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2023 Council Nominations

The APSA Nominating Committee is pleased to announce its 2023 nominees for APSA Council. Each has agreed to serve if elected.

The call for nominations was circulated among the membership, and outreach specifically to APSA committees and organized sections was conducted. The committee made its decisions after careful deliberation and consideration for the diversity of the field and the varied interests of political scientists. The candidates will be put to a vote by the full membership via electronic ballot in July. APSA also accepts nominees by petition. The deadline for submitting nominees by petition is May 29. Additional information about APSA elections, including instructions for submitting nominees by petition, is available  here.

The 2022-2023 nominating committee is Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego (chair); Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University; Erin Aeran Chung, Johns Hopkins University; Eric Gonzalez Juenke, Michigan State University; Erik Voeten, Georgetown University; Stacey Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
President-Elect

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Taeku Lee, Harvard University

Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University and also Professor Emeritus at UC-Berkeley, where he taught for twenty years. Lee’s teaching and research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and political behavior, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association; he serves or has served on the Boards of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the ANES, and the GSS, as well as the National Advisory Committee for the U.S. Census Bureau. At Berkeley he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and Associate Dean at the School of Law. Born in South Korea, Lee grew up in rural Malaysia, lower Manhattan, and suburban Michigan. He is a proud graduate of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (A.B.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).

Statement of views: 

Throughout my three decades in political science, the APSA has been the indispensable and authoritative association for our profession. The APSA plays a unique and essential role in representing and supporting the work of advancing knowledge, promoting critical thinking and learning, advocating for the free and diverse exchange of ideas, and championing the public value of reasoned and researched perspectives on politics. Yet our profession mirrors society in facing daunting and even dire issues.  Externally, political science (as with higher education more broadly) is increasingly distrusted and under attack; internally, we continue to fall short in addressing inequality in the academy and inclusion within our discipline. These and other challenges make the work of the APSA critical now more than ever and, if elected, I would be honored to serve as President-Elect to work with everyone in the Association to tackle them head on. 

Vice President

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James Druckman, Northwestern University

Jamie Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He also is an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. As of January 2024, he will be a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. His work focuses on preference formation, communication, inter-group relations, and experimental methods. He has published more than 160 papers and co-edited, co-authored, or authored five published or forthcoming books. He served as the chair of the Political Psychology and Experimental Research sections of the APSA and currently chairs the Election, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section. He also has been an APSA council member. He served as co-editor of the journals Political Psychology and Public Opinion Quarterly as well as the University of Chicago Press’s series in American Politics. He serves on the boards of the American National Election Studies and the Russell Sage Foundation. He currently is the co-Principal Investigator of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), the editor of the Cambridge Elements Series on Experimental Political Science, a co-Principal Investigator of the COVID States Project, and a co-Principal Investigator for the Strengthening Democracy Challenge.

Statement of Views
The APSA represents and organizes a diverse group of social scientists. This includes individuals from varied socio-economic and demographic backgrounds, who live in different places, and who have differing access to resources. Political scientists also widely differ in their teaching philosophies, research and intellectual agendas, as well as service and community activities. The APSA plays a crucial role in providing spaces for political scientists with distinct interests and goals while also bridging differences to harness heterogeneity to ensure the profession amounts to more than the sum of its parts. I am committed to developing institutions that provide opportunities for political scientists to interact with those who share their backgrounds and interests as well as institutions that connect people with distinct experiences and goals. The hope is such efforts will situate the profession to contribute to building, stabilizing, and enhancing democratic regimes while also attending to human rights across the globe. It is vital too that political scientists come together in their commitment to produce and share credible and high caliber research and pedagogy, and to improve the profession and the larger society.




