The committee on the status of blacks in the profession develops and promotes activities concerning the professional development of African Americans within the discipline.
Committee Members:
Term expiring September 8, 2024
- Periloux Peay, Georgia State University
- Tony Carey, University of North Texas
-
Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, George Mason University
Term expiring September 14, 2025
- Jessica Carew, Elon University, Chair
- Nura Sediqe, Michigan State University
Term expiring September 6, 2026
- LaGina Gause, University of California, San Diego
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Previous Panels or Roundtables at the APSA Annual Meeting:
- 2023 Panel: Navigating the "Anti-woke" Storm: Practical Considerations for Graduate Students and Early Career Black Political Scientists
- 2023 Panel: Breaking News: Examining CRT & DEI Mis(Dis)Information: The Intellectual, Policy, and Political Implications in the Academy and Beyond
- 2022 Roundtable: Professional Development
- 2021 Roundtable: Black politics: Old problems, new directions and charting a path forward
- 2021 Panel: Getting it published: A panel discussion on writing and publishing books in REP
- 2020 Roundtable: New Insights on Black Politics: A Conversation with Book Authors on the "Back Bone" of the Democratic Party
- 2019 Panel: Race and Politics: New Theoretical and Methodological Insights vs. New Paradigms
- 2018 Author Meets Critic: New Books on Black Politics and Race
- 2017 Roundtable: The Black Agenda and the Trump Administration
- 2017 Author Meets Critics: Melanye Price's The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race
- 2016 Panel: To Hell and Back: Black Political Scientists, Dispossession, Disability, and the Quotidian Violence of Academic Life
- 2015 Roundtable: From Hurricane Katrina to Ferguson: Environmental Justice, the State, & Violence
- 2014 Panel: (Non)Traditional Methods in the Study of Black Politics: Voices from the Field
- 2013 Panel: On the Passing of Friends and Intellectuals: A Panel in Honor of the Life and Work of Hanes Walton Jr., Richard Iton, and William E. 'Nick' Nelson
- 2011 Panel: The Status of Blacks in the Profession
- 2010 Panel: 'New' Black Politics Revisited: Deracialization and 'Post-Racial' Black Leadership
- 2009 Panel: Black Faculty Recruitment and Retention: The Impact of the Economic Crisis
- 2008 Panel: Status of Diversity Profiles in the Profession