President-Elect 2003–2004

Margaret Levi, University of Washington

Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She was formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and director of the Center for Labor Studies. 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.

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 multiyear 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 <www.wtohistory.org>, 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 vicepresident, president of the Organized Section on Political Economy, as Annual Meeting Program cochair 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.

Levi maintains numerous community commitments. She serves on the Jobs for Justice workers' rights board. She was a member of the first coordinating committee of SAWSJ (Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice). With her husband, Robert D. Kaplan, she has developed a substantial collection of Australian aboriginal art, part of which is on loan to the Seattle Art Museum.

Her awards include the S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award in 2001. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in 1993–1994 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2002–2003. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, and Oxford University.

Levi has two strong professional commitments. The first is to the building of communities of scholars who take on significant social science questions by bridging sub-disciplines, disciplines, and theoretical approaches. The second is to improving our capacity to address important political and policy issues in the classroom and with the public.

Vice President 2003–2004

Rodney Hero, University of Notre Dame

Rodney E. Hero is professor (Packey J. Dee III Professor of American Democracy) in the department of political science at the University of Notre Dame; he also presently serves as department chair. He previously taught at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Arizona State University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University.

His research and teaching interests are in the areas of American democracy and politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino and Ethnic/Minority Politics, State/Urban politics, and Federalism. He has published articles on these topics in such outlets as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science, and Publius. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism, received the American Political Science Association's 1993 Ralph J. Bunche Award. He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics, which was selected for the APSA's 1999 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.

He has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

He has also served as an officer in several political science associations, including serving as president of the Western Political Science Association (1999–2000), the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association (1995–1997), and of the Urban Politics Organized Section of the APSA (2002– 2003). Additional service to the APSA includes the Committee on the Status of Latinos/Chicanos in the Profession (1987–1990), Nominations Committee (2001–2002, Committee chair in 2001), the Task Force on Inequality and Democracy (2003–04), Chair of the William Anderson Award Committee (1993), member of the Charles Merriam Award Committee (1997), and the Endowed Programs Committee (2003–2005).

Vice President 2003–2004

Gary King, Harvard University

Gary King is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, as Senior Science Advisor to the World Health Organization, and as a member of the steering committee of the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences. King received his B.A. from SUNY-New Paltz in 1980, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984.King was elected President of the Society for Political Methodology and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He has won the Gosnell Prize (1999 and 1997), the American Statistical Association's Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2000), the Donald Campbell Award (1997), the Eulau Award (1995), the Mills Award (1993), the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (1998 and 1993), the American Political Science Association's Research Software Award (1997, 1994, and 1992), the Okidata Best Research Software Award (1999), and the Okidata Best Research Web Site Award (1999), among others. His more than 75 journal articles, 10 public domain software packages, and five books span most aspects of political methodology, many fields of political science, and several other scholarly disciplines. His recent books include A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data (Princeton University Press), Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference (University of Michigan Press), and (with Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba) Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton University Press).

King's work is widely cited across scholarly fields and beyond academia. His work on ecological inference and on legislative redistricting has been used in most American states by legislators, judges, lawyers, political parties, minority groups, and private citizens. His contribution to methods for achieving crosscultural comparability in survey research has been implemented by the World Health Organization in over 80 countries, and by many governmental bodies and private concerns. His statistical methods and software are used extensively in academia, government, consulting, and private industry.

Many of King's former students are now faculty at leading universities. He has collaborated with more than 50 scholars, including many of his students, on published research. He has served on 18 editorial boards; on the governing councils of the American Political Science Association, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and Midwest Political Science Association; and on several National Research Council and National Science Foundation panels. King's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for Health Research, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and corporations, foundations, and other federal agencies.

Gary King's homepage can be found at http://GKing.Harvard.Edu.

Vice President 2003–2004

Ira Katznelson, Columbia University

Ira Katznelson is 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 departments 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. Professor 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.

