CAPS is now accepting applications for:

Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2008-09
offered by the
Program on Constitutional Government Harvard University
Harvey Mansfield, Director

Congratulations to Theda Skocpol, CAPS former director (2000-2006), on her elections to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.  HarvardScience article.

CAPS Director, Dan Carpenter was awarded a "We the People" Special Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $875,000 for his proposal titled "The American Republic Initiative at Harvard University." The program, to be developed over the next four to five years, will include the creation of new courses, invitations to visiting faculty conversant with the subject of American political thought, and programs that will engage the larger community, including a summer program for Boston high school teachers. Harvard Gazette article.