Centennial Center

for Political Science and Public Affairs

Visiting Scholars

The Centennial Center is a home away from home for political scientists working in DC. Through our Visiting Scholars Program, we host scholars from the United States and abroad as they conduct research or teach in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Located within the Association’s headquarters near Dupont Circle, the Centennial Center offers visiting scholars furnished shared workspace, a personal telephone, personal computers, wifi, conference space, a small reference library, a digital resource library (including digital recording equipment for interviews), and free coffee and tea. There is no charge for a visiting scholar residency, but your APSA membership must be up-to-date. Visiting scholars are encouraged to contribute to the intellectual life of the Association during their stay. This can include sharing their research via APSA’s blog, and brown bag presentations on their research. Visiting scholars are also offered the opportunity to contribute a summary of their research to the Center Page in PS: Political Science and Politics. Interested in becoming a visiting scholar? Apply here. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and you can apply anywhere from one week to one year before your planned visit.

Current Visiting Scholars

E. Nicole Thornton

Dr. Thornton’s work focuses on the persistence of structural racial inequality in liberal democracies in spite of expanding multicultural policies. Her research explores why and how some non-dominant populations have been left behind, while others have begin to realize the benefits of inclusion. Her current project seeks to answer these questions by comparatively analyzing multicultural policies in Trinidad and Maritius.

Pei Wang

Pei Wang’s research examines the mutual pursuit of ‘standing’, a concept drawn from Richard Ned Lebow’s work, by China, a rising power and the United States, an established power, and how the underlying element impacts the security dimension of China-US relations. While material power contributes to, is linked to, a nation’s quest for ‘standing’, constructivism would emphasize the non-material (ideational, social) elements of ‘standing’ as well. The current research is a part of the project for Pei Wang’s PhD thesis.

Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

Dr. Adraoui is a French Political Scientist whose research deals with the history of the US foreign policy towards the Muslim Brotherhood. In addition to being a Centennial Center Visiting Fellow, he is also a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Science Po Paris for his research on contemporary Salafism, and his dissertation is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2019.