Margaret Levi, the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, became the Association's 101st president on September 4th at the Association's Annual Business Meeting. Outgoing APSA President Susanne Rudolph of the University of Chicago presented Levi with the Association gavel, marking the second time in the Association's history that a standing woman president has passed the gavel to an incoming woman president. Joining Levi in guiding the Association are five new officers. Eight new members of the council will be elected in an all member electronic election during the month of October. Details on the results of the election will be available on the web and in the January issue of PS.

Levi earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington. She was formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and director of the Center for Labor Studies.

Levi has authored three books, including Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press, 1988) and Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and has co-edited five others. She is the joint author of Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press, 1998). In progress is a coauthored volume with Karen Cook and Russell Hardin, building on a multi-year Russell Sage Foundation project on trust and trustworthiness. Concurrently, she is working on a range of issues having to do with labor unions and with global justice campaigns. Some of the work builds on the WTO History Project, which she co-directed, and some derives from joint research with David Olson on union democracy. She also continues to write on issues concerning the analytic narrative approach to the study of complex historical and comparative processes.

Previous APSA responsibilities include serving as vice-president, president of the Organized Section on Political Economy, as Annual Meeting Program co-chair with James Alt, on the Executive Council, and on the Civic Education Task Force. In 1999, she became the general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. She also is on the editorial boards of Politics & Society, the Annual Review of Political Science, Rationality and Society, and Political Studies. She has served on the board of the ICPSR and currently is on the boards of the Society for Comparative Research and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Margaret Levi (l) accepts the APSA gavel from outgoing President Susanne Hoeber Rudolph during the Annual Business Meeting.

Assuming the position of presidentelect is Ira Katznelson, the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University where he received his B.A. in 1966 and first taught after completing his Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University in 1969. Before returning to Columbia in 1994, he was a member of the department of political science at the University of Chicago (where he was chair) and the New School for Social Research (where he was dean of the graduate faculty).

His scholarship at the boundary of political science and history on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions primarily concerns the United States, but is indebted, and seeks to contribute to, the discipline's other subfields. Katznelson is currently finishing a short book on affirmative action and a long volume on the New Deal. His most recent book is Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (2003). Other books include: Black Men, White Cities (1973), City Trenches (1981), Schooling for All (with Margaret Weir, 1985), Marxism and the City (1992), and Liberalism's Crooked Circle (1996), which won the Michael Harrington and Lionel Trilling Book Awards. He also co-edited Working Class Formation (with Aristide Zolberg, 1986), Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship (with Pierre Birnbaum, 1995), and Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development (with Martin Shefter, 2002).

He co-chaired, with Helen Milner, the APSA 2000 Program Committee and edited Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Centennial Edition (Norton Publishers, 2002). He has also served as president of the Politics and History Section of APSA, president of the Social Science History Association, and chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The other officers for 2004–2005 are: