The Dirksen Congressional Center has awarded 337 grants totaling over $650,000 since 1978.  The table below lists grant recipients by year, their project titles, and the institutions with which the recipients were affiliated at the time of the grant award.

YEAR	NAME	INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION	PROJECT TITLE
1978	Neef, Marian	University of Illinois	Bibliographic Survey of Congressional Leadership
1979	Clausen, Aage	Ohio State University	Policy Positions of Congressional Party Leaders
1979	Cook, Timothy E.	Williams College	Committee Assignments and the Origins of Policy Change
1979	Peabody, Robert	Johns Hopkins University	Party Leadership in the Senate
1979	Schapsmeier, Edward	Illinois State University	Everett M. Dirksen: Senatorial Statesman
1980	Mezey, Michael	DePaul University	Apprenticeship and Participation in the House of Representatives
1980	Sinclair, Barbara	University of CA-Riverside	Majority Party Leadership in the Post Reform House of Representatives
1980	Tadie, Eugene	Northern Illinois University	The Political Economy of East-West Relations
1981	Arnold, R. Douglas	Princeton University	The Logic of Congressional Action
1981	Deering, Christopher and Smith, Steven	George Washington University	Policy Leadership in the New Congress
1981	Entin, Kenneth	California State College	The Leadership Network in the House of Representatives
1981	Hammond, Susan Webb	The American University	Informal Groups and Congressional Leadership
1981	Johannes, John and   McAdams, John	Marquette University	Congressional Leaders' Constituency Relations
1981	Kernell, Samuel	University of CA	Congressional Careers
1981	Loomis, Burdett	University of Kansas	Congressional Careers and Party Leadership
1981	Reichard, Gary	Ohio State University	Senate Leaders and the Civil Rights Revolution
1981	Schick, Allen	University of Maryland	Congressional Leadership and the Congressional Budget Process
1981	Sinclair, Barbara	University of CA-Riverside	Majority Party Leadership in the Post-Reform House
1981	Uslaner, Eric	University of Maryland	Congressional Leadership, Energy Policy Making, and the Nature of Policy Agendas
1982	Arnold, R. Douglas	Princeton University	The Logic of Congressional Action
1982	Deering, Christopher and Smith, Steven	George Washington University	House Majority Party Leadership and Committee Composition
1982	Hammond, Susan Webb	The American University	Informal Groups and Congressional Leadership
1982	Johannes, John and  McAdams, John	Marquette University	Congressional Leaders'  Constituency Relations
1982	Kaiser, Frederick	The Library of Congress	Congressional Leadership and Foreign Policy
1982	Kernell, Samuel	University of CA- San Diego	Congressional Careers
1982	Longley, Lawrence and  Oleszek, Walter	Lawrence University  Library of Congress	Conference Committee Politics
1982	O'Lessker, Karl	Indiana University	Income Redistribution Program
1982	Panning, William	University of Iowa	Patterns of Policy Leadership in the Senate, 1979-81
1982	Rosen, Elliot A.	Rutgers University	The Age of Conservative Coalition, 1932 - 1945
1982	Sullivan, Terry	University of Texas at Austin	Leadership Under New Rules: Partisan Leadership in the Post-Reform Era
1983	Browning, Robert X.	Purdue University	Committee Leadership & Policy Environments
1983	Hill, James P.	Central Michigan University	Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who will regulate the regulator?)
1983	Loevy, Robert	The Colorado College	The Senate Leadership and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
1983	Loomis, Burdett	University of Kansas	Career Development in the Post-Reform House of Representatives
1983	McGinnis, Kathleen	Trinity College	Theory-Building in Studies of Congressional Leadership
1983	Oppenheimer, Bruce	University of Houston	The Impact of Changing Time Constraints on Leadership Management of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
1983	Peabody,  Robert	Johns Hopkins University	Continuity and Change in Congressional Leadership
1983	Sinclair, Barbara	University of CA-Riverside	Issue Leadership and Policy Incubation in the U.S. Senate
1983	Smith, Steven	George Washington University	Leadership Interaction in Congress
1984	Cook, Timothy E.	Williams College	Newsmakers, Lawmakers, and Leaders: The News Media and Congressional Leadership
1984	Dodd, Lawrence	Indiana University	The Learning of Legislative Mastery: A Study of Former Legislators
1984	Frantzich, Stephen	U.S. Naval Academy	Congressional Leadership Video
1984	Patterson, Samuel	University of Iowa	The Congressional Party of the 1980s
1984	Robeck, Bruce	Texas A & M University	The Electoral Environment of Congressional Leaders
1984	Schaefer, William	The American University	Democratic House Leadership Tested: Budget Tax Battles of 1981
1984	Schick, Allen	University of Maryland	The Impact of the Congressional Budget Process on Congress
1984	Sullivan, Terry	University of Texas at Austin	Conversion Strategies and Success for Partisan Leadership
1984	West, Darrell	Brown University	Congressional Decision-Making and the Reagan Tax Cut
1985	Baker, Ross	Rutgers University	The Therapeutic Uses of the Party Caucus: The Use of a Party Panel to Foster Participation, Cohesion, and Member Satisfaction
1985	Brown, Lynne	New York University	House Democratic Leadership in the 100th Congress
1985	Cook, Mary Etta	Analyst, Congressional Research Service	Comparison of the Committees in U.S. House of Representatives
1985	Drucker, Julie	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Opportunities for Action: Informal Leaders in the House of Representatives
1985	Fowler, Linda	Syracuse University	Unseen Candidates: Ambition, Parties, and the Local Tradition
1985	Hammond, Susan Webb	The American University	Informal Groups in Congress
1985	Heilig, Peggy	University of Illinois	A Leader's 'Constituency Career': Did National Visibility, Redistricting and a Close Call Change the Home Style of Robert Michel?
1985	Himmelberg, Robert	Fordham University	Congress as the Crucible of National Politics, 1923-1932
1985	McCormick, James	Iowa State University	The Impact of Committee and Subcommittee Chairs on the Policy Activism of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
1985	Robeck, Bruce	Texas A & M University	The Electoral Environment of Congressional Leaders
1985	Thurber, James	The American University	Congressional Leadership and the Budget Process
1985	Tidmarch, Charles	Union College	Subcommittee Leadership Style and Effectiveness in the U.S. Congress
1985	Uslaner, Eric	University of Maryland	The Decline of Comity in Congress
1985	Windsor, Duane	Rice University	Exercising Congressional Leadership in the Budgetary Process
1986	Baker, Ross	Rutgers University	House and Senate: The Two Chambers Compared
1986	Bosso, Christopher J.	Northeastern University	Into the Third Century: A Survey of Congress and Its Future
1986	Cohen, Jeffrey E.	University of Illinois	Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy: A Test of Two Theories
1986	Dodd, Lawrence	University of CO-Boulder	Electoral Mastery and District Demography: A Study of Current Members of Congress
1986	Hibbing, John	University of Nebraska	Careers and Behavior in the Modern House of Representatives
1986	LeLoup, Lance	University of Missouri - St. Louis	Gramm-Rudman-Hollings: The Impact of Deficits and Fiscal Inflexibility on the Congressional Budget Process
1986	Shepsle, Kenneth and   Humes, Brian D.	Harvard University  Michigan State University	Institutional Innovation as a Leadership Strategy: Speaker Clay and the Committee System
1986	Swift, Elaine	Harvard University	The Transformation of the U.S. Senate, 1789-1841
1986	West, Darrell	Brown University	The Politics of Deficit Reduction
1986	Whiteman, David	University of South Carolina	Congressional Decision Making: Developing Models of the Acquisition and Use of Analytical Information
1987	Barry, John	Journalist	Speaker Jim Wright
1987	Dickerson, Kitty	University of Missouri-Columbia	Influence of Pressure and Counter-Pressure Groups on Congressional Leadership: Textile Trade Legislation
1987	Fails, Eleanor	Duquesne University	The American Congresswoman from 1970 - Present
1987	Hess, Stephen	The Brookings Institution	The Main Street Senate
1987	Kraft, Michael	University of Wisconsin	Congressional Leadership and Technological Risk Management
1987	LeoGrande, William	American University	Congress and Foreign Policy: The Struggle Over Central America
1987	Lessoff, Alan	Johns Hopkins University	Building the National City
1987	Loverd, Richard	Villanova University	Senate and White House Leadership: The Baker Experience
1987	Roberts, Susan	Winthrop College	Assessing Constitutional Deliberation in the U.S. Congress
1987	Rohde, David	Michigan State University	Leaders, Followers and Partisanship in the House of Representatives
1987	Sinclair, Barbara	University of CA-Riverside	Congressional Leadership in the Late 1980s-Strategic Adaptation to a Changing Environment
1987	Weisberg, Herbert	Ohio State University	Senate Voting on Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices
1987	Wires, Cheryl	Harvard University	Congressional Structure, Party Leadership, and the Retrenchment of Welfare State Policies
1988	Barry, John	Journalist	Speaker Jim Wright
1988	Berg, John C.	Suffolk University	The Congressional Black Caucus Budget and Black Leadership in the House of Representatives
1988	Bond, Jon R.	Texas A & M University	Congressional Leaders, Constituency Service, and Institutional Maintenance
1988	Fett, Patrick	Vanderbilt University	Presidential-Congressional Politics and the President's First Year Legislative Agenda: Carter, Reagan, and Beyond
1988	Gaskin, Thomas M.	Everett Community College	Senator Richard B. Russell and Lyndon B. Johnson: Death of A Friendship
1988	Owens, John E.	University of Westminster	A Longitudinal Study of Congressional Committee Leadership
1988	Palazzolo, Dan	University of Richmond	Leadership in the Budget Process
1988	Perotti, Rosanna	Case Western Reserve University	Congressional Leadership and Legislation as Dispute Resolution: The Case of Immigration Reform
1988	Smith, Steven	University of MN	Managing the Senate: Leadership and Complex Unanimous Consent Agreement
1988	Sullivan, Terry	University of NC	Assessing Strategies for Congressional Leadership: Bargaining and Procedural Control
1988	Ward, Daniel	New York University	Decision Making in Congressional Committees: The Effects of Time, Place, and Policy
1988	West, Darrell	Brown University	Television Advertising in Senate Campaigns
1988	Wlezien, Christopher	University of Iowa	The Politics of the Budgetary Process: A Study of System Dynamics and Presidential-Congressional Interaction
1988	Wright, John	University of Iowa	Organized Interests Before the Supreme Court: Confirmation and Rejection of Nominations to the Supreme Court
1989	Campbell, Karl	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Senator Sam Ervin and the Road to Watergate
1989	DeGregorio, Christine	The American University	Mapping the Congressional Leadership Terrain
1989	Downs, Michael	Mississippi State University	A Matter of Conscience: John C. Stennis and the Vietnam War
1989	Fleming, James S.	Rochester Institute of Technology	The Congressional Career and Leadership of Barber B. Conable, Jr.
1989	Hall, Richard L.	University of Michigan	Institutional Change and Committee Decision Making in the United States Congress
1989	Hofman, Steven	The Brookings Institution	The Role of House Leadership and Informal Groups in the Policy Process in the House of Representatives
1989	Jacobs, John	San Francisco Examiner	California Boss: The Life and Times of Phillip Burton
1989	Jones, Kenneth	Saint John's University	Congressional Leadership and the Poliomyelitis Assistance Act of 1955
1989	Kowalcky, Linda	Johns Hopkins University	The House Ways and Means Committee: Conflict Displacement in Tax Legislation
1989	Kraft, Michael	University of Wisconsin	Congressional Leadership and Technological Risk Management: Designing an Effective Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy
1989	Mitchell, Franklin	University of Southern CA	Confronting the American Dilemma: President Harry S. Truman, the South, and Postwar Race Relations, 1945-1953
1989	Span, Christopher	Marquette University	The FBI and the Internal Security Committee
1989	Stewart, Charles	Massachusetts Institute of Texhnology	Speakers, Parties, and Committees from Blaine to Rayburn
1989	Strahan, Randall	Emory University	Architects of Leadership
1989	Stubben, Jerry	Iowa State University	Leadership Influence upon the District Inheritance of Committee Seats in the United States House of Representatives
1989	Van Der Slik,  Jack	Sangamon State University	The Illinois Congressional Delegation: Behavior as Informal Groups
1989	Van Beek, Stephen	University of VA	When the House and Senate Meet: Congressional Conference Committee
1990	Calhoun, Charles	East Carolina University	Congressional Leaders and Republican Party Ideology in the Late Nineteenth Century
1990	Campbell, Karl	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Senator Sam Ervin and the Road to Watergate
1990	Cannon, James M.	Eisenhower Centennial Foundation	How Congress Shaped Ford the Man and Minority Leader, and Ford the President
1990	Dark, Taylor	Brookings Institution	Congressional Leadership and the Role of Interest Groups: The Case of Organized Labor
1990	Evans, Diana	Trinity College	The Impact of Committee and Subcommittee Leaders on Interest Group Policy Success
1990	Freeman, Douglas and   Young, Ray	Valdosta State College	Information Quality, Congressional Leadership, and Foreign Policy Decision Making
1990	Goldberg, Robert A.	University of Utah	Barry Goldwater and the Shaping of Modern America
1990	Jacobs, John	San Francisco Examiner	Ain't that a Bitch!: The Life and Times of Congressman Phillip Burton
1990	Kaiser, Frederick	The Library of Congress	Changing Roles of a Congressional Committee Chairman: "Doc" Morgan of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
1990	Kolodny, Robin	The Johns Hopkins University	The Role of the Congressional Campaign Committees in Party Development and Leadership Selection in Congress
1990	Peabody, Robert	Johns Hopkins University	Congressional Leaders in their Home Districts
1990	Rohde, David	Michigan State University	Party Leadership and Intraparty Cohesion Among House Democrats
1990	Steely, Melvin	West Georgia College	Unplanned and Unexpected:...Change Occurred in the Leadership of Both Parties...
1990	Tananbaum,  Duane	The City University of New York	Congress Versus the President: From Roosevelt to Reagan
1990	Uslaner, Eric	University of Maryland	Do Leaders Lead?
1990	Ziedel, Robert	St. Cloud University	Congressional Leadership and the Creation of United States Immigration Commission
1991	Ainsworth, Scott	University of GA	Managing the Senate Floor: Leaders and Unanimous Consent Agreements
1991	Baker, Ross	Rutgers University	The Role of Congressional Leaders in the Reduction of Political Exposure
1991	Browne, William	Central Michigan University	How Congress Decides: The Changing Dimensions of Agricultural, Rural, and Related Environmental Policymaking
1991	Caldeira, Gregory A. and   Patterson, Samuel	Ohio State University	The Social Matrix of Senate Leadership
1991	Choate, Jean M.	Iowa State University	William Lemke and the National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association
1991	Collier, Ken	University of Kansas	White House Relations with Congress
1991	Connelly, William F., Jr.	Washington & Lee University	The Permanent Minority Status of House Republicans
1991	Fenno, Richard	University of Rochester	Research on the Explanatory Process in Senate Campaigns
1991	Geiger, Shirley M.	University of South Carolina	The Effects of Environmental Change on Leadership Interactions and Decision Making in Subcommittees of the House Committee on Appropriations
1991	Jewell, Malcolm and Marcia L. Whicker	University of Kentucky/Virginia Commonwealth University	Comparing the Leadership Styles of Congressional and State Legislative Leaders
1991	Sherman, Janann	Harvard University	From Senate to White House: Margaret Chase Smith in the "Presidential Incubator"
1991	Simpson, Brooks	Arizona State University	Republican Realignment in the United States Senate, 1869-1880
1991	Sinclair, Barbara	University of CA-Riverside	Leadership Strength as a Response to Partisan Adversity: House Majority Party Leadership in the 1990s
1991	Strahan, Randall	Emory University	Congressional Leadership in Institutional Time
1991	Woods, Randall	University of Arkansas	Biography of Senator J. William Fulbright
1992	Beck, Nancy C.	University of Texas	Wright Patman and the Politics of Compromise: A Study in Congressional Leadership
1992	Canon, David T.	University of WI	Unconventional Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress
1992	Felton, Peter	University of Texas	J. William Fulbright's Leadership of Senate Opposition to the 1965-1966 U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic
