CASBS Announces 2020–21 Fellows

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University announced its 2020–21 class of fellows on March 20, 2020. The new class is comprised of 38 fellows representing 20 US and 11 international institutions. The incoming class will conduct research in a diversity of fields within or intersecting the social and behavioral sciences, including political science. The class announcement comes at the usual time on the CASBS calendar, with full acknowledgment of public health concerns stemming from the global pandemic. It is possible that one or more additional fellows will be added to the roster in the coming months. Among the 38 fellows this year are nine political scientists:

Luis De La Calle

CIDE, Mexico

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Stanford University

Jose Angel GutierrezUniversity of Texas, Arlington

Yotam Margalit

Tel Aviv University

Gwen Ottinger

Drexel University

Prerna Singh

Brown University

Allison Stanger

Middlebury College

Jan Teorell

Lund University

Chung-li Wu

Academia Sinica

Adapted from CASBS news release.

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APSA Releases Statement on COVID-19

Political scientists and educators across the globe were taken off guard when many campuses moved online this spring in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. In recognition of the health, social, and economic changes that are now taking place, APSA is taking the following steps to provide relevant, up to date resources for our members, keep our staff safe, and prepare for the coming months.

(1) APSA Educate, a new platform for online teaching materials in political science, has launched early. The site, which is home to a growing number of resources on distance learning, is a valuable resource for those who are learning to teach online.

(2) APSA wishes to reiterate its support for accommodations for tenure and promotion, work deadlines, and faculty workloads for the political science community.

(3) The 2020 APSA Annual Meeting, originally planned to take place in San Francisco this September, will now be held virtually. Visit https://connect.apsanet.org/ apsa2020/ for more information.

(4) APSA Preprints is a free, prepublication platform dedicated to early research outputs in political science. As the turn-around time for peer-reviewed journals increases in response to the global pandemic, APSA Preprints has become an invaluable resource for political scientists eager to share their early research with peers—including those publishing about the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., Adolph et al. 2020; Cronert 2020).

(5) The 2020 Asia Workshop has been postponed to January 2021, when we expect to hold the workshop in-person at City University of Hong Kong. The deadline for applications has been extended to August 15, 2020.

(6) The 2020 MENA Workshop will begin with a virtual program this summer. The in-person workshop has been postponed indefinitely; though, we expect to hold the workshop at Mohammed V University at a later date.

To read APSA’s full statement, which includes additional resources for political science educators and students, visit apsanet.org/covid-19. ■

Katzenstein Wins 2020 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science

Professor Peter J. Katzenstein of Cornell University has won the 2020 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He has been awarded the prize for “furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.”

Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of i nt er national relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein’s work addresses issues of political economy and security and culture in world politics. His current research interests focus on power, the politics of regions and civilizations, America’s role in the world, and German politics.

Katzenstein previously served as president of APSA (2008–09). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1987, the American Philosophical Society in 2009 and the British Academy in 2015. He holds six honorary degrees from universities in both Europe and Asia. In addition to the Skytte prize, he is the recipient of the Susan Strange Award (2011) of the International Studies Association and an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Swiss Political Science Association.

The prize, which includes SEK $500,000 and a gold medal, will be awarded to Dr. Katzenstein at Uppsala University in Sweden later this year in a ceremony commemorating Johan Skytte, who served as chancellor of the university. ■

Adapted from the Skytte website.

Grzymala-Busse, Schwartzberg, and Valelly Announced as 2020 Guggenheim Fellows

On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and writers. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the foundation’s 96th competition. Among the winners of the prestigious fellowship were three prominent political scientists: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Melissa Schwartzberg, and Rick Valelly.

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Photo: Andrew Brodhead

Anna Grzymala-Busse is Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. Her research focuses on authoritarian political parties and their successors, religion and politics, and the historical development of the state. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Carnegie Fellow, and the author of three books: Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Successor Parties (Cambridge, 2002); Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Development in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge, 2007); and Nations Under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Politics (Princeton, 2015).

Melissa Schwartzberg

Melissa Schwartzberg is Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. Her primary research interests are in the historical origins and justifications of democracy, with a particular focus on ancient Greek institutions. Her books include Democracy and Legal Change (Cambridge, 2007) and Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule (Cambridge, 2014), for which she won the 2016 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book published in liberal and/or democratic thought in 2014. She is currently completing a book on the justification of political bargaining (co-authored with Jack Knight), Bargaining over Democracy. Schwartzberg plans to use her Guggenheim fellowship to finish a book examining how, since antiquity, ordinary citizens have provided local knowledge to rulers through voting and jury service. She is the recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, an Andrew W. Mellon “New Directions” Fellowship, and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. She previously taught at The George Washington University and Columbia University. She is the editor of NOMOS, the annual volume of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

Photo: Evan Mann

Rick Valelly

Rick Valelly is Claude C. Smith ‘14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he has taught since 1993. His current research focuses on the political development of LGBT rights in the US from the Lavender Scare of the 1950s through the aftermath of DADT’s repeal. Valelly previously taught at MIT and the College of the Holy Cross. Valelly has also held visiting teaching appointments at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has published scholarly articles in both edited volumes and in the peer-reviewed journals Annual Review of Political Science, Politics & Society, and Studies in American Political Development. He is the author of American Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013), The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and Radicalism in the States: The American Political Economy and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party (University of Chicago Press, 1989). ■

Adapted from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation press release.

Call for Papers: Special Section on Overcoming Professional Isolation in the Journal of Political Science Education

Academics can experience isolation in many ways. Some sources of isolation, like the underrepresentation of marginalized groups or the experience of working in small departments, may be familiar to many. Other forms of isolation have become exacerbated by more recent trends like telecommuting, online teaching, and growth in the ranks of contingent faculty. This special section looks to offer a diversity of views about how isolation occurs in the academic community, how it impacts political science education, and how we may seek to mitigate its impact on our work as instructors.

Submissions should be 1,000–2,000 words (including references) and formatted according to the journal’s specifications. Completed submissions should be directed to Dr. Alexis Henshaw at ahen-shaw@troy.edu by September 1, 2020 for full consideration. ■