Conference, Training, and Grant Information for Graduate Students

Conferences

Below are some important, annual political science conferences. Note that if you want to present a paper at one of these conferences,
you have to submit your paper proposal far in advance, sometimes as much as a year in advance. A good calendar of conferences from across the
the discipline can be found here.

The biggest conference of the year is the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Labor Day Weekend.

The second biggest general political science conference is the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, in April.

A smaller but closer meeting is the Southern Political Science Association meeting, in November in 2003 but then in Jaunary in 2004.

The biggest international relations meeting is the International Studies Association meeting, in March.

A smaller but very good IR conference is the Peace Science Society meeting, usually around Halloween.

A cross-subfield conference which specializes in formal theory is the Public Choice and Economic Science Association annual
meeting. In the 2002-2003 year it will take place during March.

Summer Language Training Opportunities

Middlebury College summer language workshops, located in Vermont. Intensive summer language training in Arabic, Chinese, French, German,
Russian, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.

Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute, located in Madison, Wisconsin. Intensive summer language training in Khmer, Vietnamese, Tagalog,
Thai, Burmese, Hmong, Javanese, Lao, and Indonesian.

Intensive Language Institute at the University of Maryland offers Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.

Note that these and other summer language training programs are costly, perhaps beyond what Emory is willing to pay for. One federal source
of support for language training is the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program (FLAS).

Methods Training

For quantitative and formal training, there are (at least) two places to take summer courses:
Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, located in Colchester, United Kingdom

There is a new summer workshop program called the Summer Training Institute on the Empirical Implications of
Theoretical Models. This program runs about four weeks, and includes specialized training on formal models and
developing empirical models to test them. In summer 2003, there will be (differing) EITM programs at Washington University in St. Louis
and the University of Michigan.

There is a workshop on qualitative methods which takes place in January, the Training Institute on Qualitative Research Methods, currently
located at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Grants

There are a number of places to get grants for dissertation research. They include:
National Science Foundation
Social Sciences Research Council
MacArthur Foundation
Fulbright Scholarships

Post-Doctoral Fellowships

There are a few opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, where the arrangement is usually that you spend a year at a particular
institution finishing your dissertation or conducting post-dissertation research. They include:
John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, located at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard-MIT Data Center, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, located at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, located at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Center for International Security and Cooperation, located at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Center for International Studies, located at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, located at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Mershon Center, located at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Brookings Institute, located in Washington, DC.
United States Supreme Court Fellows Program, located in Washington, DC.
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Program.
Nuffield College (Oxford) Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships, Oxford, United Kingdom.