Secretary 2003–2004

Judith Goldstein, Stanford University

Judith Goldstein is professor of political science, the William and Dorothy Kaye University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and the Cognizant Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, a M.A. from Columbia University in 1975, and a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1983. She has been on the faculty at Stanford University since 1981. She currently serves as a senior fellow at Stanford's Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Goldstein's area of research is international political economy with an emphasis on trade policy. Her books include Ideas Interests and American Trade Policy (Cornell University Press, 1993), Ideas and Foreign Policy (with Robert Keohane) (Cornell University Press, 1994), Legalization and World Politics (with Miles Kahler, Robert O. Keohane and Anne-Marie Slaughter) (MIT University Press, 2001), and numerous articles. Her recent work centers on how membership in international institutions influences national politics and she is completing a book on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization.

Goldstein has served on the Editorial Boards of both International Organization and World Politics. She has been Chair of the IO board and is currently serving on the Executive Committee. She has twice been the division head for the IPE section at APSA's Annual Meetings and has served on the Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee.

Council 2003–2005

John Aldrich, Duke University

John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University, and adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He previously taught at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota, before moving to Duke in 1987. Aldrich received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1975. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio.

Aldrich is the author of Before the Convention and Why Parties? (both published by the University of Chicago Press) and co-author with Paul Abramson and David Rohde of the election series, the most recently published of which is Change and Continuity in the 2000 and 2002 Elections (CQ Press), among other books. He is currently co-writing three book-length manuscripts, including one on political parties and the U.S. Congress with Rohde, one on party competition in the South with John Griffin, and one (with numerous co-authors) on economic globalization and democratic politics. He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters. He is the recipient or corecipient of the Eulau, Kammerer, CQ Press, and Pi Sigma Alpha awards.

Aldrich has served as Secretary of this Association, chair of the Woodrow Wilson Book Award Committee, and as member and chair of this Association's Nominating Committee. He is past president of the Southern Political Science Association and is currently president-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association. He and John Sullivan edited the American Journal of Political Science.

Council 2003–2005

Manuel Avalos, Arizona State University, West

Manuel Avalos is associate professor of political science in the department of social and behavioral sciences, associate vice provost for research and faculty development, and associate director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University, West. He received his doctoral degree at the University of New Mexico and did postdoctoral work at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

His current research focuses on questions of racial inequality in the Americas, and the political incorporation of the Latino electorate at the state, local, and national level. He is currently working on the completion of an analysis of the impact of the Latino vote on the 2000 Presidential election with special emphasis on Arizona and the impact of the 2000 political redistricting process on Latino political representation in Arizona. He teaches courses on American national government, quantitative research methods, Latino politics, race and politics, and on the ways in which science fiction literature impacts political futures.

His publications have appeared in Sociological Perspectives, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, Policy Studies Journal, as well as articles in edited volumes by Roberto de Anda, Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society and in Rodolfo de la Garza and Louis DeSipio, eds. Ethnic Ironies and Awash in the Mainstream: Latino Politics in the 1996 Elections.

He is one of founding members of the APSA organized section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) and has served as the section copresident, section co-program chair, moderator for the section list server (RACE-POL), on the REP best book awards committee, and is currently the chair of the best dissertation awards committee of REP. He has also served as co-chair of the Latino caucus within APSA, served on the APSA Committee on the Status of Latina/os in the Profession, and contributed to the proposal to establish the Latino Fund as part of the APSA centennial campaign. In 2001, he was awarded the first APSA Ada Sosa Riddell Award for the mentoring of undergraduate Latina/o students.

As a member of the council, he will work to insure that the needs and perspectives of relatively underrepresented voices will be considered in the decision-making apparatus of the APSA.

Council 2003–2005

Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan

Robert Axelrod is the Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has appointments in the department of political science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to coming to Michigan he taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1968–1974). He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago (1964), and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale (1969).