1992	Fett, Patrick	Vanderbilt University	The President's Legislative Communications with Congress
1992	Hale, John F.	University of Oklahoma	Party Factionalism in Congress: The Case of the Democratic Leadership Council
1992	Hardt, Jan C.	University of Maryland	Strategies in Congressional Leadership Campaigns
1992	Howard, Connie	Indiana University of PN	Who in the World is Jeanette Rankin?
1992	Savage, James	University of VA	The Influence of Subcommittee Leadership in the House Appropriations Committee: The Chairmanship of William H. Natcher
1992	Schousen, Matthew	Duke University	The Politics of Congressional Reform: A Study of the Distribution of Power and Authority in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1890 and 1990
1992	Ward, Daniel	Rice University	Party Leadership in U.S. Senate Committees
1992	Zeiler, Thomas W.	University of Colorado	Congress and the Forging of the International Trade Order, 1941-1965
1993	Adler, E. Scott	Columbia University	Institutional Change and Policy Change in Congress
1993	Flehinger, Brett	Harvard University	The LaFollettes and the Progressive-New Deal Connection
1993	Jenner, Robert E.	University of Maryland	FDR's Republicans: Congressional Supporters of the President's Foreign Policy, 1935-1941
1993	Koed, Elizabeth	University of CA	The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
1993	Kretman, Kathy	University of Maryland	The Impact of Women's Legislative Caucuses on Public Policy: An Examination of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues and the Women Legislators of Maryland
1993	Peterson, Mark	Harvard University	From Vested Oligarchy to Informed Entrepreneurship in Congress: New Opportunities for Health Care Reform?
1993	Solovey, Mark	University of WI-Madison	Congressional Leadership in the National Science Policy: The Case of Social Science Research
1993	Talbert, Jeffrey C.	Texas A & M University	Processing Health Policy Agendas in Congressional Committees
1993	Thurber, Timothy	The University of NC	The Politics of Equality: Hubert Humphrey and the Quest for Racial Justice
1993	Vorenberg, Michael	Harvard University	Congress, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Politics of Emancipation
1993	Zelizer, Julian	Johns Hopkins University	Wilbur Mills: Congressional Power and the Administrative State
1994	Adler, E. Scott	Columbia University	Changing the Rules of the Game: Distributive, Informational, and Partisan Approaches to Congressional Reform
1994	Arnold, R. Douglas	Princeton University	The Elements of Legislative Accountability
1994	Barrett, David	Villanova University	Senator Richard Russell and Congressional Oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-1970
1994	Brune, Lester	Bradley University	Historiographic Materials on Congress and the Korean War, June 1950 to July 1953
1994	Fastnow, Christine	University of Iowa	Principals, Agents, Partisans, and Leaders: Toward a Theory of Minority Party House Leadership
1994	Frantzich, Stephen	U.S. Naval Academy	Congressional Leadership in the C-SPAN Era
1994	Hennefeld, Carolyn Mohr	University of Colorado	Congress and Social Movements: Political Learning and the Civil Rights, Women's, and Environmental Movements, 1920-1990
1994	Huelskamp, Timothy	The American University	From the Ground Up: Committees on Agriculture in the United States Congress
1994	Johnson, Robert David	Harvard University	Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition
1994	Kenski, Henry	University of Arizona	How Media Portray Congress
1994	Krugler, David	University of Illinois	The Voice of America or the Voice of Congress? U.S. Government Broadcasting and the Meaning of the Cold War
1994	Levy, Dena	University of Iowa	The Long Road to Representation: Boxer and Feinstein's Career Paths to the Senate
1994	Potts, Steve	University of NE-Lincoln	All the Fruits of the Garden: Congress, The New Frontier, the Great Society, and Federal Policy Toward Native Americans, 1961-1969
1994	Radomsky, Susan	University of Chicago	Society and National Politics at Washington, 1856-76
1994	Stone, Gary	Columbia University	The Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1973
1994	Taylor, Andrew	University of Connecticut	Divided Government, Domestic Policy and Political Change, 1955-1992
1994	Vinson, C. Danielle	Duke University	Local Media Coverage of Members of Congress: Using Local Media to Communicate with Constituents
1994	Wagner, Wendy	Case Western Reserve University	Legislating Science: Congress, Science, and Environmental Law
1995	Campbell, Colton	University of CA	Congressional Ad Hoc Commissions: Not Just Blame Avoidance
1995	Duffin, Diane	University of Missouri - St. Louis	The Structure of Congressional Oversight and Allocative Strategies in the Executive Branch
1995	Forgette, Richard and Sala, Brian	Miami University  University of Illinois	The Emergence of Legislative Leviathan: Party Leadership in the Post-Bellum House and Senate
1995	Harris, Douglas	Johns Hopkins University	The Speaker's House: Partisanization, Institutional Representation and Party Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1960-1994
1995	Johnson, Robert David	Arizona State University	The Government Operations Committee and American Foreign Relations, 1956-1968
