Yuna Blajer de la Garza is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. She is a political theorist who studies inequalities in democracies by examining how formal institutions are translated (or distorted) into everyday practices and norms. She is interested in debates of democratic and critical theory, relational egalitarianism, citizenship, nationalism, and the “side-effects” of otherwise desirable formal institutions, among other things. Methodologically, she combines normative political theory and interpretive methods, and has carried out research in Mexico and France. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics, Politics and Society and the European Journal of Political Theory, among others. In 2022, she received the Carlo Argenton Memorial Prize for the best research article published in the EJPT that year. Her current book manuscript discusses the relationship between citizenship and belonging in contemporary democracies through the figure of the “citizen who does not belong.” You can read more about her here.
Erica S. Simmons is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she holds the Robert “Booth” Fowler Professorship. She also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Sociology. Simmons’s work is motivated by an interest in contentious politics, particular in Latin America. She is the author of Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2016) which was awarded the 2017 Charles Tilly award for distinguished contribution to scholarship on collective behavior and social movements. Simmons also writes on ethnographic and qualitative methods, co-editing (with Nicholas Rush Smith) Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-authoring articles in Comparative Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. Her work has also appeared in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Theory and Society, among others.
Founding Executive Committee Members (2008)
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine Julie Novkov, SUNY Albany Ido Oren, University of Florida Timothy Pachirat, then at The New School Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah Dorian Warren, then at Columbia University Dvora Yanow, then at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Past Executive Committee Chairs
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, 2008-2013 Ido Oren, 2013-2017 Lee Ann Fujii, 2017-2018 Ido Oren and Dvora Yanow (interim co-chairs), 2018-2019 Frederic C. Schaffer, 2019-2022 Susan Thomson and Lisa Wedeen (co-chairs), 2023
Program Chair, IMM Related Group @ APSA, 2023
Thea Riofrancos, Providence College
Past Program Chairs
2009: Peri Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah, and Dvora Yanow, VU Amsterdam 2010: Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College, and Julie Novkov, SUNY Albany 2011: Ido Oren, University of Florida 2012: Ron Schmidt, California State University, Long Beach 2013: Fred Schaffer, UMass Amherst 2014: Rich Holtzmann, Bryant University 2015: Doug Dow, University of Texas, Dallas 2016: Ed Schatz, University of Toronto 2017: Lee Ann Fujii, University of Toronto 2018: Denise Walsh, University of Virginia 2019: Nicholas Rush Smith, City College of New York 2020: Nicholas Rush Smith, City College of New York 2021: Natasha Behl, Arizona State University 2022: Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside