beach
Paru Shah, Macalester College
Ron Hayduk, CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Gabriel Sanchez, University of New Mexico
Stephanie DiAlto, University of California, Irvine

Graduate Student Issues Committee:
Tamitha Walker, Rutgers University
Bhavna Devani, Cornell University
Tehama Lopez, University of Chicago
Michael Lerma, University of Arizona

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

Best Book Award
Revised eligibility guidelines: Books published/copyrighted in calendar year 2008 are eligible for the prize. Books that were nominated in previous years are not eligible and should not be renominated. In addition to demonstrated superiority in scholarship on the studying of race, ethnicity, and politics, nominated work should focus substantially or entirely on developments in the U.S. context.

In September 2005 the REP Section voted to make an award in the textbook category. For the first award (2006), textbooks published in the last ten (10) years were eligible for nomination. After the 2006 award, selection is at the committee's discretion.

Instructions: Please send one copy of each nominated book directly to each of the committee members at the addresses listed below by March 1, 2009.

Award Committee Chair:
Andrew L. Aoki
Augsburg College, CB 53
Political Science
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis MN 55454
aoki@augsburg.edu

Committee Members:
Janni L. Aragon
University of Victoria
Political Science and Women's Studies
SSM A316, 3800 Finnerty Rd.
Victoria V8P 5C2 Canada
jaragon@uvic.ca

Reuel R. Rogers
Northwestern University
Political Science
Scott Hall
601 University Place
Evanston IL 60208-1006
r-rogers@northwestern.edu

Evelyn M. Simien
University of Connecticut
Political Science
341 Mansfield Rd., U-1024
Storrs Mansfield CT 06269
evelyn.simien@uconn.edu

Dale Turner
Dartmouth College
Government
6152 Sherman House
Hanover, NH 03755
dale.turner@dartmouth.edu

Best Dissertation Award

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science
Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in the period January 2008 to December 2008. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30, 2009. The selection will be announced at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations can be made by chairs of dissertation committees or individuals completing the dissertation. A nomination must include a precis of the dissertation (no more than 20 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining
how the dissertation expands our understanding of race, ethnicity, and politics. After a review of the nomination materials submitted, members of the Best Dissertation Committee will request 4 hard copies of the complete dissertation of some nominees.

The Best Dissertation award is based on the following criteria -- the dissertation:

makes an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary processes of racial and ethnic formation;
addresses critical substantive issues through which racial and ethnic politics are played out;
generates discourse for innovative frameworks (and analyses) for the study of race, ethnicity, and politics;
is well-written; and
is analytically rigorous (primary source data, case material, extant analyses, new or underutilized methodology).

Award Committee Chair:
H. L. T. Quan
Arizona State University
School of Justice & Social Inquiry
204 Wilson Hall
P.O. Box 870403
Tempe, AZ 85287-0403
h.q@asu.edu

Committee Members
Barbara L. Graham
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Dept of Political Science, 347 SSB
One University Boulevard
Saint Louis MO 63121
barbara.graham@umsl.edu

Louis DeSipio
University of California, Irvine
Political Science
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine CA 92697-5100
ldesipio@uci.edu

Nominating Committee:
Paula Mohan, University of Wisconsin, White Water (Chair)
Janelle Wong, University of Southern California
John Garcia, University of Arizona
William Nelson Jr., Ohio State University