Join APSA for our fifth and final webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. Registration is free.
How are political science experts reflecting upon with the results and administration of the 2024 election? What can we glean from this election about U.S. electoral behavior? Are there any surprises or learning opportunities? Join APSA for our fifth and final webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives.
Post-Election Reflection: An Expert Roundtable: APSA’s Engaging
the 2024 U.S. Election Webinar Series
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PT
REGISTER HERE
Panelists Include:
- Julia Azari, Marquette University (Moderator)
- Seth Masket, University of Denver
- Melanye Price, Prairie View A&M University
- Anna Sampaio, Santa Clara University
- Kelly Dittmar, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Meet the Panelists
Julia Azari (moderator) is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. She holds Ph.D., M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in political science from Yale University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching interests include the American presidency, American political parties, political communication and American political development. Her research has been supported by the Marquette University Regular Research Grant, the Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies, the Gerald Ford Presidential Library Foundation Travel Grant, the Harry Truman Library Institute Scholars Award, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Azari is a regular contributor at the political science blog The Mischiefs of Faction. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog and in Politico. Read more
Seth Masket is a professor of political science and the director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver. He is the author of Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016-2020 (Cambridge, 2020), The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy (Oxford, 2016), and No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures (Michigan, 2009), as well as a co-author of a recent textbook on political parties. He studies political parties, campaigns and elections, and state legislatures. He contributes regularly at Politico, Mischiefs of Faction, and the Denver Post. He is currently working on a book project examining the Republican Party’s interpretations of the 2020 election and its preparations for 2024. Read more
Dr. Melayne Price is an Endowed Professor of Political Science and principal investigator for the Mellon Foundation African American Studies Initiative at Prairie View A&M University. Price’s research and teaching interests include black politics, public opinion, political rhetoric, and social movements. Her most recent book, “The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race” (NYU, 2016), examines the multiple and strategic ways that President Obama uses race to deflect negative racial attitudes and engage with a broad cross-section of voters. Her first book, “Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion” (NYU, 2009), examines contemporary support for Black Nationalism. Her new project is called “Mountaintop Removal: Martin Luther King, Trump and the Racial Mountain,” which uses King’s “Mountaintop Speech” as a lens for understanding the rise of Trump and the 2016 election. Dr. Price completed her B.A. (magna cum laude) in geography at Prairie View A&M University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at The Ohio State University. Before joining Prairie View in 2019, she was an associate professor of Africana studies and political science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Read more
Anna Sampaio is a Professor of Ethnic Studies & Political Science at Santa Clara University. She specializes in Latina/o politics, race and gender politics, critical race and gender theory, intersectionality, transnationalism, and immigration. Her books include Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security (2015, Temple University Press), and Transnational Latino/a Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures (2002, Rowman and Littlefield, co-edited with Carlos Veléz-Ibañez) along with several research articles including “Latinas and Electoral Politics: Expanding Participation and Power in State and National Elections,”(in Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, eds. Sue Carroll and Richard Fox); “Deracialization and Latino Politics: The Case of the Salazar Brothers in Colorado,” (with Eric Gonzalez Juenke) appearing in Political Research Quarterly; “Emerging Pattern or Unique Event? The Power of the Non-Racial Campaign in Colorado, ” (with Eric Gonzalez Juenke) (in Beyond the Barrio: Latinos in the 2004 Elections., eds. Rodolfo O. De la Garza, Louis DeSipio, and David L. Leal); and “’I’m Latina and I Vote’: An Examination of Latina Political Participation in Colorado.” (Briefing Paper for the Latina Initiative). Read more
Kelly Dittmar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden; and Director of Research and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is the co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Kira Sanbonmatsu and Susan J. Carroll) and author of Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns (Temple University Press, 2015). Dittmar’s research focuses on gender and American political institutions. Dittmar was an American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow from 2011 to 2012. At CAWP, she manages national research projects, helps to develop and implement CAWP’s research agenda, and contributes to CAWP reports, publications, and analyses. She also works with CAWP’s programs for women’s public leadership and has been an expert source and commentator for media outlets including MSNBC, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Dittmar earned her B.A. from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI, and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Read more
| Watch the Full Webinar Series on “Engaging the 2024 U.S. Election”
National campaigns and elections allow citizens to reflect and participate in their democracy. APSA’s Engaging the 2024 U.S. Election Webinar Series showcases how political scientists understand and teach American democracy’s quadrennial event. Watch the previous two webinars and check out the associated resources here. |
- Learn about APSA’s Election Reflection Call for Submissions | Deadline: January 15, 2025: APSA is issuing a call for submissions titled, “Reflections on the 2024 U.S. Elections.” Election reflections are scholarly reflections, original research notes, and classroom exercises that shed light upon political behavior, public opinion and the 2024 campaign season and election cycle. This continues APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department prior work calling for submissions around the 2016, 2018, and 2020 election cycles. To learn more about the 2024 Election Reflection Call for Submissions, visit the APSA website here »
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