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Member
Newsletter | April
2021
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Applications
Now Open for
APSA Travel
and
Accessibility
Grants
This
year, we have
expanded the
travel grant
program to
support both
in-person
travel to the
APSA Annual
Meeting and
virtual
participation. The
application
deadline is June
3, 2021. Learn more about travel and accessibility
grants and submit
an application
here.
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Participation
in the 2021
APSA Annual
Meeting
Program
If you
haven't
already,
please take a
moment to accept
or decline
your
participation. You can review your participation roles under
the "Confirm
or Decline
Participation"
link. If you
need to
request a
certain time
due to time
zone
conflicts,
please
complete the time
slot request
form by May 7, 2021.
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APSA
Annual Meeting
registration
and housing
will open in
late May!
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APSA
Council and
Committees
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APSA
2021 Council
Nominees
Announced
The
APSA
Nominating
Committee is
pleased to
announce its 2021
nominees for
APSA Council. Balloting will open on August 17 and conclude
in September.
Nominees by
petition are
also welcome.
The
deadline for
submitting
nominees by
petition is
June 18. More information about APSA elections,
including
instructions
for submitting
nominees by
petition and a
description of
the balloting
process, can
be found here.
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Recommendations
for APSA
Standing and
Award
Committee
Members and
APSA DDRIG
Review Panel
We
welcome
suggestions,
including
self-nominations,
for members of
APSA
committees for
terms starting
in September
of 2021.
Typically, members of the standing
committees serve staggered three-year terms, and members
of the award
committees serve one-year terms. Committee appointments
are made by
the
president-elect,
in
consultation
with the
executive
director,
beginning in
early summer.
Please send
all
suggestions to
nominations@apsanet.org. APSA is also open to volunteers to serve as
reviewers,
particularly
for the
upcoming cycle
of the APSA
Doctoral
Dissertation
Research
Improvement
Grants. If you
or other
scholars
within your
network are
interested in
volunteering
to serve as a
reviewer,
please sign
up here.
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The
May issue of Political
Science Today is available
online now!
Political
Science Today includes public scholarship, association
updates,
member
spotlights, in
memoriams, and
more. Print
issues will be
distributed
beginning in
early May.
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Educate
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Teaching &
Learning
Resources
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APSA
Educate, political science’s new teaching resource
library,
allows faculty
and graduate
students to
easily find,
share and use
teaching
materials.
Share your
course
materials –
our
single-page
submission
form takes
less than ten
minutes to
complete. If
you are
interested in
authoring a
blog or
leading an
effort to
curate a
teaching
collection,
please write educate@apsanet.org. See featured resources below:
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Let
APSA Fund Your
Research!
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APSA
Doctoral
Dissertation
Research
Improvement
Grants
Deadline:
June 15, 2021
The Doctoral
Dissertation
Research
Improvement
Grant (DDRIG)
program provides support to enhance and improve the
conduct of
doctoral
dissertation
research in
political
science.
Awards will
support basic
research which
is
theoretically
derived and
empirically
oriented. The
APSA Doctoral
Dissertation
Research
Improvement
Grant program
will award up
to twenty
grants yearly
of between
$10,000 and
$15,000 to
support
doctoral
dissertation
research that
advances
knowledge and
understanding
of
citizenship,
government,
and politics.
For more
information,
visit the APSA
DDRIG website. Apply
here!
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Summer
Centennial
Center
Research
Grants
Deadline:
June 15, 2021
These
grants are
supported by a
set of endowed
funds, some of
which target
their support
to specific
research
topics,
including
gender, race,
and politics,
electoral
politics,
Asian
politics,
international
politics,
democracy and
self-governing
systems,
legislative
politics, and
more. The
largest of
these endowed
funds is open
to support
research in
any area of
the political
science
discipline. Apply
now!
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APSA
Announcements,
Programs &
Initiatives
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Deadline
to submit: May
14, 2021
APSA
Dissertation
Workshops
bring together
6-8 PhD
candidates and
2 faculty
moderators to
present and
workshop one
chapter from
each student's
dissertation.
This summer’s
workshop is
titled
"International
Law, Human
Rights, and
the Politics
of Rights in
International
Relations" and
will take
place from
June 21 to
July 16 to be
hosted by Drs.
Audrey
Comstock and
Heather
Smith-Cannoy. Learn
more here.
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Deadline:
May 31, 2021
Perspectives
on Politics calls
for submission
of papers for
a special
issue, the
purpose of
which is to
explore the
state of Black
Lives Matter,
its impact,
and its
potential
ramifications.
We encourage
papers from a
range of
perspectives,
subfields, and
approaches
within the
discipline. Christopher
Sebastian
Parker of the
University of
Washington
will serve as
Guest Editor
for this
special issue.
Learn
more here.
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Deadline:
June 4, 2021
Each
year, APSA
recognizes
political
science
faculty who
received
campus
teaching
awards at
their colleges
and
universities
during the
past academic
year. Nominate
yourself or a
colleague who
has won a
Campus
Teaching Award
by submitting
this form.
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Deadline:
July 1, 2021
The APSA
Council has
formed a
Search
Committee to
consider
applications
for the next
editorship of
PS beginning
in September
2022. Read the
full Call for
Editors here. Please
send
applications
to Jon
Gurstelle,
APSA Director
of
Publications,
at jgurstelle@apsanet.org.
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The APSA Mentoring Program is currently looking for
additional
mentors to meet the demand of requested mentor
pairings for
the Spring
semester. We
are especially
seeking
mentors for
women,
scholars of
color, and
LGBT+
individuals.