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Lilly Goren, Carroll University

Lilly J. Goren is Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She teaches American government, the presidency, politics and culture, gender studies, politics and literature, and political theory. Her research often integrates popular culture and literature as a means to understanding politics. She is co-editor, with Nicholas Carnes, of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (University Press of Kansas, 2022). Her other published books include Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (Bloomsbury Publishers, March, 2015, co-edited with Linda Beail); Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012, co-edited with Justin Vaughn)—winner of both the 2014 Susan Koppelman Book Award and the 2014 Peter C. Rollins Book Award; You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture (University Press of Kentucky, 2009); and Not in My District: The Politics of Military Base Closures (Peter Lang, 2003), as well as articles in Politic & Gender, Society, Political Research Quarterly, White House Studies , and The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics . Goren is one of two co-hosts of the New Books in Political Science podcast on the New Books Network. She has twice served as chair of the American Political Science Association’s Politics, Literature, & Film section, and she is currently serving as president of the APSA’s Presidents and Executive Politics Section. She has also served as an elected member to the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association. Goren served a multi-year term as co-chair of the Standing Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Association for Political Theory.  Goren was a Fulbright Fellow to the University of Bonn in the summer term, 2018. Professor Goren earned her A.B. in political science and English from Kenyon College and has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College, and is a regular contributor to local, national, and international media. And she likes to knit and read mysteries.

Statement of Views
Over more than three decades, I have served political science as a discipline in a host of different ways, including in a variety of positions within the APSA. In so doing, I have long advocated for APSA’s attention to faculty (and thus students) at all kinds of colleges and universities. The role of APSA should be to engage and support scholars and teachers, including supporting public scholarship, civic engagement, collaborative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching, publishing, and work in political science. Having previously served on the Executive Council, it is clear that diverse voices from diverse institutions with a diversity of academic experiences need to be constantly and fully integrated into the professional organization itself and to reflect these varied perspectives and experiences. In order to integrate and reflect theses varied perspectives, APSA and the Executive Council need to pay particular attention to under-represented groups within the organization, especially individuals of color, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ members. I hope to be able to bring some of these voices and perspectives to the Executive Council and thus to the organization as a whole.




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Cameron Thies, Michigan State University

Cameron G. Thies is Dean of James Madison College and MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University. Thies is a scholar of international relations who has published broadly in foreign policy analysis, conflict processes, international political economy, and international relations theory. He has previously served as Editor of  Political Science Research & Methods and Foreign Policy Analysis , and now serves as the Deputy Lead Editor of the Journal of Politics . He was named the Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis (2016), the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar (2017), and the Ole R. Holsti Distinguished Scholar (2020) of the International Studies Association. Thies also served as the President of the International Studies Association (2019-2020). Thies has served on the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association (2015-18), multiple times as a mentor for the APSA Mentoring Program, and as a member of the American Political Science Review editorial board, in addition to other service roles in the association throughout the years.

Statement of Views

I have been involved with APSA since I was a graduate student. The association has provided me innumerable opportunities to improve my teaching and research, alongside service roles that helped develop my leadership skills. I am honored to have the opportunity to give back to the association by serving as a Vice President. I want to ensure that APSA is a welcoming academic home to all who study and teach about politics. We all gain from each other’s experiences in a more inclusive association. I will continue to advocate for APSA’s efforts on behalf of teaching, as one who has been involved for many years in the TLC. Finally, my own teaching and research interests focus on International Relations. In this role, I hope to support APSA’s efforts to connect with other inter/national associations and support research and teaching around the world. I have many connections to enable these efforts as a former president of the International Studies Association. I look forward to bringing my particular set of skills and interests to bear on these and other important issues on behalf of the association’s membership.

Treasurer

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Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine

Sara Wallace Goodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Dean’s Professor of Political Science  at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her research examines citizenship and the shaping of political identity through immigrant integration.  She is the author of  Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-author of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID (Princeton University Press, 2022), and author of Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Her work has also appeared in the  American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, and other venues. Goodman’s research has been cited in major news outlets, including  The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, BBC , and The Guardian.  Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Hellman Fellows Fund. Goodman has served as past-President of the APSA Migration & Citizenship section (2017-2019) and the EU Studies Association (2020-2023).

Statement of Views

It is an honor to be nominated for this office. APSA does important work, both professionally and publicly. In both capacities, it bears a weighty responsibility to confront unprecedented challenges and guide its membership through critical times, from increasing employment precarity to threats against free speech in the academy. At the same time, we must remain steadfast in our commitment to maintaining momentum on important organizational values, such as deepening our ability to engage with and represent diverse perspectives.  I believe APSA can continue to play a constructive role in advocating for political science to the public while pursuing inclusive excellence within. APSA represents a broad coalition of scholars – it reaches across all types of institutions and is global in membership. Our breadth in membership and depth in core commitments are our strengths and maintaining them in my service as Treasurer is both an honor and an act of citizenship.

