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Last Call to Help Scholars Get to Boston in 2026
As APSA prepares for its 122nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, we’re seeing extraordinary demand for travel support – and a [...]
Criminal Communication: Public Representations, Repertoires, and Regimes of Criminal Governance By Philip Luke Johnson, Flinders University Criminal actors are widely assumed to maintain a low profile, exerting power through coercion and clandestine networks. Scholarship addressing […]
Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments By Alison L. Johnston, Oregon State University and Juliet Johnson, McGill University Do populist governments bend their economic policies to the preferences of bondholders? Populist governments should […]
Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South By Lee-Or Ankori-Karlinsky, Brown University Violent conflicts are often accompanied by symbols commemorating past violence. I argue that political symbols […]
The APSA Committee on the Status of LGBT Individuals in the Profession is sponsoring travel grants to support attendance at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting. About the Travel Grant Travel grants will support individuals who […]
Each year, the Centennial Center offers over $100,000 in research grants to APSA members through its Spring and Summer application deadlines. The application deadline for the Summer 2026 Centennial Center Research Grants (CCRG) is June 1st, […]
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Deborah Saki, covers the new article by Genevieve Bates, […]
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Deborah Saki, covers the new article by Daniel Steven […]
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Join Scholars for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Join political scientists in Boston for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 3–6, 2026, to explore the latest scholarship in political science around the meeting theme, “Democracy under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.”
September 3 – 6, 2026 | Boston, MA
May 15:
APSA Working Group Travel Grant
May 31:
APSA Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty in the Profession’s Award
June 1st:
Apply for APSA Summer Centennial Center Research Grants
June 1:
APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIG) Now Accepting Applications
June 15:
APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship
June 28:
APSA Committee on the Status of LGBT Individuals Travel Grants
July 15:
Call for Proposals for New Editor(s) APSA Organized Section Journal “Politics & Religion”
July 17:
PS Call for Papers: Special Issue for 2026 Midterm Elections
Introducing the APSA 2026 Council Nominees
The APSA Nominating Committee is pleased to announce its 2026 nominees for APSA Council. The call for council nominations was circulated among the membership; additional outreach to APSA committees and organized sections was also conducted. After careful deliberation, the nominating committee made its decisions on the 2026 slate.
Balloting will open on July 16, 2026, and conclude on August 15, 2026.
Update on Proposed Dissolution of SBE Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
APSA update on Proposed Dissolution of SBE Directorate at the National Science Foundation, recent calls to action for members, and resources for APSA members, professors, students, and academics in the discipline.
Webinar: Pursuing Non-Academic Careers with a Political Science PhD

Join us for a discussion focusing on how the core tools you learned in graduate school translate directly into high-impact roles in industry and non-profits and hear best practices on how to market yourself to non-academic employers.
May 13, 2026 @ 1:30 pm (ET) / 11:30 am (PT)
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