APSA Civic Engagement

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1	Proposal for a New “Civic Engagement” Organized Section of the American Political Science Association
2	We, the undersigned, propose the creation of an organized APSA Section on “Civic Engagement.” APSA has been dedicated to civics education and the task of stimulating civic engagement since its inception in 1903. In pursuit of that aim, the organization has undertaken various civic engagement-related initiatives, sponsored conferences, and facilitated publications on teaching civic engagement. However, what has been missing has been an organized section where political scientists who specialize in teaching and/or research in civic engagement can coordinate and further the development of this field. We believe a section would serve to support, publish, and recognize research on civic engagement. In addition, it would help promote the pedagogy of civic engagement, an aim that is particularly crucial in the development of a civil society. Our purposes include: Promote the teaching of and scholarship in civic engagement through sponsorship of civics education and civic research panels and/or short courses. Some of these panels could be co-sponsored with other sections such as Political Science Education; Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior; Political Communication; Political Organizations and Parties; and so on. Recognize quality scholarship and teaching innovation in civic engagement through annual awards. Facilitate the development of faculty in this field through mentoring. Publicize new research and share pedagogical experiences through a newsletter and/or journal. The Civic Engagement Section would serve as an institutional home for a diverse, growing, and important group of scholars. It would create new opportunities to showcase the best new research at APSA’s annual meeting, promote subfield collaboration, and serve as a focal point for coordinating the various projects being undertaken by civic engagement scholars. Indeed, we welcome scholars working with diverse methodological backgrounds and in diverse institutional settings including research intensive universities, teaching intensive colleges and universities, HBSUs and HSIs, community colleges, and in the nonprofit sector. Sign the Petition If you are a current member of APSA, please indicate your support for the formation of a Civic Engagement Section by going here (embed to weblink address) and adding your signature. We need at least 200 APSA members signing the petition to qualify as a new section. Please note that your support will only be considered as valid by APSA if you are currently an APSA member. Support from scholars who are not APSA members will not count towards the mandatory number of signatures necessary for the formation of an APSA section. Thanks for your support and please feel free to send this petition to other APSA members who might be willing to support the creation of this new section.
3		Peter Levine	Elizabeth Bennion	Richard Davis
4		Tufts Univerisity	Indiana University -- South Bend	BYU
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6	Name	Institution	E-mail Address	Current member of APSA (check if yes)
7	Elizabeth Bennion	Indiana University South Bend	ebennion@iu.edu	Yes
8	Richard Davis	BYU	richard_davis@byu.edu	Yes
9	Peter Levine	Tufts	peter.levine@tufts.edu	Yes
10	Leticia Bode	Georgetown	lb871@georgetown.edu	Yes
11	Philip Dalton	Hofstra University	sphpdd@hofstra.edu	Yes
12	David Campbell	University of Notre Dame	dave_campbell@nd.edu	Yes
13	Stephen Utych	Boise State University	stephenutych@boisestate.edu	Yes
14	James M. Smith	Indiana University South Bend	jms21@iusb.edu	Yes
15	Janet M. Box-SteffensmeierOhio State University		box-steffensmeier.1@osu.edu	Yes
16	John Gastil	Penn State University	jgastil@psu.edu	Yes
17	Stella Rouse	University of Maryland	srouse@umd.edu	Yes
18	Deborah Schildkraut	Tufts University	deborah.schildkraut@tufts.edu	Yes
19	Melissa Deckman	Washington College	mdeckman2@washcoll.edu	Yes
20	Steve Lem	Kutztown University	lem@kutztown.edu	Yes
21	Heather Evans	University of Virginia's College at Wise	heatherkevans@uvawise.edu	No
22	Morris Fiorina	Stanford University	mfiorina@stanford.edu	yes
23	Elizabeth Matto	Rutgers University	ematto@eagleton.rutgers.edu	Yes
24	Molly Andolina	DePaul University	mandolin@depaul.edu	No
25	Ben Epstein	DePaul University	bepstein@depaul.edu
26	Diana Owen	Georgetown University	owend@georgetown.edu	Yes
27	Lori Poloni-Staudinger	Northern Arizona University	Lori.Poloni-Staudinger@nau.edu	Yes
28	W	The University of Findlay	postic@findlay.edu	Yes
