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Aarie Glas<\/strong>, Co-Chair<\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
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Aarie Glas is an Associate Professor in the <\/span>Department of Political Science<\/a> and <\/span>Center for Southeast Asian Studies<\/a> at Northern Illinois University. His research engages social IR theory and interpretive methods to explore regionalism, diplomacy, and conflict management in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. His work has been published in the <\/span>European Journal of International Relations, International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, <\/em>and<\/span> Qualitative & Multi-Method Research<\/em>, among other outlets. His 2022 book,<\/span> Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America<\/em><\/a> was published with Oxford University Press. You can read more about him <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
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Michelle\u00a0D. Weitzel<\/strong>, Co-Chair<\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
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Michelle D. Weitzel is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the<\/span>\u00a0Geneva\u00a0Graduate Institute<\/a>.\u00a0Her research centers on affect, power, security, and violence\u2014topics she explores via an emphasis on the sensory body. Her current book project, which relies on participant observation, interviews, and archival research, is entitled \u201cSound Politics: Affective Governance and the State.\u201d The book includes empirical case studies in Palestine, Israel, Algeria, France, and Morocco. It asks how sound constitutes a form of\u00a0political\u00a0power. Her articles have appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Security Dialogue<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Middle East Law and Governance<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0<\/span>French Politics<\/a><\/em>, among other journals. You can read more about her\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"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 \u201cside-effects\u201d 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<\/em>, Politics and Society<\/em> and the European Journal of Political Theory<\/em>, among others. In 2022, she received the Carlo Argenton Memorial Prize for the best research article published in the EJPT<\/em> that year. Her current book manuscript discusses the relationship between citizenship and belonging in contemporary democracies through the figure of the \u201ccitizen who does not belong.\u201d You can read more about her here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Nadia E. Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nadia E. Brown (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of Government, chair of the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women\u2019s politics and holds a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Brown’s research interests lie broadly in identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women’s studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity.<\/span><\/h3>\n

She is the author or editor of several award winning books \u2013 including Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making<\/em> (Oxford University Press); \u00a0Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites<\/em> (with Danielle Lemi); \u00a0Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics<\/em> (with Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge Press); The Politics of Protest: Readings on the Black Lives Matter Movement<\/em> (with Ray Block, Jr. and Christopher Stout, Routledge Press); and Approaching Democracy: American Government in Times of Challenge<\/em> (with Larry Berman, Bruce Allen Murphy and Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge Press). Professor Brown is the lead editor of Politics, Groups and Identities<\/a><\/em>. Professor Brown is part of the #MeTooPoliSci Collective<\/a> where she spearheads efforts to stop sexual harassment in the discipline. Along with co-PIs Rebecca Gill (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Stella Rouse (University of Maryland, College Park), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) she is the recipient of a million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled “#MeTooPoliSci Leveraging A Professional Association to Address Sexual Harassment in Political Science.” Lastly, Professor Brown is an editor with The Monkey Cage<\/em>, a political science blog in the Washington Post.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
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Nick Cheesman<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n

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Nick Cheesman is a Fellow in the Department of Political & Social Change, Australian National University<\/a>, where he convenes the Interpretation, Method and Critique network<\/a> with April Biccum. His research sits at the nexus between law, violence and politics, in principle and in practice. Currently, he is studying the work that torture does in mainland Southeast Asia. He is the author of Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar\u2019s Courts Make Law and Order<\/em><\/a> (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and joint editor of the Southeast Asia Publications Series<\/a> for NUS Press. From 2019 he is hosting a new podcast series, New Books in Interpretive Social Science<\/a>, on the New Books Network.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Erica S. Simmons<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Erica S. Simmons<\/span>\u00a0is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin\u00ad\u2013Madison where she holds the Robert \u201cBooth\u201d Fowler Professorship. She also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Sociology. Simmons\u2019s work is motivated by an interest in contentious politics, particular in Latin America. She is the author of\u00a0Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America<\/i>\u00a0(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,\u00a0<\/span>co-editing (with Nicholas Rush Smith)\u00a0Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-authoring articles in\u00a0Comparative Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0<\/span>Qualitative and Multi-Method Research.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Her work has also appeared in\u00a0World Politics, Comparative Political Studies,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Theory and Society,\u00a0<\/i>among others.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Nicholas Rush Smith<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
\"NRSmith\"Nicholas\u00a0Rush\u00a0Smith is\u00a0an Assistant Professor of Political Science<\/a> at the City University of New York \u2013 City College and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology<\/a> at the University of Johannesburg.\u00a0His research uses the politics of crime, policing, and vigilantism in South Africa as a lens through which to understand the ways in which democratic states use violence to produce order and why citizens sometimes use violence to resist that order. His first book in this area,\u00a0Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa<\/a><\/em>, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Additionally, Smith has written about the relationship between comparative and ethnographic methods, including\u00a0Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Research<\/a><\/em> (co-edited with Erica S. Simmons) published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.<\/figure>\n
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Jillian Schwedler<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
\"\"Dr. Jillian Schwedler is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York\u2019s Hunter College and the Graduate Center and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for the Middle East at Brandeis University.\u00a0 Her books include the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen<\/a><\/em> (2006) and (with Laleh Khalili) Policing and Prisons in the Middle East<\/a><\/em> (2010).\u00a0 Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including World Politics<\/em>, Comparative Politics<\/em>, Contention<\/em>, and Social Movement Studies<\/em>.\u00a0 Her newest book, Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent<\/a><\/em>, was published by Stanford University Press in April 2022.<\/figure>\n
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Lisa Wedeen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
\"LisaLisa Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science<\/a> and the College and the Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. She is also Associate Faculty in Anthropology and the Co-Editor of the University of Chicago Book Series \u201cStudies in Practices of Meaning<\/a>.\u201d Her publications include three books:\u00a0Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1999; with a new preface, 2015);\u00a0Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2008); and\u00a0Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2019). Among her articles are : \u201cConceptualizing \u2018Culture\u2019: Possibilities for Political Science\u201d (2002); \u201cConcepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy\u201d (2004), \u201cEthnography as an Interpretive Enterprise\u201d (2009), \u201cReflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science\u201d (2010), \u201cIdeology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria\u201d (2013), and \u201cScientific Knowledge, Liberalism, and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East\u201d (2016). She is the recipient of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award and an NSF fellowship.<\/figure>\n\n\n
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We remember: Lee Ann Fujii<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/figure>\n
\"FujiiLee Ann Fujii,\u00a0chosen to be the IMM Executive Committee Chair in the Fall 2017, died unexpectedly on March 2, 2018. She was an\u00a0Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her\u00a0first book was\u00a0Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2009). Her second\u00a0book, Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach<\/a>\u00a0(2018), was released in\u00a0August\u00a02017 as part of the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time of her death, she was working on a third book, entitled\u00a0Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display<\/em>. Show Time<\/i>\u00a0examines\u00a0the meaning-making power of \u201cviolent display\u201d in\u00a0three different sites of killing (Northwest Bosnia, Central Rwanda, and the mid-Atlantic region of the United States). She had just presented the work at Johns Hopkins University<\/a> a week before her death, and it is hoped that she left a sufficiently robust manuscript draft that it can be published. Prof. Martha Finnemore,\u00a0University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, is working on that.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Founding Executive Committee Members (2008)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n

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Past Executive Committee Chairs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n

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