Politics and History

The purpose of this section is to bring together political scientists interested in historical issues and problems drawing from almost every traditional disciplinary subfield.

Website: www.h-net.msu.edu/~apsaph/

2008 - 2009 Officers

Chair:
Richard F. Bensel
Cornell University
Government
312 White Hall
Ithaca NY 14853
rfb2@cornell.edu

Chair-Elect:
Sven Steinmo
European University Institute
Political Science
Via dei Roccentini 9
Badia Fiesolana
San Domenico 50014 Italy
sven.steinmo@eui.eu

Secretary/Treasurer:
David B. Robertson
University of Missouri-St Louis
Political Science
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
daverobertson@usmsl.edu

Newsletter Editor:
David B. Robertson
University of Missouri-St Louis
Political Science
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
daverobertson@umsl.edu

2009 Program Chairs:
Julian E. Zelizer
Princeton University
Department of History
136 Dickinson Hall
Princeton NJ 08544-1174
jzelizer@princeton.edu

Kimberly J. Morgan
George Washington University
Political Science
Monroe Hall Suite 440
2115 G Street NW
Washington DC 20052
kjmorgan@gwu.edu

Council:
Andreas Kalyvas, New School for Social Research
Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon
Ruth Collier, University of California, Berkeley
Douglas Reed, Georgetown University
Richard John, Columbia University
Mimi Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Evan Lieberman, Princeton University
Julie Lynch, Pennsylvania University

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Mary Parker Follett Award is given for the best article or chapter in politics and history published in 2007 or 2008. A decision will be rendered by March 1, 2009.

Award Committee Chair:
James Mahoney, Northwestern University

Committee Members:
Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Wirls, University of California, San Cruz

The J. David Greenstone Award is given for the best book in politics and history published in 2007 or 2008. Hard copies of books nominated should be sent to each of the committee members by March 1, 2009.

Award Committee Chair:
Daniel Kryder
Brandeis University
Politics
Olin Sang 58-107
Waltham MA 02454-9100

Committee Members:
John F. Padgett
University of Chicago
Political Science
502 Pick Hall
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago IL 60637

Hendrik Spruyt
Northwestern University
Political Science
Scott Hall 303
601 University Place
Evanston IL 60208

The Walter Dean Burnham Award is given for the best dissertation in the field of Politics and History. The committee welcomes nominations of outstanding dissertations from Ph.D.s awarded in either 2007 or 2008. To nominate a dissertation for this award, send an abstract of the dissertation and a supportive letter from the advisor or other faculty member of the dissertation committee to the section's Secretary/Treasurer, David Robertson at daverobertson@umsl.edu. The deadline for initial nominations is March 1, 2009.

The awards committee Ron King (chair), San Diego State University, Victoria Hui, Notre Dame University and Charles Kromkowski, University of Virginia will subsequently be in touch with advisors for full copies of dissertations selected from among this initial pool of nominations.

Nominations should be sent to:
David Robertson, (Secretary/Treasurer)
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Department of Political Science
One University Boulevard
347 SSB
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400