Council

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Julia Azari, Marquette University

Julia Azari is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. Her research interests include the American presidency, political parties and political communication. Her work is motivated by questions about institutional legitimacy and the interaction between formal and informal rules. She is the author of Delivering the People’s Message: the Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate , published by Cornell University Press. Her scholarly work has been published at The Forum, Perspectives on Politics, Social Science History , and in numerous edited collections. Her work has been supported by the several presidential library grants as well as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress’s Kluge Center in 2019. She has written about political parties, elections, and the American presidency for FiveThirtyEight, Vox, the New York Times, Politico , The Monkey Cage, the LSE-USAPP blog, and Grid News. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Statement of Views

 My ambition for political science is for us to be a bold discipline, on the cutting edge of discovery and the fight for global democracy. As an active public-facing scholar, I see communicating about political science as an exciting intellectual enterprise, not just a translation of journal articles into smaller words and fewer regression tables. I am interested in enhancing opportunities for political scientists to engage beyond academia, and finding ways to amplify new voices. We are strengthened by including perspectives from scholars at all types of institutions, including contributions by graduate and undergraduate students at these institutions. I hope to be involved in discussions about outreach, conference accessibility, and making the strongest possible public case for the value of political science.





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Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh

Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies, and Philosophy (by courtesy) at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in academic and professional governance for much of the past decade, serving for six years as Director of the Pitt Global Studies Center, for three years as elected co-president of the Association for Political Theory (2017-2020), and as chair of the APSA Presidential Task Force on Democracy, Social Justice, and Economic Security in a Volatile World (2010–12). Goodhart has also been actively involved in the APSA human rights organized section. He serves on three editorial boards: Perspectives on Politics , Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, and The Journal of Human Rights. He is author or editor of five books and some three dozen articles and book chapters on democracy, human rights, injustice, and related topics. He was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and he was Guest Professor in the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, from 2008-2010.

Statement of Views

 Having directed a Center and helped to organize (hastily) an online annual conference for the APT during the lockdown, I have been thinking a lot about how to design virtual scholarly experiences that provide valuable benefits for differently situated members of our professional communities. I’m especially  interested in working to develop conferencing and networking strategies and infrastructures that can help us to make our activities more equitable, inclusive, and accessible, more climate-friendly, and more resilient against unforeseen disruption. My thinking about these matters has raised big questions about how our professional networks and associations operate at present, and why (with what justification? because of what histories?). These lead to even bigger questions about our responsibilities as scholars and educators in times of radical and growing inequality and threats to democracy, precarity within and outside our profession, and impending climate transformation. I hope to encourage the APSA to consider and act on these challenges.





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Alice Kang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Alice J. Kang is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kang is a scholar of women and gender in comparative politics with a world regional focus on Africa. She teaches courses related to African politics, democracy and citizenship, and women and politics. Kang is co-author of Reimagining the Judiciary: Women’s Representation on High Courts Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2021) with Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, and Miki Caul Kittilson. Their book received the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. She is also author of Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), which examines the impact of women’s and conservative movements in policymaking in the Republic of Niger. Her other works have been published in journals such as African Affairs , Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Politics & Gender, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Research & Methods , and Politics & Gender. She has served as an associate editor of Politics & Gender.

Statement of Views

 It is an honor to be nominated for the APSA Council. I have served on the executive committee of the Women and Politics Research Section and co-organized the APSA Annual Meeting conference program for the Women and Politics and the African Politics sections. If elected, I would bring to the Council an abiding interest in how changes in practices and rules can improve inclusion. Given the size of the APSA membership, issues of injustice and inequity are undoubtedly alive in the profession. The question is how the association can address these proactively to better serve all its members. As a part of the Council, I would seek to learn more about the challenges that varied members encounter across institutional spaces, with an eye to asking what changes to existing practice and new initiatives can be adopted so that all are supported within the profession.





