Brett Baker: April 2013 Archives
Comments: Postdoctoral research and dissertation fieldwork grants are available for basic research in all branches of anthropology. Aid is not provided for tuition or travel to meetings. Awards are tenable in the U.S. and abroad.Dissertation applicants must have completed all requirements for a PhD except dissertation and have an advisor willing to supervise the project.Research Grants provide a maximum of US $20,000 and the Osmundsen Initiative supplement provides up to an additional $5,000 for a maximum grant of US $25,000.
URL: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/post-phd-research-grants
Length: 6-12 months
Comments: Post-doctoral fellowships offered to conduct research on the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. Provides 6-12 months of support for research in residence at the Library of Congress. Must have a doctoral degree conferred prior to April 15. Stipend of $4,200 per month.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/kluge/fellowships/larson.html
Eligibility: Advanced graduate students in the Division of the Social
Sciences who will have been admitted to PhD candidacy before Autumn 2013, whose
dissertation projects require study and research in Paris, and who would
benefit substantially from the resources of the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales. The EHESS fellow should be based in Paris.
Tenure and Terms of Award: The student selected to represent the Division
of Social
Sciences will spend up to six months (two quarters) at the École under the
supervision of a member of the École faculty. The award provides for airfare,
registration fees at the École and a stipend. Registration fees and a stipend
($1200/month) are paid by the École. During fellowship tenure, the EHESS exchange
fellow is charged $286/quarter (pro-forma registration fee) by the Division of
the Social Sciences.
Deadline: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Amount: Varied
The Committee on Southern Asian Studies announces its annual fellowship competition for summer 2013 and AY 2013-14. COSAS fellowships will be of four kinds: dissertation write-up support; summer language study support; short-term pre-dissertation overseas travel; and other. Each type of fellowship has a separate application. Please select and submit the correct form, available at:
http://southasia.uchicago.edu/cosas_fellowships.shtml
Students will be allowed a maximum of seven
quarters of support, including all COSAS fellowship support they have
received to date. The committee reminds students that few sources of
funding may be available at the dissertation write-up stage and strongly
recommends that students consider applying for six dissertation write-up
fellowships and one fellowship in any of the other three categories
during their careers as graduate students. Other patterns of funding may
be considered by the committee with good cause. You may request no more than at
total of 3 quarters of support in any given year.
Priorities and Eligibility by Category
Category I: Dissertation Write-up
Purpose: This category receives the highest
priority in the allocation of funds by the committee. It is
ordinarily intended to support students in the stage following primary research
during dissertation write-up. Eligibility: Students must 1) have
completed at least two years of course work in a program of graduate study
directly relevant to Southern Asian studies and 2) be admitted to Ph.D.
candidacy. Students must apply annually for this support.
Category II: Summer Language Study
Priority and Purpose: A limited number of
fellowships may be awarded in this category. These fellowships are
designed to provide or supplement support for summer language study.
Funds may be applied to programs in the U.S. or abroad. Students must be
accepted into an appropriate language study or tutorial program. Eligibility:
Students must 1) have successfully completed all first year requirements in a
graduate degree program prior to the commencement of the summer program and 2)
be planning to continue studies at the University of Chicago during the autumn
quarter following the summer program. Students should make every attempt
possible to apply for alternate sources of funding for summer language study
before applying to COSAS.
Category III: Pre-Dissertation Overseas Travel
Priority and Purpose: A limited number of
fellowships may be awarded in this category. This typically supports a
short-term (often summer quarter) overseas trip. Eligibility: Students
must 1) have completed at least two years of course work in a program of
graduate study directly relevant to Southern Asian studies and must 2) also
plan to continue studies at the University of Chicago during the quarter
following the research period.
Category IV: Other
Priority and Purpose: This category receives
the lowest priority. The committee will use its discretion in reviewing
the statement of purpose and strongly recommends that the student indicate that
he/she has considered all possible sources of funding for the proposed project
before applying to COSAS. Eligibility: Students must 1) have
completed at least two years of course work in a program of graduate study
directly relevant to Southern Asian studies and 2) be planning to continue
studies at the University of Chicago during the quarter following the
project.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
1) COSAS grants are available to University of Chicago
graduate students of any citizenship whose research deals with Southern
Asia. Southern Asia is defined by COSAS as including countries in South
Asia, Southeast Asia and Tibet (TAR). These specifically include Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, East Timor, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; Burma (Myanmar),
Cambodia (Kampuchea), Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam; and Tibet (TAR).
2) Students should make every effort to apply for
other sources of funding (e.g., Summer FLAS, SSRC grants, AIIS
grants, Fulbright grants, Divisional funding). Applications that
show evidence of such efforts will be looked on more favorably than those that
do not. In addition, the level of COSAS funding is subject to change
based on the COSAS annual budget.