1995	Kotlowski, Dean	Indiana University	Competing Agendas: Richard Nixon, Republican Congressional Leadership, and Civil Rights Policy
1995	Martis, Kenneth	West Virginia University	Political Party Control of Congressional Redistricting 1790's - 1990's
1995	Reeher, Grant	Syracuse University	Health Care Reform and Distributive Justice
1995	Rozell, Mark	Mary Washington College	Press Coverage of Congress in Post-War Era
1995	Soherr-Hadwiger, David	University of NM	Budget-Cutting vs. Pork Barreling: Party Leaders, Committees and Military Base Closures
1995	Stumpff, Linda Moon	University of Southern CA	The Legislative Imperative: The Endangered Species Act, Congress and The Implementation of Public Policy
1995	Tien, Charles	University of Iowa	Congress vs. the President in the Federal Budget: The Impact of Rules on Success
1995	Watts, Mark	University of MN	Covering Congress: Media Coverage of the U.S. Congress and Its Impact on Public Opinion
1995	Wilson, Rick	Rice University	Contest, Institutional Powers and Leadership Traits: Disentangling Leadership and Followership
1995	Ybarra, Michael	Wall Street Journal	Pat McCarran and the Post-War Fight Against Subversion
1996	Baker, Ross	Rutgers University	State Mates: An Exploration of the Relationships of Senators from the Same State
1996	Brainard, Lori A.	Brandeis University	The Limits of Deregulation: Politics and the American Television Industry
1996	Dodson, Debra	Rutgers University	Gender Difference, Institutional Constraints, and the Representation of Women's Interests in Congress
1996	Gaines, Brian	University of Illinois	Where's the Party? American Voters and Parties in Ideological Space
1996	Halperin, Terri Diane	University of Virginia	The United States Senate: The World's Greatest Deliberative Body, 1789-1821
1996	Hollern-Harvey, Diane	University of MD	Congressional and Presidential Authority: Public Attitudes Toward the Separation of Powers
1996	Irwin, Lewis	Yale University	Evaluating Change in Successful Legislating: Product, Process, and Strategies in the Modern U.S. House of Representatives
1996	Jeydel, Alana	American University	Political Elites, Social Movements and Changing Political Opportunity Structures: The Three Waves of the Women's Movement
1996	Loomis, Burdett	The University of Kansas	Following and Leading: The 104th Freshman in the U.S. House
1996	Merriner, James	Free-Lance Writer	Mr. Chairman: Power in Dan Rostenkowski's America
1996	Rosenstiehl, Michael	Texas A & M University	Policy Attributes & Legislative Decision Making
1997	Bader, John	Univ of CA, Washington DC	Minority Party Leadership in the U.S. Senate
1997	Borrelli, Stephen and Royed, Terry	University of Alabama	Party Pledges, Party Leadership & Public Policy in the US, 1977-1995
1997	Gibson, Dr. Martha	University of Connecticut	Structure, Power and Policy: U.S. Trade Politics and the Unintended Consequences of Congressional Reform
1997	Grover, William	Saint Michael's College	The Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Policy Process
1997	Halperin, Terri Diane	University of Virginia	The United States Senate: The World's Greatest Deliberative Body, 1789-1821
1997	Hixon, William	University of Rochester	Majority-Party Leadership and the Committee System in the U.S. House
1997	Lindsay, James	University of Iowa	Beyond the Water's Edge: Congressional Leaders and Committees in Foreign Policy
1997	Messmer, John	University of MO	Early Political Life on the World Wide Web: Congress, Voters, and Organized Interests on the Internet
1997	O'Halloran, Sharyn	Columbia University	Congress, The Executive, and Delegation
1997	Perotti, Rosanna	Hofstra University	Congress and Illegal Immigration Restrictions, 1986-1996
1997	Weinberg, Bill	Harvard University	Biography of Carl D. Perkins
1997	Wilcox,  Clyde	Georgetown University	Individual Contributors in House and Senate Elections
1998	Barrett, David	Villanova University	Confronting Democratic Dilemmas: Congressional Oversight of the CIA in the "Era of Trust"
1998	Bernstein,  Jeffery	Eastern Michigan University	Using Character-Playing Simulations to Improve Instruction on Congress
1998	Butler, Lawrence	Princeton University	Getting to 218: Strategies for Building Winning Coalitions in the House of Representatives
1998	Campbell, Kristin	Texas A & M University	Congressional Elections, the Media, and Public Distrust of Congress
1998	DeGregorio,  Christine	The American University	Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives: Do Parties Matter?
1998	Frantzich, Stephen	U.S. Naval Academy	Making a Difference: Citizen Courage in a Cynical Age
1998	Glaser, James	Tufts University	Southern Congressional Candidates and the Washington Outsider Campaign
1998	Harvey, Diane Hollern	George Mason University	Who Should Govern? Public Preferences for Congressional and Presidential Power
1998	Hulsey, Byron	University of TX	Everett Dirksen and the Modern Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson
1998	Katznelson, Prof. Ira and Lapinski, John	Columbia University	Congress and American Political Development: Representation, Party, and Policy before the Civil War
1998	Larson, Stephanie Greco	Dickinson College	Lauding Leaders and Evaluating Legislators: How ABC's Evening News Celebrates Government Officials through its "Person of the Week" and How It Covers Members of Congress