He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation that has been cited in over three thousand articles. His current research interests include complexity theory (especially agent-based modeling) and international security. Axelrod has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Among his honors are a five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences for an outstanding contribution to science, and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War.

Recently, Axelrod has consulted and lectured on promoting cooperation and harnessing complexity for the United Nations, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Defense, and various organizations serving health care professionals, business leaders, and K–12 educators.

Axelrod's service contributions to APSA include service as Secretary of the Association, member of the Nominating Committee, and chair of the APSA panel on the Perestroika debate.

Council 2003–2005

Judith Baer, Texas A&M University

Judith A. Baer is professor of political science at Texas A&M University. Before coming to A&M in 1988, she taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the State University of New York at Albany. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1974.

Baer specializes in public law and feminist jurisprudence. Her scholarship is guided by the principle that passionate commitment is compatible with dispassionate inquiry. Her books and articles include Our Lives before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence (Princeton, 1999), which received the Victoria Schuck Award from the APSA and honorable mention for the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the Organized Section in Law and Courts. She held a Fulbright lectureship at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1997–1998 and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 1995–1996. She is committed to writing for scholarly, student, and general audiences. The third edition of her undergraduate textbook, Women in American Law, was published in 2002.

Baer has been active in the political science profession. Most recently, she was president of the Women's Caucus for Political Science in 2002–2003. She served on the Council of the Southwestern Political Science Association, 1993–1995, as secretary-treasurer of the Organized Section on Law and Courts, 1993– 1996, and as chair of the Edward S. Corwin Award Committee in 1997. She has been a member of the program committees of the American, Western, and Midwest Political Science Associations. She has served on the editorial board of Women and Politics for several years.

Baer is committed to pluralism and diversity in political science. She is eager to participate in discourse on proposed changes in APSA's election structure.

Council 2003–2005

Shirley Geiger, Savannah State University

Shirley Geiger is an associate professor of public administration and political science at Savannah State University, where she has taught for the past seven years. Dr. Geiger formerly served as interim director of the MPA program and is currently coordinator of the University's Community Development Work Study Program grant that prepares graduate students for careers in community building. Before beginning her academic career in 1990, Dr. Geiger worked in housing and community development at the state, local, and federal levels. Prior to joining the SSU faculty, she taught at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, McMurray College (Abilene, TX), and Columbia College (Columbia, SC). She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (Ph.D. and MPA) and Howard University (BA) and participated in a post-doctoral fellowship in public policy and minority communities at the Roy Wilkins Center for Social Justice at the Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota. Additional training includes completion of an executive seminar on Budgeting and Finance in the Public Sector at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and advanced leadership training seminars at the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro.

Dr. Geiger's research focuses on public budgetary decision making, women and public policy, non-traditional leaders, affirmative action, conflict resolution in the public sector, and housing and community development. Her work has appeared in Legislative Quarterly; Leadership Journal; PS; National Women's Studies Association Journal; and The Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Housing, and she recently co-edited a special issue of Politics and Policy.

As a member of the APSA Council, Dr. Geiger will bring her interest in issues of work and family for women in the academy, community-university linkages, and the continued importance of HBCU's in preparing the next generation of political scientists and public administrators.

Council 2003–2005

John Harbeson, CUNY, City College of New York

John W. Harbeson is professor of political science in the Graduate Center and at City College in the City University of New York, chairing the College department from 1999-2001. Prior to 1985, he was professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. At both universities he has served as Director of International Studies. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Harbeson's research has centered on the comparative study of political change and the political economy of development in less developed countries, with a concentration on sub-Saharan Africa. His books include: The Ethiopian Transformation: The Quest for the Post-Imperial State, Nation Building in Kenya: The Role of Land Reform, Civil Society and the State in Africa (co-edited with Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan), Africa in World Politics (3rd. edition, co-edited with Donald Rothchild), The Military in African Politics (ed.), and Responsible Government: The Global Challenge (co-edited with Raymond Hopkins and David Smith). He has written over 70 articles and book chapters and an equal number of conference papers. His teaching interests include political theory and international relations as well as comparative politics.

