APSA Diversity Fellowship Program: Travel Grant Application
The 2026 application cycle for the APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) Travel Grant opens on May 18, 2026 and closes June 28, 2026. Click here to apply.
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) Travel Grant provides support for the professional development of APSA Diversity Fellows, (both current fellows and program alumni) at the APSA Annual Meeting. Grants will be awarded to support direct costs of participating in the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting, held in Boston, Massachusetts.
How to Apply
To apply, login to your APSA profile and submit your online application.
The application deadline is June 28, 2026.
Please note that applicants who apply for the DFP Travel Grant should not apply for the Lee Ann Fujii DFP Travel Grant and vice versa. You may only apply to one type of DFP grant.
Eligibility and Application Information
Eligible applicants include:
- Funded and unfunded MFP or DFP Alumni who received their PhDs in political science between 2024–2026.
- Funded and unfunded MFP or DFP Fellows from the fellowship class of 2025-2026 or prior, who are currently enrolled in a political science PhD program
- Fellows must register for the meeting, if funds are awarded. Awarded grants may range between $250-$400.
NOTE: Priority will be given to APSA DFP Fellows and DFP Alumni who are current APSA members, who have not received (and who are not scheduled to receive) DFP funding during the 2025-2026 year, who are presenting a paper/poster or serving as a chair/discussant at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts or who are on the job market. Please send any questions to diversityprograms@apsanet.org.
The 2025 APSA DFP Travel Grant Recipients
| First Name | Last Name | Current Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Erika | Arias | Syracuse University |
| Chase | Brown | George Washington University |
| Amanda | Chen | Cornell University |
| Anson | Chung | CUNY Graduate Center |
| Angela | Danso Gyane | University of Missouri, Columbia |
| Aura | Gonzalez | Cornell University |
| Sarah | Hayes | Georgetown University |
| Paige | Hill | Stanford University |
| Sekou | Jabateh | University of California, Berkeley |
| Natalie | Jones-Kerwin | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Jake | Knievel | Idaho State University |
| Lucia | Lopez | University of Houston |
| Autumn | Lott | Duke University |
| Joyce | Nguy | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Savannah | Plaskon | University of California, Irvine |
| Joseph | Rodriguez | Duke University |
| Kevin | Russell | Emory University |
| Jessica | Taghvaiee | University of California, Irvine |
| Sonia | Vargas | University of Maryland |
| Gabriel | Vergara | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
APSA Lee Ann Fujii Travel Grant Application
The 2026 application cycle for the APSA Lee Ann Fujii DFP Travel Grant Application opens on May 18, 2026 and closes June 28, 2026. Click here to apply.
The APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) Travel Grant provides support for the professional development of APSA Diversity Fellows and alumni at the APSA Annual Meeting. The grant is named in honor of Dr. Lee Ann Fujii. Support for this grant, which is in its seventh year, has been generously provided by the Fujii family and Dr. Fujii’s friends and colleagues.
How to Apply
To apply, login to your APSA profile and submit your online application.
The application deadline is June 28, 2026.
Please note that applicants who apply for the DFP Travel Grant should not apply for the Lee Ann Fujii DFP Travel Grant and vice versa. You may only apply to one type of DFP grant.
Eligibility and Application Information
Eligible applicants include:
- Funded and unfunded MFP or DFP Alumni who received their PhDs in political science between 2024–2026.
- Funded and unfunded MFP or DFP Fellows from the fellowship class of 2025-2026 or prior, who are currently enrolled in a political science PhD program
- Fellows must register for the meeting, if funds are awarded. Awarded grants may range between $250-$400.
NOTE: Priority will be given to APSA DFP Fellows and DFP Alumni who are current APSA members, who have not received (and who are not scheduled to receive) DFP funding during the 2025-2026 year, who are presenting a paper/poster or serving as a chair/discussant at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts or who are on the job market. It will also be given to fellows and alumni whose research, teaching, or mentoring focuses in one or more of the areas of political violence, ethnicity and race, African politics, racial violence in the US South, comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, research ethics, or qualitative and interpretative methods. Please send any questions to diversityprograms@apsanet.org.
- View the 2025 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program Travel Grant
- View the 2024 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program Travel Grant
- View the 2023 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program Travel Grant
- View the 2022 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program Travel Grant
- View the 2021 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Program Travel Grant
- View the 2020 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Minority Fellowship Program Travel Grant
- View the 2019 Recipients of the APSA Lee Ann Fujii Minority Fellowship Program Travel Grant
About Dr. Fujii
Dr. Lee Ann Fujii, (1962-2018), was a highly respected scholar of political violence, ethnicity and race, African politics, field methods and comparative politics. She spent 2016 -17 as a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ where she was working on a new book on public violence.
Dr. Fujii was an associate professor at the University of Toronto. She was a member of the APSA Organized Section on Comparative Politics and the APSA Organized Section on Qualitative Methods. She was a dynamic teacher, skilled researcher and a valued mentor to many junior scholars, especially scholars from underrepresented backgrounds. To read more about Dr. Fujii and tributes to her contributions to the discipline, visit “Remembering Lee Ann Fujii”, PSNow’s “Remembering: Lee Ann Fujii, University of Toronto Political Science Professor”, and ” ‘An Ode to her Revolt:’ Remembering Lee Ann Fujii” in QMMR, Spring 2018.
Participation in APSA Diversity and Inclusion Programs is open to all interested individuals without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law. Applicants must satisfy any relevant program-specific criteria.