{"id":152,"date":"2015-08-19T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/s28\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:22:36","slug":"section-officers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/section-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Section Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>President: <\/strong>Ashley Jardina (University of Virginia) <a href=\"mailto:ajardina@virginia.edu\">ajardina@virginia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Past President:<\/strong>Eric Groenendyk (Stony Brook University) \u00a0<a href=\"grnendyk@memphis.edu\">grnendyk@memphis.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Elect:\u00a0<\/strong>Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University) <a href=\"mailto:jkertzer@gov.harvard.edu\">jkertzer@gov.harvard.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer:\u00a0<\/strong>Nicholas Davis (University of Alabama) <a href=\"mailto:ntdavis2@ua.edu\">ntdavis2@ua.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications Director:\u00a0<\/strong>Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis) <a href=\"mailto:tncarlson@wustl.edu\">tncarlson@wustl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Officer at Large:\u00a0<\/strong>Cara Wong (UIUC) <a href=\"mailto:carawong@illinois.edu\">carawong@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2026 APSA Pre-conference coordinator: <\/strong>Joshua Gubler (BYU) <a href=\"mailto:jgub@byu.edu\">jgub@byu.edu<\/a> and Ris Swank (University of Washington) <a href=\"mailto:ris.swank@wsu.edu\">ris.swank@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2026 APSA Division Chairs<\/strong>: Jennifer Chudy (Wellesley College) <a href=\"mailto:jchudy@wellesley.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jchudy@wellesley.edu<\/a>; Elizabeth Connors (University of South Carolina) <a href=\"mailto:connors4@mailbox.sc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connors4@mailbox.sc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Section Award Committees.\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\">If you are interested in information about how to submit nominations for the awards, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/nominations\/\">nominations<\/a> page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>Robert E. Lane Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Yanna Krupnikov (Stony Brook University), Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam), \u00a0Tom Wood (The Ohio State University)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>Best Dissertation Award: <\/strong>Kevin (Vin) Arceneaux (Temple University), Gwyneth McClendon (NYU), Pavielle Haines (University of Denver)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>Best Paper Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Shana Gadarian (Syracuse University), Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz (University of Illinois), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>Distinguished Junior Scholar Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Antoine Banks (University of Maryland), Mara Ostfeld (University of Michigan), Peter Dineson (University of Copenhagen)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President: Ashley Jardina (University of Virginia) ajardina@virginia.edu Past President:Eric Groenendyk (Stony Brook University) \u00a0grnendyk@memphis.edu President Elect:\u00a0Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University) jkertzer@gov.harvard.edu Treasurer:\u00a0Nicholas Davis (University of Alabama) ntdavis2@ua.edu Communications Director:\u00a0Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis) tncarlson@wustl.edu Officer at Large:\u00a0Cara Wong (UIUC) carawong@illinois.edu 2026 APSA Pre-conference coordinator: Joshua Gubler (BYU) jgub@byu.edu and Ris Swank (University of Washington) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/section-officers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Section Officers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","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":""},"class_list":["post-152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s28\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}