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Announcing the 2019 Janet Box-Steffensmeier Scholarship and John A. Garcia Scholarship


The Society for Political Methodology and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) have worked together to establish two scholarship awards that are intended to encourage women and under-represented graduate students to attend the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. The awards are named in honor of Janet Box-Steffensmeier and John A. Garcia, major figures in quantitative social science research and strong supporters of the ICPSR Summer Program.

The Janet Box-Steffensmeier Scholarship is a waiver of Program Scholar fees to attend one or both of the ICPSR Summer Program's four-week sessions. The scholarship will be awarded to a maximum of three women graduate students in Ph.D. programs.

The John A. Garcia Award is a waiver of Program Scholar fees to attend one or both of the ICPSR Summer Program's four-week sessions. The scholarship will be awarded to a maximum of three under-represented graduate students in Ph.D. programs.

Recipients of the Box-Steffensmeier and Garcia Scholarships will also receive funds to present their research at the poster session of the 2019 Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting, which will be held at MIT in Cambridge, MA from July 18-20, 2019. For more information about the Summer Meeting, visit http://polmeth.mit.edu/

To apply for the Box-Steffensmeier or Garcia Scholarships, you should register for the 2019 Summer Program using the online form at www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin and select classes in one or both of the four-week sessions. Note that course selections may be modified and changed later. But, the Box-Steffensmeier and Garcia Scholarship Committee may use an applicant's preferred courses as a criterion in the selection process for the respective scholarships. Along with a completed registration, an application must include:

  • A current vita
  • A cover letter from the student, explaining how the specific classes the student plans to take in the ICPSR Summer Program will contribute toward completion of the Ph.D.
  • A faculty letter endorsing the student

Visit the ICPSR Summer Program website at www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog for application instructions, course descriptions, and a complete schedule.

The application deadline is March 31, 2019.

The leaflet is available here.

View all recipients of the Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier & John A. Garcia ICPSR Scholarships