1998	Maltzman, Forrest	George Washington University	Speaker Cannon and the Committee Assignment Process
1998	Millman, Stephen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Impact of the Quality of Members of the U.S. House on Leaving Congress: Implications for Term Limits
1998	Tatalovich, Raymond	Loyola University Chicago	Lawmaking During the "100 Days" of 1896-1996: Legislative Fact or Political Fiction
1998	Wright, Fiona	University of Florida	The Political Implications of Institutional Reform: The 1974 Budget Act and Party Polarization in the U.S. House, 1975-1997
1999	Roger Biles	East Carolina University	The Conscience of the Senate:  The Life and Liberal Crusades of Paul H. Douglas
1999	Rosalee Clawson and   Jonathan Morris	Purdue Univeristy	A Rocky Relationship:  The Public, the Press, and the U.S. Congress
1999	Brian S. Deason	Southern Illinois University	Eye of the Storm:  A Political Biography of Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas
1999	John A. Farrell	The Boston Globe	Tip O'Neill:  A Biography
1999	Laura E. Free	Cornell University	Gendering the Constitution:  Congress, Woman Suffrage and the Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment, 1865-66
1999	Scott A. Frisch	East Carolina University	A New Look at the House Republican Committee Assignment Process
1999	James L. Guth	Furman University	Religion on Capitol Hill:  The Case of the House of Representatives in the 105th Congress
1999	Valerie Heitshusen and Garry Young	University of Missouri-Columbia	Measuring Legislative Policy Change:  1874-1994
1999	Rebekah Herrick	Oklahoma State University	Seniority and the Lost Leadership of Women House Members
1999	Andrew L. Johns	University of California, Santa Barbara	Hawks, Doves, and a Wise Old Owl:  The Republican Party and the "Democrats'" War in Vietnam, 1960-69
1999	David R. Jones	Baruch College, CUNY	Why Do Americans (Still) Love Their Congress Members So Much More Than Their Congress?  An Ideological Explanation of Fenno's Paradox
1999	Glen S. Krutz	Arizona State University	Congressional Leaders and the Winnowing of Legislation
1999	Vincent G. Moscardelli	University of Massachusetts	Transforming Leadership in Senate Committees
1999	Timothy N. Thurber	SUNY-Oswego	Race and the Republican Party:  1945-Present
1999	Randall B. Woods	University of Arkansas	The Anti-Imperialists:   Congressional Opponents to the Vietnam War
1999	Julian E. Zelizer	University at Albany	Demanding Democracy:  Congressional Reform, 1961-86
2000	Steven Balla	The George Washington University	The Delegation Decision: Congressional Creation and Organization of Bureaucratic Advisory Committees
2000	Colton Campbell Nicol Rae	Florida International University	Ignoring Electoral Outcomes: House Judiciary Committee Republicans and the Clinton Impeachment
2000	Celia Carroll	Emory University	The Impact of Congressional Caucuses upon Deliberation in the House of Representatives
2000	Kevin Conway	American University	Party Defectors on Roll Call Votes in the U.S. House
2000	Marian Currinder	University of Florida	The Institutional Effects and Political Implications of Outside Lobbying on the U.S. House
2000	Diane Duffin	University of Nebraska at Kearney	Nontraditional Career Paths to the U.S. House
2000	Victoria Farrar-Myers	University of Texas at Arlington	The Money Career: The Changing Notion of Institutional Leadership in the U.S. Congress
2000	T. Jens Feeley	University of Washington	Partisanship and Policy Learning in the U.S. Congress, 1987-1998
2000	J. Tobin Grant	Ohio State University	Ordinary Lawmaking
2000	Douglas Harris	University of Texas at Dallas	Public Leadership in the U.S. Senate, 1950-2000
2000	Valerie Hunt	University of Washington	Congress, Courts and Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy
2000	Jeffrey Jenkins	Michigan State University	Can Party Leaders Influence Congressional Roll-Call Voting?: Evidence from the Civil War Congresses
2000	Sean Kelly	Niagara University	Comparing Republican and Democratic Committee Requests and Assignments
2000	Greg Koger	University of California -- LA	The Strategy of Cosponsorship
2000	Dean Kotlowski	Ohio Universisty	Farewell to the Great Father: Congress and Native American Policy Since 1960
2000	Frederic Lee	De Montfort University	Congressional Response to the Problem of Corporate Size, Monopoly and Competition, 1945-80
2000	Nicole Mellow	University of Texas	Reconstituting the Party: A Study of the Regional Dimensions of Party Conflict in the Post-war House
2000	Elizabeth Rybicki	University of Minnesota	The Impact of Bicameralism
2000	Brian Schaffner	Indiana University -- Bloomington	Competing for Coverage: Legislators and the Local Press
2000	Brian Siemers	Colorado College	Managing Adversity: Congressional Leaders' Responses to Catastrophic Losses
2000	Charles Stewart III	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Speakership Elections Before the Civil War
2001	Michael Allen	Northwestern University	The War's Not Over Until the Last Man Comes Home: The Politics of Body Recovery in the Aftermath of Vietnam, 1969-1998
2001	Ross Baker	Rutgers University	The Organization and Conduct of the United States Senate in Circumstances of Partisan Deadlock
2001	William Bianco	Pennsylvania State University	The Partisan Content of Presentations: Do House Members "Take the Party on the Road?"
