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, 2010-2012

  President:                          Robin Kolodny, Temple University*

 Past Presidents:                  James E. Campbell, University at Buffalo, SUNY*

                                           Jon Bond, Texas A&M University

                                           Christopher J. Bosso, Northeastern University

  President-Elect:                Alice M. Jackson, Morgan State University*

  Executive Director:           James I. Lengle, Georgetown University*

  Newsletter Editor:             John C. Kuzenski, North Carolina Central University*

  Members:                         Robert Alexander, Ohio Northern University*

                                            Rosalee Clawson, Purdue University

                                           Laurel Elder, Hartwick College

                                           John Ishiyama, University of North Texas*

                                           Brian Janiskee, California State University-San Bernardino

                                           Laura Jensen, Virginia Tech University

                                           Zoe Oxley, Union College

                                          Mark Petracca, University of California-Irvine

                                          Ron Rapoport, College of William and Mary

                                          James Simeone, Illinois Wesleyan University

                                          Rogers S. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

                                          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.