APSA Ed Politics & Policy Virtual Conference Presentation Schedule is up! It is free to attend and will take place February 26th from 12:00 to 3:30pm EST. connect.apsanet.org/s51/events/

Final day to submit an abstract!

APSA Education Politics & Policy Winter Conference Paper Application Form This year APSA Education Politics & Policy's Winter Conference will take place virtually Wednesday and Thursday February 25 and 26 from 9am-12:30pm Pacific (12-3:30pm EST, 6-9:30pm CET). All abstract...

Our Winter Education Politics & Policy Virtual Conference will take place on Wed. Feb 25, and Thurs., Feb 26, 2026 from 9am-12:30pm Pacific. We invite proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers. Please send us your proposal by Dec. 8th, 2025, using this form: forms.gle/2Ets9aj1YP9b....

Final drafts will be due February 4, 2026. Participation in this conference is free of charge to both section members and non-members, but we would love for you to join our section! Please distribute this call widely among interested colleagues.

You may submit a working paper, a recent publication, or a dissertation prospectus. We welcome studies on a variety of topics, using a wide range of methodological approaches, and from any country or region. Selected submissions will be announced by the end of December.

APSA Education Politics & Policy Winter Conference Paper Application Form This year APSA Education Politics & Policy's Winter Conference will take place virtually Wednesday and Thursday February 25 and 26 from 9am-12:30pm Pacific (12-3:30pm EST, 6-9:30pm CET). All abstract...

Our Winter Education Politics & Policy Virtual Conference will take place on Wed. Feb 25, and Thurs., Feb 26, 2026 from 9am-12:30pm Pacific. We invite proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers. Please send us your proposal by Dec. 8th, 2025, using this form: forms.gle/2Ets9aj1YP9b....

Call for Applications: APSA Diversity Fellowship Program – Fall Cycle | Deadline: October 26, 2025 - Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program! The fall application cycle provides financial support to undergraduate seniors, recent graduates, or other individuals…

One week left to apply! Each fall, APSA’s Diversity Fellowship Program awards funded fellowships to students applying to doctoral programs in political science. Applications are due 10/26! Share this opportunity or apply here: buff.ly/ihLR0Lv #APSADFP #polisky

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Submit for the 2026 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award #bestpaper from the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting. $750 prize; presented at the APSA Annual Meeting. Submit by February 11th: buff.ly/iSqyfJ5 #APSAAwards

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Teaching Webinar: Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a training webinar on how you can be a more effective advocate for political science. Whether you are advocating from home, or making plans to advocate on Capitol Hill, this webinar aims to...

Join us for the "Teaching Webinar: Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science," on how you can be a more effective advocate for political science w/ Wendy Naus, Executive Director of COSSA.

📆 Thursday, October 23, 2025
🕐 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. ET
Register: buff.ly/AKxX25r

Public Scholarship Program Centennial Center

Reminder! The deadline has been extended for the 2025 APSA Public Scholarship Program to October 3. The program highlights new research in political science for a broad public audience. Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/zTkn1by #APSAPublicScholars

Share news of your recent successes! Have you had an article or book published recently in the area of education politics and policy? Have you received a big grant or a big promotion in the field? Tell us about it in this form and we'll ...

If you have a recent article, book, award, etc., please share it with us so we can include it in our newsletter: forms.gle/17C1v913PQFy...

Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education This open-access book offers a critical appraisal, at the cross-section of theory and practice, of concepts of integration at work in education in diverse geopo…

Mneesha Gellman (@mneesha-gellman.bsky.social ) 2025. “Integration as a practice of pluralism: Challenges in migration and education.” In Marcus Otto and Tania Saeed (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Integration in Education. London: Bloomsbury Academic. P. 141-149.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

Check out new work from section members! First up, Sarah Brown and Tamar Malloy (@tamarmalloy.bsky.social ) (2025) "Engaged or Obedient? Racially Differentiated Models of Democratic Education.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. doi.org/10.1017/rep....

Special Housing Rates for the APSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver Available Limited Time The 2025 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition will take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the Pan Pacific Vancouver, Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown, and the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront.

Are you attending the #APSA2025 Annual Meeting in Vancouver this year? Be sure to book your hotel and travel reservations for the meeting!

APSA has special hotel group rates and room blocks on a first-come, space-available basis for attendees.

Fall 2025: Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group The Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group is now soliciting papers for the Fall 2025 semester. The CAPE-JWG brings together junior scholars—including advanced graduate stud...

