The APSA Women’s Research Mentoring Workshop will be held virtually in Spring 2023. The workshop is sponsored and organized by the American Political Science Association and funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Political Science Association. The workshop will be an opportunity for women in all subfields of political science to network with peer scholars and female mentors in their field and receive focused expert feedback on their research.

Apply Now! Applications are due February 22, 2023.

The workshop will consist of a 2-day program. Participants will be arranged into small groups and assigned to senior mentors based on their research area.  Each attendee will circulate a working research paper or similar product (e.g., book chapter, grant proposal) to group members prior to the workshop, and will receive at least one hour of feedback from her working group. There will also be sessions on career development facilitated by senior scholars, such as: publishing, developing a tenure case, writing grant proposals, effective and efficient teaching, conferences and networking, and work/life balance.

Scholars who self-identify as women, non-binary or genderqueer, and who received a Ph.D. in political science from a U.S. institution in the last 5 years, are encouraged to apply.

Are you a tenured woman scholar interested in serving as a mentor?  Please volunteer using this short form


Please note: One of the purposes of the workshop is generalizable research, to evaluate the workshop’s effects.* To that end, attendees will be randomly selected from the pool of eligible applicants.  Completion of the application indicates consent to be a research subject.
*Mentors are not research subjects. 

This workshop is not associated with the APSA Mentor program.