The Centers and Institutes listed below contribute significantly to the research and scholarly community at American University. Through the promotion of externally-funded research and graduate student learning, they enhance opportunities to create synergies among faculty and students to pursue a wide range of scholarship. The are critical to the process of innovation, collaboration, and discovery in a research university.
University-Wide Centers
College of Arts & Sciences
- Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
- Center on Health, Risk, & Society
- Info-Metrics Institute
- Institute for Innovation in Education
Kogod School of Business
School of Communication
- Center for Environmental Filmmaking
- Center for Social Media
- Foreign Correspondence Network
- Investigative Reporting Workshop
- J-Lab: Institute for Interactive Journalism
School of International Service
- Africa Council
- ASEAN Studies Center
- Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (COTELCO)
- Center on Non-Traditional Threats and Corruption (CONTAC)
- Peacebuilding & Development Institute
School of Public Affairs
- Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS)
- Justice Programs Office
- Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research
- Women & Politics Institute
Washington College of Law
- Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
- Center for International Commercial Arbitration
- Program on Information, Justice, and Intellectual Property (PIJIP)
- Program on International & Comparative Environmental Law
- War Crimes Research Office
