JPSE Editors Invite Submissions
The editors of JPSE invite you to submit your manuscripts to the journal. JPSE is an important outlet for sharing ideas and knowledge about pedagogy and is now an official APSA journal in political science available to all APSA members. The journal now has several sections where a variety of different types of articles can be submitted. Specifically we are looking for submissions to the following sections:
SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
Submissions can be diverse in terms of topic, analytic approach, and levels of analysis, but must maintain systematic methodological approaches. Length of manuscript may range from 3,000 to 8,000 words, and research notes between 2,000 and 5,000 words. Authors of accepted papers will be required to make datasets publically available online through their choice of venue or provide a compelling rationale if they are unable to do so.
POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTION
Submissions should focus on innovative teaching cases that discuss useful pedagogy, including strategies, games, and experiential learning in teaching political science to diverse audiences. They should also be organized around real classroom problems and potential solutions. Submissions may range in length from 2,000 to 4,000 words.
REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING AND THE ACADEMY
Submissions should be from experienced scholar-teachers that focus on reflections on timely and important teaching topics that include transitioning between institutional types, teaching underprepared students, preparing graduate students for teaching careers, and other issues. Submissions may range in length from 1,000 to 2,000 words.
Books, Teaching Tools, and Educational Resources. Submissions should help readers identify available new books, software and resources, and to improve classroom and co-curricular learning experiences through reviews of textbooks, pedagogy tools and other related resources. Submissions may range in length from 500-2,000 words.
To learn more about submissions, see the guidelines online at www.apsanet.org/jpse. If you have any questions about what section would be the right fit or if a topic fits with the journal’s mission or any other question feel free to e-mail Victor Asal at jpse@apsanet.org. We look forward to your submissions.
Tom Carsey Fund for State Politics and Policy Research and Education Established
The members of the APSA Organized Section on State Politics and Policy have endowed a fund in honor of our friend and colleague, Tom Carsey. The Carsey Fund for State Politics and Policy Research and Education recognizes Tom as an outstanding author, coauthor, editor, teacher, and mentor, who is now valiantly battling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). In recognition of Tom’s important contributions as a mentor to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Florida State University, and now at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and in acknowledgement of the importance of graduate student training, The Carsey Fund was created to support graduate student participation in annual events organized by the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.
The continued growth and success of our section, and all other APSA sections, depends on an ongoing infusion of young scholars studying the American states. If our APSA sections are to succeed, we need young people with new ideas, new concepts, new methods, and new energy and enthusiasm. One of the significant traits that Tom has brought to the subfield has been his outstanding mentoring ability. At UI-C, FSU, and UNC-CH, he compiled an enviable record of training, mentoring, and mobilizing young men and women into the profession. All of us in the subfield know and have experienced his mentoring skills via his panel comments and service as a discussant. In commenting and discussing, Tom had the rare ability to combine wise, penetrating, knowledgeable insights, as well as funny, acerbic comments, which are always to good point. APSA needs more faculty members like Tom and more graduate students like those Tom guided.
A striking characteristic of our subfield is the very close relationships between graduate faculty mentors and graduate students. One of Tom’s graduate students, and now a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, commented at a recent conference that his participation in the State Politics and Policy Conference is just like participating in a family. Put in charitability terms, the purpose of the Carsey Fund is to support the kind of scholarly and personal relationships that maintain our Section. We hope that Association members will generously support our efforts in honoring Tom and helping graduate students in political science. Contributions can be made to:
The Carsey Fund
c/o APSA
1527 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036-1206
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program Now Accepting Applications for 2018–2019
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is now accepting applications for its 2018-2019 fellowships.
Dedicated to international exchange, the Reagan-Fascell Program offers five-month fellowships to leading democracy activists, journalists, and scholars from around the world. During their time in residence at NED’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, fellows reflect on their experiences and consider lessons learned; conduct independent research and writing; engage with colleagues and counterparts in the United States; and build ties with a global network of democracy advocates.
This program is intended primarily to support practitioners and scholars from developing and aspiring democracies; distinguished scholars from established democracies are also eligible to apply. Projects may focus on the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural aspects of democratic development and may include a range of methodologies and approaches. More information can be found online at www.ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fascell-democracy-fellows-program.
Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship: Apply Now!
ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
The IDRF program supports the next generation of scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences pursuing research that advances knowledge about non-US cultures and societies. The program is open to a range of methodologies, including research in archives and manuscript collections, fieldwork and surveys, and quantitative data collection.
ELIGIBILITY
The program is open to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences—regardless of citizenship—enrolled in PhD programs in the United States. Applicants must complete all PhD requirements except onsite research by the time the fellowship begins. Proposals that identify the United States as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals which focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible.
FELLOWSHIP TERMS
The IDRF program provides support for 9–12 months of dissertation research. Fellowship amounts vary depending on the research plan, with a per-fellowship average of $21,000. Learn more at www.ssrc.org/fellowships/idrf-fellowship.
The IDRF program is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Deadline: November 7, 2017.
Call for Nominations and Applications for Editor of Political Behavior
Michael Martinez, chair of APSA Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB), has appointed a search committee to select a new editor for the section’s affiliated journal, Political Behavior. Published by Springer, the journal receives approximately 400 manuscript submissions per year, publishes four issues per year, and has a five-year Impact Factor of 2.6.
The search committee invites nominations and applications for the editorship of Political Behavior. The incoming editor will succeed current editor David Peterson, whose term will end on December 31, 2018. The new editor will serve a renewable four-year term, from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2022. The search committee welcomes both individual editor and editorial team candidacies.
Nominations and applications for the editorship of Political Behavior should be sent via e-mail to the search committee chair, Cindy Kam, Vanderbilt University (e-mail: cindy.d.kam@vanderbilt.edu).
To learn more, read the full call online at http://www.apsanet.org/PUBLICATIONS/About-APSA-Journals/Organized-Section-Journals.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be submitted by January 1, 2018. The committee will work closely with the Springer to make every effort to select the new editor by May 1, 2018.
