Pennsylvania Political Science Association

72^nd Annual Meeting

“Heritage and the State”

Joint conference with the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association and the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association

Pennsylvania State Capitol

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

April 8 – April 9, 2011

2011 PPSA Preliminary Detailed Program

2011 MAASA Detailed Program

MAASA/MAFA/PPSA Joint Schedule

Hotel Information: The Hilton Harrisburg and Towers One North Second Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101-1601 Tel: 1-717-233-6000 Fax: 1-717-233-6271 Easy walking distance from the State Capitol Please make your reservations now. PPSA block is reserved through March 9. Use group code: PSA Room rate $129. Overnight guest parking $10.

Conference Registration: Preregister by March 23. Use the mail-in registration form, which includes details of registration fees and instructions for mailing. You can secure PPSA membership (and member registration rates) for the faculty of an entire department using the departmental membership form.

More About the PPSA: To learn more about the PPSA, please visit our web sites: Commonwealth: A Journal of Political Science: The journal of the PPSA is now published jointly with the Legislative Office for Research Liaison (LORL) of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The official PPSA web site includes a history of the PPSA and general information about the organization as well as links to data sources and news coverage of Pennsylvania politics. Dr. Fran Moran of New Jersey City University is the webmaster and NJCU hosts the site. Previous conference programs: · 71^st Annual meeting in 2010 at the State Capitol in Harrisburg. · 70^th Annual Meeting includes the program from the 2009 meeting at Elizabethtown, held jointly with the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association.

Call for Papers

Pennsylvania Political Science Association

72^nd Annual Meeting, Harrisburg

April 8-9, 2011

The Pennsylvania Political Science Association (PPSA) invites proposals for papers and panels to present at the 2011 meeting. The deadline for PPSA proposals will be January 31, 2011. The PPSA Annual Meeting includes panels and papers in all subfields of political science. Special features of the meeting include a section of research by undergraduate students as well as panels addressing politics and policy in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region.

In addition to the traditional PPSA panels, the 72^nd Annual Meeting will be held jointly with the 2011 Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association (MAASA) and the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association. The joint conference theme is “Heritage and the State.” See http://hbg.psu.edu/research/maasa/conferences.htm for more information on the theme and on submitting proposals to MAASA (note that the deadline for proposals to MAASA is earlier, January 10, 2011). PPSA proposals addressing the conference theme are also encouraged.

Program Chair:

E. Brooke Harlowe, Department of Political Science, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA 17745 (phone: 570-484-2341; fax: 570-484-2830; email: bharlowe@Lhup.edu)

Program Sections:

Political Theory: Michael Dillon, Department of Political Science, LaSalle University, 1900 W. Olney Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19041 (email: dillonm@lasalle.edu)

American Government and Public Policy: Lara M. Brown, Department of Political Science, Villanova University, St. Augustine Center for Liberal Arts 266, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085 (email: Lara.Brown@Villanova.edu)

Judicial Politics and Constitutional Law: Kyle Kreider, Department of Political Science, Wilkes University. 84 W. South St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18301 (email: kyle.kreider@wilkes.edu)

State and Local Government: John Kennedy, Department of Political Science, West Chester University, Room 206 Ruby Jones Hall, West Chester, PA 19383 (email: JKennedy@wcupa.edu)

Gender, Sexual Orientation, Race, and Ethnicity: Jean W. Harris, Department of Political Science, University of Scranton, O’Hara Hall 414, Scranton, PA, 18510 (email: harrisj2@scranton.edu)

International Relations: Mark Sachleben, Department of Political Science, Shippensburg University, 1871 Old Main Dr., Shippensburg, PA 17257 (email: mdsachleben@ship.edu)

Comparative Politics: Beth Admiraal, Department of Political Science, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 (email: bethadmiraal@kings.edu)

Undergraduate Student Research: Andy Miller, Department of Political Science, Wilkes University. 84 W. South St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18301 (email: andrew.miller1@wilkes.edu). For undergraduate student submissions, include name and contact information of a sponsoring faculty member.

Updated 3/28/11 by Stan Berard.