In July 2003 Katrina Gamble, a Ph.D. student at Emory University, was among the first visiting scholars to use the new APSA Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs. She used her time at the Center to work on her project “A Seat at the Table: Race, Representation, and Deliberation in the United States Congress.” Five years latter Katrina Gamble has her Ph.D. in hand and is currently an assistant professor at Brown University.
The Center offers fully furnished office space.
The Center is the physical manifestation of APSA's commitment to expanding the boundaries of scholarly and public understanding of political institutions and behavior. Located within the Association's headquarters, the Center provides advanced graduate students, post-docs, and junior and senior faculty members with furnished office space, conference and library facilities, telephone, and Internet connections, computers, as well as access to George Washington University's Gellman Library.
Dr. Gamble is one among the many successful alumni that once called the Center home. To date the Center has hosted more than 100 visiting scholars, whose stays have ranged from a few days to a full year. Most of the Center's residencies are advanced graduate students at work on their dissertations; however a large component of our alumni came to the Center as assistant professors.
A strong tradition of supporting international scholars is a part of the Center's mission. Over a third of the visiting fellows have been international scholars representing 17 countries. Currently Chieko Otsuru, Kansai University, Japan, and Benoit Monange, Institute of Political Studies, France, are at work in the Center.
Two visiting scholars in the Centennial Center Library.
Since opening its doors the Center has distributed more than $48,000 in funding from more than six different endowments. The Center has been able to provide some form of funding to more than half of all scholars in residence. Two-thirds of those scholars were funded completely. The Warren E. Miller Fund for the Study of Electoral Politics, for example, is supporting Dr. Daniel DiSalvo, a visiting assistant professor at Amherst College while he works on his project “The Liberal-Labor Faction and the Democratic Party, 1948–1968.”
It is because of the generous support of members and friends of APSA that the Center has grown over the past five years. Continued support will enable the Center to provide more financial support to more visiting scholars. Having established itself as a locus of political science research in the nation's capital, the Center has just begun to take its first steps in the next series of goals. When the Centennial Center Advisory Board, the governing body of the Center, met in March board members discussed plans to advance the Center beyond its function of providing office space.
These next stages in the Center's development will focus on community building, by developing an alumni community of past scholars and by integrating the Center into the national political science community as well as the local Washington, D.C., community.
Looking to the future, the board hopes to work with other components of APSA and create programming that will bring together members of the Association in order to feature and disseminate new research being produced within the Center.
Thank you to all of you who have aided in the Center's success to date. Please continue to support the Center and its Centennial Endowments so that they can continue to grow in the next five years as they have in these first five. And should you find yourself in the Washington area, please stop in and see the Center for yourself, or better yet plan to make use of its facilities.
For more information on supporting the Center or applying for a residency as a visiting scholar please visit http://www.apsanet.org/centennialcenter.
Centennial Center Scholars, July 2003 to Present
2003
Katrina Gamble, Emory University, “A Seat at the Table: Race, Representation and Deliberation in the U.S. House”
Elvin, Lim, Oxford University, “Rheoric and Presidential Leadership”
Pamela Blackmon, University of Miami, “Economic Reform and Investment: Case studies on Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan”
Jana Von Stein, University of California-Los Angeles, “Domestic Politics and Compliance with the International Monetary Fund Treaty”
Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota, “Party Discipline in the Contemporary Congress: Rewarding Loyalty in Theory and in Practice.”
Dorian Woods, University of Tuebingen, “U.S.-American and British Family Policy in the 1990s”
Laverne Carter, St. Louis University, “Shifts and Reversals in the U.S. Social Welfare Policies for the Poor: A Case Study of Federal Community Health Centers 1991–2000”
Michael Heaney, University of Chicago, “The Evolution of Interest-Group Networks: A Study of U.S. Health Policy Domain 1997–2002”
2004
Susanne Zwingel, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, “Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women”
Derek Catsam, Minnesota State University-Mankato, “A Jail is Just Another House: The Albany Movement and the Meaning of Failure in the Civil Rights Movement”
Jo Freeman, “Gender Representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties”
Linda White, University of Toronto, “Law, Public Policy and Women's Rights: Comparing Canada and the United States”
Andrew Chadwick, University of London, “E Governments and the Changing State”
Neil Collins, University College Cork, Ireland, “Controlling Corruption in a Parliamentary System: Lessons from Ireland”
John E. Owens, University of Westminster
Richard Holtzman, University of Texas-Austin, “The Policy and Politics of National Service: The Case of the USA Freedom Corps”
Elchin Rizayev, Western University-Baku.