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Alison McCartney, Towson University

Alison Rios Millett McCartney (PhD University of Virginia) is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Honors College at Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA. A member of the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal of Political Science Education , she is co-editor of three books published by APSA: Teaching Civic Engagement Globally (2021), Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines  (2017), and Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen  (2013), and author of several book chapters, journal articles, national and international conference presentations, and webinars on political science pedagogy. She received the APSA Political Science Education section’s Distinguished Service award, the P20 Partnership Award from Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic, the University of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Mentoring, the Towson University Presidential Community Partnership award, and the Towson University Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty award twice. Some of her recent service to the profession includes being a member of the APSA Presidential Taskforce on Re-Thinking the Political Science major, co-chairing the 2023 Teaching and Learning program at the International Political Science Association World Congress, serving as founding co-chair of TLC at APSA, and serving as past president and past executive board member of APSA’s Political Science Education section. Currently, she also is a member of the Steering Committee of the AAC&U American Democracy Project, member of the Executive Board of the Maryland Collegiate Honors Council, and co-creator and co-chair of the Towson University-Baltimore County Model United Nations conference, a free civic engagement program for local youth .

Statement of Views

 As a faculty member at a teaching-focused institution, I have directly benefitted from APSA’s opportunities to pursue the scholarship and pedagogy of teaching and learning nationally and internationally through APSA conferences, publications, and resources. I continue to hone my pedagogy and research through the network of supportive colleagues that APSA has helped to cultivate. If elected, my goals on APSA Council would be to maintain and grow these options for all political science educators at all types of higher education institutions internationally and to work on including our K-12 partners in APSA programming. Rapid social and economic changes continue to define APSA’s role in providing forums for research in political science education. Thus, collaborations need to occur within and between graduate, undergraduate, and secondary education programs so that our learning expectations will better align and so that we can advance evidence-based pedagogies that achieve our collective goals. Next, given that higher education operates in a global context, I believe that APSA has a responsibility to build stronger partnerships with other countries’ political science associations. Finally, I hope to encourage more mentoring of and resources for graduate students in political science for careers related to pedagogy and research and for careers outside of academia so that they are prepared for the challenges of an ever-changing job market.





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Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University

Tamir Moustafa is Professor of International Studies and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Washington and his BA in political science from UC San Diego. His research interests include judicial politics, religion and politics, authoritarianism, politics of the Middle East, and the politics of knowledge production. His books, all published by Cambridge University Press, include The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt ; Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (with Tom Ginsburg) ; and Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State. His work has been funded by the NSF, the SSRC, the SSHRC (Canada), Carnegie, Fulbright, and others, and he has held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley, Princeton, and Harvard. His work has been recognized by the APSA through various honors, including dissertation, article, and book awards. He has an active service record, including work in several APSA sections, adjudication for the APSA/NSF DDRIG, participation in the APSA Mentor program, and service on the editorial board of the APSR (2020-2024), among other roles.

Statement of Views

 I am honored to be nominated to serve on the APSA Council. As a scholar who has often felt out of place in our discipline, I am keenly interested in supporting APSA policies and practices that will help to foster a more inclusive, ethical, engaged, and self-reflexive profession. APSA has an essential role to play in supporting all forms of diversity in our profession, not least of which are methodological and epistemological diversity in political science scholarship. Examining the history of our profession is essential for fostering reflexivity and building awareness of the political dimensions of the knowledge we produce. I believe we should build a political science that is conversant with other disciplines and engaged with the problems of the world around us. More generally, I believe it is vital to address structures of exploitation within the academy, particularly regarding contingent faculty. If elected to the APSA Council, I will contribute to the efforts of many in the Association who are working to build a more inclusive and engaged profession alongside the perennial objectives of promoting excellence in research and teaching.





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Daniel Nielson, University of Texas at Austin

Daniel Nielson is Professor of Government and Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Government Department. He is co-founder and former Chief Social Scientist of AidData. He is a former professor of political science and co-founder of the Global Politics Lab at Brigham Young University. Dan received his PhD in international affairs from UC San Diego and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, Duke University, and the College of William and Mary. He has been principal investigator on major grants from NSF, USAID, and the Hewlett and Gates Foundations. Dan’s research focuses on the control of corruption, international development, foreign aid, and international organization. He has performed field research in Brazil, Ghana, India, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. He specializes in the use of transnational field experiments to learn about causal effects in political economy. Dan co-authored Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism (Cambridge 2014) and co-edited Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge 2006). He has published articles in PNAS, Science Advances, AJPS, IO, JOP, BJPS , and CPS, among other journals.