He has been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a Visiting Fellow of the Center of International Studies at Princeton University. While on leave from his academic positions, he twice served in the U.S. Agency for International Development, most recently as Regional Democracy and Governance Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa. Harbeson received grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has taught at the Universities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Nairobi, Kenya and as a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He chairs the editorial board for the Lynne Rienner series on Challenge and Change in Contemporary African Politics. Combining the study of politics with its practice, he was twice elected to the Board of Trustees (city council) of Croton-on-Hudson, NY, where he resides.

Within APSA, Harbeson is cofounder (with Cynthia McClintock) of the Comparative Democratization section and the section's current chair. He is also the founder and current chair of the African Politics Conference Group, a related group within APSA and a sponsored organization within the African Studies Association. A central objective of both groups has been to broaden the contributions to theory and to leading paradigms of comparative politics so as to be more inclusive of insights from research in all world regions, particularly historically marginalized, less developed country regions. He has been a member of APSA's Area Studies Liaison Group since its establishment.

John Harbeson is committed to methodological pluralism, to a market place of ideas and conceptual approaches, and to employing insights from the experience of all world regions in the quest for sound theory. He believes in, and seeks to advance, mutually fruitful dialogue between the academic and policymaking worlds.

Council 2003–2005

Marion Orr, Brown University

Marion Orr is professor of political science at Brown University. He previously was a member of the political science faculty at Duke University. He earned his B.A. degree in political science from Savannah State College, M.A. in political science from Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University), and a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is affiliated with the Urban Studies Program and the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University.

He is the author of two books, Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore (University Press of Kansas, 1999), which won the Policy Studies Organization's Aaron Wildavsky Award for the “best policy studies book published in 1999,” and The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton University Press, 1999), with Jeffrey Henig, Richard C. Hula, and Desiree Pedescleaux, which was named the best book in 1999 by the APSA's Urban Politics Section. His research is in the areas of American government and politics, urban politics, race and politics, urban public policy, and the politics of urban schools.

Orr is active in the profession. He is president-elect of the APSA Organized Section on Urban Politics, is a member of the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Affairs. In addition, he served on the APSA Ralph Bunche Book Award Committee (2002–2003), the APSA Strategic Planning Committee (1999– 2000), the executive council of the APSA organized section on urban politics (1995–1997 & 1999–2001), the editorial board of Urban Affairs Review (1995–1998), and the executive council of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (1995–1998).

Orr is currently gathering data for a study of the community organizing efforts of local affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a network of local, community-based organizations founded by the late Saul Alinsky.

Council 2003–2005

Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University

Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott has been professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University since January, 1990. She arrived at EMU as department head, recruited in a national search, and served in that capacity until May, 1995. Previously, she taught at California State University, Long Beach, where she served for three years on the General Education Governing Committee and was elected “Outstanding Teacher” in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She served on the APSA Nominating Committee from 2000–2002 and on the Professional Ethics Committee. She is currently chair of the Leo Strauss Dissertation Award Committee. Scott is a member of the Western and Midwest regions, served on the Board of the Midwest, and is active in the national and Midwest regional Women's Caucus for Political Science. Her B.A. is from Barnard College, where she graduated cum laude with Honors in Government, her M.A. is from Columbia University where she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship, and her Ph.D. is from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Scott is a political theorist and Europeanist interested in the cross-fertilization of European and American political culture in the 20th century, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt and her generation of philosophers, social theorists, writers, and artists. She is also engaged in research on contemporary reinterpretations of medieval political theories of identity and power, from the Cold War to the post-Modern eras.

