PRESIDENT

Janet Box-Steffensmeier, The Ohio State University

Janet Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, professor of sociology by courtesy, interim executive dean and vice provost for the College of Arts and Sciences, and lead dean for the Translational Data Analytics Institute at The Ohio State University. She earned her BA from Coe College (1988) and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (1993). She formerly served as the faculty representative to the Ohio State Board of Trustees and as divisional dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Box-Steffensmeier has served as vice president and treasurer of APSA as well as president of MPSA and the Society for Political Methodology. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an inaugural fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by ICPSR, is in recognition of her contributions and support of women in political methodology. She has received both distinguished mentoring and teaching awards, including the Warren Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences from ICPSR and Outstanding Professional Achievement for Scholarship and Mentorship Award from the MPSA Women’s Caucus. Her scholarship uses the lens of both institutions and culture. She also works in the areas of event history, time series, and network methodologies.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

John Ishiyama

John Ishiyama is University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas and was previously at Truman State University. He was editor in chief for the APSR (2012–16) and was the founding editor of the Journal of Political Science Education. He is currently PI and director of the National Science Foundation-Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) site on Civil Conflict Management and Peace Science. His research interests include democ r at i zat i on and political parties in post-communist Russian, Eurasian, and African politics; ethnic politics; and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has published extensively, producing eight books and 166 journal articles and book chapters.

He was a vice president of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), and has served on the APSA Executive Council and the executive boards of the MPSA and Pi Sigma Alpha. He received numerous awards including the 2018 APSA Frank J. Goodnow Award, the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the APSA Political Science Education Section, the 2016 Charles Bonjean Best Article Award from Social Science Quarterly, the 2015 APSA Distinguished Teaching Award, the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar in 2009 by the International Studies Association, and the 2010 APSA Heinz Eulau Award. He received major grants from the NSF, the US Department of Education, the US Department of State, and the APSA.

PAST PRESIDENT

Paula D. McClain

Paula D. McClain is professor of political science and professor of public policy at Duke University, where she also serves as dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education. She has also directed APSA’s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Duke for more than 20 years.

McClain studies racial minority group pol i ti cs—parti cularly interminority political and social competition. She has published in numerous journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She also has three coauthored books:

• • American Government in Black and White: Diversity and Democracy (with Steven Tauber), which won APSA’s Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section’s Best Book Award for a book published in 2010;

• • “Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (with Joseph Stewart), which won the 1996 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America Award for Outstanding Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance; and

• • Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America (with Harold M. Rose), which won the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ 1995 Best Book Award for a previously published book that has made a substantial and continuing contribution.

McClain has served as president of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCBPS). She has also been vice president of APSA, MPSA, and SPSA, as well as program chair or co-chair for the annual meetings of all three organizations. She was also a vice president and program co-chair for the 2003 International Political Science Association World Congress.

In 2014, McClain was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her numerous honors include the Duke University Blue Ribbon Diversity Award (2012), the Graduate School Mentoring Award (2010), the Frank J. Goodnow Award for contributions to the profession of political science (2007), a Meta Mentoring Award from the Women’s Caucus for Political Science of the APSA (2007), the Manning Dauer Award from SPSA (2015), and the Midwest Women’s Caucus of Political Science Outstanding Professional Achievement Award (2017).

VICE PRESIDENTS (2020–2021)

Michelle D. Deardorff, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Michelle D. Deardorff is the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Government and Department Head of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Prior to 2013, she was a tenured faculty member at Jackson State University, a historic Black university in Mississippi, and from 1991–2003, she taught at Millikin University, a small private institution in Illinois. She earned her BA from Taylor University (IN) and her MA and PhD from Miami University, Ohio. Deardorff’s teaching and research have focused on the constitutional and statutory protections surrounding gender and race, as well as exploring the insights provided by political theory. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kellogg Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Small Business Administration. She is coauthor of Constitutional Law in Contemporary America, American Democracy Now 6E, and Pregnancy and the American Worker. For APSA, she has chaired the Political Science Education section, the Teaching and Learning Standing Committee, and was elected to the APSA Council. She serves on the editorial boards of PS and the Journal of Political Science Education. In 2019, Michelle served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist which included work with several universities in Albania.

