Congressional Research Awards Announcement
DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2008.
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research
on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be
available in 2008. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.
The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying
Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public
administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The
Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their
dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for
dissertation research.
The awards program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations
are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. No
institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional
Research Award.
There is no standard application form. Applicants are responsible for showing the
relationship between their work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are
accepted at any time. Applications which exceed the page limit and incomplete
applications will NOT be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration.
All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2008. Awards
will be announced in March 2008. Complete information about eligibility and
application procedures may be found at The Center's Web
site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm. Frank Mackaman is the
program officer -- mailto:fmackaman@dirksencenter.org
The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a
private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to
the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research
Awards (formerly the Congressional Research
Grants) program has paid out $680,000 to support 350 projects.
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