Scott published Hannah Arendt: Love and Saint Augustine (with Judith C. Stark, 1996, University of Chicago Press) and is completing a second study on Arendt which explores her emergence as an American political theorist and cultural critic in New York City in the middle decades of the 20th century. Scott's other publications include book chapters, book reviews, and articles in political science journals such as The Journal of Politics, Polity, PS, and The American Political Science Review, as well as in the multidisciplinary venues, Augustinian Studies, New German Critique, and the Hannah Arendt Newsletter. Scott's research has been funded by five NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for College Teachers, an NEH Research Fellowship for College Teachers, and a Gilder Lehrman Research Fellowship for 2003–2004 to support archival research at Columbia University and the New York Public Library. In July, 1996, her article on Arendt and the 1960 Presidential election, “Hannah Arendt: Campaign Pundit,” appeared in the New York Times as an Op-Ed.

The American journalist Randolph Bourne observed in 1916, “The whole point of an education is to know a revolution when you see one.” Scott sees this comment as central to today's debates on methodological pluralism and representation in the American political science community. She is pleased to have participated on Nominating Committees which have recruited two outstanding women presidents and councils committed to open dialogue and constructive change. Having been both a faculty member and administrator, and fully committed to voicing the interests of women and scholars of color, public universities, and normative political theory in the profession, Scott will continue to speak and write about the disciplinary experience. Her past publications on this theme include, “Death by Inattention: The Strange Fate of Faculty Governance” (Academe, Nov.-Dec., 1997) and “The Strange Death of Faculty Governance” (PS: Political Science and Politics, Dec., 1996). Scott can be reached at jscott@emich.edu.

Continuing Officers and Council:

President 2003–2004

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Chicago

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her leading intellectual interests are in political economy and political sociology understood as macrohistorical enterprises; state formation in Europe and Asia; the politics of identity and difference; and religious movements in transnational space. She is a leading exponent and practitioner of comparisons between European and non-European contexts. Her most recent work focuses on the conceptualization and evolution of civil society in non-western settings and on the standing of subjective knowledge in social science explanation.

A B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College gave Rudolph an enduring appreciation for quality liberal arts education, which she finds enhances the formulation of specialized knowledge. She took her Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation on party in the context of Asian democracy, incurring intellectual debts, among others, to Carl Friedrich's institutionalism, Louis Hartz's historical theory, Erik Erikson's identity concepts, and David Riesman's imaginative sociology. Her capacities as a South Asia scholar were shaped by the contentious and creative Committee for the Study of New Nations at the University of Chicago and by the large and equally contentious South Asia group.

Rudolph served as chair of the Chicago political science department in 1976–1979 and 1989. She was the director of the South Asia Center from 1987 to 1998, and is currently director of the Center for International Studies. She was president of the Association of Asian Studies in 1986–1987, where she led efforts to expand the comparative agendas of area scholarship. From 1987 to 1989 she chaired the Committee on Policy of the Social Science Research Council, which pioneered SSRC's policy of associating third-world scholars with the formulation of SSRC research agendas. She served on the Board of Foreign Scholarship as a Carter appointee from 1978 to 1981 and on the executive committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Rudolph has served the American Political Science Association in several roles: vice president in 1973–1974; charter member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession; the Committee on the Future of the Profession; the Woodrow Wilson, Almond, Pool, and Merriam Prize Committees; and the recent Public Presence Advisory Group. She is a member of the Women's Caucus and winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha prize for best paper delivered at an annual meeting for “Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration: A Revisionist Interpretation of Weber on Bureaucracy” (with Lloyd Rudolph; World Politics, 1979).

Of her nine books, many coauthored with Lloyd I. Rudolph, the most influential have been The Modernity of Tradition (U. of Chicago Press, 1967), which indicted the neocolonialist epistemology of modernization theory, and In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (U. of Chicago Press, 1987) which made the case for Indian “exceptionalism” by arguing that class played only a marginal role in Indian politics. The recent Reversing the Gaze (Oxford U. Press, Delhi; Westview Press, 2002) explores colonial identity formation in the context of post-coloniality.

