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In Memoriam: Dr. Mala Htun, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Passes Away

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APSA is extremely saddened by the recent passing of Mala Htun , author and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico. in political science from Harvard and a A.B. Htun was named as a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNM in 2024.The She was 55.

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Learn more about: Learning to Survive: Yurok Well-being in School

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Project Title:Learning to Survive:Yurok Well-being in School Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College Dr. Mneesha Gellman is associate professor of political science in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, in Boston.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

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The American Political Science Association (APSA) is very pleased to announce that Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the organization, effective September 16, 2024. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

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Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Maya Mikelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Maya Mikelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Maya Mikelson is a rising senior at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor majoring in political science and minoring in data science. She presented her results from this work in a poster session at the 2023 American Political Science Association meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

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Yun (Nancy) Tang Receives the 2024 Kenneth Sherrill Prize for “Making Autocracy Queer: A Dance in ‘Law’ Between LGBTQ Movements and Authoritarian States in China and Singapore”

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Authoritarian states, conversely, face the dilemma of “double-edged authoritarian legality,” because legal rulings enhance state legitimacy but also open opportunities for rights claims that undermine autocratic control. immigration. Tang holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Amherst College.

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Lotem Bassan-Nygate Receives the 2024 Merze Tate Award for “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism”

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The Merze Tate Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics. Citation from the Award Committee: Bassan-Nygate’s dissertation, “Who is Watching?