Section 11 of the American Political Science Association
On January 30, 2015, the Political Science Department at Rollins College is sponsoring a one-day conference: Contemporary Perspectives on Politics and Religion. We plan a morning roundtable and afternoon panels for papers.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Donald L. Davison (ddavison@rollins.edu)
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
1000 Holt Ave
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL 32789
407-646-2158
Dear Section Members:
Two important announcements from your Section Chair.
First: the Religion and Politics section is now on Twitter! Please spread the word and follow us @apsa_relpol
You can follow the twitter feed on our section website: http://www.apsa-section-religion-and-politics.org/home.html
Second: I would like to invite all section members to become a member of our award committees for 2015 awards – the Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award, the Best Paper Award, and the Best Publication Award (descriptions below). These awards not only recognise the cutting-edge work being done in the field but actively shape the field and the careers of both emerging and established scholars.
Please email me at eshurd@northwestern.edu to express your interest. Committees will be convened in December and awards will be determined in June and presented at the 2015 meeting. If you can't commit to serving this year, please make a note to nominate your best dissertators, paper presenters, and publications later this year.
The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.
The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.
The Hubert Morken Best Book Award is given for the best book dealing with religion and politics published during the last two years (2012-2014). The next Hubert Morken Best Book Award will be presented at the 2015 APSA meeting.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Chair, APSA Religion and Politics Section
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
eshurd@northwestern.edu
Midwest Political Science Asso. 2015 in Chicago call for proposals: http://t.co/UOieKkjqPo @MPSAnet
— APSA Rel & Pol (@apsa_relpol) September 14, 2014
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Professor of Political Science
Department of Religious Studies (by courtesy)
Northwestern University
Research Interests
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd teaches and writes on the politics of religion, US foreign relations, and the global politics of the Middle East at Northwestern, where she is Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies. Hurd is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (2008), Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (2015), and co-editor of Politics of Religious Freedom and Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age. She is co-PI, with Winnifred Sullivan, on a Luce-supported collaborative research project “Politics of Religion at Home and Abroad” (2016-2019) and co-organized the “Politics of Religious Freedom” project (2011-2014). At Northwestern she directs the Buffett Faculty Research Group on Global Politics & Religion.
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Politics of Religious Freedom (co-edited with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood and Peter Danchin). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 
Co-winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics (2008-2010).
