{"id":92,"date":"2014-10-06T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T22:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/letter-from-the-chair-october-6-2014"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:05:41","slug":"letter-from-the-chair-october-6-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/letter-from-the-chair-october-6-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Chair (October 6, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dear Section Members:<\/p>\n<p>Two important announcements from your Section Chair. <\/p>\n<p>First: the Religion and Politics section is now on Twitter! Please spread the word and follow us @apsa_relpol<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the twitter feed on our section website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apsa-section-religion-and-politics.org\/home.html\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.apsa-section-religion-and-politics.org\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second: I would like to invite all section members to become a member of our award committees for 2015 awards &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Please email me at <a href=\"mailto:eshurd@northwestern.edu\" target=\"_blank\">eshurd@northwestern.edu<\/a> 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&#039;t commit to serving this year, please make a note to nominate your best dissertators, paper presenters, and publications later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Shakman Hurd<br \/>Chair, APSA Religion and Politics Section<br \/>Department of Political Science<br \/>Northwestern University <br \/><a href=\"mailto:eshurd@northwestern.edu\" target=\"_blank\">eshurd@northwestern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,39,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron-wildavsky-dissertation-award","category-hubert-morken-best-book-award","category-member-call","category-section-chair","category-weber-best-conference-paper-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}