Georgia Political Science Association
The Georgia Political Science Association (GPSA) is the professional association for political scientists in Georgia, USA. Founded in 1968, the GPSA holds an annual conference in Savannah, Georgia in November. Conference participants are from Georgia, other U.S. states, and overseas. Although political scientists are in the majority, the conference is definitely interdisciplinary. Participants have included political scientists, historians, economists, humanists, sociologists, criminologists, anthropologists, public administrators, philosophers, students, interested non-academics and many others. Currently, the membership numbers around 200 political scientists teaching in Georgia. The GPSA publishes a refereed online proceedings of the conference.
Both the University System of Georgia Board of Regents Academic Advisory Committee for Political Science and the European Union Studies Certificate Steering Committee traditionally meet during the conference.
The GPSA Board of Directors consists of seven officers and eight at-large board members. The GPSA Vice President and program chair organizes the annual conference program from proposals received by July 1 of each year. Panels and roundtables are assembled from the accepted proposals and individual papers. Seven sessions of four concurrent panels each are spread over two days. Four to six presentations are assigned to each panel. All interested persons may submit proposals.
The GPSA has several awards. The McBrayer Award and an accompanying $500.00 cash prize is awarded in years when a paper of outstanding scholarship within the academic discipline of political science is presented in its entirety at the conference. The Donald T. Wells Award is given annually to a member for recognition of outstanding service to the Georgia Political Science Association. The Roger N. Pajari Undergraduate Paper Award is given annually to the best undergraduate paper submitted to meet the requirements of an undergraduate political science course taught in the state of Georgia and nominated by the professor teaching the course.
GPSA members participate in the activities of the American Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association and the American Society for Public Administration. The association actively supports Politics and Policy, a professional scholarly journal.
Past Presidents
- Sandy Reinke, 2013
- Thomas E. Rotnem, 2012
- Greg Domin, 2011
- Carol Pierannunzi, 2010
- James LaPlant, 2009
- Chris Grant, 2008
- Karen McCurdy, 2007
- Sudha Ratan, 2006
- Scott E. Buchanan, 2005
- Adam Stone, 2004
- Gwen Wood, 2003
- Unknown, 2002
- Charles S. Bullock, III, 2001
External links
- Georgia Political Science Association
- GPSA Board of Directors
- Criminal Justice Association of Georgia
- Proceedings of the annual conference
- Donald T. Wells Outstanding Service Award
- Roger N. Pajari Undergraduate Paper Award
- Call for Proposals and Presentations
- Politics and Policy
- American Society for Public Administration
- Southern Political Science Association
- American Political Science Association
- European Union Center of the University System of Georgia
- USG Academic Advisory Committees
- GPSA Acronym
- Georgia Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration
- Journal of Politics
