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• Published date: 01 June 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/10659129231172937
• Date: 01 June 2023

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Political Research Quarterly

2023, Vol. 76(2) 1038–1039

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Announcements

Western Political Science

Association (WPSA)

2024 WPSA Meeting

The 2024 meeting of the Western Political Science

Association will be held at the Hyatt Regency in

Vancouver, British Columbia, from March 28 to 30.

Lorrie Frasure, University of California at Los Angeles,

is serving as program chair for this meeting. Steven

Weldon, Simon Fraser University, is chairing the Local

Arrangements Committee. Information regarding the

conference, its theme, the list of section chairs, and

proposal instructions are available on the WPSA

website: www.wpsanet.org. In addition to the main

program, several workshops are being organized for

Wednesday, March 27. There will also be several mini-

conferences held during the meeting. Information on

these workshops and mini-conferences can also be

foundonthewebsite.

Proposals for the 2024 meeting are encouraged. The

DEADLINE for submission of paper proposals/program

participation forms is September 22, 2023. The theme for

the 2024 meeting is: “Political Backlash and Its Conse-

quences.”While proposals are welcome on all topics in

political science, the program chair is encouraging pro-

posals that broadly assess the various formations of po-

litical backlash domestically and globally, how political

backlash affects different parts of society, culture, and

politics, and what long-term consequences there will be

for organizations, institutions, and identities from the

backlash. Scholars in all subf‌ields of the discipline are

welcome to submit proposals on subjects related to this

theme. Please see the Call for Papers on the association’s

website for more details.

The WPSA annual meeting not only offers the oppor-

tunity for traditional research presentations and roundtable

discussions, but also a place for interested groups to

schedule special events and workshops. In addition, if you

are part of a research community that is interested in

holding a meeting in the spring, we may be able to ac-

commodate your group by coordinating a conference

within the WPSA annual meeting. For information about

these opportunities, please contact Richard Clucas, WPSA

Executive Director, at hprc@pdx.edu.

Recipients of 2023 WPSA Awards

The following WPSA awards were presented by the

Association at the 2023 Annual Meeting held in San

Francisco, California.

The award for the best paper on Asian Pacif‌ic

Americans and Politics was awarded to Eunji Kim,

Vanderbilt University, and Cindy D. Kam, Vanderbilt

University, for the paper: “Othering in Everyday Life:

Anti-Chinese Bias in the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

The Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award was

awarded to Jane Bayes, WPSA President (1996–97) and

Political Science Professor, Emeritus, California State

University, Northridge.

The Betty Nesvold Award for the best paper on Women

and Politics was awarded to Mneesha Gellman, Emerson

College, for the paper: “Inability to Protect: Mexican State

Capacity and United States Asylum Claims.”

The award for the best paper on Blacks and Politics

was awarded to Elizabeth Maltby, University of Nevada,

Las Vegas, and Olivia Cheche, University of Nevada, Las

Vegas, for the paper: “Racial Threat, Black Lives Matter,

and Shaping 2020 Politics: How Race Inf‌luenced Political

Participation in Year of George Floyd.”

The Charles Redd Award for the best paper on the

politics of the American West was awarded to Paige

Pellaton, University of California, Davis, for the paper:

“Are You Qualif‌ied for This Position? The Inf‌luence of

Career Congruence on Legislative Committee

Assignments.”

The Clay Morgan Award for the Best Book in Envi-

ronmental Political Theory was awarded to Katie Woo-

laston, Queensland University of Technology, for the

book: Ecological Vulnerability: The Law and Governance

of Human-Wildlife Conf‌lict.

The Dissertation Award was awarded to Jasmine

Jackson, Texas Christian University, for the dissertation

completed at Purdue University: The Knowledge Within:

Conceptualizing African American Political Knowledge.

The Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished

Scholarship and Service in Asian Pacif‌ic American Pol-

itics, was awarded to Pei-te Lien, University of California,

Santa Barbara, in recognition of her decades of dedicated

service to the f‌ield of Asian American Politics and her

groundbreaking 2022 book: Contesting the Last Frontier: