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• Date: 01 June 2018
• Published date: 01 June 2018
• DOI: 10.1177/1065912918767662
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Political Research Quarterly

2018, Vol. 71(2) 496 –497

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Western Political Science

Association (WPSA)

WPSA Heads to San Diego for 2019 Meeting

The 2019 meeting of the WPSA will be held at the

Manchester Hyatt in San Diego, California, from April 18

to 20. Jamie Mayerfeld, University of Washington, is

serving as Program Chair for this meeting. The University

of San Diego (USD) has once again offered to serve as

the local hosts. Emily Edmonds-Poli and Tim McCarty,

both professors in the USD Department of Political

Science and International Relations, are serving as the

Local Arrangements Cochairs.

Proposals for the 2019 meeting are encouraged. The

DEADLINE for submission of paper proposals/program

participation forms is September 21, 2018. The theme for

the 2019 meeting is: “The Politics of Climate Change.”

Although proposals are welcome on all topics in political

science, the Program Chair is encouraging proposals

which enhance our understanding of the politics of cli-

mate change. Scholars in all subfields of the discipline

are welcome to submit proposals on subjects related to

this theme. 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 not only offers 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.

The 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

subsequently voted to respond to the ban and to Texas’s

discriminatory policies by relocating the conference to

California. The Association canceled its 2019 contract

with the Hyatt Regency San Antonio and signed a new

contract with the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego.

Recipients of 2018 WPSA Awards

The following WPSA awards were presented by the

Association at the 2018 Annual Meeting held in San

Francisco, California.

The Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished

Scholarship and Service in Asian Pacific American

Politics went to Diane Wong, Cornell University, for her

paper, “The Politics of Staying Put: (Re)generation Not

Gentrification of New York City’s Chinatown.”

Originally called the WPSA Best Paper Award on Asian

Pacific Americans and Politics, the award was renamed

and its scope expanded in 2016 to honor Don Nakanishi,

the esteemed scholar of Asian and Pacific American

politics.

The Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award went to

Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Baker Ferguson Professor of

Politics and Leadership, Whitman College.

The Betty Nesvold Award for the best paper on Women

and Politics was given to Edana Beauvais, McGill

University, for her paper, “Discursive Inequity and the

Internal Exclusion of Women Speakers.”

The award for the best paper on Blacks and Politics was

awarded to Jennifer Garcia, Oberlin College, and

Christopher Stout, Oregon State University, for their paper,

“Racism and Policymaking: How Racial Resentment

Shapes Legislative Behavior in the U.S. Congress.”

The Charles Redd Award for the best paper on the

politics of the American West was given to Daniel

Tichenor, University of Oregon, and Robin Jacobson,

University of Puget Sound, for their paper, “The Uneven

Welcome: Diversity, Power, and Identity in the U.S.

Southwest.”

The first recipient of the Clay Morgan Award for the

best book in Environmental Political Theory was John

Meyer, Humboldt State University, for his book,

Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism

and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015). The

award was named in honor of Clay Morgan, a longtime

acquisitions editor who played a leading role in develop-

ing the field before retiring in 2014.

The Best Dissertation Award was given to Nazita

Lajevardi, Michigan State University, for her dissertation

completed at the University of California, San Diego: “A

Comprehensive Study of Muslim American Discrimination

by Legislators, the Media, and the Masses.”

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