Founded in 1974, and holding its first conference in January 1975 at the University of Keele, the American Politics Group is a Political Studies Association sub-group. It is the major professional organisation for researchers and lecturers in the UK whose work concentrates on the government and politics of the United States. Membership is not restricted to the UK, and APG conferences regularly attract the involvement of trans-Atlantic and European colleagues. The Group holds an annual 3-day conference in January of each year, an annual colloquium hosted at the British Library in London in November, as well as other events. In recent years APG members have raised money to establish a program of travel awards for UK postgraduate students.
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Committee members
Chair
Dafydd Townley
(University of Portsmouth)
Vice Chair
Katie Pruszynski
(Independent Researcher and Consultant)
katie.pruszynski@gmail.com
Web Team Lead & Newsletter Curator
Pete Finn
(University of Greenwich)
Treasurer
Josephine Harmon
(University College London)
2023 Conference Convenor: Alex Waddan
Associate Professor, School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
2024 Conference Convenor: Richard Johnson
Senior Lecturer in US Politics & Policy, Queen Mary University of London
2025 Conference Convenor: Jon Herbert
Senior Lecturer, Keele University
2026 Joint Conference Convenors:
Emma Long, Associate Professor in American History and Politics at University of East Anglia
Dafydd Townley, Senior Teaching Fellow at University of Portsmouth