Please submit your proposals here: nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Potential topics include, but are not limited to: public policy; inequality; political institutions; housing, health, and/or labor markets; and the study of race-, gender-, and sex-based hierarchies. All methodological approaches are welcome. The deadline for paper proposals is Friday, August 15th.

The CAPE-JWG brings together junior scholars—including advanced graduate students, assistant professors, and non-tenured faculty—to workshop research papers and book chapters on the relationship between markets and governance in the United States, broadly construed.

Partners | Consortium on the American Political Economy Our partners and related organizations.

The Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group is now soliciting papers for the Fall 2025 semester workshop series www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/partners.

Virtual Workshop: Keeping It Fresh: Teaching Multiple Sections of American Government - Join APSA's Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for their professional development workshop series' fourth event. 3 PM Eastern, Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Tomorrow! 📢 Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of #CommunityColleges in the Profession for a virtual workshop, "Keeping It Fresh: Teaching Multiple Sections of American Government."

Tuesday, July 29 , 2025
3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT

🔗 Register here:

Balloting for APSA’s Council and Officer elections open next month! Learn about the 2025 Slate of Council and Officer nominees and keep an eye out for more information about this year’s elections here: buff.ly/w7pJQNb

Theme Panel: Borders of Well-Being: Health Politics and Inequality across and within Nations In-Person Full Paper Panel Participants: (Chair) Matthew Kavanagh, Georgetown University (Discussant) Charley Ellen Willison, Cornell University (Discussant) Ashley M. Fox, SUNY at Albany Session Description: In times of crisis and political upheaval around the globe, governance and health policy implementation become one of the battlegrounds for defining belonging, justice, and the state’s legitimacy and ability to respond to citizen need. Global disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the stark inequalities embedded in health systems everywhere, underscoring how public goods are often unevenly distributed amid rising distrust, polarization, economic upheaval, and political disruption.

Theme Panel: Borders of Well-Being: Health Politics and Inequality across and within Nations #APSA2025

Contact Jason Giersch (jgiersch@charlotte.edu) with any questions or suggestions.

A CwC typically consists of three or four research panels on a particular day of the conference. By participating in a CwC, you'll get to present on a panel with similar papers, meet more scholars working in the same area, and enjoy panels concentrated on one day at one location.

Interest in a Conference within a Conference on Civic Education at SPSA26 Dear colleagues, Despite widespread agreement that civic education is critical to a healthy democracy, its objectives, methods, and content need more research, especially during periods of political...

Would you like to join a conference within a conference on civic education (or education policy more broadly) at Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, Jan 14-17 2026, in New Orleans?

If you are interested, please add a proposal to this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Theme Panel: Author Meets Critics: “Shaping Nations and Markets: Identity Capital, Trade, and the Populist Rage” In-Person Author Meets Critics Participants: (Chair) Vinicius G. Rodrigues Vieira, IDP University (Presenter) Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania (Presenter) Christina Davis, Harvard University (Presenter) Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University (Presenter) Sener Akturk, Koç University Session Description: How does the definition of peoplehood shape the rise of far-right populism along with distribution of political power between ethnic and racial groups, on the one hand, and economic sectors, on the other?

Theme Panel: Author Meets Critics: “Shaping Nations and Markets: Identity Capital, Trade, and the Populist Rage” #APSA2025

Theme Panel: Author Meets Critics: “The Disunited States”: Why Red and Blue Secession Won’t Work in America In-Person Author Meets Critics Participants: (Chair) Ryan D. Griffiths, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Presenter) David T. Smith, University of Sydney (Presenter) Stephen M. Saideman, Carleton University (Presenter) Laia Balcells, Georgetown University (Presenter) R. Joseph Huddleston, Seton Hall University Session Description: There is a growing interest in a national divorce between Red State America and Blue State America.

Theme Panel: Author Meets Critics: “The Disunited States”: Why Red and Blue Secession Won’t Work in America #APSA2025

Make sure to check out our co-sponsored theme panel!

We have three Author Meets Critic sessions:
Agustina S. Paglayan's 'Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education' on Sept 11, at 10am

Deondra Rose's 'The Power of Black Excellence' on Sept 12, at 10am

Mneesha Gellman's 'Indigenous Language Politics in Schools' on Sept 13, at 10am

We had an exceptional number of strong submissions in our three categories this year. Sincere thanks to our hardworking prize committee members: Michael Hartney, Triin Lauri, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Matthew Nelsen, Karin Kitchens, and Domingo Morel.