Want to learn more about our grants? Check out our in-depth grant guide and our frequently asked questions. If you have questions about Centennial Center grants, you can also email the Centennial Center staff at centennial@apsanet.org.
Centennial Center Winter Grants
Grant Description: Growing Democracy grants support community-based programming led by political scientists that aims to bridge the boundaries between academia and community and break down the barriers between residents and governing institutions.
Grant Amount: Up to $10,000
Deadline: January 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST
Research Partnerships on Critical Issues (RPCI)
Grant Description: APSA’s Research Partnerships on Critical Issues program provides grants to diverse groups political scientists from different methodological and ideological backgrounds for collaborative, research-based projects aimed at advancing the public good.
Grant Amount: Up to $15,000
Deadline: January 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST
Peer-to-Peer Pedagogical Partnerships (P4)
Grant Description: APSA seeks proposals from members for projects that will bring together political science from research-intensive institutions and teaching-intensive institutions, including community colleges, to share expertise and produce cutting-edge teaching resources. These partnerships can be between scholars in a similar geographic area or from across the nation or world via Zoom.
Grant Amount: Up to $20,000
There will be no P4 grants in 2024.
Centennial Center Research Grants
Spring Centennial Center Research Grants (CCRG)
Brief Description: Supports research in all fields of political science conducted by political scientists in non-tenure track or contingent positions who are ineligible for departmental funding; political science faculty of all ranks who are employed in departments that do not grant PhDs; and graduate students.
Grant Amount: Up to $2,500
Summer Centennial Center Research Grants (CCRG)
Brief Description: Summer Centennial Center Research Grants are open to all APSA members. Grants are supported by a set of endowed funds, ten of which are managed by the Centennial Center for the purpose of supporting specific areas of research ranging. The full descriptions of these funds can be found on the here. The summer application deadline also offers a limited number of grants for mini-conferences, workshops, and other collaborative projects.
Special Projects Fund
The Special Projects Fund grants are awarded to collaborative projects aimed at advancing the political science discipline. Grants can be up to $25,000 per project. Past projects have advanced disciplinary knowledge, networks, and impact around a broad range of issues including climate justice, sexual discrimination and harassment, the cross-national study of race in the Americas, civically engaged research, Chinese politics, and support for junior women of color in the discipline.
The Special Projects Fund grants are not awarded on an annual schedule. Instead, the Special Projects Fund grants are offered at the determination of the APSA council with the guidance of APSA staff. There will be no Special Projects Fund grants in 2024.