Rudolph favors the sort of competitive elections practiced in most other professional associations, using electoral procedures that protect the representation of institutional and demographic minorities. She also favors innovations in the association journals and other institutions and processes that would assure greater diversity in forms of knowledge.

Treasurer 2002–2004

Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University

Robert R. Kaufman is professor of political science at Rutgers University. He received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1967 and specializes in comparative studies of Latin American politics. Besides teaching at Rutgers, Kaufman has been a senior research associate at Columbia University's Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies since 1985. Over the course of his career, he has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania; a research associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs; a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; and a research fellow at Collegium Budapest. Kaufman has also served on a number of editorial boards, including those of PS and Latin American Research Review, and has been a division chair for Annual Meetings of APSA and the Latin American Studies Association.

Kaufman has written extensively on the politics of economic reform and democratic transitions, focusing initially on comparisons within Latin America and then turning to broader interregional comparisons with Asia and Eastern Europe. He is author of The Politics of Debt in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico: Economic Stabilization in the 1980s (Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1988); coeditor, with Stephan Haggard, of The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State (Princeton University Press, 1992); and coauthor, with Stephan Haggard, of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton University Press, 1995), winner of APSA's Organized Section on Comparative Politics' Gregory Leubbert Book Award. He has also contributed articles to the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, International Organization, and World Politics, and is a coeditor of and contributor to Reforming the State: Fiscal and Welfare Reform in Transition Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Council 2002–2004

Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University

Martha Crenshaw is the Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor of Global Issues and Democratic Thought and professor of government at Wesleyan University, where she has taught international politics since 1974. She also directs the Project on Global Change. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1973 and worked for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress before moving to Wesleyan. She was awarded Wesleyan's Binswanger Award for Teaching Excellence in 1995.

Her research has focused on political terrorism, beginning with the publication of “The Concept of Revolutionary Terrorism” in the Journal of Conflict Resolution in 1972. She is the author of Revolutionary Terrorism: The FLN in Algeria, 1954–1962 (Hoover Institution, 1978) and Terrorism and International Cooperation (Westview Press, 1989). She edited Terrorism, Legitimacy, and Power: The Consequences of Political Violence (1983) and Terrorism in Context (1995). Articles include “The Causes of Terrorism,” Comparative Politics, (1981); “How Terrorism Declines,” Terrorism and Political Violence (1991); “The Psychology of Terrorism: An Agenda for the 21st Century,” Political Psychology (2000); “Counterterrorism Policy and the Political Process,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2001); and “Why America? The Globalization of Civil War,” Current History (2001). Recent book chapters include Coercive Diplomacy and the Response to Terrorism,” in The United States and Coercive Diplomacy, edited by Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin (2003) and “Terrorism, Strategies, and Grand Strategies,” in The Campaign against International Terrorism, edited by Audrey Kurth Cronin and James M. Ludes (2003). She serves on the Executive Board of Women in International Security and as councillor of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). She was president of ISPP in 1997–1998.

Council 2002–2004

Frances Hagopian, University of Notre Dame

Frances Hagopian is the Michael P. Grace II Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and the Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 1999, Hagopian previously held appointments at Harvard and Tufts Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hagopian specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America. She is the author of Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1996), coeditor of Advances and Setbacks in the Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Developing Countries Today (Longman, forthcoming), and numerous journal articles and book chapters on democracy and political representation. She has held fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright-Hays), the Center for Latin American Studies and the Howard Heinz Endowment of the University of Pittsburgh, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Her current research interests focus on the impact of market reforms on political institutions and the reorganization of political interests in several Latin American countries.

Hagopian currently serves on the editorial board of PS: Political Science and Politics. Recently, she headed the comparative politics/ developing countries division for the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, chaired the nominations committee of the Organized Section on Comparative Politics, served as member of the Pi Sigma Alpha prize committee, and headed the comparative politics section of the Northeast Political Science Association meeting. In addition, she has served as chair of the nominations committee for the Latin American Studies Association and as a member of the Executive Council of the New England Council of Latin American Studies.

