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• DOI: 10.1177/10659129211014710
• Date: 01 June 2021
• Published date: 01 June 2021
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Political Research Quarterly

2021, Vol. 74(2) 506 –507

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Western Political Science

Association (WPSA)

Join Us at the WPSA’s 75th Anniversary

Celebration and Conference in Portland

The WPSA will be celebrating its 75th anniversary at

the association’s 2022 annual meeting, which will be

held in Portland, Oregon, next March. The association

is planning to mark this special occasion with a variety

of special events, talks, receptions, roundtable discus-

sions, and more. Mark your calendar now and plan to

join us. It should be a great meeting and a good time to

get together, especially after having to cancel in-person

meetings in 2020 and 2021.

The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton

from March 10 to 12, 2022. Ricardo Ramirez, University

of Notre Dame, will be serving as WPSA president dur-

ing the conference. Pei-te Lien, University of California

at Santa Barbara, will be the program chair. Portland

State University’s Political Science Department and the

Mark Hatfield School of Government are serving as the

local hosts. The members of the local arrangements team

will be announced soon. In addition, the WPSA Executive

Council has created a 75th Anniversary Committee to

help plan the festivities, with the following members:

Ron Schmidt, chair, California State University, Long

Beach, and Davidson College; Louis DeSipio, University

of California, Irvine; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of

Southern California; Rodney Hero, Arizona State

University; Jane Junn, University of Southern California;

Valerie Martinez-Ebers, University of North Texas; and

Richard Clucas, Portland State University.

The DEADLINE for submission of paper proposals/

program participation forms is in mid-September 2021

right before the American Political Science Association

(APSA) meeting. The theme for the 2022 meeting is

“Lighting Up the New Dawn—Recover, Reconcile, and

Rebuild @ 75.” While proposals are welcome from all

subfields in political science, the Program Chair is par-

ticularly encouraging proposals that explore the roles

that political scientists, as individuals and as members

of an association now reaching the golden age of sev-

enty-five, can help chart paths to “rebuild, reconcile,

and recover” a besieged and dangerously divided nation,

and contribute to lighting up a new dawn. Details about

the conference, its theme, the Call for Papers, and pro-

posal instructions, including the deadline, appear on the

WPSA website: www.wpsanet.org.

The WPSA annual meeting not only offers the oppor-

tunity for traditional research presentations and round-

table discussions, but it has also grown into a popular

venue for interested groups to schedule mini-confer-

ences, workshops, receptions, and other special events.

If you are part of a research or educational community

that is interested in holding a meeting or special event in

the spring, we can probably accommodate your group

within the WPSA annual meeting. We are especially

interested in encouraging groups to host special events

tied to the 75th anniversary. Participants in these special

events are required to pay the regular conference fee, but

we are able to provide the space and some administrative

support to your group without charge. The Association

has developed a great track record in developing mini-

conferences and workshops with outside organizations

and groups of interested scholars. For information about

these opportunities, please contact Richard Clucas,

WPSA Executive Director, at hprc@pdx.edu.

Recipients of 2021 WPSA Awards

The following WPSA awards were presented by the

Association at the 2021 Annual Meeting held online in

April:

The Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award went to

Shaun Bowler, Distinguished Professor of Political

Science and Dean of Graduate Affairs, University of

California, Riverside.

The recipient of the Clay Morgan Award for the best

book in Environmental Political Theory was Cara New

Daggett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

University, for the book, The Birth of Energy: Fossil

Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Duke

University Press 2019). An honorable mention was given

to Rafi Youatt, The New School for Social Research, for

the book, Interspecies Politics: Nature, Borders, States

(University of Michigan Press 2020).

The Best Dissertation Award was given to Justine

Davis, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at University

of California, San Diego, for the dissertation completed

at the University of California, Berkley: “Wartime

Experiences of Civic Leaders: Legacies of Civil War,

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