The Center offers a wide selection of funds, each supporting a different, specific research purpose.

Each fund has a different limits on the maximum size of a research grant they can support. If you have questions about the level of funding that a Centennial research fund can provide, please contact our team before applying.

• Second Century Fund: Supports general professional opportunity grants, including research and teaching affiliated with the Centennial Center.
• Edward Artinian Fund for Publishing: The Artinian Fund supports programs that encourage and assist early career scholars in publishing their research. Applications for this fund should follow the collaborative publication concept specified in the Call for Applications.
• Marguerite Ross Barnett Fund: Supports research on diversity, cultural nationalism, African-American voting behavior, education policy, or urban and minority policy and politics.
• James Bryce Fund for Political Science: Supports the global study of political life and the internationalization of the political science discipline.
• Huang Hsing Chun-tu Hsueh Fellowship Fund: The Chun-tu Hsueh Fund supports international scholarship, especially from Asia.
• Warren E. Miller Fund in Electoral Politics: The Miller Fund supports research in national and comparative electoral politics.
• Alma Ostrom and Leah Hopkins Awan Civic Education Fund: The Ostrom Fund supports the Association's promotion of democratic engagement; efforts to advance understanding of self-governing systems; the possibilities of moving from authoritarian to democratic systems; and the critical role of citizens in a democratic polity. Grants can support training seminars, publications, out-reach activities, and research.
• Presidency Research Fund: Supports scholars conducting work on the presidency, and whose work brings them to Washington, D.C. to examine executive politics.
• Rita Mae Kelly Fund: Supports research on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and political power.
• William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies: The Steiger Fund enables Congressional Fellowship Program alumni to extend their stays in Washington for research. It also supports scholarly research in any aspect of domestic or international legislative politics.
• Women & Politics Fund: Supports scholarship in the field of women and politics.
• Fund for Latino Scholarship: This fund supports Latino/a graduate study as well as Latino/a scholarship, research, and activities that advance our knowledge of Latino/a politics. Additionally, the fund is used to support Latino/a junior faculty. The Fund for Latino Scholarship is administered by the Latino Caucus in Political Science/Sector Latino de Ciencia Politica. If you are interested in seeking funding from this fund, please contact [email protected] for more information.
• Paul A. Volcker Fund: Promotes and supports excellence in research and theory on public administration issues affecting governance in the United States and abroad. This award is administered by the Organized Section for Public Administration. For more information, visit their website.

Your membership with APSA must be active in order to be eligible for a grant. You do not need to be a member of our visiting scholar program in order to be eligible for a grant. Senior or junior faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students are all strongly encouraged to apply.

A Centennial grant assists APSA members with the costs of research, including travel, interviews, access to archives, or costs for a research assistant. Funds can also be used to assist scholars in publishing their research. Indirect costs (using grant funds for rent or overhead) and fringe benefits are not covered by a Centennial Center research grant. If you have questions about what a grant covers, please contact the Centennial Center team before applying at [email protected].

Applications for the Centennial Center research grant program require:

• A copy of your CV
• An abstract (maximum 1 page, double spaced)
• Project statement (up to five pages in length, double spaced) including a detailed description of the topic; the originality of the proposed study; a summary of the basic ideas and hypotheses; the methodology to be used; the present status of your research; the relevance of your grant application to the grant fund(s) selected; the materials that will be used, and, if applicable, the importance of Washington-area resources to your research.
• The above materials must be submitted in a single pdf.
• Two recommendations are required for Centennial Center grant requests from graduate students, and/or for grant requests beyond $2500 (for workshops, conferences, etc.). Your recommendations should speak to the specific research being proposed, as well as your qualifications to undertake it (not required for Artinian Fund applications).

Applications for the Visiting Scholar Program are also separate from applications for a research grant. If you are interested in supplementing your grant with a stay in the Centennial Center, click here for more information.