Monday, February 09, 2009
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....Celebrating 40 years of scholarship, teaching, mentorship, and community engagement
NCOBPS News
February 10, 2009
Features and Updates in the Organization
January/February Issue
Annual Meeting Updates
New Books
Promotions and Awards
Reports and Links
Grant Opportunity - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
40th Anniversary Meeting!
March 18-22, 2009
The Crowne Plaza - Downtown
1700 Smith Street
Houston, TX 77002-7317
Deadlines to Remember
Awards Nominations
Deadline
Monday, January 5th
Pre-Registration Deadline
Monday, February 16th
GAP Scholarship Applications Deadline
Friday, March 13, 2009
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SAVE THE FUTURE ANNUAL MEETING DATES
Thursday-Saturday ,
March 18-21, 2010
Thursday-Saturday,
March 17-20, 2011
Thursday-Saturday,
March 15-18, 2012
40th Annual Meeting Updates
Dear Colleagues,
HURRY! Pre-register and join us in Houston, TX on March 18-22, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel - Downtown.
MEMBERSHIP:
To join, please click on "Join Us" on the main menu (right side) and follow the prompts to payment. You must select a payment option in order to complete the process.
To renew, please click on "Membership Info" on the My Profile Menu (left side) and select the "securely pay your membership" and follow prompts to payment.
PRE-REGISTRATION:
Deadline - Monday, FEBRUARY 16, 2009.
Pre-registration payments (via electronic billing and postal mail) must be received by Friday, FEBRUARY 20, 2009. After February 16, 2009, the conference registration increases by $25.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS:
Hotel Reservations Deadline: March 4, 2009
Members are responsible for making own Hotel Reservations.
ROOM RATES= $109.00 per night
Reservations can be made by calling: 800.227.6963 or the direct telephone number: 713.739.8800. Please request the rate for the NCPBS - Annual Meeting.
A Preliminary Program should be available by Friday, February 27, 2009. A new link has been added to ALL ACADEMIC for participation acceptance/decline. Please log on to ALL ACADEMIC to confirm your participation. For more information, please contact:
GAP Scholarship Applications Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2009
Kathie Stromile Golden, GAP President Mississippi Valley State University Office of International Programs 14000 Highway 82 West, # 5209 Itta Bena, MS 38941-1400 Telephone: 662.254.3092
Julia Jordan-Zachery, Director of Black Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College. Jordan-Zachery is also a member of the NCOBPS Executive Council. For more information, please go to:
Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008
By Lisa Nikol Nealy
Price: $39.95
ISBN 0-7618-4457-0 / 978-0-7618-4457-0
Binding: Paper
Published by: University Press of America, Inc.
Publication Date: December 2008
Pages: 314 pages
Lisa Nikol Nealy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clark-Atlanta University. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and scholarly journal articles. She has also authored web articles on religiosity, presidential elections, black reparations, jail suicides, African American women's voting behavior, interest group politics, and research methodology. For more information, go to:
Juliet Hooker is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published numerous book chapters in edited volumes and journal articles that span Political Theory and Latin American Politics, with a special focus on Theories of Multiculturalism, Latin American Political Thought, and Afro-descendant and Indigenous Politics in Latin America. For more information, go to:
Recent Promotions and Awards. Congratulations to...
Elected Positions
Teri Fair, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. She was recently elected to Chairman of the Board of Directors for MassVOTE, a nonprofit organization in Boston that promotes voter education and civic engagement.
Michael Leo Owens, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Principal Investigator of Prisoners of Democracy Project at Emory University in Atlanta, GA was recently elected to the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association.
Promotions
Juliet Hooker was recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Texas at Austin.
Awards
Dewey Clayton, Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville received the 2009 Eleanor Young Love Award. The award is given based on principles espoused in the Mission Statement of the Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission. It is the mission of the Human Relations Commission to promote unity, understanding, and equal opportunity among all people of the Louisville Metro area and to eliminate all forms of bigotry, bias, and hatred from the community.
REPORTS AND LINKS
A Religious Portrait of African Americans
In January, the Pew Center Forum on Religion and Public Life
released a report entitled, "A Religious Portrait of African Americans." To view, please go to: http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=389#a
The Big Picture of the Inauguration
Please visit this site for a great collection of aerial and world-wide photographs:
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research funds highly-qualified individuals to undertake broad studies of the most challenging health policy issues facing America. We will award approximately 10 grants of up to $335,000 each to investigators from a variety of disciplines to support projects that combine creative and conceptual thinking with innovative, policy-relevant approaches.
We welcome applications from investigators in the health, social and behavioral sciences as well as other fields. We seek a diverse group of applicants, including minorities, early-career investigators and individuals who work in nonacademic settings such as research firms and policy organizations. Applicants must be affiliated either with educational institutions or with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in the United States or its territories. Past Investigator Awardees are ineligible to apply.
Letter of Intent Deadline: March 25, 2009
The complete call for applications is available at
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