Mala Htun, University of New Mexico

Mala Htun is professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, deputy director and co-principal investigator of ADVANCE at UNM, and Special Advisor for Inclusion and Climate in the School of Engineering. She works on women’s rights, social inequalities, and strategies to promote inclusion and diversity. Htun is the author of three books, most recently The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights around the World, co-authored with Laurel Weldon (Cambridge University Press 2018), and articles published in Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Review, Politics & Gender, and others. She serves as chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession of APSA and co-chaired the Presidential Task Force on Women’s Advancement. She has been an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a fellow at the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame and the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard, and held the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Japan. She holds a PhD in political science from Harvard and a AB in international relations from Stanford. She was an assistant and then associate professor at the New School for Social Research from 2000–2011.

John Sides, Vanderbilt University

John Sides is professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. He studies political behavior in American and comparative politics.

He is an author of Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and The Battle for the Meaning of America, The Gambl e: Choi ce and Chance in the 2012 Election and Campaigns and Election: Rules, Reality, Strategy, Choice.

He has published articles in various scholarly journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.

He helped found and serves as publisher of The Monkey Cage, a site about political science and politics at the Washington Post. He previously served as a member of the APSA Council and a member of three APSA presidential task forces.

He received his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at the University of Texas, Austin and George Washington University.

TREASURER (2020–2023)

David Lublin, American University

David Lublin is professor of government at American University. His research spans American and comparative politics with a common thread being the impact of electoral institutions on the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities. David is the author of The Paradox of Representati on: Raci al Gerrymandering and Minority Interests in Congress (Princeton 1997), The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change (Princeton 2004), and Minority Rules: Electoral Systems, Decentralization and Ethnoregional Parties (Oxford 2014) as well as articles in numerous journals. He has received multiple National Science Foundation grants and a German Marshall Fund fellowship, and is a co-director of the Constituency-Level Election Archive, a cooperative effort to make election results from around the globe more accessible. The US Supreme Court has cited David’s redistricting work, and he has worked as an expert for the US Department of Justice on that topic. Similarly, the US Department of State has invited him to speak about elections and minority representation in over 25 countries. David has been very active in public service. After completing three terms on the Town Council of Chevy Chase, Maryland, including two years as mayor, he served as Equality Maryland’s president during the successful referendum fight for marriage equality. David earned his BA from Yale and his AM and PhD from Harvard.

COUNCIL (2020–2023)

Menna Demessie, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Menna Demessie is the vice president of Policy Analysis and Research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. She leads the foundation’s research and policy initiatives that affect African Americans and the global black community in areas including education, criminal justice, economic opportunity, voting and e n v i r o n me n t a l sustainability. Dr. Demessie has spearheaded several partnerships with the White House, the US Congress, and other nonprofit stakeholders to advance strategic efforts to influence and inform public policy. She is the founder and co-managing editor of foundation’s Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research, a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal on public policy issues in the United States and abroad. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of California Washington Center.

In August of 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed her to serve on the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Advisory Council, a global diaspora fund-raising initiative to advance socioeconomic development in the country.

She received her joint PhD in public policy and political science from the University of Michigan in 2010 and received the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship where she worked for Congresswoman Barbara Lee and worked on federal unemployment benefits legislation, antipoverty initiatives, and foreign affairs.

Terry Gilmour, Midland College

Terry Gilmour is professor of political science at Midland College, receiving her PhD in political science from Texas Tech University. In addition, she is the director of the Honors Program at the college and serves as the adviser for Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society for Community College Students. Currently, she serves as chair of the Political Science Education section of APSA where she has been active since 2008 attending all of the Teaching & Learning Conferences as well as all of the annual meetings of APSA. She has also served on the executive board of the Southwest Political Science Association. Through the years, she has presented numerous papers at professional conferences, primarily in the field of teaching and learning. At Midland College, she has served as president of the Faculty Senate and she and her husband established a fund to help faculty attend professional development opportunities. She received the Teaching Excellence Award, the highest award given by the college and has been selected by the students as Teacher of the Year three times.

Catherine Guisan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Catherine Guisan is visiting associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she received her PhD in 2000. She has taught also in the Honors Programs (University Colleges) of the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam, Netherlands, at Sciences Po, Grenoble, France and in the graduate program of European University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, as a Fulbright Fellow.

Her substantive research draws from political theorists such as Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, and Paul Ricoeur to investigate “lost treasures” of European politics, from the founding years of European integration to civil society’s engagement in situations of crisis in Greece and Russia. She is the author of two books, A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration (Oxford: Routledge, 2012), and Un sens à l’Europe: Gagner la paix (1950–2003) (Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, 2003); and her work has appeared in a number of journals including Constellations and The Journal of Common Market Studies. She has published in the media and given radio interviews regularly, and made dozens of public lectures on European politics, both in the US and Europe.

