Joseph W. Roberts
Joseph W. Roberts (Ph.D., University of Utah) is Professor and Chair of Politics and International Relations at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Professor Roberts teaches international relations, comparative politics, and sustainability in addition to courses in his specialty area of Middle Eastern politics, political violence, and ethnic conflict.
He has served as Treasurer and President of the Political Science Education section of APSA. He currently serves at the Chair of the International Studies Association Professional Development Committee and served as the inaugural Chair of the Education and Learning in International Affairs Section (ELIAS).
Professor Roberts served as the Political Science Instruction Editor for the Journal of Political Science Education. He is currently co-editing The Elgar Encyclopedia of Teaching and Pedagogy in Political Science with Dan Mallinson and Julia Marin Hellwege. Dr. Roberts has published widely including articles in Periodica Islamica, European Political Science, and PS: Political Science and Politics.
Dr. Roberts has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the East-West Center in Honolulu, HI in 2017, an inaugural Oman Alwaleed Fellow for the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (2015-2016), and the RWU Fulbright-Hays Egypt Fellowship in July 2011.
James M. Curry
James M. Curry (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research centers on U.S. politics and policymaking, with a focus on the U.S. Congress.
Dr. Curry is the author of three books: Legislating in the Dark (2015), The Limits of Party (2020, with Frances E. Lee), and Understanding American Legislatures (2025). His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and more. His work and writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. He has also provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jamil Scott
Jamil Scott (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University. She is a past recipient of the King-Chavez Park Future Faculty Fellowship and a co-PI on a grant from the New America Foundation.
Her research studies political behavior among both political elites and the mass public in the United States, with a particular focus on how race and gender impact participation in civic life, including running for office, voting, and broader political engagement. Her work has published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, American Politics Research, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
Dr. Scott is currently working on a book-length manuscript exploring Black women’s political emergence in state-level politics. She also serves as a co-director of the Georgetown GREP Lab.
Holley Hansen
Holley Hansen (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on communal conflict, political violence, ethnic politics, conflict management, and democracy. Her recent work examines right-wing terrorism in the United States, United Nations peacekeeping and terrorism, and the role of women in post-conflict transitions. Her research has been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Interactions.
She is also highly engaged in service to the department, university, and the broader scholarly community. Dr. Hansen previously served as President of the International Studies Association Midwest Region (2025) and Chair of the APSA Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession (2023-2024), and was elected as a Member-at-Large to the ISA Governing Council (2025-2027) and Executive Committee (2025-2026).