Announcements

• Published date: 01 June 2003
• DOI: 10.1177/106591290305600211
• Date: 01 June 2003
• Subject Matter: Articles

WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Barbara Norrander, University of Arizona, will serve as

Program Chair and President-elect of the Western Political

Science Association for the 2004 annual meeting in Port-

land, Oregon, March 11-13. She will succeed the current

President, Bill Haltom, University of Puget Sound.

Ron Schmidt, Sr., California State Univers ity, Long

Beach, was elected to the Program Chair-elect position.

Schmidt will serve as Program Chair for the 2005 program

in Oakland.

The following individuals were elected to the Executive

Council for the term 2004-2007. Region A: Shaun Bowler,

University of California Riverside; Edwina Barvosa-Carter,

University of California, Santa Barbara; Region B: Sonia

Garcia, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio; Region C: Clive

Thomas, University of Alaska Southeast.

The terms of the following Council members expired in

March 2003:Manuel Avalos, Arizona State University, West

Phoenix; Victor James, Peralta Community College, San

Francisco; and Barbara Morris, University of Redlands.

Dan Smith and Andy Busch, University of Denver, served

as Local Arrangements Chairs and provided members with

an especially fine set of meeting arrangements.

The 2004 meeting of the Association is scheduled for

March 11-13 at the Portland Marriott Downtown in Port-

land, Oregon. Local arrangements host for the event will be

the University of Portland. Richard Clucas will serve as

Local Arrangements Chair. Information regarding the con-

ference, its theme, and the section chairs was recently

mailed to all WPSA members. The information is also avail-

able on the WPSA website: www.csus.edu/org/wpsa.

RECIPIENTS OF 2003 WPSA AWARDS

The following WPSA awards were presented by the Asso-

ciation at the 2003 Annual Meeting held in Denver, Colorado.

The Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper given at the

2002 Annual Meeting of the WPSA was awarded to Profes-

sor Daniel Engster, University of Texas at San Antonio, for

his paper “Can Care Ethics be Institutionalized? Toward a

Caring Theory of Natural Law.”

The Dissertation Aw a rd was given to Dr. Randa Caro l y n

Issa for her dissertation, “Constituting Popular Sovere i g n t y :

Contests Over Institutional Authority in the Early Ameri-

can Republic,” completed at the University of Southern

C a l i f o rn i a .

The award for the best paper on Blacks and Politics was

given to Dr. Linda Lopez, American Political Science Asso-

ciation, and Professor Adrian D. Pantoja, University of Con-

necticut, for their paper “Beyond Black and White: A Com-

parative Analysis of Anglo, African American, and Latino

Support for Racial Hiring and Promotion Preferences.”

The Betty Nesvold Aw a rd was given to Professor Ange-

Marie Hancock, Pennsylvania State University, for her paper

“ I n t e r s e c t i o n a l i t y, Critical Theory and Research Methodology. ”

The award for the best paper on Chicanas/Chicanos and

Politics was given to Professor Melissa Michelson, California

State University Fresno, for her paper “Getting Out the

Latino Vote: How Door-To-Door Canvassing Influences

Voter Turnout in Rural Central California.”

The Charles Redd award for the best paper on the poli-

tics of the American West was given to Professor Diane-

Michele Prindevelle, New Mexico State University, for her

paper “Feminist Nations? A study of Native American

Women in Tribal Politics.”

The award for the best article published in PRQ during

the previous calendar year was given to Professor Lisa

S c h u r, Rutgers University; Todd Shields, University of

Arkansas; Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University; and Kay

Schriner, University of Arkansas for their article “Enabling

Democracy: Disability and Voter Turnout,” which appeared

in the March 2002 issue of PRQ.

SUBMISSIONS FOR 2004 WPSA AWARDS

Instructions and deadlines for paper submissions for

2004 WPSA awards may be found on the WPSA website.

Please note that the deadlines for most awards are set for

June 15, 2003.

WPSA NOMINATIONS

The WPSA Committee on Nominations requests that

nominations be submitted for the following WPSA officer

positions.

A. Vice President: to serve as Program Chair 2005-2006 and

for the March 2006 annual meeting. This individual will

serve as Association President 2006-2007 subsequent to

service as Program Chair.

B. Recording Secretary: this individual will serve as Record-

ing Secretary 2004-2007

C. Four members of the Executive Council: two from

Region A (California); one from Region B (Arizona,

Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah); and one

from Region C (Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,

O r egon, Washi ngton, Wyo ming, Br itish Co lumbia,

Alberta, and Saskatchewan). Terms will be for three

years, 2005-2008.

All terms will commence at the end of the meeting in March

2005.

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