Raymond Gavins, Duke University, “The Meaning of Freedom: Black North Carolina in the Age of Jim Crow 1880–1965”
Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Illinois-Urbana, “The Evolution of Civil Rights Organizations in the Twentieth Century: Voting Rights and African American Politics”
Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University, “Sorcerer's Apprentices: Law Clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court”
Brendan Doherty, University of California Berkley, “The Geography of Presidential Reelection Efforts”
Thomas Wright, Harvard University, “The Absense of Balancing in the International System and Lessons for American Grand Strategy”
Lori A. Johnson, Wellesley College, “Who Governs the Courts?”
Martin Sweet, Dickenson College, “The Politics of Rights”
Pamela Walsh, Wayne State University, “Impact of Women State Legislators on Women's Health Policy”
Patrick Roberts, University of Virginia, “Crisis and Opportunity: Reputation and Agency Power in the Creation of the Department of Homeland Security”
Anne Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen
Richard Kearney, East Carolina University, “Reinventing Local Government in a Time of Budgetary Constraints”
2005
Eric Allina-Pisano, Colgate University, “A Modern Slavery: African Confrontations”
Emery Lee, Case Western Reserve University
Marian Currinder, College of Charleston, “Congress and the Contemporary Pursuit of Power”
Daniel Hofrenning, St. Olaf College, “The Allies & Adversaries of Religious Lobbyists: A Research Proposal”
Maria Rublee, University of Tampa, “Why States That Could Have—and Perhaps Should Have—Developed Nuclear Weapons, but That Decided to Exercise Nuclear Forbearance”
Martin Matravers, University of York, “Dangerous Severely Personality Disordered People, Responsibility, and the State”
Yuriy Yurichuck, Chernivtsi National University Cynthia Duncan, Capital University, “Globalized Movement: Understanding the importance of place, Movement and Ideas within the Falun Gong”
Marian Currinder, College of Charleston, “Congress and the Contemporary Pursuit of Power”
Thomas Holyoke, Hastings College, “Jumping on the Bandwagon: Non-Linear Dynamics in the Interest Group Coalition Formation”
Ben Friedman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jennifer Nou, Oxford University, “Making Efficiency Political”
Penny Griffin, University of Bristol, “The Sexual Configuration of Neoliberalism: How Discourses of Gender and Neoliberalism Interconnect to Produce gendered Meanings, Behaviors and Effects in the Global Political Economy”
Verena Fritz, Overseas Development Institute, “State Building in the Ukraine and Beyond”
Pamela Blackmon, Oklahoma State University, “Economic Reform and Investment: Case Studies on Kzakhstan and Uzbekistan”
Kenneth Wald, University of Florida, “Contemporary Jewish Political Behavior”
Jamie Baeza Freer, University of Essex, “The absence of an Institutional Pact in Building Presidential Democracies of Latin America's Southern Cone: The Cases of Argentina and Chile”
Brendan Doherty, University of California, Berkeley, “The Geography of Presidential Reelection Efforts”
Hannes Richter, University of New Orleans
Ursula Daxecker, University of New Orleans
Michael Heaney, Yale University, “The Evolution of Interest-Group Networks: A Study of U.S. Health Policy Domain 1997–2002”
Patricia Strach, University of Albany, “Public Administration in the Hidden Welfare State”
Robert Montjoy, University of New Orleans
Alana Hackshaw, University of Michigan, “Redefining the Bonds of Racial and Political Community; The Influence of Identity Politics Among African Americans and Afro Caribbeans”
2006
Shachar Nativ, Oxford University, “The Next Global Frontier: Explaining State Strategies Towards Electronic Money”
Natascha Zowislo, University of Bayreuth “Theories of Innovation and Innovation Policy in Germany and the U.S.”
