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

2007 - 2008 Officers

Co-Chairs:
John G. Bretting
University of Texas, El Paso
Institute for Policy and Economic Development
Kelly Hall
500 West University Avenue
El Paso TX 79968-0703
jbretting@utep.edu

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

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
Howard University
Political Science
2441 6th Street, NW
Washington DC 20053
jjordan-zachery@howard.edu

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

Web Administrator:
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Department of Political Science
University of California
Riverside CA  92521
karthick@ucr.edu

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

Executive Council
Robert Brown, Emory University (2006 - 2008)
Elizabeth Wabindato, Northern Arizona University (2006 - 2008)
Janelle Wong, University of Southern California (2006 - 2008)
Melissa Michaelson, University of California, East Bay (2006 - 2008)
Jessica Monforti, University of Texas, Pan American (2006 - 2008)
Darlene Williams, Alabama A&M University (2007-2009)
James Lai, Santa Clara University (2007-2009)
Niambi Michele Carter, Duke University (2007-2009)
Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Rutgers University (2007-2009)
Tyson King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2007-2009)

Graduate Student Issues Committee:
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, University of Chicago, Chair
Elizabeth Bejarano, University of Iowa
Byron Pacheco Miller, Harvard University
Bettie Ray, University of Texas A & M University

Awards

• Previous Award Recipients 

Book Award
Revised eligibility guidelines: Books published in calendar years 2006 or 2007 are eligible for the prize.  Books that were nominated in previous years are not eligible and should not be renominated.

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 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, 2008.
 
Award Committee Chair:
Benjamin Marquez
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Political Science
301 North Hall
1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
 
Committee Members
Stephanie DiAlto
University of California, Irvine
Political Science
1263 Social Science Plaza B
Irvine, CA  92697-5100 

Keesha M. Middlemass
Rutgers University-Newark Campus
Political Science
360 Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd
7th Floor, Hill Hall
Newark NJ 07102

Rodolpho Espino
Arizona State University
Lattie Coor Hall 6686
Box 873902
Tempe, AZ  85287-3902

Angela K. Lewis
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1212 University Blvd.
238 Ullman Building
Birmingham, AL 35294-3350

Dissertation Award
The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in the period January 2007 to December 2007. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 25, 2008.

The selection will be announced at the 2008 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). 

Nominations can be sent via email to Tony Affigne (chair) at: affigne@providence.edu  

Committee Members
Tony Affigne
Providence College
Department of Political Science
319 Howley Hall
Providence, RI  02918
affigne@providence.edu

Diane-Michele Prindeville
New Mexico State University
Department of Political Science
PO Box 30001, MSC 3BN
Las Cruces, NM  88003
dmprinde@nmsu.edu

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