29	Carah Ong Whaley	James Madison University	whaleycl@jmu.edu	yes
30	Nina Kasniunas	Goucher College	nina.kasniunas@goucher.edu	Yes
31	Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan	University of South Florida St. Petersburg	jsm2@usfsp.edu	yes
32	R. Claire Snyder-Hall	Snyder-Hall Consulting
33	Kelly Clancy	Nebraska Wesleyan University	kclancy@nebrwesleyan.edu	yes
34	Dari Sylvester Tran	University of the Pacific	Dtran1@pacific.edu	Yes
35	Thessalia Merivaki	Mississippi State University	lia.merivaki@pspa.msstate.edu	Yes
36	Austin Trantham	Jacksonville University	atranth@ju.edu	Yes
37	Lauren Copeland	Baldwin Wallace University
38	Michael Crespin	University of Oklahoma	crespin@ou.edu	Yes
39	Eric van der Vort	Syracuse University	Marquette University	Yes
40	Jaclyn Kettler	Boise State University	jaclynkettler@boisestate.edu	Yes
41	Leah Murray	Weber State University	lmurray@weber.edu	Yes
42	Scott Peters	University of Northern Iowa	scott.peters@uni.edu	Yes
43	Amber Wichowsky		amber.wichowsky@marquette.edu	Yes
44	Melissa R. Michelson	Menlo College	melissa.michelson@menlo.edu	Yes
45	Lisa Argyle	Brigham Young University	lisa_argyle@byu.edu
46	Adam Dynes	Brigham Young University	adamdynes@byu.edu	Yes
47	David Redlawsk	University of Delaware	redlawsk@udel.edu	yes
48	Ken Moffett	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	kmoffet@siue.edu	Yes
49	Connie Jorgensen	Piedmont Virginia Community College	cjorgensen@pvcc.edu	yes
50	Brendan Nyhan	Dartmouth College	nyhan@dartmouth.edu	yes
51	John Forren	Miami University	forrenjp@miamioh.edu	yes
52	David Karpf	George Washington University	dkarpf@gwu.edu	yes
53	Ashley Nickels	Kent State University	anickel5@kent.edu	yes
54	Bernard Fraga	Indiana University	bfraga@indiana.edu	yes
55	Mirya Holman	Tulane University	mholman@tulane.edu
56	Aubree Herrin		aubree-herrin@uiowa.edu	yes
57	Ashley Muddiman	University of Kansas	ashley.muddiman@ku.edu	yes
58	Regina Lawrence	University of Oregon	rgl@uoregon.edu
59	Shelly Arsneault	California State University, Fullerton	Sarsneault@fullerton.edu	yes
60	J. Michael Dedmon	Syracuse University	jmdedmon@syr.edu	yes
61	Amanda B. Edgell	University of Gothenburg	amanda.edgell@gu.se	yes
62	Darrell A. Hamlin	Fort Hays State University	dahamlin@fhsu.edu	yes
63	Katherine M. Robiadek	Boston University	robiadek@bu.edu	yes
64	Adam Levine	Cornell University	ASL22@cornell.edu
65	Emilia Palonen	University of Helsinki	emilia.palonen@helsinki.fi
66	Michael Illuzzi	Lesley University	milluzzi@lesley.edu
67	Jennifer Jensen	Lehigh University	jjensen@lehigh.edu
68	Nathan Kar Ming Chan	University of California, Irvine	nkchan@uci.edu
69	Amy Gossett	Lincoln University of MO	gossetta@lincolnu.edu
70	Stephanie Thurston	Princeton Theological Seminary	stephanie.thurston@ptsem.edu
71	Justin Crowe	Williams College	jec3@williams.edu	yes
72	Didi Kuo	Stanford University	jdkuo@stanford.edu	yes
73	Jeffrey Kraus	Wagner College	jkraus@wagner.edu	yes
74	Katy Harriger	Wake Forest University	harriger@wfu.edu
75	Charles Stewart III	MIT	cstewart@mit.edu	Yes
76	Peter Miller	Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law	peter.miller@nyu.edu	Yes
77	Lilliana Mason	University of Maryland, College Park	lmason@umd.edu	Yes
78	Matt Nelsen	Northwestern University	MatthewNelsen2021@u.northwestern.edu	Yes
79	Patrick Campbell	Skidmore College	pcampbe1@skidmore.edu	Yes
80	Fatih Erol	Koc University	ferol15@ku.edu.tr	yes
81	Jay Barth	Hendrix College	Barth@hendrix.edu
82	Brian Schaffner	Tufts University	brian.schaffner@tufts.edu	yes
83	Ezra Temko	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	etemko@siue.edu	yes
84	Jennifer Jackman	Salem State University	jjackman@salemstate.edu	yes
85	Aaron Rosenthal	Simmons University	aaron.rosenthal@simmons.edu	yes
86	Laura Stoker	University of California Berkeley
87	Maria Inclan	Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas	maria.inclan@cide.edu
88	Lauren Bell	Randolph-Macon College	lbell@rmc.edu	yes
89	Robert Y. Shapiro	Columbia University	rys3@columbia.edu	yes
90	Daniel Bailey	Presbyterian College	dbbailey@presby.edu	yes
91	Michelle Belco	University of Houston	mbelco@uh.edu	yes
92	Lisa Bryant	California State University, Fresno	lbryant@csufresno.edu	yes
93	Geoff Allen	University of Utah	geoff.allen@utah.edu	yes
94	Kelly D. Patterson	Brigham Young University	kelly_patterson@byu.edu	yes
95	Jared Abbott	Harvard University	jaredabbott@g.harvard.edu
96	George E. Marcus	Williams College	gmarcus@williams.edu	yes
97	SZÉKELY ENDRE	independent researcher	ndree123@gmail.com
98	Frederick Weil	LSU Sociology	fweil@lsu.edu	yes
99	Aaron Stuvland	George Mason University	astuvlan@gmu.edu	Yes
100	Nakeefa Garay	Rutgers University - Newark	nbernard@newark.rutgers.edu	yes