Western Political Science Association

• Date: 01 March 2011
• DOI: 10.1177/1065912910397508
• Published date: 01 March 2011
• Subject Matter: Announcements

Political Research Quarterly

64(1) 244

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2011 Western Political Science

Association Meeting

The 2011 meeting of the Western Political Science

Association (WPSA) will be held at the Hyatt Regency

along the heart of the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas.

It will take place Thursday, April 21, through Saturday,

April 23, 2011. In addition to the main program, three

workshops are being organized for Wednesday, April 20.

The Program Chair for the meeting is Manuel Avalos,

University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The Local

Arrangements Chair is Sonia Garcia, St. Mary’s University.

Art Vega and Celine Jacquemin, also of St. Mary’s, are

serving on the local arrangements committee.

Christine DiStefano, University of Washington, is

serving as WPSA President through the April 2011 meet-

ings. At the conclusion of the meetings, Manuel Avalos

will assume the presidency of WPSA.

The Program Committee for the 2012 WPSA annual

meetings is now being formed by the incoming Program

Chair, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah. A

listing of the 2012 Program Committee will appear in the

June PRQ and also on the WPSA Web site.

The following individuals have been elected to the

Executive Council for the term 2011-2014: Karthick

Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside; Louis

DeSipio, University of California, Irvine; Rudy Espino,

Arizona State University; and Chris Parker, University of

Washington. These new council members will assume

their positions at the beginning of the April 2011 meet-

ings in San Antonio.

The terms of the following Executive Council mem-

bers will conclude immediately prior to the April 2011

meeting: Steve Nicholson, University of California,

Merced; Melissa Michelson, California State University,

East Bay; Stacy Gordon, University of Nevada, Reno;

and Jeanne Morefeld, Whitman College.

New WPSA Web Site

The Western Political Science Association has a new

Web address and design. The new site can be accessed at

www.wpsanet.org. The design changes are meant to pro-

vide more information and greater services to our mem-

bers. Information about the annual meeting will remain a

central focus of the site, though it will also provide more

information about pre-meeting workshops, our publica-

tions, and other items we think will be of interest to our

members. In addition to these changes, the WPSA’s Web

site is now being housed at Portland State University,

rather than California State University, Sacramento. If

you have questions or comments about the new site, con-

tact Richard Clucas at hprc@pdx.edu.

Newsletter Announcements

Contributions to the WPSA newsletter, The Western,

should be directed to either Stephen J. Stambough or

Valerie R. O’Regan, California State University,

Fullerton. They can be reached at sstambough@fullerton

.edu and voregan@fullerton.edusserve. The Western

serves as a forum for scholarly conversations on political

science teaching, research, and political events focused

on but not limited to the western region. The newsletter

is available online at: http://wpsa.research.pdx.edu/pub/

western.php.

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