Section Officers

President: Ashley Jardina (University of Virginia) ajardina@virginia.edu

Past President:Eric Groenendyk (Stony Brook University)  grnendyk@memphis.edu

President Elect: Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University) jkertzer@gov.harvard.edu

Treasurer: Nicholas Davis (University of Alabama) ntdavis2@ua.edu

Communications Director: Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis) tncarlson@wustl.edu

Officer at Large: Cara Wong (UIUC) carawong@illinois.edu

2026 APSA Pre-conference coordinator: Joshua Gubler (BYU) jgub@byu.edu and Ris Swank (University of Washington) ris.swank@wsu.edu

2026 APSA Division Chairs: Jennifer Chudy (Wellesley College) jchudy@wellesley.edu; Elizabeth Connors (University of South Carolina) connors4@mailbox.sc.edu

Section Award Committees. If you are interested in information about how to submit nominations for the awards, please visit the nominations page.

Robert E. Lane Award: Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University), Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam),  Tom Wood (The Ohio State University)

Best Dissertation Award: Kevin (Vin) Arceneaux (Temple University), Gwyneth McClendon (NYU), Pavielle Haines (University of Denver)

Best Paper Award: Shana Gadarian (Syracuse University), Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz (University of Illinois), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College)

Distinguished Junior Scholar Award: Antoine Banks (University of Maryland), Mara Ostfeld (University of Michigan), Peter Dineson (University of Copenhagen)