ISPP COMMITTEES & OFFICERS

A complete listing of the current ISPP leadership

Below are the Editors of ISPP Publications, Staff, Officers, and the at-large Members of the Governing Council. Please feel free to contact the Executive Director or any relevant Officer about any questions you may have about ISPP or about political psychology in general. For journalists and researchers, to obtain listings of experts in political psychology by subject areas, click here.

Interested in serving on ISPP’s Governing Council? The Governing Council is responsible for the decisions that guide the direction of ISPP. Nominations for the Governing Council are sought each year by the Nominating Committee and are announced on the website and in the newsletter. Self-nominations are welcome.

Editors of Political Psychology – Submit

Orla Muldoon
Co-Editor-in-Chief
University of Limerick
Ireland

Editors of Advances in Political Psychology

Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom
Hebrew University
Israel

Marco Steenbergen
University of Zurich
Switzerland

ISPPNews Editor – Newsletter Contact

Elaine Smith
University of Limerick
Ireland

ISPP Central Office

Executive Director – E-mail

Severine Bennett, CMP, PMP
USA
Executive Committee

Executive Administrator – E-mail

Minnie Chappell
USA

President

Christopher M. Federico
University of Minnesota
USA
Executive Committee

President-Elect

Joanne Miller
University of Delaware
USA
Executive Committee

Past President

Catarina Kinnvall
Lund University
Sweden
Executive Committee

Vice-Presidents

VP – Initiatives

Michael E. Morrell
University of Connecticut
USA
Executive Committee

VP – Communications

Tali Mendelberg
Princeton University
USA
Executive Committee

VP – Conferences

Laura Taylor
University College
Dublin, Ireland
Executive Committee

Treasurer

David P. Redlawsk
University of Delaware
USA
Executive Committee

Councilor

Leonie Huddy
Stony Brook University
USA
Executive Committee

Early Career Committee Chair

Boglarka Nyul
Tel Aviv University
Israel

Governing Council

Starting a third year in 2024

Magdalena Bobowik
University of the Basque Country
Spain

Hector Carvacho
P. Universidad Católica
de Chile
Chile

Elif Erisen
Yeditepe University
Turkey

Agustín Espinosa
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Perú

Mike Quayle
University of Limerick, Ireland/
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Starting a second year in 2024

Bert Bakker
Amsterdam School of Communication Research
The Netherlands

Allison Harell
Université du Québec a Montréal
Canada

Matthew Hayes
Washington University in St. Louis
USA

Hakeem Jefferson
Stanford University
USA

Mirra Noor Milla
University of Indonesia
Indonesia

Starting a first year in 2024

Diana Cárdenas
University of Montréal
Canada

Amanda Friesen
University of Western Ontario
Canada

Tetsuro Kobayashi
Waseda University
Japan

Silvia Mari
University of Milano-Bicocca
Italy

Danny Osborne
University of Auckland
New Zealand

View a list of all ISPP officers past and present HERE.

The bio statements for the 2024 election candidates can be viewed HERE. ISPP members, please check back here in the first part of 2025 for bios for the 2025 election candidates.