Center for Political Studies
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI
48106-1248
Voice: (734) 763-1348
Fax: (734) 764-3341
Designated Funds
Miller-Converse Lecture Series - The series is the University of Michigan's preeminent lecture series on American Electoral Politics. The Series honors the legacy of CPS Founder Warren Miller and Former CPS Director Philip Converse. Speakers have included Morris P. Fiorina, David Sears, Sidney Verba, Samuel L. Popkin, James A. Stimson, Virginia Sapiro, Larry M. Bartels, M. Kent Jennings, and John R. Zaller. Your support of this endowment will assure that this important lecture series stimulates intellectual creativity on central issues of American electoral politics. The lecture is presented annually in the spring.
Harold Jacobson Lecture in International Law - The Jacobson Lecture was established in 2002 to honor Harold Jacobson, former director of the Center for Political Studies. "Jake" was best known for his work international law and cooperation. Jacobson lecturers have included Edith Brown Weiss, Kathryn Sikkink, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Charlotte Ku, and David Kay. The lecture is presented annually in the fall.
Kenneth Organski Scholars Fund - This fund supports graduate students doing quantitative research in international politics and or political development. A.F.K. Organski was a distinguished scholar and a legendary teacher for many years at the University of Michigan. He is best known for his theoretical and empirical work on political capacity and demographic and power transitions. In prior years, Organski Scholar funds have also been used as matching funds allowing several graduate students to compete for funding to support their doctoral research.
- 2008 Winning Organski Proposal: Koremenos/Debroy
- 2007 Winning Organski Proposal: von Stein/Allendoerfer
- 2006 Winning Organski Proposal: Tessler/Corstange
Roy Pierce Scholars Fund - This fund provides summer support for two graduate students in the University of Michigan Political Science Department to work with a member of CPS faculty. The Pierce Fund honors Roy Pierce, who for almost 50 years was associated with Michigan's Department of Political Science. He became a researcher in the Center for Political Studies in the 1960s and remained active there until his death. Roy was a leading scholar of French politics and a creative practitioner of genuinely comparative research.
- 2008 Winning Pierce Proposals
- 2007 Winning Pierce Proposals
- 2006 Winning Pierce Proposal: Gallagher/Li
- 2005 Winning Pierce Proposals
Director's Strategic Initiatives Fund - This fund provides the Center and its director with resources to face difficult challenges and exciting opportunities, such as seed funding for a faculty research project and travel money for outstanding graduate students. The Center has an extremely limited source of discretionary dollars from which to draw, and your gift can make the difference between maximizing or missing an opportunity.