During her term on the APSA Council, she has been working on family and workplace issues, and she continues to support efforts to promote the public presence of political scientists, to strengthen graduate education, to preserve pluralism in our ranks, and above all for the Association to reach out to and serve its diverse constituencies.

Council 2002–2004

Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College

Marsha Pripstein Posusney is (as of August 1, 2003) professor of political science at Bryant College, with a 1991 Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an adjunct research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and a research affiliate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and has taught as an adjunct at both institutions.

Her first book, Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions and Economic Restructuring (Columbia University Press, 1997) was co-winner of the Middle East Studies Association's 1998 Albert Hourani prize for outstanding original scholarly work on the Middle East. She has also published Privatization and Labor: Responses and Consequences in Global Perspective (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2002; coedited with Linda Cook), and Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003; coedited with Eleanor Doumato). She has authored chapters in these and several other edited volumes, and articles in World Politics, Comparative Politics (forthcoming), Studies in Comparative International Development, and Middle East Report, and has been a manuscript reviewer for Indiana University Press, Lynne Rienner Publishers, American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Politics, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. She is currently working on a project comparing changes in social protection programs in four nonoil-dependent Arab countries.

Posusney sits on the editorial board of Mediterranean Politics and has served in the past on the editorial board of Middle East Report, and has been a consultant to the World Bank. She has served on the program committee for the Middle East Studies Association's annual convention, and currently sits on MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa. At the Watson Institute, she has organized a wide range of seminars and workshops on both Middle East-related and general political economy topics.

An activist for electoral system reform in the United States, she also serves on the advisory board of the Center for Voting and Democracy. More extensive information on her publications, presentations, and professional activities is available on her c.v at web.bryant.edu/~marshapp.

As a Council member, Posusney hopes to elevate the status of research on the Middle East, and on developing countries more generally, within the discipline. A strong advocate of methodological pluralism, she believes that the contributions to theory and knowledge made by single-country and small-n comparative case studies, which characterize much of the work on developing regions, are undervalued. She is a proud participant in the Perestroika movement, and is involved in the consideration of ways to make APSA elections more competitive while preserving diversity, and APSA functioning more open and transparent. Finally, she seeks to represent the concerns of faculty at small and middle-sized, undergraduate-only institutions. Individuals with ideas for advancing any of these concerns are welcome to contact her at marsha2p@leonardo.bryant.edu.

Council 2002–2004

Wilbur Rich, Wellesley College

Wilbur C. Rich is professor of political science at Wellesley College. He earned his B.S. from Tuskegee Institute and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the faculty at Wellesley College, he was a professor at Wayne State University where he directed the Master of Public Administration Program (1980–1986). He has also taught at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin. He has been a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

His primary areas of research are urban politics, public management, and school politics. Much of his research efforts have concentrated on the nexus between mayoral politics and urban problems. He is currently at work on a study of the media coverage of mayors. At Wellesley College he teaches urban politics, public policy analysis, American presidency, and minority politics.

He is the author of The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats (Associated Faculty, 1982), Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (Wayne State University Press, 1989), and Black Mayors and School Politics (Garland Publishing, 1996). He coauthored a book with Roberta Hughes Wright, The Wright Man: A Biography of Charles Wright, MD (Charro Book Co., 1999). He has also edited three books, The Politics of Minority Coalition (Praeger, 1996), The Economics and Politics of Sports Facilities (Quorum Books, 2000), and Mayoral Leadership in Middle-Sized Cities (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000; coedited with James Bowers). In addition, he has published several articles, book chapters, and reports concerning local government administrative problems. He serves on the editorial board of four academic journals and is past president of the Northeastern Political Science Association.

