Join Us! Department Chairs’ Mini-Conference at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting | Friday, September 6 | 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
APSA Department Members are invited to attend the Department Chairs’ Mini-Conference and Luncheon at the 2024 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
Suitable for new and current Department leaders of all types, the 2024 Department Chairs’ Mini-Conference and Luncheon explores political science departmental leadership in a changing higher education landscape, offers support to department leaders, and provides professional networking opportunities.
This year’s event features two roundtable panels and a keynote with lunch. APSA’s Departmental Services Committee supports the 2024 Department Chairs’ Luncheon and Mini-Conference.
2024 Program:
10 am – 11:30 am: “Leading a Department in a Polarized Political Climate”
- Jeffrey N. Carroll, Chestnut Hill College
- Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University
- Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University
- Antoine J. Banks, University of Maryland
- Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State
12 pm – 1:30 pm: “Surviving and Thriving as a Department Chair: Department Chairs Keynote”
- Susan Scarrow, University of Houston
- Register for the Department Chairs Luncheon here.
2 pm – 3:30 pm: “Building an Inclusive and Equitable Political Science Department”
- Cyril Ghosh, Clark University
- Natalie Masuoka, University of California, Los Angeles
- Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, Wake Forest University
- Todd C. Shaw, University of South Carolina
Please register for the Department Chairs Luncheon and Mini-Conference here. Registration is free to APSA Departmental Members.
2024 Department Chairs Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Susan Scarrow, Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Houston
Susan Scarrow holds a Moores University Professorship in the Department of Political Science. Her teaching and scholarship focus on representation and political participation in parliamentary democracies, including political party development, comparative political finance, and the spread of direct democracy. She co-leads the multi-national Political Party Database, an NSF-funded endeavor encompassing over 240 parties and over 40 countries. She co-edited Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation and Power, a book presenting the first analyses of this project (Oxford University Press 2017). Susan was the chair of APSA’s Departmental Services Committee from 2020-2023.
Thank you to APSA’s Departmental Services Committee for their hard work planning and supporting the 2024 Department Chairs’ Lunch and Mini-Conference.
- (Chair) Miki Kittilson, Arizona State University
- Carolyn Warner, University of Nevada, Reno
- Alice Jackson, Morgan State University
- Scott Straus, University of California, Berkeley
- Kathleen Bruhn, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Cyril Ghosh, Clark University
Learn More About APSA’s Departmental Programs and Departmental Member Benefits
The Departmental Services Program (DSP) provides a forum for political science departments, large and small, to address common issues and plan and develop publications and services for chairs, faculty, and students. The program, overseen by the Departmental Services Committee, supports political science teaching, scholarship, and service, and provides resources for department chairs.
Join the over 500 departments of varying sizes and types participating in this program and benefit from this special connection to the discipline.