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.

Matthew Green

Matthew Green’s work at the Centennial Center will focus on a book-length manuscript with three principle objectives: The first is to develop a new theoretical model of congressional leadership that can explain Gingrich’s leadership in both the majority and minority. The second is to measure of the degree of influence Gingrich had on congressional policy and politics. The third is to glean more general observations about leadership and politics in the modern Congress from the example of Gingrich’s career in the House of Representatives.

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.