Constitution | Officers

ELECTIONS - 2009

The Governance Committee, which is charged with the task of nominating candidates for office and forwarding proposed amendments to the membership, announced the nomination of three candidates for an open at-large member of the Governance Committee position (three-year term) and a proposed constitutional amendment for consideration at the annual election to be held at the Business Meeting this October. For details, see the Governance Committee's full announcement of 12 July 2009 (pdf).

For information about the election process, see the general Election Information page.

Below are statements from the three nominees, as well as links to teir respective CVs.

THE NOMINEES' STATEMENTS - APT GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE ELECTION, 2009

In alphabetical order by last name:

Lisa Ellis, Texas A&M University -- CV (pdf)

The Association for Political Theory represents the best of what I got into academia for. We actually spend our meetings talking about substantive issues in political theory, rather than hearing sound bites for papers or attending parades of champions. These great meetings are made possible by APT values like interdisciplinarity, by APT practices like the paper archive, by the dedication of the founding and sustaining members of the APT leadership, and especially by the work of conference participants whose scholarship enriches all of us. I feel lucky to have been able to contribute to the organization in the past, and I shall continue to do so in whatever capacity I can in the future.

Keally McBride, University of San Francisco -- CV (pdf)

I am an Assistant Professor of Politics at University of San Francisco. I’m currently working on political theories of decolonization from theorists and activists around the globe for a forthcoming publication, Colonial Critique and Postcolonial Power: Political Theory at the End of Empire, co-authored with Margaret Kohn, Oxford University Press 2011. I am running for the Association of Political Theory’s Governance Committee because I believe it can be a dynamic center where new political theory texts can be explored, and also that new methods of doing political theory can be found.

Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College/Reed College -- CV (pdf)

I am usually an Associate Professor of Politics at Whitman College, but this year (2009-2010) I am a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Reed College. My published work has explored the historical intersection of political theory, international relations theory, and imperialist rhetoric in Britain during the early twentieth century with a particular focus on the problem of sovereignty. I am currently working on a book that extends this focus to contemporary liberal imperialists. I also work on contemporary imperialist reception of Thucydides, the historical genealogy of the idea of “international governance,” and the political ideology of the League of Nations’ “Traffic in Women and Children Committee.”

I started attending the APT three years ago and last year served on the Program Committee. I have found the meetings to be lively, raucously contentious, and always supportive of political theory as an intellectual practice and of political theorists themselves during difficult times. I would very much like to see the organization extend that generous spirit into a series of ongoing discussions - to be held at the annual meeting - about the state of the sub-discipline more broadly. At a moment when some universities are eliminating their theory programs altogether, when some political theorists are calling for an end to the sub-discipline, and when others are questioning the extent to which our flagship journal represents the diversity of approaches within our community, the time seems right to initiate a series of conversations where we can think broadly, critically, and supportively about the diversity of approaches that make us who we are. The APT - with its tradition of both nurturing political theory as a sub-discipline while opening its doors to philosophers, historians, and those who approach the political from a variety of methodological perspectives - seems like the perfect venue in which to hold such a sustained conversation. We might begin by holding a forum in which various issues raised around academic publishing in the subfield serve as a jumping off place for more wide-ranging conversation about methodological diversity.

Darren Walhof, Chair of the Governance Committee

Executive Co-Directors, Elizabeth Markovits and Andrew R. Murphy