2026-2027 IPS Executive Committee Elections (Open until March 6th)

[IPS Section]

Dear IPS Members,

The IPS section is now ready to elect members to its 2026-2027 Executive Committee for the following positions:

• Vice-chair & Program Chair
• Member-at-Large (x2)

The Program Chair is responsible for curating and building the IPS Conference program for the 2026 ISA Conference, working with other Section Chairs and the ISA HQ Team. In the year following, this person will be Chair (and then Past Chair). They will be part of the IPS prize committees, and any other initiatives in the Section.

 

Members-at-large serve for a two-year term. They participate in the initiatives of the Section and can participate in the IPS prize committees.

 

The election will run until FRIDAY MARCH 6TH. The results will be shared at the annual business meeting in Columbus. All IPS members are very welcome to participate.

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email the outgoing chair Philippe M. Frowd at pfr...@uottawa.ca.

Vote here: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/IPS/Election 

 

The candidacies are as follows.

 

VICE-CHAIR & PROGRAM CHAIR

 

Candidate 1: Erica Simone Almeida Resende (Brazilian War College)

Erica Resende has a double BA in Legal Studies and International Relations, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is Assistant Professor (tenured) of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian War College, in Rio de Janeiro. She has authored peer-reviewed articles and books both in English and Portuguese, and has written extensively about memory and trauma in International Relations, critical security studies, as well as US foreign policy. Her work has appeared in journals such as International Studies Perspectives, Global Affairs, International Affairs, Societies, European Review of International Studies, Contexto Internacional, and in books published by Palgrave MacMillan, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis. She has served the ISA in multiple positions, such as chair of the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity, member of the ExCom of the Global South Caucasus, member of the Academic Freedom Committee, and more recently, as president of the Latin American and the Caribbean Region, and member of the ISA ExCom. She has served as Program Chair for the 2023 ISA Virtual Conference, the 2022 WISC Conference, and has continuously served as Section Chair at the European ISA since 2022. Her full resume may reached at: https://wwws.cnpq.br/cvlattesweb/PKG_MENU.menu?f_cod=B6DCC8F2C5138DCE27A7D3FED50DFF62#

 

MEMBER-AT-LARGE #3

 

Candidate 1: Kai An Lam (University of Macau)

Kaian Lam is an assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Macau (www.kaianlam.com). There is a place for storytelling and self-styled narration in world politics. She develops her projects within IPS, having participated in virtual IPS seminars in both Brazil and the Netherlands. Her research on multilingual negotiations in Europe was awarded by the Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) of the ISA. She was then invited to be a member of the DPLST awards committee. She received a PhD in African Studies from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon in 2020 and a Master’s in African Studies from the University of Lisbon in 2016. She completed her undergraduate education at the Catholic University of Portugal and the University of Macau. Kaian Lam speaks Chinese, English, and Portuguese, and uses French and Kriolu Kabuverdianu. Her papers are published/forthcoming in International Political Sociology, Mediterranean Politics, Visual Studies, Island Studies Journal, African Studies, Visual Ethnography, etc. Besides attending large international conferences, she has been part of smaller events, e.g. ‘Co-laborating for Change’ Doing Peace Workshop (June 2025, IFSH Hamburg); Yale Africa-China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions (March 2024, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo); CA/AC Research Network ‘Writing for Impact’ Workshop (June 2023, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg).

 

MEMBER AT LARGE #4

 

Candidate 1: Akinyemi Oyewale (University of Warwick)

I am a multi-award-winning scholar in International Relations and Security and the course director for MA in IR at the University of Warwick, UK. I have (co)authored/co-edited/contributed to works with highly reputable journals/publishers such as the Security Dialogue, Routledge Press, Palgrave Press, and Manchester University Press and I have two ongoing monographs on counterterrorism in the Global South. In addition to my important work on ‘bottom-up’ (in)security and reinscribing race into IR theory, I have championed decolonisation at various levels and spheres of society, and I am currently the co-ordinator of the Decolonising Curriculum Working Group (DCWG) at the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), Warwick. As a teacher, my contribution to teaching and learning has been recognised both locally at Warwick (Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence and Butterworth Memorial Awards in 2023), nationally (British International Studies Association Early Career Excellence in Teaching International Studies in 2024) and internationally (International Studies Association’s Deborah Gerner Innovation in Teaching Award in 2025). My philosophy of Leaving Nobody Behind (LNB) translates into everything I do, and I am particularly excited to be given this opportunity to serve as a Member-at-Large of the International Political Sociology (IPS) section of the International Studies Association.   

[IPS Section]

Dear IPS Members, 

This is a friendly reminder that the 2026-2027 IPS Executive Committee elections run until today! 

All the best,

IPS Communications Team 

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Dear IPS Members,

The IPS section is now ready to elect members to its 2026-2027 Executive Committee for the following positions:

• Vice-chair & Program Chair
• Member-at-Large (x2)

The Program Chair is responsible for curating and building the IPS Conference program for the 2026 ISA Conference, working with other Section Chairs and the ISA HQ Team. In the year following, this person will be Chair (and then Past Chair). They will be part of the IPS prize committees, and any other initiatives in the Section.

 

Members-at-large serve for a two-year term. They participate in the initiatives of the Section and can participate in the IPS prize committees.

 

The election will run until FRIDAY MARCH 6TH. The results will be shared at the annual business meeting in Columbus. All IPS members are very welcome to participate.

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email the outgoing chair Philippe M. Frowd at pfr...@uottawa.ca.

Vote here: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/IPS/Election 

 

The candidacies are as follows.

 

VICE-CHAIR & PROGRAM CHAIR

 

Candidate 1: Erica Simone Almeida Resende (Brazilian War College)

Erica Resende has a double BA in Legal Studies and International Relations, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is Assistant Professor (tenured) of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian War College, in Rio de Janeiro. She has authored peer-reviewed articles and books both in English and Portuguese, and has written extensively about memory and trauma in International Relations, critical security studies, as well as US foreign policy. Her work has appeared in journals such as International Studies Perspectives, Global Affairs, International Affairs, Societies, European Review of International Studies, Contexto Internacional, and in books published by Palgrave MacMillan, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis. She has served the ISA in multiple positions, such as chair of the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity, member of the ExCom of the Global South Caucasus, member of the Academic Freedom Committee, and more recently, as president of the Latin American and the Caribbean Region, and member of the ISA ExCom. She has served as Program Chair for the 2023 ISA Virtual Conference, the 2022 WISC Conference, and has continuously served as Section Chair at the European ISA since 2022. Her full resume may reached at: https://wwws.cnpq.br/cvlattesweb/PKG_MENU.menu?f_cod=B6DCC8F2C5138DCE27A7D3FED50DFF62#

 

MEMBER-AT-LARGE #3

 

Candidate 1: Kaian Lam (University of Macau)