2001	James Scott and Ralph Carter	University of Nebraska and Texas Christian University	Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs and U.S. Foreign Policy
2001	Charles Finocchiaro	Michigan State University	The Role of Party and Committee Leaders in Pre-Floor Decision-Making
2001	Sean Kelly Scott Frisch	Niagara University California State University	Computer-Aided Content Analysis of the Committee Request Letters of U.S. House Members, 1965-94
2001	Jay Goodliffe	Brigham Young University	Campaign War Chests in Senate Elections
2001	Joshua Gordon	University of Florida	Partisanship and the Destabilization of the House Appropriations Committee: Internal Social Disintegration and External Decline, 1994-2000
2001	Douglas Harris	University of Texas	Party Press Secretaries in the House and Senate, 1980-2000
2001	Karen Hofer Luecke	George Mason University	The Senate Leadership in Shaping the 1944 GI Bill of Rights
2001	Paul Manna	University of Wisconsin	School's in on Capitol Hill: Education Policy and the U.S. Congress, 2000-2002
2001	Bruce Oppenheimer	Vanderbilt University	Party Switchers in Congress, 1876-2001
2001	Rose Razaghian	Columbia University	Legislative Choices: The Development and Selection of Financial Policies During the Ante-Bellum Period
2001	Tracy Sulkin	University of Washington	Lessons Learned?: Campaigns, Elections, and Legislative Behavior
2001	Jennifer Nicoll Victor	Washington University - St. Louis	Convincing Congress: The Role of Interest Groups in Legislative Policy Making
2002	Matthew Beckman	University of Michigan	Presidential Lobbying: How the White House Promotes the President's Preferences on Capitol Hill
2002	Regina Branton	Rice University	Candidate Emergence, Racial and Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Competition in Congressional Elections
2002	Barry Burden	Harvard University	The Discharge Rule and Majoritarian Politics in the House of Representatives
2002	Kerry Chase and Allan Kessler	Tufts University and University of Texas-Austin	Globalization and Representation: The Trade Votes of Members of Congress
2002	William Connelly, Jr.	Washington and Lee University	The Roots of Legislative Strategy in American Political Thought
2002	C. Lawrence Evans and John Gilmour	The College of William and Mary	Congressional Leaders, the President, and Veto Bargaining
2002	Michael Franz	University of Wisconsin	Conditional Party Resurgence and Interest Group Influence on Congressional Party Leadership
2002	Matthew Green	Yale University	The Influence of Party Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives
2002	James McCormick Neil Mitchell	Iowa State University University of New Mexico	The Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the Promotion of Global Human Rights
2002	Costas Panagopoulos	New York University	Eyes and Ears: Deputy Whips as Strategic Actors in Reducing Information Uncertainty in the U.S. House of Representatives
2002	Eric Schickler and Kathryn Pearson	University of California	Agenda Control, Majority Party Power, and the House Committee on Rules, 1932-65
2002	Dennis Simon	Southern Methodist University	Southerners in the U.S. House of Representatives: A History of Electoral, Partisan, and Ideological Change, 1936-2000
2002	Amy Steigerwalt	University of California, Berkeley	Senators, Interest Groups, and Judicial Confirmations
2002	Danielle White	American University	Do You See What I See: Perceptions of Representation by African American U.S. Representatives
2003	Jamie L. Carson	Michigan State University	Strategy and Choice in 19th and Early 20th Century U.S. House Elections
2003	Casey Byrne Knudsen Dominguez	University of California at Berkeley	Before the Primary: Party Participation in Congressional Elections
2003	Matthew Dull	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Information, Control, and Congressional Oversight: Delegation and the Government Performance and Results Act, 1993-2003
2003	Joanne B. Freeman	Yale University	The Field of Blood: The Culture of Congress in Antebellum America
2003	Eric Hines	University of Iowa	Strategic Appointments to Conference Committees in the US Congress
2003	Roy T. Meyers	University of Maryland Baltimore County	Setting Priorities in the Congressional Budget Process
2003	Jamie M. Morin	Yale University	Measuring Congressional Intervention in Defense Budgeting, FY1980 to Present
2003	Jeffrey S. Peake and Glen S. Krutz	Bowling Greeen State University and The University of Oklahoma	Presidential-Congressional Relations on International Agreements, 1949-2000
2003	Keith W. Smith	University of California at Berkeley	Styles of Oversight: How Congress Oversees the Executive Branch
2003	Patricia Strach	Univesity of Wisconsin-Madison	Stability, Change, and Family Assumptions in Congressional Policymaking
2003	Andrew J. Taylor	North Carolina State University	The Quality of Floor Proceedings in Congress
2004	Gretchen Carnes	Penn State University	Issue Avoidance Among Members of the U.S. House
2004	Kathleen Donohue	University of North Carolina	Balancing Acts: Congressional Power, Executive Privilege and the Public's Right to Know
2004	R. Sam Garrett	American University	Campaigns, Crises and Communications: Decision-Making in Congressional Campaigns
2004	Philip Habel	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The How, When, and Why of Policy Change: the Case of the Minimum Wage, 1937-2000
2004	Jason Kassel	University of Florida	Orgnaizational Change and the Institutionalization of Congress: Understanding Antebellum Era Alterations to the U.S. Capitol Building
2004	Roderick Kiewiet and Kevin Roust	California Institute of Technology	Read the Fine Print: The Importance of Small Details in House Rules
2004	Tim Nokken	University of Houston	Analyzing Minority Party Floor Motions Across Congressional Partisan Eras
2004	Clayton Peoples	The Ohio State University	Understanding Congressional Roll Call Voting: The Impact of Legislator Social Relations
2004	Jennifer Schenk	Rutgers University	How Candidates for Congress Claim to be Representatives of Constituents
2004	Paul Schlomer	University of Wisconsin	Representing the Mediated Public: A Study of the Role, Perceptions, the Public, and Uncertainty in Congressional Decision-Making
2005	Jessica Gerrity	Indiana University	Congressional Behavior and Interest Group Influence: The Case of the Abortion Issue
2005	Christian Robert Grose	Lawrence University	Congressional Leadership as a Valence Issue: Do Legislative Leaders Use Distributive Policy to Deviate from Constituents?
