New Political Science

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

2007 - 2008 Officers

Co-Chairs:
Christine A. Kelly
William Paterson University
Political Science
300  Pompton Road
Wayne  NJ 07470
kellyc@wpunj.edu

Jennifer Leigh Disney
Winthrop University
Department of Political Science
326 Bancroft Hall
Rock Hill SC 29733
Disneyj@winthrop.edu

Secretary:
F. Peter Wagner
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Department of Political Science
800 West Main Street
Whitewater WI 53190
wagnerp@uww.edu

Treasurer:
Meredith L. Weiss
East-West Center
1819 L St NW
Suite 200
Washington DC 20009
weissm@eastwestcenter.org

New Political Science Editor:
Joseph G. Peschek
Hamline University
Political Science
1536 Hewitt
St. Paul  MN 55104
jpeschek@gw.hamline.edu

2008 Program Chair:
Clyde W. Barrow
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Center for Policy Analysis
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth MA 02747-2300
cbarrow@umassd.edu

Executive Council:
Laura Katz Olson, Lehigh University
Michael Forman, University of Washington, Tacoma

Awards

• Previous Award Recipients 

Nominations should be sent to the 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 2007 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. 

Award Committee Chair:
Ilene  Feinman
California State University, Monterey Bay
Philosophy, PreLaw, and Peace Studies
100 Campus Center, Building 2, Room 112
Seaside CA 93955

Committee Members:
Julie Mertus, American University
J. Phillip Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Michael Harrington Book Award is given for a recent outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarships can be used in the struggle for a better world.   Nominations for the Michael Harrington Award (including three copies of the book nominated) should be sent to each of the three committee members.  

Award Committee Chair:
William L. Niemi
Western State College of Colorado
Behavioral and Social Sciences
North Adams Street
Gunnison CO 81231

Committee Members:
Gerard  Huiskamp
Wheaton College
Political Science
East Main Street
Norton MA 02766

Jamie L. Warner
Marshall University
Political Science
1 John Marshall Drive
Huntington WV 25755

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.

Award Committtee Chair:
Manfred B. Steger
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
411 Swanston St., 5th Floor
Building 37
Melbourne 3000 Australia

Committee Members:
Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University
Wendy Sarvasy, California State University, East Bay

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. 

Award Committee Chair:
Victor E. Wallis
Berklee College of Music
Liberal Arts
1140 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02215

Committee Members:
Maggie Gray, Adelphi University
Jennifer Shea, University of Massachusetts, Boston