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 2016

Section by-laws can be found by clicking here.

Section Officers 2018-2020 

Co-Presidents
​Marisa Abrajano, University of California, San Diego (2017-2019), mabrajano@ucsd.edu
Lisa Garcia-Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley (2018-2020), lgarciab@berkeley.edu

Secretary
Chris Stout, Oregon State University (2018-2020), Christopher.stout@oregonstate.edu

Treasurer
Christina Greer, Fordham, (2017-2019), cgreer@fordham.edu

Program Chairs
(2018-2019)
Pearl K. Dowe, University of Arkansas, pkford@uark.edu 
Rene Rocha, University of Iowa, rene-rocha@uiowa.edu

REP Newsletter Co-Editors:
(2018-2019)
Ray Block, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, rblock@uwlax.edu
Hannah Walker, Rutgers, hannah.walker@rutgers.edu

Web Administrator
John Thomas III, University of Chicago (2016-2018), jthomas3@uchicago.edu
Maneesh Arora, University of California, Irvine, (2017-2019) maneesha@uci.edu
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Listserv Editor:
Paula Mohan, Madison College (2018-2020), paulamohan@gmail.com

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

Executive Council

(2017-2019)
Pearl Ford Dowe, University of Arkansas, pkford@uark.edu 
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, UCLA, lfrasure@polisci.ucla.edu 
Jessica Lavariega-Monforti, Cal Lutheran, jlavariega@callutheran.edu 
Jennifer Merolla, UCR, merolla@ucr.edu 

Graduate student member 
Sara Sadhwani, USC, ssadhwan@usc.edu

(2018-2020)
Ivy Cargile, California State University, Bakersfield, icargile@csub.edu
Bernard Fraga, Indiana University, bfraga@indiana.edu
​Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania, mjcorrea@sas.upenn.edu
Tyson King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, tkingmea@umbc.edu
Natalie Masuoka, University of California, Los Angeles, nmasuoka@ucla.edu

Graduate Student Issues Committee:
(2017-2019)
Angela Gutierrez, UCLA aegutierrez@ucla.edu

(2018-2020)
Sudip Bhattacharya, Rutgers University, sudipb@polisci.rutgers.edu
Princess Williams, University of Michigan, princesh@umich.edu
Kesicia Dickenson, Michigan State University, dicki124@msu.edu

Nominations Committee  (2018-2020)
Christian Grose, University of Southern California, cgrose@dornsife.usc.edu 
Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University, nazita@msu.edu 
Rene Rocha, University of Iowa, rene-rocha@uiowa.edu

Best Book Committee (2018-2019)
Efren Perez, University of California, Los Angeles, perezeo@ucla.edu
Shatema Threadcraft, Dartmouth College, shatema.threadcraft@dartmouth.edu
Spencer Piston, Boston University, spiston@bu.edu

Best Dissertation Committee (2018-2019)
Ismail White, Duke University, ismail.white@duke.edu
LaFleur Stephens, Princeton University, lafleurs@princeton.edu
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University, vsc@purdue.edu


Best Paper Committee*
Best paper at 2018 APSA conference (1-year term) 
Pei-te Lien, UCSB,plien@polsci.ucsb.edu
Eric McDaniel, UT Austin. emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu
Christian Dyogi Phillips, OSU, phillips.1728@osu.edu

(2018-2019)
Allison Anoll, Vanderbilt University, allison.p.anoll@vanderbilt.edu
Danielle Lemi, Southern Methodist University, dlemi@smu.edu
Sergio Garcia-Rios, Cornell University, garcia.rios@cornell.edu​

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

Mark Q. Sawyer Memorial Scholarship in comparative race politics (2-year term, selected by co-presidents) Andra Gillespie (chair), Emory University, andra.gillespie@emory.edu
Lorrie Frasure, UCLA, lfrasure@polisci.ucla.edu
Tyson King-Meadows, UMBC, tkingmea@umbc.edu