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10 May 2007

Gosnell Prize nominations

And while we're doing announcements, the Society for Political Methodology is also soliciting nominations for the Gosnell Prize, awarded to the best paper in methods presented at any political science conference:

The Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology is awarded for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year, 1 June 2006-31 May 2007.

The Award Committee also includes Michael Crespin and Patrick Brandt.

We look forward to submissions for this important award in the next few weeks, as our decision will be made toward the end of the month. Yes, this month. Right now it is a wide open field. There were a lot of great papers presented at APSA, MPSA, Methods, ISA, and elsewhere in the past year. Please send a short nomination paragraph along with the originally presented paper (not a revision) in PDF format to me or any of the committee members.

Thanks for your help in nominating worthy manuscripts.

Michael D. Ward, Professor of Political Science
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-3530, USA

Posted by Mike Kellermann at 5:47 PM

Surveying Multiethnic America

The Program on Survey Research at Harvard is hosting an afternoon conference tomorrow on the challenges of surveying multiethnic populations:

Surveying Multiethnic America

May 11, 2007
12:30 – 5:00

Institute for Quantitative Social Science
CGIS N-050
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Across a variety of different academic disciplines, scholars are interested in topics related to multiethnic populations, and sample surveys are one of the primary means of studying these populations. Surveys of multiethnic populations face a number of distinctive methodological challenges, including issues related to defining and measuring ethnic identity, and locating, sampling, and communicating with the groups of interest.

This afternoon panel sponsored by the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University will look at recent survey research projects on multiethnic populations in the US. Researchers will discuss how they confronted the unique methodological challenges in their survey projects and will consider the implications of their approach for their key theoretical and empirical findings.

Schedule:

12:30 - 2:45

Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University, Introduction

Manuel de la Puente, US Bureau of the Census, Current Issues in Multiethnic Survey Methods

Guillermina Jasso, New York University, New Immigrant Study

Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University, The 21st Century Americanism Study

Yoshiko Herrera, Harvard University, Discussant

3:00 - 5:00

Tami Buhr, Harvard University, Harvard Multi-Ethnic Health Survey

Ronald Brown, Wayne State University, National Ethnic Pluralism Survey

Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Texas Christian University, National Latino Politics Survey

Kim Williams, Harvard University, Discussant

Posted by Mike Kellermann at 12:05 PM

Political Methodology Career Award - Call for Nominations

Simon Jackman sent around the following today on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology:

The Society for Political Methodology will award its first Political Methodology Career Award this year, to recognize an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the Political Methodology field. The award committee -- Simon Jackman (chair), Elisabeth Gerber, Marco Steenbergen, Mike Alvarez -- is calling for nominations for this award, due no later than Monday May 28, 2007. Nominations may be sent to me. Needless to say, a brief statement in support of the nominee will greatly assist the committee in our deliberations.

Regards

Simon Jackman

Posted by Mike Kellermann at 12:00 PM