2021 SPSA Call for Proposals
The Southern Political Science Association is requesting academic paper and panel proposals for its 92nd Annual Meeting taking place in New Orleans, LA January 7-9, 2020.
Message from the Program Chair, Susan Haire:
Several months ago at SPSA’s annual meeting in San Juan, we discussed how the 2021 annual meeting in New Orleans would offer a great venue for participants to present scholarship on their research and teaching. We did not realize then the challenges that would emerge in 2020, leading us to explore new ways to engage with our students and one another. Crises offer opportunities to learn as scholars and as teachers. We hope that the annual meeting will provide a forum for sharing these lessons in a collegial setting.
The 2021 Program Committee is made up of terrific, energetic scholars who will be working on ways to make this conference a meaningful experience for all political scientists from across the US and the world. Please consider presenting your work by submitting a proposal for a paper (or whole panel). Participation is not limited to these forms–service as a chair and discussant are also vital to high quality scholarly exchanges. SPSA will continue to offer an opportunity for scholars to explore topical areas and more narrowly defined lines of inquiry for proposed “conferences within a conference.”
As our country heads into November’s presidential election and officials across the globe continue to deal with the pandemic, there may be no more important time for us to recognize, and demonstrate, the importance of political science.
The Program Chair and the Program Committee are looking forward to your proposals to present your latest and best research in all fields related to political science.
You can submit your proposals using the 2021 SPSA All Academic web site:
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/spsa/spsa21/
Proposals are due September 1, 2020. Please contact the SPSA at info@spsa.net if you have any questions.
About the Program Chair:
Susan Haire received her PhD in political science from the University of South Carolina. Her doctoral research on the U.S. Courts of Appeals was recognized as the best dissertation in public law by the American Political Science Association. Haire joined UGA’s Department of Political Science in 1995 where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on American courts, gender, and research methods. An affiliated faculty member with Women’s Studies, she also serves as Director of Criminal Justice Studies, an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program at UGA.
