THE ASSOCIATION OF CENTERS FOR THE STUDY OF CONGRESS Grant Announcement:

The Richard A. Baker Graduate Student Research Travel Grant  

The Association of Centers for the Study of Congress is now accepting applications for the 2010 Richard A. Baker Graduate Research Travel Grant. The grant supports graduate-level research conducted at member repositories of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC) (eligible research sites). An award of up to $500 may be used to underwrite travel, lodging, copying and other research expenses. Each application will be evaluated on its merits. Primary consideration will be given to projects involving the substantive study of issues related to the study of Congress. Each proposal should be aimed at a discrete end product such as a book, dissertation, thesis, article, documentary, film, exhibit, Web site or social networking site. Budgets may be approved in whole or in part. Each award recipient is required to acknowledge the award in any resulting published work(s) and donate a copy of the work(s) to ACSC and the sponsoring archival repository. The recipient may also be requested to submit a brief article summarizing their findings and research experience for publication by ACSC.

The Baker Award honors ACSC founding member and U. S. Senate Historian Emeritus Richard A. Baker. 

To apply, please send the completed application to the Scholarship and Awards Committee chair, Julia Collins (jcollins@suffolk.edu), by April 23, 2010.  Award notification will take place in mid-May 2010.