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The Dirksen Congressional Center is inviting applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U. S. Congress. The Center has allocated $50,000 in 2015 for grants (an increase of $15,000 over 2014) with individual awards capped at $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. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States. The grants program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study
The Dirksen Congressional 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.
All application materials relating to a research project must be received on or before March 1, 2015. Awards will be announced in April 2015.
For more information about the grant, more information about successful grants, and a link to the application form, please visit the Dirksen Congressional Center Research Grants website.