Additionally,
we have high
demand for
mentors who
research in
the areas of
race,
ethnicity, and
politics,
immigration,
global health,
security
studies,
political
philosophy,
and political
behavior. APSA
members
willing to
serve as a
mentor can
submit or
update their
mentoring
profile here. Please email mentoring@apsanet.org with any questions.
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Update
Your APSA
Profile Login to access your "User Home." Once logged in,
click on your
name at the
top right of
the page.
Select any
section on the
right hand.
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Section
Spotlight
Student
members can
now join for
$0. Send
relevant
section
updates, news
and
information here.
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Renew
Now! Departmental Memberships for
the 2021-2022
Academic Year
Departmental
Memberships
are now open
for renewals
for the July
1, 2021 to
June 30, 2022
academic year.
Easily renew
online by
logging into
your account
that is linked
to the
department.
Questions?
Email membership@apsanet.org.
Learn more
about
Departmental
Memberships here.
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Webinar
Join us
for a Webinar
on "Advising
and Mentoring
for Applied
Careers in
Political
Science"
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May 10th,
12:30–1:30
p.m. EDT
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Are you
interested in
learning more
about how to
effectively
support and
mentor
political
science
graduate
students
interested in
careers in
industry,
nonprofits,
government,
and other
sectors? This webinar, featuring political science PhDs
who have
first-hand
experience in
advising
students in
applied career
paths and/or
in
successfully
landing a job
beyond the
academy, will
provide
specific tips
and resources
for political
science
faculty to
draw upon when
advising their
students.
The
webinar will
feature: APSA
President,
Janet
Box-Steffensmeier,
Menna Demessie
(Universal
Music Group),
Shareen Hertel
(University of
Connecticut),
Natalie
Jackson
(Public
Religion
Research
Institute),
and David
Lazer
(Northeastern
University).
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APSA
Centennial
Center
Teaching &
Learning
Symposium |
June 14 – July
1
Application
deadline: May
14, 2021
Participate
in a
three-week
virtual
teaching and
learning
symposium.
APSA’s
teaching
symposia
provide a
workshop
environment
where people
with similar
goals can come
together to
share their
own practices
and research
related to
teaching and
create new
teaching
resources to
be published
on APSA
Educate.
Led by
Casey
Dominguez
(University of
San Diego) and
Keneshia Grant
(Howard
University),
the theme of
this symposium
is American
Politics. Apply
here!
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Virtual
Research
Methods
Seminar for
MENA Politics
Register
by May 10,
2021.
Ongoing
travel
restrictions,
health
concerns, and
funding
shortages
caused by
COVID-19 have
significantly
impacted the
way that
political
scientists
collect,
analyze, and
share data.
Many scholars
must
reconsider how
and when to do
fieldwork or
adopt data
collection
techniques
that are more
suitable to
the virtual
environment.
To address
this, APSA
will convene a
series of
online
discussions on
virtual
research
methods,
focusing
specifically
on scholars of
MENA Politics
research. Sessions begin May 12th, and are free to
attend. Register
here.
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Virtual
International
Workshops
APSA's
International
Workshops will
continue in
2021 with
virtual summer
programs in
both Asia and
the MENA
region! The deadline to apply for
the three
different
workshops is May
31, 2021. See
applications
call below:
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Early-career
scholars from
East and
Southeast Asia
are invited to
apply for this
workshop to
discuss the
region’s
heterogeneous
experiences
and outcomes
associated
with local
governance and
decentralization programs designed to devolve authority from central
governments to
subnational
and local
levels for
more
information. View
eligibility
requirements
and
application
instructions
here.
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Early-career
scholars from
the Arab
Middle East
and North
Africa are
invited to
apply for this
workshop to
discuss the
growing body
of research
that use
surveys,
experiments,
and/or focus
groups to
understand
what MENA
populations
think and want
on a wide
range of
issues, from
gender to
conflict to
religion to
democracy. View
eligibility
requirements
and
application
instructions
here.
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Early-career
scholars from
the Arab
Middle East
and North
Africa are
invited to
apply for this
workshop to
discuss
ethnographic
approaches to
the everyday
"politics of
presence"
imposed by
ordinary
people and
practiced
within the
public sphere,
as related to
how power is
produced
within society
and how
citizens
engage in
political
expression
even in
repressive
contexts. View
eligibility
requirements
and
application
instructions
here.
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Membership
Reminders
& Updates
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Join
an APSA
Related Group
APSA
Members are
invited to
join Related
Groups that align with their interests and field of
study. Related
Groups are
professional
groups, which
include
subject matter
groups,
caucuses,
identity
groups, think
tanks,
nonprofits,
and other
academic
associations.
Related Groups
host one or
more panels at
the APSA
Annual
Meeting. They
also add
diversity and
represent a
broad spectrum
of civic and
political
issues.
Memberships
run
concurrently
with APSA
membership and
have no
additional
dues to join.
Easily join a
Related Group
by logging
into your User
Home and
selecting
"Related
Groups" on the
right-hand
side.
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Nominate
Your
Colleagues:
APSA Member of
the Month
Program
The APSA
Member of the
Month program recognizes one member each month. We
encourage our
members to
submit
nominations to
help us
recognize more
of our members
who are
achieving
professional
milestones in
the
discipline.
Nominations
for the award
(including
self-nominations)
may be
submitted by
members and
non-members of
APSA. Submit
nominations
here.
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