In December 2025, the Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession matched donations to the APSA Annual Fund to support the professional development of 25 first generation scholars in the political science discipline. The following scholars were awarded for the 2025 travel and accessibility reimbursement grant:

• Juan Acevedo, Graduate Center CUNY
• Ashraf Amiri, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Furkan Benliogullari, UC San Diego
• Angela Bohorquez Oviedo, University of Delaware
• Sanho Chung, National Taiwan Normal University
• Sierra Davis Thomander, Stanford University
• Soren Dudley, Harvard University
• Ivan Katchanovski, University of Ottawa
• Rafael Khachaturian, University of Pennsylvania
• Minji Kwak, University of Southern California
• William Kwok, Yale University
• Songeun Emily Lee, University of Houston
• Yen-Chieh Liao, University of Birmingham
• Chenchen Lu, Purdue University
• Adan Martinez, University of California, Berkeley
• Gregory Nelson, University of South Carolina
• Rowan Powell, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Jesus Rojas Venzor, University of California, San Diego
• Jochen Schmon, New School for Social Research
• Alberto Stefanelli, Yale University
• Hoi Kee Tsang, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
• Roberto Valli, EUI
• Anastasiia Vlasenko, Kyiv School of Economics, Columbia University
• Shuping Wang, Syracuse University
• Hongyu Zhang, University of North Carolina at Wilmington