The inaugural International Society of Political Psychology Summer Academy (now ISPP Academy) was launched with great success in 2011, just prior to the annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. The ISPP Academy is designed as a three-day workshop, to be held each year immediately prior to the ISPP Annual Meeting.

The ISPP Academy aims to train interested faculty and students in both foundational research and cutting-edge methodologies in the area of political psychology. The Academy’s central objective is to spread interest and promote training in political psychology around the world. This is done through bringing together early career scholars in political psychology and related fields with leading political psychology academics who can provide insights into the leading research in the field and allow for detailed discussion on topics of interest to participants.

Johanna Dunaway (Texas A&M University), Ana Figueiredo (Instituto de Ciencias Sociales), Yasin Koc (University of Groningen), Rezvan Moghaddam (Scholar at Risk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), David Redlawsk (University of Delaware), Felicia Pratto (University of Connecticut), André F. Sales (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), Salvador Sandoval (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), Hermann Swart (Stellenbosch University), and Nicholas Valentino (University of Michigan).