Call for Applications: Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2024

The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award scholars whose research areas focus on one of the following target research areas.

Applications are due May 6, 2024. Apply Now!

Target Research Areas:

  • race, ethnicity and politics
  • racial and social justice
  • systemic racism, inequality and inequity
  • gender, sexuality and politics
  • LGBTQ+ politics
  • accessibility politics

Qualitative, quantitative, interpretive, or mixed methodological approaches are welcome.

Award Conditions and Details

Grants will range between $2000 – $2500. Funds can be used to support: access to data or archival records, paying undergraduate or graduate student research assistants, purchasing statistical software to facilitate research; costs associated with manuscript preparation, costs associated with travel for fieldwork or research site visits, and professional development activities (such as skills or methods training acquisition).

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be in the early career stage. For the purposes of this grant, an early career individual is defined as an individual who has earned a PhD in political science no more than six years ago and, who can be described as pre-tenure, contingent faculty, a post-doctoral fellow, a practitioner political scientist who works outside of the academic sector, or recent PhDs who are on the job market for a political science related position. Applicants must demonstrate that their research area focus falls within one or more of the aforementioned target research areas.

Learn more about the submission guidelines and submit your application here. 

Applications are due May 6, 2024. 

Please email diversityprograms@apsanet.org with any questions about the application.

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