About Us

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 than 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  2012  2013

Section by-laws can be found by clicking here.

Section Officers 2016-2018 

Co-Presidents
Jean Junn, University of Southern California (2015-2017), junn@usc.edu
Kerry L. Haynie, Duke University (2016-2018), klhaynie@duke.edu

Secretary
Andrew Flores, UCLA Williams Institute, flores@law.ucla.edu

Treasurer
Neil Chaturvedi, Seattle University (2015-2017), neilchaturvediuci@gmail.com

Program Chairs
TBA

REP Newsletter Co-Editors:
Rhoanne Esteban, University of California, Santa Barbara, rjesteban@umail.ucsb.edu
Debra Thompson, Northwestern University, debra.thompson@northwestern.edu

Web Administrator
John Thomas III, University of Chicago, jthomas3@uchicago.edu

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

Journal Editor
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside, karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu

Executive Council

(2015-2017)
Hahrie Han, University of California-Santa Barbara, hahrie@polsci.ucsb.edu
Thomas Hayes, University of Connecticut, thomas.hayes@uconn.edu
Debra Thompson, Northwestern University, debra.thompson@northwestern.edu
Adriano Udani,  University of Missouri-St. Louis, udania@umsl.edu
Vesla Weaver, Yale University, vesla.weaver@yale.edu

(2016-2018)
Christina Bejarano, University of Kansas, cbejaran@ku.edu
Evelyn Simien, University of Connecticut, evelyn.simien@uconn.edu
Karam Dana, University of Washington, karam@uw.edu
Chris Haynes, University of New Haven, chaynes@newhaven.edu
Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois-Chicago, aleka@uic.edu

Graduate Student Issues Committee:
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(2015-2017)
Nazita Lajevardi, University of California, San Diego, nlajevar@ucsd.edu

(2016-2018)
Chaya Crowder, Princeton University, ccrowder@princeton.edu
Maraam Dwidar, University of Texas, Austin, mdwidar@utexas.edu
Jamel Love, Rutgers University, jl1886@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Committee on Publishers and Research Markets

Al Tillery, Chair, Northwestern University, alvin.tillery@northwestern.edu
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside, karthick@ucr.edu
Melissa Michelson, Menlo College, melissa.michelson@menlo.edu
Sophia Wallace, Rutgers University, sj.wallace@rutgers.edu
Paru Shah, UW-Milwaukee, shahp@uwm.edu

Ad Hoc Committee on Career Awards and Naming REP Awards

Anna Sampaio, Santa Clara University, asampaio@scu.edu
Juliet Hooker, University of Texas,  juliethooker@mail.utexas.edu
Ravi Perry, Mississippi State University, ravi.perry@gmail.com

 
Nominations Committee

Niambi Carter, Howard University, niambi.carter@howard.edu
Bernard Fraga, Indiana University, bfraga@indiana.edu
Sangay Mishra, Drew University, smishra@drew.edu

Best Book Committee (2016-2017)
Chair: Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon, dhosang@uoregon.edu
Natasha Altema McNeely, University of Texas-Pan American,altemamcneelyne@utpa.edu
Jason Casellas, University of Houston, jcasellas@uh.edu

Best Dissertation Committee (2016-2017)
Andra Gillespie, Emory University, andra.gillespie@emory.edu
Melissa Michelson, Menlo College, Melissa.michelson@menlo.edu
Ana Sampaio, Santa Clara University, asampaio@scu.edu

Best Paper Committee*
TBA

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