Statement of Views

 I am a committed APSA member and feel humbled to be nominated to the APSA Council. If elected, I will promote leaning into global diversity and its potential for collective problem-solving. Our discipline has many strengths, but a critical advantage derives from our appreciation of the world’s heterogeneity. As an experimenter in the comparative politics and international relations of global development, I am struck by how often programs that have worked in one setting work very differently in others. This is not surprising to political scientists highly attuned to the vast variety of political cultures and institutions, but it may perplex those assuming uniformity in incentives and behavior. We also value how groups form diverse institutions that produce outcomes sometimes quite different from the wishes of individuals on average. I hope to increase engagement with scholars from non-traditional backgrounds and lower-income countries, including through sharing research and expanding collaboration. They can guide us in making sense of and working together to address the world’s critical problems – including climate change, poverty, and corruption – whose effects and potential solutions manifest so differently from place to place. I will also continue my efforts to encourage the ethical practice of social science that protects participants’ autonomy, promotes justice, and expands the beneficence of research.





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Candis Watts Smith, Duke University

Candis Watts Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science and Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University, where she also received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Political Science. Her research expertise highlights the role race, racism, and structural inequality play in shaping the American political landscape. She the author or co-author of Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Identity (NYU Press, 2014), Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making Black Lives Matter (NYU Press, 2019); Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2020); and The History of Race and Politics in America, 1968-Present (Audible Original, 2022). Smith has served APSA in serval capacities including, as Chair for Section 32 (Race, Ethnicity, and Politics), as the co-president of the REP section, as a member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Blacks, and twice as a panel member for the NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for Political Science. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals as well as Associate Editor at Politics, Groups, and Identities and at Public Opinion Quarterly.

Statement of Views

 It is an honor to be nominated to serve on the Executive Council. I have had the fortune of being involved with APSA for nearly two decades, attending my first conference as a participant of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. Supporting RBSI is just of the ways APSA has helped to diversify our discipline, expand the networks and opportunities for historically underrepresented groups, and enhance excellence. I share this commitment. Over the course of my career and engagement with APSA, I have become privy to some matters that I hope our national association will address. One concerns the high-level and day-to-day challenges of editing and publishing in many Political Science journals; these challenges range from preparing faculty to negotiate contracts with publishers to ensuring that junior scholars learn to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of our discipline’s norms and trends. Another relates to ethics in research publishing, with an eye toward pinpointing a shared definition of (co-)authorship and ways to give credit to key collaborators. Finally, I hope that we can advance a professional development toolkit for (senior) scholars to more effectively mentor and advocate for junior scholars and scholars from marginalized groups, especially when thorny issues of ethics arise. I am committed to our discipline and APSA’s members. I hope to take part in navigating our shared challenges and uplifting innovations in research, teaching, and service.





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Shatema Threadcraft, Vanderbilt University

Shatema Threadcraft is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University and a Laurance V. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She works on African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory and Feminist Philosophy. She is the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s 2017 Sara A. Whaley Award for the best book on women and labor, the 2017 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity and Politics Organized Section (Best Book in Race and Political Theory). She was the 2017-2018 Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Political Studies at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 2009- 2012. Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.

Statement of Views

I am honored to be nominated to serve on the APSA council. As a southern-born scholar of black political thought and feminist political theory who has recently returned to the region, I know that these are particularly difficult times. APSA members who work on these and related issues in the South and throughout the country need the support of the organization. As well, it is important to understand the attacks on the study of race and gender as well as the escalating attacks on queer and trans people as an integral part of ongoing threats to democracy, and therefore as threats to us all. I have derived particular benefit from APSA’s Women’s Caucus for Political Science. I have been fortunate to receive critical mentorship and opportunities for professional development at the caucus’ pre-conferences. I am committed to ensuring that APSA continues to be a place where junior scholars are afforded such opportunities.