The Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of blacks within the discipline.

Committee Members

Term expiring 2008

• James Jennings, Tufts University, Chair 
• Angela K. Lewis, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Chair

Term expiring 2009

• Mark Q. Sawyer, University of California, Los Angeles
• Toni-Michelle Travis, George Mason University

Term expiring 2010 

• Alice M. Jackson, Morgan State University  
• Robert Starks, Northeastern Illinois University

Recent Committee Projects and Activities

• Survey of African American Portrayal in Introductory Textbooks in American Government/Politics: A Report of the APSA Standing Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession (.pdf)
  

Related Materials

• Mentoring and African-American Political Scientists, from the April 2005 issue of PS: Political Science & Politics

• APSA Mentoring in Political Science Program 
  
• APSA Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section 
  
• APSA Urban Politics Section 
  
• National Conference of Black Political Scientists