PI SIGMA ALPHA- The National Political Science Honor Society

1527 New Hampshire Ave NW

Washington, DC 20036-1206

Phone: (202) 483-2512    FAX: (202) 483-2657

Email and WWW addresses: office@pisigmaalpha.org / www.pisigmaalpha.org

Administrator, National Office: Nancy McManus

Pi Sigma Alpha Executive Council, 2006 - 2008

President*:

 

James E. Campbell, University at Buffalo (NY)
Past Presidents: 

 

Jon Bond*, Texas A&M University
Christopher J. Bosso, Northeastern University
David T. Canon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
President-Elect*:

 

Robin Kolodny, Temple University
Executive Director*:

 

James I. Lengle, Georgetown University

 

 

Newsletter Editor*:

 

John C. Kuzenski, North Carolina Central University

 

 

Members:

 


Susan J. Carroll*, Rutgers University
Stephen Farnsworth, University of Mary Washington
Lori Cox Han, Chapman University
Audrey Haynes, University of Georgia
John Ishiyama, University of North Texas
Alice Jackson*, Morgan State University
Brian Janiskee, Cal State University- San Bernardino
Laura Jensen, Virginia Tech University
William Lunch, Oregon State University
Zoe Oxley, Union College
Mark Petracca, University of California- Irvine
Shirley Anne Warshaw, Gettysburg College
 

 

* Members of the Executive Committee

 

The Pi Sigma Alpha Newsletter is currently published twice per year in machine readable Internet-based format at www.psanews.org. The Newsletter is edited by Professor John C. Kuzenski at North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, who maintains and updates the web-based content as needed. Please send general communications about the Newsletter to Nancy McManus, Administrator of the National Office, Pi Sigma Alpha- The National Political Science Honor Society using her email address at the top of this page.

 

History of the Pi Sigma Alpha Newsletter (excerpt from Newsletter feature of Fall 2008, Vol. 17, No. 1- plus updates where appropriate)

The Pi Sigma Alpha Newsletter has been published continuously since Academic Year 1991-92 (volume 1). Its quality and utility to members was quickly realized under the inaugural editorship of Professor Charles M. Tidmarch of Union College (NY). Tragically, the Newsletter only benefited from Professor Tidmarch’s dedication until 1993, when he passed away at age 50 after an extended illness (see “Charles M. Tidmarch” (In Memoriam), Pi Sigma Alpha Newsletter 3:1, p. 3). That same year, ΠΣΑ welcomed its then-new Executive Director, James I. Lengle of Georgetown University, and Professor Lengle found and then entrusted the Newsletter’s editorship to Professor John Tierney of Boston College. Tierney’s editorship (volumes 3-9) brought a number of innovations and an expansion of news coverage throughout the Society. Professor John Kuzenski, who succeeded Tierney in Fall, 2000 (volume 9; the volume numbering structure was later overhauled to match the academic year with the Fall issue being "No. 1" and Spring issue being "No. 2"), has been Editor since that time and was charged with the successful transition of the Newsletter to its new all-electronic format on the World Wide Web during Academic Year 2008-09.