What is PRIEC?

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.  

In 2009-10, we will hold meetings in Seattle, Irvine, Riverside, Palo Alto, and UCLA. The fall 2009 meetings will be held at UW-Seattle on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 and at UC Irvine on Friday, Nov 6, 2009.  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.