During the 2025 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the 2025 Western Political Science Association (WPSA) held in Seattle, Washington, the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a third and fourth set of oral history interviews of Political Science Scholars. This collection of interviews contributes to a continuous project that seeks to amplify the scholarship and contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the profession and investigate the history of race and racism in the political science profession. The collection is motivated by the McClain Task Force on Systemic Inequality in the Discipline (2022). The videos premiered at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver and will be shown at the 2026 NCOBPS Annual Meeting and 2026 WPSA Annual Meeting.

This year’s interviewees included:

2025 NCOBPS: Sharon Wright Austin, University of Florida; Lorenzo Morris, Howard University; Larry Edward Moss, Atlanta University; and Joseph H. Silver Sr., President of Silver & Associates.

2025 WPSA: Andy Aoki, Augsburg University; Kim Geron, California State University, East Bay; Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara; Anna Sampaio, Santa Clara University; and Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond.

Learn more about the project here: https://connect.apsanet.org/apsaoralhistory/history-of-the-profession-apsa-oral-history-project/ ■