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Officers 2011-2012

 

  Marc Hetherington, President, Vanderbilt University, marc.j.hetherington@vanderbilt.edu
  Holly Brasher, Secretary/Treasurer, University of Alabama at Birmingham, hbrasher@uab.edu
  David Karol, APSA Program Chair 2012 University of Maryland, dkarol@umd.edu
  John C. Green, VOX/POP Editor, University of Akron, green@uakron.edu

 

Executive Council 2011-12

 

  James Adams, University of California, Davis jfadams@ucdavis.edu
  Thomas Holyoke, California State University, Fresno tholyoke@csufresno.edu
  Raymond La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, laraja@polsci.umass.edu
  Amy McKay, Georgia State University, polamm@langate.gsu.edu
  David Dulio, Oakland University, ddulio@oakland.edu 
  Paul Frymer, Princeton University, pfrymer@princeton.edu
  Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota, dzs@umn.edu 
  Michael McDonald, Binghamton University, mdmcd@binghamton.edu

 

 

List of Awards and Committees, 2011-12

 

Note: for each of the following awards, members of POP may nominate winners to members of the selection committees listed below. Awards will be presented at the Business Meeting, tentatively scheduled for Friday during the APSA meetings.

 

Samuel J. Eldersveld Award
This award is to honor a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Award Committee Chair
  Margie Hershey
  Department of Political Science
  Indiana University
  Bloomington, IN  47405-7110
  hershey@indiana.edu


Award Committee
  Bruce Larson, Gettysburg College
  Sean Theriault, University of Texas at Austin

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award
This award honors a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee Chair
  Mark Brewer
  Department of Political Science
  University of Maine
  Orono, ME  14469-5754
  mark.brewer@umit.maine.edu 

 


Award Committee
  Zeynep Somer-Topcu, Vanderbilt University
  Seth Masket, University of Denver

Jack L. Walker, Jr. Outstanding Article Award
This award honors an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee Chair
  Robert Boatright
  Department of Political Science
  Clark University
  Worcester, MA  01610-1477
  rboatright@clarku.edu 

 


Award Committee
  Hans Noel, Georgetown University
  Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota

Emerging Scholar Award
This honor is awarded to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the last five (5) years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Award Committee Chair

  Frances Lee
  Department of Political Science
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD  20742
  flee1@umd.edu

 
Award Committee
  Ray La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Kyle Saunders, Colorado State University

Best Paper Award
This award honors the best paper presented on a POP panel at the preceding APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee Chair
  Eric Heberlig
  Department of Political Science
  University of North Carolina – Charlotte 
  Charlotte, NC  28223-0001
  esheberl@uncc.edu


Award Committee
  Richard Skinner, Rollins College
  Michael Franz, Bowdoin College

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