The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs offers over $100,000 per year in research funding to APSA members. Centennial Center Research Grants assist with the costs of research, including travel, interviews, access to datasets, auxiliary devices or services necessary for scholars with disabilities to conduct their research, and access to archives. Applications due May 15th of each year. Learn more

Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER)

APSA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) is a four-day, residential institute that provides political scientists with training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically engaged research. Up to 20 scholars will be selected as ICER Fellows and invited to attend the 2025 Summer Institute. ICER Fellows will network with other like-minded political scientists, and together, learn best practices for conducting academically robust, mutually beneficial scholarship in collaboration with communities, organizations, and agencies outside of academia. 

The Fund For Latino Scholarship

The Fund’s primary goal is to encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty). Grants will be made to individuals, institutions, and projects whose purposes most clearly match the goals of the Fund, and whose proposals most persuasively demonstrate capacity for successful completion.

Please contact the APSA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department for any questions at diversityprograms@apsanet.org.

Public Scholarship Fellowship

APSA’s Public Scholarship Program is a remote fellowship that introduces political science graduate students to the intellectual and practical aspects of presenting academic scholarship to the public. Before they begin writing, fellows participate in a public scholarship orientation and workshop and complete coursework to earn the ACES: Society for Editing certificate in editing. During the fellowship period, fellows work with authors and editors from APSA journals to produce public-facing summaries of peer-reviewed articles. Fellows also produce previews and recaps of Annual Meeting events, including author-meets-critics panels. The Public Scholarship Program was created in collaboration with the APSA Presidential Task Force for New Partnerships and is made possible thanks to the support of the Ivywood foundation.