Catherine Guisan served as the first chair of the APSA Service Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty, 2016–2019.

Nancy J. Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania

Nancy J. Hirschmann is Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania. She has served as director of the Program on Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women, and vice chair and graduate chair of the Department of Political Science. She previously taught at Cornell University for 12 years, Swarth-more College, and Gettysburg College. Her books include The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, which won the 2004 Victoria Schuck Award from the APSA; Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory: and Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory, as well a numerous collected volumes, and published numerous articles on domestic violence, welfare reform, Islamic veiling, freedom, disability, and women’s role in the family which have appeared in edited collections and journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and Constellations. She has held numerous fel l owshi ps, including the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The European University Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently finishing her latest book, Freedom, Power, and Disability. She also has worked for the Boston Globe and on Capitol Hill.

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Nahomi Ichino, Emory University

Nahomi Ichino is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. She previously was a faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard University and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in political science from Stanford University and a BA in political science from Yale University and is a former Havard Academy Scholar.

Ichino’s research focuses on ethnic politics, voter behavior, political geography, candidate selection, and political party development in sub-Saharan Africa, and on political methodology. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Networks, and other scholarly journals. Her research in Ghana has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the International Growth Center.

Ichino has been active in APSA, serving as organizer of the Political Economy Section for the 2015 annual meeting, a member of the executive committee for the Comparative Politics section for 2019–21, and secretary for the Experimental Methods Section for 2020–22. She also served in various capacities for the African Politics Conference Group, Visions in Methodology, and Evidence for Governance and Policy (EGAP).

Tamara Metz, Reed College

Tamara Metz is associate professor of political science and humanities, chair of the Pol i ti cal Science Department and director of The Center for Teaching and Learning at Reed College. She has served APSA as the treasurer of Foundations of Political

Theory, and a member of the Distinguished Teaching Award Committee; for WPSA she served as the chair of the Women’s Caucus and as a board member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. In 2010, she hosted the annual meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Her research engages contemporary political theory and focuses on gender, care, and justice in contemporary liberal democratic theory and practice. She is the author of Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State and the Case for Their Divorce (Princeton University Press, 2010), co-editor of Justice, Politics, and the Family (Paradigm Press, 2014) and has published work in various edited volumes and journals including Contemporary Political Theory, Politics & Gender, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Politics, The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, and The Nation.

Ido Oren, University of Florida

Ido Oren is associate professor of political science at the University of Florida. His intellectual and research interests range from International Relations theory, international security affairs, and US foreign policy, through the history and sociology of social science, to interpretive methods of political research. His book, Our Enemies and US: America’s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science, was published by Cornell University Press and translated into Chinese and Japanese. His articles appeared in journals such as International Security, Perspectives on Politics, Polity, and the Review of International Studies.

Oren has been a member of the executive committee of the APSA’s Conference Group on Interpretive Methodologies and Methods since its inception in 2009; he chaired the committee between 2013 and 2017. He is former vice president of the International Studies Association (ISA), and former president of the ISA’s southern region. In Spring 2010, he was a Fulbright lecturer at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He has given invited lectures in Germany, Denmark, Turkey, Israel, Japan, and China.

Oren earned a BA in Middle Eastern and African studies from Tel-Aviv University, an MA in political science from New York University, and a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.

Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College

Jillian Schwedler is professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center. She is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for the Middle East at Brandeis University and co-founder and co-director of the Sidi Bou Said School of Critical Protest Studies. She was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the Project on Middle East Political Science, and she has served on the editorial committees of Middle East Law and Governance, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Middle East Report. She has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, the Social Science Research Council, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and is a three-time Fulbright scholar (most recently in Spain in Spring 2020). Her books include the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge 2006) and (with Laleh Khalili) Policing and Prisons in the Middle East (Columbia 2010). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Middle East Report, Journal of Democracy, and Social Movement Studies, among many others. She is currently finalizing a book manuscript titled Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent. She received her PhD in politics from New York University in 2000. ■

Continuing Council Members

2018–2021

Adam J. Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Tecnhology

Ann O’M. Bowman Texas A&M University

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Lori J. Marso, Union College

Alberto Simpser, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Charles Smith, University of California, Irvine

Rocío Titiunik, Princeton University

Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

2019–2022

Ben Ansell, University of Oxford

Erik Bleich, Middlebury College

Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois at Chicago

Rebecca Gill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore

David Leal, University of Texas, Austin

Suzanna Linn, Penn State University

Melanye Price, Prairie View A&M University