Centennial Center

The Centennial Center’s mission is to advance the political science discipline, and we do that through a broad range of programs supporting research, teaching, and public engagement.

These include grant opportunities to support traditional research, and to support larger projects, including collaborations to produce innovative teaching materials, research partnerships between practitioners and academic experts on pressing public issues, and community-oriented programs aimed at enhancing civic engagement and efficacy.

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Georgetown Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute and Washington-Area Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute Consortium

May 3, 2022 Comments Off on Georgetown Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute and Washington-Area Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute Consortium

The continued relevance of political science requires transforming the composition of the population of students pursuing doctorates in the discipline to include groups that are currently under-represented, thereby enabling the diversification of the professoriate. We […]

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Geopolitics of Knowledge in the Covid-19 Era: A Policy Window for Epistemic Tension and Self-Determination in Africa?

May 2, 2022 Comments Off on Geopolitics of Knowledge in the Covid-19 Era: A Policy Window for Epistemic Tension and Self-Determination in Africa?

  The Covid-19 pandemic is a critical juncture in how knowledge is created and disseminated globally with different implications and outcomes for different geographies. It provides an opportunity to question how knowledge is gained or […]

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The Expansions Initiative

April 28, 2022 Comments Off on The Expansions Initiative

The Expansions Initiative seeks to increase the diversity of the political methodology community and the field of political science. The goal of the initiative is to encourage undergraduate and master’s students from underrepresented minority groups […]

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Breaking the Barriers to Entry: Workshops and Support for Mid‐Career and First‐Generation Pre‐Graduates

April 27, 2022 Comments Off on Breaking the Barriers to Entry: Workshops and Support for Mid‐Career and First‐Generation Pre‐Graduates

The Breaking the Barriers to Entry project seeks to host mid-career and non-traditional pre-graduates in a virtual summer workshop with the aim of socializing students into political science graduate programs.  Fourteen pre-graduates, selected through an […]

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Scope Conditions Podcast

April 22, 2022 Comments Off on Scope Conditions Podcast

Scope Conditions is a popular academic podcast showcasing cutting-edge research by emerging scholars in the broad field of comparative politics. Hosted by political scientists Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou, Scope Conditions ranges widely across themes, […]

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Political Scientist Training Academy

April 21, 2022 Comments Off on Political Scientist Training Academy

Doctoral training in political science focuses heavily on research – collecting and analyzing data, delving into theories and literatures, and writing culminating in a dissertation. Yet, the professional life of an academic is about a […]

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Introducing the 2022 APSA Special Projects Fund Winners

April 20, 2022 Comments Off on Introducing the 2022 APSA Special Projects Fund Winners

The American Political Science Association has awarded a total of $248,538 in Special Projects Fund grants to twelve projects. The thirty-two scholars who make up the twelve project teams collectively represent twenty-six institutions ranging from […]