Status of Blacks in the Profession

The Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of blacks within the discipline.

Committee Members

Term expiring 2009

• Mark Q. Sawyer, University of California, Los Angeles
• Toni-Michelle Travis, George Mason University

Term expiring 2010 

• Alice M. Jackson, Morgan State University  
• Robert Starks, Northeastern Illinois University

Term expiring 2011

• Clarissa Peterson, DePauw University, Chair
• Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, University of Rochester

Recent Committee Projects and Activities

• Survey of African American Portrayal in Introductory Textbooks in American Government/Politics: A Report of the APSA Standing Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession (.pdf)
  

Related Materials

• Mentoring and African-American Political Scientists, from the April 2005 issue of PS: Political Science & Politics

• APSA Mentoring in Political Science Program 
  
• APSA Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section 
  
• APSA Urban Politics Section 
  
• National Conference of Black Political Scientists