Awards

Cathy J. Cohen Receives the 2021 Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award

The Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award is presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA) in recognition of a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics and […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Who’s Able to Do Political Science Work? My Experience with Exit Polling and What It Reveals about Issues of Race and Equity

Who’s Able to Do Political Science Work? My Experience with Exit Polling and What It Reveals about Issues of Race and Equity by M. Brielle Harbin, United States Naval Academy How best to address issues […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

An Organizing Approach to Diversifying Political Science

An Organizing Approach to Diversifying Political Science by Fernando Tormos-Aponte. University of Maryland, Baltimore County The field of Political Science in the US has been largely unable to diversify its faculty ranks over the past […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

How Can We Improve Graduate Training for Undocumented Students? Ethnic and Nativity-Based Inequities in Political Science Graduate Education

How Can We Improve Graduate Training for Undocumented Students? Ethnic and Nativity-Based Inequities in Political Science Graduate Education by Michelangelo Landgrave, University of California, Riverside In recent years, the political science discipline has made strides […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Elusive Inclusion: Persistent Challenges Facing Women of Color in Political Science

Elusive Inclusion: Persistent Challenges Facing Women of Color in Political Science by Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College, and  Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti, California Lutheran University Academia in general and the discipline of political science specifically […]

Democracy

Reckoning with the Roots and Aftermath of Insurrection  

Join the American Political Science Association for a virtual conversation on the insurrection, impeachment, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for democracy in the United States. This event will bring together experts from […]