MPSA Announces the Creation of the Linda F. Williams PhD Student Travel Scholarship

MPSA ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF THE LINDA F. WILLIAMS PHD STUDENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP

The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) is honored to announce the creation of a new Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, the “Linda F. Williams PhD Student Travel Scholarship”, to help defray the travel costs associated with attending the MPSA Annual Conference.

The scholarship honors the work and accomplishments of Linda F. Williams, Ph.D., the first African American woman to graduate from Rice University. Dr. Williams (1949-2006) received her PhD from the University of Chicago in political science and was a professor of political science at the University of Maryland at the time of her passing. She previously served on the faculty at Howard University, Cornell University and Brandeis University and was a consultant on election issues and interpreting election results to a variety of women’s groups including the National Women’s Political Caucus, the National Black Women’s Political Caucus, the Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the women’s issue group of the National Black Leadership Roundtable. She was the author of The Constraint of Race Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America and From Exclusion to Inclusion: The Long Struggle for African American Political Power, and numerous scholarly articles on race and crime, intersectionality, economic inequality, and urban politics.

Established in 2024, the Linda F. Williams PhD Student Travel Scholarship joins 15 other Graduate Student Travel Scholarships awarded by the MPSA to graduate student members in a doctoral program who are presenting at the annual conference. The scholarship will provide $500 in travel funding with an awarding preference to underrepresented groups.

Learn more about MPSA Graduate Student Travel Scholarships here. Your support of the discipline and political science scholars makes a difference! Consider making a tax-deductible donation to help fund this scholarship or other MPSA Graduate Student Travel Scholarships.

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About the MPSA

Home of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), one of the top-ranked academic journals in the discipline, the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science.

The purposes of the MPSA are to promote the professional study and teaching of political science, to facilitate communications between those engaged in such study, and to develop standards for and encourage research in theoretical and practical political problems. As such, MPSA is a nonpartisan association. It does not support political parties or candidates.