Council 2002–2004

Gary Segura, University of Iowa

Gary M. Segura is an associate professor of American politics at the University of Iowa. Segura received his Ph.D. in American politics and political philosophy from the University of Illinois in1992, and taught at both the University of California, Davis, and Claremont Graduate University before moving to Iowa in the summer of 2001.

Segura's work focuses on issues of political representation, broadly, and more specifically on the role of information in shaping individuals' capacities to act politically on their own behalf. He is particularly interested in the accessibility of government and politics to America's growing Latino minority. He is currently working on four projects: one focusing on the effects of local electoral laws on Latino representation and the overall electability of Latino candidates for public office; a second focused on the political sophistication and voting behavior of the emerging Latino electoral bloc; a third examining the behavioral effects of divided government among the citizenry; and a fourth, funded by the National Science Foundation, focused on the (self-) selection of individuals into military service, the effects of economic and political factors on these choices, and the implications this has for the sufferance of casualties by racial and ethnic minorities in times of armed conflict.

Segura's most recent works include “Citizens by Choice, Voters by Necessity: Patterns in Political Mobilization by Naturalized Latinos,” in Political Research Quarterly (2001); “Race, Casualties and Opinion in the Vietnam War,” in the Journal of Politics (2000); “War Casualties and Public Opinion,” in the Journal of Conflict Resolution (1998); and “Midterm Elections and Divided Government,” in Political Research Quarterly (1999). His forthcoming work includes “The Paradox of Presidential Approval: The Mixed Blessing of Divided Government to Presidential Popularity,” in the Journal of Politics.

Earlier research has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the National Civic Review, the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Rationality and Society. The casualty and opinion pieces are the product of a multi-year collaborative project with Scott Gartner on the interaction of domestic political opinion and international conflict, funded by two grants from the NSF.

Segura was a member of the APSA's Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession (1999–2001), he chairs the Western Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of Chicanos/as, is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science and PS: Political Science and Politics, and is a member of the Executive Council of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Data on graduate school matriculation and ladder-rank faculty nationwide suggest that political science remains among the least ethnically diverse disciplines in the social sciences, and over-whelmingly male, which is reflected in the quality of our professional lives and in the content of our principal journals. Segura would like to use his time on the APSA Council to help the Association in its efforts to recruit and retain women and people of color in the discipline, and to make certain that there is a place for research on these groups in the core dialogues of the profession.

Council 2002–2004

Jack Snyder, Columbia University

Jack Snyder is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department and Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His books include From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict (Norton Books, 2000); Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Cornell University Press, 1991); The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell 1984); and Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention(Columbia University Press, 1999; coedited with Barbara Walter ). His articles on such topics as anarchy and culture, democratization and war, alliances, and Russian foreign relations have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Security, and World Politics.

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Snyder has served as chair of the Social Science Research Council's Committee on International Peace and Security, 1997– 1999 and of its Joint Committee on the Soviet Union and its Successor States, 1995–1996. He edits the W. W. Norton book series on World Politics. At Columbia, Snyder chaired the department of political science (1997– 2000) and directed the Institute of War and Peace Studies (1994–1997).

Snyder is an associate editor of Perspectives on Politics and a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Review. He has served on the APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award Committee and as chair of the Foreign Policy Analysis Division for the 1990 APSA Annual Meeting.

He received a B.A. in government from Harvard University in 1973, the Certificate of Columbia's Russian Institute in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia in 1981. He was awarded the 1991 Karl W. Deutsch Award of the International Studies Association for contributions to the study of peace.

Council 2002–2004

Jeff Spinner-Halev, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1992. His research interests are liberalism, democratic theory, and cultural diversity. His current research project aims to broaden the cultural diversity and democratic theory debates by examining the theory and practice of democracy and cultural rights in India and Israel. He is the author of Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), along with a number of articles on community and diversity.

He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities stipend in 1994 and was a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 1995–1996. He won the College Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1997. He will be a Lady Davis Fellow and at fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2003–2004.