Dear all,
I hope you have had a great summer. As you will see below we have a long list of items to discuss in the section meeting during the APSA conference (Thursday, Sept 1 at 6.15-7.15 followed by a reception at 7.30-9.00).
Before listing the agenda items, I encourage each of you to
–renew the section membership
–subscribe your institution to our journal (Politics and Religion)
–volunteer for award committees (please let me know if you want to serve in book, dissertation, or paper award committees).
The agenda:
1 – Politics and Religion has a 2.5-year backlog.
To solve the problem we need more pages (we now have 3 issues per year * 7 articles per issue).
Two options:
a) 4 issues per year * 8 articles per issue = $4 increase in dues
b) 4 issues per year * 7 articles per issue = $2 increase in dues
2 – Journal Editor
As I emailed before, the following is the link to the CVs and Proposals of the three candidates for the journal's editorship:
The meeting participants will decide whether to rank the proposals per se, or to mix candidates by constructing new co-editorships, especially for balancing the expertise on American Politics and CP/IR.
3 – Announcements:
Budget Report (Ahmet Kuru)
Journal Report (Ted Jelen)
2011 Program (Stephen Mockabee)
Mentoring (Brian Calfano)
Chair-elect (Iza Hussin)
Book Award (Committee Chair David Campbell)
Co-winners (Elizabet Hurd and Vincent P. Munoz)
Honorable mention (Mira Morgenstern)
Dissertation Award (Committee Chair Tarek Masoud)
Co-winners (Brandon Kendhammer and Samuel Goldman)
Paper Award (Committee Chair Nader Hashemi)
Winner (Lisa Blaydes)
Best,
Ahmet