Kay Lehman Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science and Chair, Department of Political Science, Boston College. She is a significant scholar in the study of American politics. Her book, Organized Interests and American Democracy (New York: Harper and Row, 1986) (with John T. Tierney) is a key work in the study of interest groups in America. 

She has served as Secretary of the American Political Science Association and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the 2004 Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovation in Teaching Political Science and is co-winner APSA's 2006 Frank J. Goodnow Distinguished Service Award.

Her main focus is on political engagement and activity in the United States, a field in which she has co-authored three books: Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response (with Sidney Verba; Harvard University Press, 1979); Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics (with Sidney Verba and Henry Brady; Harvard University Press, 1995); and The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender and the Paradox of Unequal Participation (with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba; Harvard University Press, 2001), which was a co-winner of the APSA Schuck Prize in 2002. She has also written numerous articles on the subject, including the essay on political participation in the American Political Science Association's recent volume on the State of the Discipline; and the chapter on “Inequalities of Political Voice” (with Benjamin I. Page, Sidney Verba, and Morris P. Fiorina) in Inequality and American Democracy (edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol; Russell Sage Foundation, 2005). Professor Schlozman has a long history of association with CAPS and with political science at Harvard, over and above her long-term collaboration with Verba. She has presented papers at CAPS seminars, she has been a visiting professor in the Government Department, in Social Studies, and in Women's Studies several times, and she has served on Government Department Ph.D. committees. The main project on which she will be working is a book (with Verba and Brady) on political inequality in the United States.

Reed Ueda, Professor of History at Tufts University, is an expert on American immigration history. He is co-editor with Professor Mary Waters of The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965, which is to be published in 2004. This is the major update to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups originally published in 1980. by Harvard University Press. His most recent publications include the edited volume, A Companion to American Immigration (Blackwell, 2006), and a chapter titled, “Pushing the Atlantic Envelope: Interoceanic Perspectives on Atlantic History,” in The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000 (edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Erik Seeman; Prentice Hall, 2006).  As an expert on patterns of naturalization and citizenship among immigrant groups, both historically and currently. Professor Ueda will help Professor Waters to organize (and be an active participant in) one of CAPS current major Faculty Research Initiatives, the initiative on immigrant political participation.  

Kristin A. Goss, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, was sponsored by Theda Skocpol. Goss' dissertation titled "Disarmed: The Real American Gun Control Paradox," won the 2003 American Political Science Association's Harold D. Lasswell Award for best dissertation in public policy and, in 2006, Princeton University Press published an updated version of it as Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America. During her years as a Harvard Government Department graduate student and continuing since receiving the Ph.D. in 2003, Goss has been a close collaborator with Skocpol on various research projects investigating the general question of why people do (or don't) participate in political life and how their participation or non-participation affects public policymaking. Their current joint endeavor is a Ford Foundation-supported (and CAPS-administered) project on "Women's Moral Authority and Agendas for American Public Policy," in which they seek to understand the evolution of women's organizations' policy priorities - and the moral language they used to justify their engagement - since the nation's founding.