Conferences

2024 Conference

The 2024 State Politics and Policy Conference will be hosted by the University of Virginia from June 7-9, 2024. Thanks to Justin Kirkland and Craig Volden for agreeing to host!

Registration for the conference and proposal submissions are now open. The conference website is https://uva.theopenscholar.com/state-politics-and-policy-conference-2024.

2025 Conference

The 2025 State Politics and Policy Conference will be sponsored by the UMass System in Boston, MA with support from the Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell campuses along with the UMass President’s office. John Cluverius and Josh Dyck of UMass Lowell, Shannon Jenkins and Doug Roscoe of UMass Dartmouth, Travis Johnston and Erin O’Brien of UMass Boston, and Ray La Raja of UMass Amherst will host the conference. The plan is to host in late spring 2025.


Past conferences

2023: University of Pittsburgh [program]

2022: Florida State University [program]

2021:  No SPPC due to the pandemic.

2020:  University of California at San Diego  [Twitter feed]  [program] (Cancelled due to the pandemic)

2019:  University of Maryland (College Park) 

2018:  Pennsylvania State University [program]

2017:  Washington University/St. Louis University [program]

2016:  University of Texas at Dallas  [program]

2015:  California State University-Sacramento [program]

2014:  Indiana University

2013:  University of Iowa

2012:  Rice University/University of Houston  [program]

2011:  Dartmouth College

2010:  University of Illinois-Springfield [program]

2009:  University of North Carolina/Duke University

2008:  Temple University [program]

2007:  University of Texas at Austin [program]

2006:  Texas Tech University [program]

2005:  Michigan State University [program]

2004:  Kent State University [program]

2003:  University of Arizona [program]

2002:  University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee [program]

2001:  Texas A&M University