Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop on best practices for funding your research with small grants.
3-4:30 PM Eastern | Monday, February 10, 2025
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This webinar brings together faculty mentors and graduate scholars with experience winning research funding to share strategies for finding grant opportunities, crafting applications, managing funds, and more. Featured panelists include:
- (Moderator) Kelsey Osborne-Garth, Michigan State University
- Ronay Bakan, Johns Hopkins University
- Jamil S. Scott, Georgetown University
- Katharine Petrich, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Please direct all questions to Grad@apsanet.org.
APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession’s virtual workshop series features accessible, high-quality professional development opportunities for political science graduate students. Watch previous workshop events and view the supplementary resources here.
Meet the Panelists:
Ronay Bakan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where she specializes in political violence, peacebuilding, urban politics, race and ethnicity, and critical methodologies. Her research employs ethnographic methods to investigate the socio-spatial dimensions of everyday warfare, particularly focusing on racialized and ethnicized populations in the Middle East. Bakan earned her BA and MA degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Turkey. In 2018-2019, she was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. Her book project, titled Counterinsurgent Urbanism: Weaponizing Land and Heritage in the Kurdish Region of Turkey, examines why and how states use urban development and heritage-making as tools in counterinsurgency strategies.
Dr. Jamil Scott is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Government Department at Georgetown University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University. Her research interests focus on the political behavior of political elites and the mass public in the United States, particularly emphasizing how race and gender impact political decision-making. Scott uses various methodological strategies, including survey measurement, experiments, and interviews, to capture how identity shapes political life. Her work has been funded by organizations such as the Center for American Women and Politics, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the New American Foundation, and the American Political Science Association. In addition, Scott (with various co-authors) has been published in journals such as Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, American Politics Research, and the Journal of Politics.
Dr. Katharine Petrich is an Assistant Professor of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies and program chair of the MA in Threat Intelligence at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA. In addition, she is a nonresident Fellow with the Irregular Warfare Initiative and a Truman National Security Project Security Fellow. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northeastern University, specializing in International Relations. Her research is primarily focused on insurgency, terrorism, and transnational crime in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Kate is dedicated to an ethnographic qualitative research approach and spends a significant amount of time in the field interviewing violent actors and their law enforcement counterparts.
(Moderator) Kelsey Osborne-Garth, is the co-chair of the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession and a PhD student in Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude at Lee University, where she served as the 2019-2020 president of Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor society. At Michigan State, she studies American Politics with an emphasis on race and ethnicity politics. She is particularly interested in the study of American identity, attachment to national symbols, and how these affect political behavior and public attitudes. Kelsey is particularly dedicated to racial justice and considers herself an activist scholar. In the summer of 2020, she began a petition that amassed over 11,000 signatures to remove a confederate monument across the street from her university’s admissions building. This encounter has inspired much of Kelsey’s work to date.