2025 Conference

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About the 2025 Conference

The 9th Annual Summer Conference on Election Science, Reform, and Administration (ESRA) will take place from Monday, June 9 through Wednesday, June 11 2025 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. 

Planning for the conference is currently underway! Sign up for our mailing list to receive updates as information becomes available, including notifications about conference registration. 

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2025 Call for Proposals

The 2025 conference call for proposals is now open! Proposals are due by February 21, 2025. More information about the call and how to apply can be found here: 
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2025 Host Committee

 

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Lonna Atkeson

Lonna Atkeson is the director of the LeRoy Collins Institute, a nonpartisan, statewide policy think tank that uses applied social science to understand and provide solutions to state and national problems. Her research focuses on elections, political behavior, public opinion, and public policy.

 

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Brooke Beazer

Brooke Beazer serves as Deputy Director of the LeRoy Collins Institute, where she works closely with the Director to advance the organization's mission. Prior to joining the Institute, Brooke founded and led TGN, an advocacy organization dedicated to inclusive education.

2025 Program Committee

 

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 Joseph Coll

Joseph A. Coll is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. His research examines election policies, specifically public opinion towards election policies and how election policies affect political behavior and public opinion. Joseph’s recent academic works include examinations of the differential effect of election policies on voter fraud beliefs and voter confidence between Black and white Americans, the racial threat foundations of support for voter qualifications, and how election access and election administration interact to shape voter turnout.

 

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Mark Earley

Mark Earley has been working in the elections field for over 30 years, the past eight as the elected Supervisor of Elections of Leon County, Florida. In addition to his elected office, Mark is an active member of the Florida Supervisors of Elections, Inc., having served as its President, and currently serving as the Vice-Chair of FSE’s Cybersecurity Committee and as a member of its Legislative Fast Response Team. At the federal level, Mark serves on the Executive Committees of both the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC) and the Local Leadership Council of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). He also serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Elections and is a representative of the Election Center on the USPS Mailers’ Technical Advisory Committee.

 

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Yimeng Li

Yimeng Li is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leroy Collins Institute at Florida State University. His research focuses on American politics and quantitative methods. His research in election administration includes voting by mail, provisional ballots, voter confidence, and voting technology. He received his M.Sc. with Distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.

 

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Anita Manion

Dr. Anita Manion is an Assistant Professor in Political Science and affiliate faculty in gender studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Anita’s research focuses on the impact of policy on issues of equity, particularly in areas of elections, education policy, and local government. Anita’s work has been recognized the Junior Faculty Investigator of the Year Award, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Excellence in Civic Engagement Award, the Excellence in Collaborative Research Award, and the Women’s Trailblazer Award.

 

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Michael Morley

Professor at the Florida State University College of Law