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 2016-2018
Co-Presidents
Kerry L. Haynie, Duke University (2016-2018), klhaynie@duke.edu
Marisa Abrajano, University of California, San Diego (2017-2019), mabrajano@ucsd.edu
Secretary
Andrew Flores, UCLA Williams Institute, flores@law.ucla.edu
Treasurer
Christina Greer, Fordham, (2016-2018), cgreer@fordham.edu
Program Chairs
Stella Rouse, University of Maryland, srouse@umd.edu
Candis Watts Smith, University of North Carolina, candis.watts@gmail.com
REP Newsletter Co-Editors:
Ray Block, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, rblock@uwlax.edu
Hannah Walker, Rutgers, hannah.walker@rutgers.edu
Web Administrator
(2016-2018)
John Thomas III, University of Chicago, jthomas3@uchicago.edu
Maneesh Arora, UCI, maneesharora1990@gmail.com
Listserv Editor:
Paula Mohan, Madison College, paulamohan@gmail.com
Journal Editor
Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside, karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu
Executive Council
(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
(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
Graduate Student Issues Committee:
(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
2017-2019
Angela Gutierrez, UCLA aegutierrez@ucla.edu
Nominations Committee (2016-2018)
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 (2018)
Saladin Ambar, Lehigh, sma409@lehigh.edu
Chris Stout, Oregon State, christopher.stout@oregonstate.edu
Vanessa Tyson, Scripps, vanessa.tyson@scripps.college.edu
Best Dissertation Committee (2018)
Ashley Jardina, Duke, ashley.jardina@duke.edu
Jason Casellas, University of Houston, jcasellas@uh.edu
Matt Mendez, CSU Channel Islands, matthew.mendez@csuci.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
*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
