Announcements

• DOI: 10.1177/1065912917718785
• Date: 01 September 2017
• Published date: 01 September 2017
• Subject Matter: Announcements

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Political Research Quarterly

2017, Vol. 70(3) 700 –701

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Western Political Science

Association (WPSA)

WPSA Heads to San Francisco for 2018

Meeting

The 2018 meeting of the WPSA will be held at the Hyatt

Regency in San Francisco, California, from March 29 to

31. Jane Junn, University of Southern California, is serv-

ing as Program Chair for this meeting. Melissa Michelson,

Menlo College, and Marcela Garcia-Castañon, San

Francisco State University, are serving as co-chairs of the

Local Arrangements Committee.

Proposals for the 2018 meeting are encouraged. The

deadline for submission of paper proposals/program par-

ticipation forms is September 15, 2017. The theme for the

2018 meeting is “Contested Truth.” Details about the

conference, its theme, the Call for Papers, and proposal

instructions appear on the WPSA website: www.wpsanet.

org.

The WPSA annual meeting offers not only the oppor-

tunity for traditional research presentations and roundta-

ble 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 accom-

modate 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, before October 31,

2017.

First Recipient of Betty Moulds Lifetime

Service Award

The WPSA is proud to announce that Ronald Schmidt has

been named the first recipient of the Betty Moulds

Lifetime Service Award, receiving the award at the 2017

Annual Meeting held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

For nearly a quarter century, Betty Moulds served the

WPSA with the highest distinction, a dedication to men-

torship, and a commitment to building the WPSA into an

exemplary home for political science scholars. The Betty

Moulds Lifetime Service Award was established to rec-

ognize individuals who, like Moulds, have a long history

of service and extraordinary contribution of time, energy,

and talent to the association.

The selection committee chose Ronald Schmidt to

be the inaugural recipient because of his longtime devo-

tion and significant contributions to the association.

Schmidt has served the WPSA with the highest distinc-

tion for well over two decades. He has taken on virtu-

ally every role one could in service to the organization:

president (2005–2006), program chair, local arrange-

ments chair, section chair, executive council, and chair

or member on numerous association committees over

his twenty plus years of WPSA activity, not to mention

being an active participant at our annual meetings

through the years.

For the inaugural recipient of the Moulds Award, the

selection committee wanted to honor a person not only

for his or her service but who could also serve as an

exemplar who all could aspire to follow. For those rea-

sons, it selected Schmidt, professor emeritus, Department

of Political Science, California State University, Long

Beach, and visiting professor, Department of Political

Science, Davidson College, North Carolina.

Recipients of 2017 WPSA Awards

The following WPSA awards were presented by the asso-

ciation at the 2017 Annual Meeting held in Vancouver,

British Columbia.

The award for the best paper on Asian Pacific

Americans and Politics was awarded to Rhoanne Esteban,

University of California, Santa Barbara, for her paper:

“Understanding How Political Context and Racial

Coalitions Matter for Asian Pacific American

Representation in California.”

The Betty Nesvold Award for the best paper on Women

and Politics was awarded to Sara Angevine, Whittier

College, for her paper: “Aborting Global Women’s

Rights: How the U.S. Represents Women Worldwide.”

The award for the best paper on blacks and politics

was awarded to Elizabeth Maltby, University of Iowa, for

her paper: “Criminal Justice and the Polarization of

Public Opinion.”

The Charles Redd Award for the best paper on the

politics of the American West was awarded to Albert

Ponce, Diablo Valley College, for his paper: “Racialized

Disposability, Migration, Labor and Violence.”

The Dissertation Award was awarded to Sanne

Rijkhoff, Portland State University, for her dissertation

completed at Washington State University: “False Alarm!

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