Katrina Gamble, Brown University, “A Seat at the Table: Race, Representation and Deliberation in the U.S. House”
Khalil Marrar, Bradley University, “The Elusive Two-State Solution: American Foreign Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”
Eduardo Gomez, Brown University, “Saving Society: State Building and the Politics of Government Response to Health Epidemics”
Verena Fritz, Overseas Development Institute, “State Building in the Ukraine and Beyond”
Michael Heaney, University of Florida, “The Evolution of Interest-Group Networks: A Study of U.S. Health Policy Domain 1997–2002”
Isis Leslie, George Washington University, “The Vicissitudes of Romanticism in America”
Doron Shultziner, Oxford University, “Evolution and Democracy”
Nina Kasniunas, Loyola University, Chicago, “Impact of Interest Group Testimony on Lawmaking in Congress”
Erika Fowler, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marian Currinder, College of Charleston, “Congress and the Contemporary Pursuit of Power”
Liz Oldmixon, University of North Texas, “Israel's Advocates: Five Decades of Conflict and Cooperation”
Thomas Holyoke, Hastings College, “Jumping on the Bandwagon: Non-Linear Dynamics in the Interest Group Coalition Formation”
James Stoner, Louisiana State University, “Constitutional Resistance”
Patricia Sullivan, University of Georgia
Eduardo Gomez, Brown University, “Saving Society: State Building and the Politics of Government Response to Health Epidemics”
Daniel J. Minnich, Central Intelligence Agency, “Domestic Institutional Context and the Initiation of Conflict“
Stephen Watts, Cornell University, “Constructing Order Amid Violence: Military Interventions and Coalition-Building”
Elizabeth Saunders, Yale University, “Wars of Choice in International Relations”
Marketa Valkova, Brandeis University, “Human Rights in the U.S., British and French Foreign Policies Compared: The Case of Genocide in Sudan 1991–2005”
Daniel J. Minnich, Central Intelligence Agency, “Domestic Institutional Context and the Initiation of Conflict”
Takeshi Akiba, University of California Berkeley, “Federalism, Citizenship and Migration: The Eastern States, 1830–1850”
David Lehrer, University of Helsinki and Humboldt University, Berlin, “Postcommunist Financial Sector Reform, 1989–2004”
Brigitte Weiffen, University of Tuebingen, “The International Organization of the Democratic Peace”
Mark Miller, Clark University, “The Relationship Between Congress and the Federal Courts”
Jacques Hymans, Smith College, “North Korean Nuclear Proliferation”
Erik Lundsgaarde, University of Washington, “The Domestic Politics of International Redistribution: Societal Interests, Government Politics, and Foreign Aid”
Roger Bowen, American Association of University Professors
2007
Cynthia Burrack, Ohio State University, “Preaching to the Choir?”
Tom Flores, University of Michigan, “The Market and the State: The Politics of Property Rights and Economic Exclusion”
Michael Heaney, University of Florida
Susan Park, Deakin University, “Norm Contestation: The World Bank's Sustainable Development”
Shachar Nativ, Oxford University, “The Next Global Frontier: Explaining State Strategies towards Electronic Money”
Phillip Potter, Harvard University, “How to Reform a Rogue: Integration, Isolation, and International Conflict”
Marco Larizza, University of Essex, “Democracies Without Rights? An Empirical Analysis on Illiberal Democracies in Latin America (1980–2004)”
Verena Fritz, Overseas Development Inst., “State Building in the Ukraine and Beyond”
Wendy Ginsberg, University of Pennsylvania, “Roll Out the Barrel: The Case for Earmarks as More than Pork, and Why There's Still Beef”
Ann Rivlin, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “The Diversity Theory of Foreign Policy? American Presidents and Public Opinion”
Heath Brown, Roanoke College, “Campaign 2008: Presidential Election & Political Transition”
Christopher Lee, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Decolonization and Sovereignty in the Era of Bandung”
Marta Vrbetic, “From a Renegade to a Winner Intervening in the Balkans and Beyond”
Mary Breeding, American University, “Vote-Buying: Is it a Threat to Dyadic Policy Representation?”
Michael Sulmeyer, Oxford University, “Weapons Under Fire: Terminating Major Weapons Under Development in the U.S. Military”
Urska Grahek, European Parliament, “The Influence of the Constitution of the U.S.A. on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe”
Seyom Brown, Southern Methodist University, Tower Center
James Hollifield, Southern Methodist University, Tower Center
Robert Saldin, Johns Hopkins University, “War and American Political Development”
Stacie Pettyjohn, University of Virginia, “Talking with Terrorists: American Policy toward the ANC, PLO, Sinn Fein and Hamas”
Chieko Otsuru, Kansai University, “Congress in the Context of Deliberative Democracy”
John Baughman, Bates College, “The Development of Representation in the Antebellum House”
2008
Anthony Messina, University of Notre Dame, Kellog Institute, “Migration to Europe in an Age of Terror”
Benoit Monange, Institute of Political Studies, “Social Science Expertise and Politics, Comparing U.S., French, and EU Think Tanks: Similar Models Different Paths”
Daniel Disalvo, Amherst College, “The Liberal-Labor Faction and the Democratic Party, 1948–1968”
