Funding Opportunities

and

Research and Teaching Awards

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This webpage has several sections: a section listing travel awards, a section listing awards for papers that have been presented at conferences, a section listing general research funding (major foundations, and relatively focused opportunities) , a section listing dissertation funding, a section listing "best dissertation" awards, a miscellaenous section (i.e., awards for datasets, etc.), and a section listing teaching awards.

These lists are, of course, incomplete. If you come across additional opportunities, please send them to Kate Bratton, and I'll update the page accordingly.

1. LSU Graduate School Travel Award ($250)

Contact Kate Bratton for Political Science $100 supplement to Graduate School Travel Award, to be given with preference to students who have not yet received it, first come first serve (6 available annually))

2. APSA Travel Grant, Graduate Students (deadline passed for 2008 conference. Deadline is likely in May 2009 for 2009 conference.)

3. Midwest Scholarships. Deadline for 2009 conference is likely in January--check website for more info.

5. SPSA Prestage-Cook Award, Travel to the SPSA Conference. Check website--date not available yet.

6. Fund for Latino Scholarship, Travel Grant (generally used for Travel to APSA). Deadline August 3, 2008.

1. APSA Section Paper Awards. Deadlines for nominations vary from December through May; self-nominations usually (but not always) allowed.

Includes the Deil Wright award (APSA, Federalism); American Judicature Award (major conference, Law and Courts); Congressional Quarterly Award (APSA, Legislative Studies); Best Paper on Public Policy (APSA); Party Politics Award (APSA); Herbert Kaufman Award (APSA, Public Admin); Leon Weaver Award (APSA, Representation and Electoral Systems); Founders Award (major conference, Graduate Student paper, Presidency); Society of Political Methodology Poster Award (APSA poster); Gosnell Prize (methods, conference between 8/1/06 and 7/31/07); Best Paper on Women and Politics (APSA); Best Paper, Political Theory (APSA foundation panel); Best Grad Student Paper, Information Technology (major conference, Graduate Student paper); Sage Paper Award (APSA, Comparative Politics); Best Paper Award (APSA, European politics); Best Paper Award (APSA, State Politics and Policy); Best Graduate Paper Award (APSA, State Politics and Policy); SPPQ Award (major conference, State Politics and Policy); Paul Lazarfeld Best Paper Award (APSA, Political Communication); Best Paper by a Graduate Student Award (APSA, Political Communication, Graduate Student); Best Paper Award (APSA, Political Economy); Christian Bay Best Paper Award (APSA, New Political Science); Best Paper Award (APSA, Political Psychology); Best Presentation Award (APSA presentation, Undergraduate Education Section); Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award (APSA, Politics, Literature, and Film); Best Faculty Paper (APSA, Foreign Policy); Best Graduate Student Paper (APSA, Foreign Policy, Graduate Student Paper); Sullivan Award (APSA, Elections, Public Opinion, Voting, Graduate Student Paper); Best Paper Award (APSA, Comparative Democratization); Best Paper Award (APSA, Human Rights).

2. SPSA Paper Awards

Includes the Malcolm Jewell Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper; The Marian Irish Award for Outstanding Women & Politics Paper; Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award

3. Midwest Paper Awards

Includes the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (best paper); Westview Press Award (best paper by a graduate student); Kellogg / Notre Dame Award (Best Paper in Comparative); Best Paper in IR Award; Lucius Barker Award (best paper on race or ethnicity and politics honoring the spirit and work of Professor Lucius Barker); Patrick J. Fett Award (best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency); Review of Politics Award (best paper in normative political theory); Robert H. Durr Award (best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem); Sophonisba Breckinridge Award (best paper in women and politics).

4. Western Paper Awards

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper; Betty Nesvold Women and Politics Award; WPSA Best Paper Award on Latino/Latina Politics; Award by Committee on the Status of Blacks for an outstanding paper discussing issues and problems that concern most Black Americans; the Charles Redd Award for Best Paper on the Politics of fthe American West.

5. Southwest Paper Awards

Includes the Best Graduate Student paper award, the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (best paper); the Jewel L. Prestage Award (best paper on gender, race, ethnicity, and political behavior); Allen Saxe Best Paper Award (best paper on state and local politics); Ted Robinson Award (best research proposal by a graduate student in the field of minority politics)

1. Ford Foundation

2. Russell Sage Foundation

3. Social Science Research Council Grants

4. Hewlett Foundation

5. Carnegie Corporation

6. Joyce Foundation

7. Kellogg Foundation

8. Anne E. Casey Foundation

1. APSA Minority Fellows Program, for entering PhD students (apply for students beginning programs in Fall 2009)

2. Fund for Latino Scholarship, Travel Grant (generally used for Travel to APSA)

3. Rita Mae Kelly Endowment Fellowship Supports research on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and political power. Supports pre-dissertation graduate students research, or travel for public presentation on such a project.

4. APSA, Special Fund for the Study of Women and Politics Supports the study of women and politics.

5. Presidency Research Group Fellowships Supplemental support for research on the relationships, institutions, and environment surrounding the President.

6. Carrie Chapman Catt Prize Designed to encourage and reward scholars embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics. Open to graduate students.

7. Carl Albert Center Visiting Scholars Program Supports researchers working at the Center's Archives. Open to graduate students.

8. IFES Democracy Studies Fellowships $5,000 annually to outstanding graduate students to conduct research in democracy development, election administration, or civic participation in the political process. Fellows are based at the IFES Research Center for 8-10 weeks, and must complete a paper for presentation to the public or IFES colleagues.

9. Institute for Humane Studies #3,000 stipend and travel expenses for two IHS seminars, to support work on a paper or dissertation chapter that reflects an interest in the classical liberal tradition.

10. Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (International Research & Exchanges Board) Supports in-depth field research in policy-relevant subject areas related to Southeast Europe and Eurasia (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan). Open to graduate students.

11. Social Science Research Council Grants

1. SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (NSF)

NSF dissertation improvement grants are an excellent opportunity for funding of the dissertation project.

2. LSU, Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship

3. Section Dissertation Support Awards

Includes Bryan Jackson Dissertation Award (study of race / ethnic politics in an urban setting)

4. International Dissertation Research Fellowships

Supports graduate students conducting dissertation research outside of the U.S., supported by Social Science Research Council and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

5. Social Science Research Council Grants

1. LSU Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Nominations (nominated by Deans)

2. APSA Dissertation Awards

Includes 8 awards for: Comparative Politics, State and Local Politics, Public Law, Policy Studies, International Relations, American Government, Political Philosophy, and Public Administration. Deadline is in January.

3. Organized Section Dissertation Awards, APSA

Includes 13 separate section awards for: Legislative Politics; Presidency Research; Religion and Politics; Urban Politics; Science, Technology and Environmental Politics; Women and Politics; European Politics and Society; Politics and History; Political Economy; Political Psychology; Race, Ethnicity and Politics; Comparative Democratization; Human Rights.

Dissertations must be from previous calendar year. Deadlines range from early January through mid-April.

4. Proposal Awards

Includes the John T. Williams Award for the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology.

Includes Data Set Award (award for publicly available dataset that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative)

1. Best Instructional Political Science Website Award

(Cost of one-year's membership in APSA and ITP section)

2. Grosser Award (LSU Political Science, $250)

Nominations to be made by faculty or students, before April 15, 2008. Self-nominations permitted. Students should have independently taught their own course at some point between Spring 2006 and Fall 2007 (including summers). Award given based on teaching evaluations, written teaching philosophy, and any supplemental materials submitted (i.e., instructional material or letter from faculty mentor, etc.)