First-Generation Scholars

Meet Glen Billesbach, 2020 First Generation Scholar in the Profession

Glen Billesbach is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida where he studies political theory and international relations. His research interests include critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to technology and […]

2020 Elections

What You Should Know about Election and Voter Fraud

What You Should Know about Election and Voter Fraud The purpose of the APSA Election Assistance Task Force is to foster broader knowledge and understanding of non-partisan election assistance, including resources on non-partisan voter mobilization organizations, […]

2020 Elections

Sharing Student Research on Voting Rights on Social Media

By Sara Chatfield This past year, I taught a senior capstone seminar focused on voting rights in the United States. Students selected a contemporary voting rights issue to research. Their topics included felon disenfranchisement, pre-registration […]

Civic Engagement

Unfair Treatment by the Police May Matter Even More Than We Thought When It Comes to African Americans and the Legal System: Lessons from ‘Black and Blue’

In 2018, we published Black and Blue: How African Americans Judge the U.S. Legal System (Oxford University Press). Based on a nationally representative survey of African Americans, this book presents one of the most comprehensive […]

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American Political Science Review

Meet the New Class of APSA Public Scholarship Fellows

APSA is pleased to announce the 2020 class of the new Public Scholarship Program. The Public Scholarship Program is a remote, part-time fellowship that introduces political science graduate students to the intellectual and practical aspects […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Meet the 2020-2021 APSA Minority Fellowship Program Fellows (Fall)

The APSA Minority Fellows Program (MFP) is a fellowship competition for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds applying to or in the early stages of doctoral programs in political science. The MFP was established in 1969 (originally […]