What is PRIEC?

“Thanks for the opportunity to present at PRIEC. The feedback I received was excellent, the best I have had yet at a conference.”

PRIEC is an ongoing series of meetings that brings together faculty and graduate students and showcases work-in-progress on racial/ethnic politics and the politics of immigration.  The consortium’s main objectives are to provide a forum and a resource for graduate students seeking mentoring and advice, and for faculty to collaborate and receive feedback on ongoing projects.

We welcome contributions from various perspectives, disciplines, and methods–with the only requirement that the work focus on politics (i.e. political behavior, political institutions, political processes, or public policy). We tend to have three or four meetings each year, mostly hosted by a college or university in Southern California.  In May 2009, we held our first meeting outside SoCal, in Berkeley, CA, followed by meetings at UW-Seattle and Stanford.

We have 3 meetings scheduled for 2010-11, with more to come.  Confirmed so far are: October 15 at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), November 12 at UC Riverside, and February 25 at UCLA.  Click on the links to the right for more information on meetings and other relevant announcements.

Finally, here is a poster for PRIEC that Pitzer came up with; by far the most artistic poster we have had so far. Kudos to Adrian Pantoja and the rest of the Pitzer crew for this excellent poster.