Announcements

• Date: 01 March 2018
• Published date: 01 March 2018
• DOI: 10.1177/1065912917751121
• Subject Matter: Information for Readers

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Political Research Quarterly

2018, Vol. 71(1) 249 –250

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Western Political Science

Association (WPSA)

Annual Meeting Moves Forward in San

Francisco

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

Regency in San Francisco, California, from Thursday,

March 29 through Saturday, March 31, 2018. The pro-

gram is expected to have strong turnout, with 299 panels

currently scheduled from Thursday morning to Saturday

afternoon. In addition to the regular panels, there are six

mini-conferences taking place within our conference:

The Political Economy of Undemocratic Politics

Policing

Care Ethics

Asian Pacific American Politics

Community College: Teaching, Assessment and

Research

Teaching and Learning

As in previous years, there will also be workshops on

Environmental Political Theory, Feminist Theory,

Interpretive Methods and Methodologies, and Latino

Politics on the day before the conference (Wednesday,

March 28).

Jane Junn, University of Southern California, is serv-

ing as Program Chair for this meeting. Melissa

Michelson, Menlo College, and Marcela Garcia-

Castanon, San Francisco State University, are serving as

co-chairs of the Local Arrangements Committee.

Information about the conference, including its theme

and the list of section chairs, is available on the WPSA

website: www.wpsanet.org.

Changes in the WPSA Executive Council

Stephen Nicholson, University of California, Merced, is

serving as WPSA President through the March 2018 meet-

ings. At the conclusion of the meetings, Jann Junn,

University of Southern California, will assume the presi-

dency of the WPSA. Jamie Mayerfeld, University of

Washington, will become the new Program Chair. The fol-

lowing individuals have been elected to the Executive

Council for the term 2018–2021: Lan Chu, Occidental

College; Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside;

Tony Carey, University of North Texas; and Mario Feit,

Georgia State University. Their terms begin immediately

prior to the March 2018 meeting. The terms of the follow-

ing Executive Council members will conclude immedi-

ately prior to the San Francisco meeting: Teena Gabrielson,

University of Wyoming; Tiffiany Howard, University of

Nevada, Las Vegas; and Jennifer Wilking, California State

University, Chico. The Association thanks them for their

valuable service.

Planning Begins for 2019 Annual Meetings but

with a Change of Venue

The WPSA’s 2019 conference was originally scheduled

to be held in San Antonio, Texas. In June 2017, however,

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra placed a ban

on state-funded travel to Texas because of the state’s dis-

criminatory LGBT laws. The WPSA Executive Council

voted at its meeting in August to respond to the ban and

to Texas’s discriminatory policies by relocating the con-

ference to California. During the summer, the Association

canceled its 2019 contract with the Hyatt Regency San

Antonio and signed a new contract with the Manchester

Hyatt in San Diego. The conference along the beautiful

waterfront in San Diego will be held on April 18 to 20,

2019.

The Program Committee for the 2019 WPSA annual

meetings is now being formed by the incoming Program

Chair, Jamie Mayerfeld, University of Washington. A

listing of the 2019 Program Committee will appear by

June on the WPSA website. The University of San Diego

has agreed to serve as the local host.

Following the San Diego conference, the schedule for

future meetings is as follows: the J.W. Marriott at L.A.

Live in 2020 and the brand-new Hyatt Regency in Seattle,

Washington, in 2021. The WPSA Executive Council has

begun to consider locations for the 2022 conference. The

WPSA will be celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary in

2022, so the Council would like to choose a location which

would be especially appealing to potential attendees.

New Political Research Quarterly (PRQ)

Editors Announced

The WPSA would like to announce the selection of new

editors for the PRQ: Seth C. McKee, Texas Tech University,

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