APSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Small Research Grant Program. This year awards averaging $2,111 went to nine proposals. The Small Research Grant Program supports research in all fields of political science, designed to support the research of political scientists who are not employed at Ph.D.-granting institutions. For more information on the program and application procedures, please visit the APSA web site at http://www.apsanet.org/section_509.cfm. The 2009 Small Research Grant competition cycle reopens December 1, 2008.

Karen L. Baird, Purchase College, State University of New York. “The Power and Production of Silence: The Invisibility of Women of Color in Federal Level HIV/AIDS Policies”

Erik J. Bleich, Middlebury College. “Making it Hard to Hate: Limiting Freedom in the Name of Cohesion”

Michele E. Commercio, University of Vermont. “Women's Proclivity Toward Islamic Education in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan”

Annabelle Conroy, University of Central Florida. “Explaining Policy Innovation at the Regional Level of Government: Free Health Care Provision in Bolivia”

Renee A. Cramer, Drake University. “Catching Babies and Catching Hell: The Legal and Social Regulation of Midwife-Attended Homebirth in the United States”

Matthew J. Dickinson, Middlebury College. “Presidents and Executive Branch Political Appointments, 1933–2006: Responsive or Neutral Competence?”

Rhonda L. Evans Case, East Carolina University. “Assessing Judicialization of Refugee Policy in Australia”

Rebekah Herrick, Oklahoma State University. “Factors Affecting State Legislators Perceptions of Constituent Interests”

Alba Hesselroth, Lewis University. “The Role of Policy Ideas and Non-state Actors in Economic Policy Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Policy Ideas and Non-state Actors in the Bolivian and Peruvian Processes of Market-Oriented Reform”