Anne Norton joined the political science faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 where she has taught courses on contemporary political philosophy, history of literary theory, and American popular culture. Her areas of research include identity and history, gender and race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and tradition and revolution.

Norton's most recent book is Blood Rites of the Poststructuralists: Word, Flesh and Revolution (Routledge, 2002). She has also authored Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture (University of Chicago, 1993), and Reflections on Political Identity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988).

Norton has served as a council member and chair of Organized Section on Politics and History and in January 2003 will assume the position of APSA liasion to the American Council of Learned Societies.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1982 and has previously served on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin, Princeton University, and the University of Notre Dame.

Atul Kohli is the David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. His scholarly interests span political sociology, politics, and the political economy of development. He has just completed a major book, In Search of Development: Constructing States and Industry in the Global Periphery. His other publications include, The State and Poverty in India (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Democracy and Discontent (Cambridge University Press, 1991), State Power and Social Forces (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and States, Markets and Just Growth (forthcoming). He is the editor of the journal World Politics.

Kohli has served the Association in a number of positions, including at term on the APSA Council (1999-2001). He has organized panels for both the divisions of ‘Politics of Developing Countries’ and ‘Comparatrive Democratization,’ currently serves as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Organized Section on Comparative Politics, and is an Associate Editor of the Association's new journal, Perspectives on Politics.

The 2004 meeting in Chicago will mark the 100th gathering of the Association. Special programming commemorating this historic milestone will take place throughout the meeting. The overall theme developed by Norton and Kohli will be announced in the April issue of PS, and the Call for Papers will appear in the 2003 Final Program, the October issue of PS, and online in early September, 2003 at www.apsanet.org. Proposals will be accepted for the 2004 meeting beginning in early September through November 15, 2003.