Founded in April 1995, the Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics has quickly become one of the largest subfields in the American Political Science Association (APSA). Our section now represents more tahn 500 political science professors, graduate students, authors, and editors. Most of us specialize in the politics of Native, African, Latino, and/or Asian Pacific Americans; some study racial and ethnic politics internationally; some study issues of race/ethnicity in social theory, public policy, education, law, and political history..

Section Business
The section holds a business meeting at the APSA annual conference. Minutes from the previous meetings can be found for the following years:
2008   2009   2010   2011 (pending approval)

Section by-laws can be found by clicking here.

Section Officers 2011-2012

Co-Presidents
Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC-Riverside (2010-2012), karthick@ucr.edu
Anna Sampaio, Santa Clara University, asampaio@scu.edu

Secretary
Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College (2011-2013), kbruyneel@babson.edu

Treasurer
Karen Kaufmann, University of Maryland (2011-2013), kkaufmann@gvpt.umd.edu

Co-Program Chairs
Andra Gillespie, Emory University, andra.gillespie@emory.edu
Ricardo Ramirez, University of Notre Dame, Ricardo.Ramirez.83@nd.edu

REP Newsletter Co-Editors:
Catherine Paden, Simmons College, catherine.paden@simmons.edu

Listserv Editor:
Paula Mohan, Madison College, paulamohan@gmail.com

Executive Council

(2010-2012)

Hector Perla, perla@ucsc.edu, University of California, Santa Cruz
Rene Rocha, rene-rocha@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa
Tia Stokes-Brown, a.stokes-brown@bucknell.edu, Bucknell University
Dorian Warren dorian.warren@sipa.columbia.edu, Columbia University
Carolyn Wong, carolyn_wong_sfbay@yahoo.com, Carleton College

(2011-2013)
Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia, klb3q@virginia.edu
Juliet Hooker, University of Texas, Austin, juliethooker@mail.utexas.edu 
Kavita Khory, Mount Holyoke College, kkhory@mhc.mtholyoke.edu 
Adam McGlynn, East Stroudsburg University, amcglynn@po-box.esu.edu 
Melanye Price, Rutgers University, mtprice@rci.rutgers.edu

Graduate Student Issues Committee:
Emiliana Patlan, epatlan@umail.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara 
Heather Silber Mohamed, Heather_Silber@Brown.edu, Brown University
Bernard Fraga, [bfraga@fas.harvard.edu], Harvard University
Robert Scharr, wnstncup@ufl.edu, University of Florida

Nominations Committee
Andrew Aoki, Augsburg College (Chair) aoki@augsburg.edu
Rodney Hero, University of California Berkeley, rhero@berkeley.edu
Todd Shaw, University of South Carolina, shawtc@mailbox.sc.edu
Janelle Wong, Seattle University, wongja@seattleu.edu

Best Book Committee
Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College, Chair, melissa.michelson@gmail.com
Jason Casellas, University of Texas-Austin, casellas@mail.utexas.edu
Jessica Lavariega Monforti, University of Texas - Pan American, lavariegaj@utpa.edu 
James Lai, Santa Clara University, jlai@scu.edu
Maruice Mangum, Texas Southern University, mangumml@TSU.EDU

Best Dissertation Committee
Chris Parker, University of Washington, Chair csparker@u.washington.edu
Regina Freer, Occidental College, rfreer@oxy.edu
John Mollenkopf, City University of New York, Graduate Center, jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu

Best Paper Committee
Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Indiana University*
David Lublin, American University*
Ben Marquez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, bmarquez@wisc.edu

*By-laws designate outgoing Program Chairs as committee members.