2005	Andrea C. Hatcher	Vanderbilt University	The Senate Majority Leader as Senator: Representational Effects of Leadership
2005	Eric Scott Heberlig	University of North Carolina	Paying to Play: Campaign Money, Institutional Ambition, and Political Parties in the U.S. House of Representatives
2005	Laura S. Jensen	University of Massachusetts	Congress, the Petitions of the People, and Representation in the Early American Nation
2005	Kristin Kanthak	University of Arizona	The Effect of Ideology-Based Leadership Races on Legislator's Behavior
2005	Gary Lee Malecha and Daniel J. Reagan	University of Portland and Ball State University	Congress in a New Media Age
2005	John E. Owens	University of Westminster	The Impact of Leaders' Personal Characteristics on Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives
2005	Stacey Lynn Pelika	University of Wisconsin	Managing Public Opinion: Attentive Publics, Political Elites, and the Policymaking Process
2005	Michael W. Wagner	Indiana University	The Influence of Competitive Congressional Issue-Framing on Public Opinion and Mass Partisanship
2006	James L Gibson	Washington University in St. Louis	Re-conceptualizing the Legitimacy of the United States Congress: New Evidence, New Approaches
2006	Shelley C. Hirsekorn	Cornell University	Interest Group Behavior and the Institutional Development of Congress: Health Insurance Policy from 1991 to 1998
2006	James D. King	University of Wyoming	Running Against the President: Creating Presidential Referenda in Midterm Congressional Elections
2006	Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo	University of Montana and Stony Brook University	Choosing Party Leaders
2006	Douglas L. Kriner	Harvard University	Hollow Rhetoric or Hidden Influence? Congressional Constraints on the Presidential Use of Force
2006	Paul S. Martin	Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia	Congressional Responses to Citizen Participation: The Effect of Voter Turnout on Representation and Lawmaking
2006	Patrick J. Sellers	Davidson College	Constructing the News: Strategic Communication in Congress
2006	J. Douglas Smith		Everett Dirksen and Article V: Congress, the Courts, and the Political Thicket
2006	Richard M. Valelly	Swarthmore College	Why the Reed Rules? Party, Race, and the Foundations of the U.S. House's Governability
2007	Michael John Berry	University of Colorado	Legislative Oversight Continued: The Post-Chadha Veto
2007	Michael Bowen	University of Florida	Fight for the Right: The Quest for Republican Identity in the Postwar Period
2007	Grace Cho	University of Michigan	Congressional Representation of Noncitizens: A Case Study of Immigrants
2007	Joshua D. Clinton	Princeton University	Lawmaking and the U.S. Congress, 1935-2006
2007	Benjamin Koch	University of Texas	The House Impeachment Inquiry of President Richard Nixon
2007	Burdett A. Loomis	University of Kansas	The Fight of His Life: Bob Dole and the 1974 Kansas U.S. Senate Election
2007	Beth A. Rosenson	University of Florida	Does the Ethics Process Strengthen or Harm Congress and American Democarcy?
2007	Brandon Rottinghaus	University of Idaho	Rethinking "Shared Powers": "Informal" Covert Legislative Lobbbying of the Executive Branch
2007	Michael W. Tofias	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Parties and Leaders in the Congressional Network: Positioning Within the Social Network of Member-to-Member Campaign Contributions
2007	Antoine Yoshinaka	University of California- Riverside	The Rise of Incivility in the Senate
2008	Royce A. Carroll and Henry A. Kim	Rice University and University of Arizona	Changing Congressional Rhetoric, Polarization, and the Breakdown of Organizational Parties in the U.S. House
2008	Charles E. Delgadillo	University of California, Santa Barbara	Forged between the Wars:  the Reform Alliance in Peace and War, 1919-1941
2008	Menna Demessie	University of Michigan	Navigating Boundaries of Blackness:  Congressional Caucuses and Minority Representation of African Immigrants in the United States
2008	Matthew J. Eshbaugh-Soha	University of North Texas	The Impact of Presidential Speeches on Congressional Committees, 1989-2004
2008	William H. Ewell	University of North Carolina	Institutional Power and Budget Outcomes in American Government
2008	Brian D. Feinstein	Harvard University	Congressional Oversight of the Bureaucracy:  Motives, Targets, and Consequences
2008	Michael M. Franz	Bowdoin College	Congressional Oversight of Campaign Finance
2008	Miler, Kristina C.	University of Illinois	Changing Chambers, Changing Constituencies:  Legislative Behavior from the House to the Senate
2008	L. Marvin Overby	University of Missouri-Columbia	Discharge Petitions in the Pre-Conditional Party Government Era
2008	Pearson, Kathryn	University of Minnesota	Congresswomen in Pursuit of Power, 1987-2007
2008	Eleanor N. Powell	Harvard University	Reward and Punishment:  Career Advancement in the U.S. Congress
2008	Joseph P. Renouard	Emory University	Limits and Morality: the Emergence of Human Rights in America’s Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy
2008	Matthew C. Sherman	Saint Louis University	Presidential Assassinations:  The Failure to Protect Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley
2009	Nicholas W. Carnes	Princeton University	Social Class and Congressional Leadership
2009	Marika-Eugenia Dunn	Rutgers University	Representation in Majority Minority Congressional Districts through Constituency Casework
2009	Shennette M. Garrett	University of Texas at Austin	The New Deal and African American Banking in the South
2009	Craig B. Hollander	The Johns Hopkins University	Capitol Crime:  Congress, Politics, and the African Slave Trade, 1789-1860
2009	David S. Keenan	Northwestern University	Organized Interests and the Process of Government in the Early American Republic, 1783-1800
2009	Douglas L. Kriner	Boston University	Can Investigative Oversight Mend the Broken Branch?
2009	Scott R. Meinke	Bucknell University	Leadership, Loyalty, and Constituency:   Governing and Representation in the House Extended Party Leadership
2009	Mark J. Oleszek	University of California, Berkeley	Social Embeddedness and the Contemporary Evolution of the U.S. Senate
2009	Rachel A. Shapiro	University of Virginia	Washington Brotherhood:  Friendship and Politics in the Civil War Era
2009	Zachary C. Smith	Boston University	From the Well of the House:  The Rise of Conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, 1978-1994
2009	Edward H. Stiglitz	Stanford University	Congressional Oversight of the Federal Judiciary