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Officers 2007-2008

 

   Russell Dalton, President, University of California, Irvine, rdalton@uci.edu
   Holly Brasher, Secretary/Treasurer, University of Alabama at Birmingham, hbrasher@uab.edu
   Seth Masket, 2008 Program Co-Chair, University of Denver, smasket@du.edu
   Jennifer Victor, 2008 Program Co-Chair, University of Pittsburgh, jnvictor+@pitt.edu
   John C. Green, VOX/POP Editor, University of Akron, green@uakron.edu
   Amy Alexander, Webmaster/coordinator, University of California, Irvine alexanda@uci.edu

 
Executive Council 2007-08
 

   Scott Ainsworth, University of Georgia, sainswor@uga.edu
   Lonna Rae Atkeson, University of New Mexico, atkeson@unm.edu
   Tom Carsey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, carsey@unc.edu
   Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University, sanbon@rci.rutgers.edu
   Maryann Barakso, American University, barakso@american.edu
   Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University, miki.kittilson@asu.edu
   Geoffrey Layman, University of Maryland, glayman@gvpt.umd.edu
   Michael Laver, New York University, michael.laver@nyu.edu


  Special thanks to the outgoing officers and members of the Executive Council:
   Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin - Madison, bcburden@wisc.edu
   Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University - Bloomington, hershey@indiana.edu
   Ken Kollman, University of Michigan, kkollman@umich.edu
   Beth Leech, Rutgers University, leech@polsci

 
List of Awards and Committee Assignments, 2006-07
 
Note: for each of the following awards, members of POP may nominate winners to members of the selection committees listed below. Awards will be presented at the Business Meeting, tentatively scheduled for Friday during the APSA meetings. Please contact the chair of the relevant committee with nominations by April 30, 2008.
 

Jack L. Walker, Jr. Outstanding Article Award
This award honors an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee Chair
  Kira Sanbonmatsu
  Department of Political Science
  Rutgers University
  New Brunswick, NJ 08901
  sanbon@rci.rutgers.edu
 

Award Committee
 Kristin Goss, Duke University
 Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award
This award honors a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee Chair
  Herbert Kitschelt
  Department of Political Science
  Duke University
  Durham, NC 27708
  h3738@duke.edu
 

Award Committee
  TBA

Samuel J. Eldersveld Award
This award is to honor a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Award Committee Chair
  Frank Baumgartner
  Miller-LaVigne Professor of Political Science
  Department of Political Science
  Penn State University
  University Park, PA 16802-6200
  frankb@la.psu.edu

 

Award Committee
  TBA

Emerging Scholar Award
This honor is awarded to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the last seven (7) years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Award Committee Chair
  Geoffrey Layman,
  Department of Government
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742
  glayman@gvpt.umd.edu

 

Award Committee
  Susan Yackee, University of Wisconsin
  Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University

Best Paper Award
This award honors the best paper presented on a POP panel at the preceding APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee Chair
  Maryann Barakso
  Department of Government
  American University
  4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
  Washington, D.C. 20016
  barakso@american.edu

 

Award Committee
  Georgia Kernell, University of Michigan
  Dorian Warren, Columbia University

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