Founded in April 1995, the Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics has quickly become one of the largest subfields in the American Political Science Association (APSA). Our section now represents more than 500 political science professors, graduate students, authors, and editors. Most of us specialize in the politics of Native, African, Latino, and/or Asian Pacific Americans; some study racial and ethnic politics internationally; some study issues of race/ethnicity in social theory, public policy, education, law, and political history.
Section Business
The section holds a business meeting at the APSA annual conference. Minutes from the previous meetings can be found for the following years:
APSA 2023 Business Meeting Minutes
Section by-laws can be found by clicking here.
Section Officers 2023-2024
Co-Presidents
- Hannah Walker, University of Texas-Austin, hlwalker@utexas.edu
- Bernard Fraga, Emory University, bernardfraga@emory.edu
Secretary
- Beth Ginsberg, University of Connecticut, beth.ginsberg@uconn.edu
Treasurer
- Kenicia Wright, Arizona State, kenicia.wright@asu.edu
2024 Program Chairs
- Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University, nazita@msu.edu
- Christine Slaughter, Boston University, csla@bu.edu
REP Newsletter Co-Editors:
- Jennifer Garcia, Oberlin College, jgarcia2@oberlin.edu
- Nicole Yadon, The Ohio State University, yadon.4@osu.edu
Web Administrator
- Davin Phoenix, UC Irvine, dphoenix@uci.edu
Editors of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
- Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, San Diego State University
- Christopher Towler, California State University-Sacramento
Executive Council
(2022-2024)
- Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University, Deborah.Schildkraut@tufts.edu
- Andrea Benjamin, University of Oklahoma, andrea.benjamin@ou.edu
(2023-2025)
- Claudia Sandoval, Loyola Marymount University, Claudia.Sandoval@lmu.edu
- Tiffany Willoughby Herard, UC Irvine, twilloug@uci.edu
- Matthew Hayes, Washington University St. Louis, matthew.hayes@wustl.edu
- Sara Sadhwani, Pomona College, sara.sadhwani@pomona.edu
- Tabitha Bonilla, Northwestern University, tabitha.bonilla@northwestern.edu
- Periloux Peay, University of Maryland, peay@umd.edu
- Kumar Ramanathan, University of Chicago, kumarramanathan@uchicago.edu
- Michael Strawbridge, Rutgers University, m.strawbridge@rutgers.edu
Graduate Student Issues Committee (2022-2024)
- Ana Oaxaca, UCLA, aoaxaca@ucla.edu
- Kennia Coronado, University of Wisconsin-Madison, kennia.coronado@wisc.edu
- Zoe Walker, University of Michigan, zcwalker@umich.edu
Nominations Committee (2022-2024)
- Fernando Tormos-Aponte, University of Pittsburgh, fernandotormos@pitt.edu
- Chaya Crowder, Loyola Marymount University, chaya.crowder@lmu.edu
Best Dissertation Committee
- Natasha Behl, Arizona State, Natasha.Behl@asu.edu
- Dara Strolovitch, Yale University, dara.strolovitch@yale.edu
- Erica Townsend-Bell, Oklahoma State, etowns@okstate.edu
Best Book Committee
- Christopher Stout, Oregon State University, stoutch@oregonstate.edu
- Danielle Clealand, UT Austin, danielle.clealand@austin.utexas.edu
- Marcus Board, Howard University, Marcus.boardjr@howard.edu
Best Paper Committee
- Danielle Lemi, Southern Methodist University, lemi.danielle@gmail.com
- Christian Dyogi Phillips, University of Southern California, christian.d.phillips@usc.edu
- Marcel Roman, Harvard University, mroman@g.harvard.edu