3) COSAS must abide by the Deans of Students'
decisions regarding a student's eligibility for COSAS funding. The terms
of a student's previous grant, residency status and other university guidelines
may affect these decisions. Especially note that some grants, including
some types of write-up grants (e.g. Mellon, Whiting, etc.), may restrict a
recipient from accepting further institutional funds. COSAS may also
consider a student's anticipated employment during the anticipated award
period. Students who have entered a fulltime academic career, for
example, generally are not viewed as eligible for COSAS support.
4) We encourage applicants to contact at least one
member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies regarding their
proposal.
___________________________________________________________________________
Applications and recommendation forms are available
at:
http://southasia.uchicago.edu/cosas_fellowships.shtml
For information and questions, contact Irving Birkner
at ibirkner@uchicago.edu or 773-834-9994. The completed
application forms and all supporting documents are due no later than:
5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Recommendations may be submitted online or to
Irving Birkner at ibirkner@uchicago.edu , by
regular mail, or by fax. Hard-copy mailings should be in envelopes
with the recommender's name across the seal.Faxed and emailed recommendations
should be sent directly from the recommender's fax machine or email account, so
the information may be verified if necessary. The application materials include
a form and instructions that can be emailed to faculty members.
Email: ibirkner@uchicago.edu
Fax:
773-702-1309
Mail:
Committee on Southern Asian Studies
Kelly Hall
104
5848 S. University Avenue
Chicago,
IL 60637
Deadline: April 15
Amount: $4,000
Duration: One year
The Martin Marty Center (MMC) of the Divinity School will appoint a set of twelve Junior Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year. Ph.D. candidates from the Divinity School, and Ph.D. candidates from the Division of the Humanities or the Division of the Social Sciences whose dissertation examines a topic or topics in religion, are eligible for appointment. An application consisting of a cover letter, a CV, a copy of the dissertation prospectus, and a letter of support from the dissertation advisor about the dissertation is due to Terri Owens, Dean of Students in the Divinity School, tdowens@uchicago.edu, no later than Monday, April 15th. The prospectus must include a statement of progress to date on the dissertation. Awards will be announced in early May.
Funded initially through a generous grant from the Henry
Luce Foundation, the Junior Fellows program aims to assist its members in the
successful completion of their dissertation, and in the initial transition to
professional life as public intellectuals.
Directed by Divinity School faculty, the program is organized around a
year-long seminar which has as its main business the sharing and discussion of
the dissertations. Since the first
public of the scholar is arguably the classroom, Junior Fellows teach a course
on an aspect of their dissertation at a local college or university, and these
experiences are also part of the shared discourse of the seminar. In the spring of each year, the culminating
event of the seminar is a day-long conference in which the Fellows share a
précis of their dissertation research with a cohort of professional people who
are not scholars of religion, to test their mettle in communicating complex
ideas to an educated and interested audience.
The seminar thus challenges students, as they complete their
dissertations, to step back from the immediacies of specialized research to ask
themselves, and one another, how that research will contribute to the
institutions and the society in which they will pursue their scholarly
vocations.
Because of this agenda, successful applicants will have
already made significant process in the research and writing of the
dissertation and will be poised, programmatically and by disposition, to
participate vigorously in all aspects of this work. Alumni of the seminar describe the experience
as having had a seminal influence on their careers.
Students from the Humanities or the Social Sciences receive
a $4,000 stipend.
Junior Fellows will be required to attend all seminar
sessions as scheduled.
All questions should be directed to Terri Owens, Dean of
Students in the Divinity School, at tdowens@uchicago.edu,
773-702-8217.
The Division of the
Social Sciences is offering project-based research grants for academic year
2013-14, beginning with the summer quarter. The grants will support two
categories of research projects: short-term projects for up to 3 months, and
long-term projects for 3-12 months, concluding no later than the end of Spring
Quarter 2014.
Deadline: Friday, April
26, 2013
Amount:
Short-term projects: up
to $7000. Up to 10 grants will be awarded
Long-term projects:
$7000-$20,000. Up to 10 grants will be awarded
Duration:
Short-term project: 3
months
Long-term projects: up to
12 months
Purpose:
These grants are intended
to help defray the additional costs of research projects that advance the
student's progress through the degree program. All students in the division are
eligible, but preference will be given to research that supports a proposal for
a dissertation, or that is part of the dissertation project after admission to
candidacy. The level of the grant will be contingent on the itemized costs in
the proposal. For students who hold fellowships during the grant period, living
expenses will not be covered under this grant unless the research will take the
student far from campus and thereby add living expenses to the cost of the
project. Awardees will submit a brief report upon completion of their research grant.
Application:
Students must submit to
the Dean of Students Office:
1. The Research Grant
Application Form (see: https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/about/dean-of-students#forms);
2. A 1500-word (maximum)
essay describing the research project;
3. Detailed budget;
4. C.V.;
5. A letter of
recommendation from a faculty member familiar with the applicant's work.
Deadline:
Friday, April 26, 2013.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Applications and letters
of recommendation can be submitted in person to Foster 107 or by email to ssd-fellowships@uchicago.edu.
Deadline: Friday, April
26, 2013 Late applications will not be
accepted.
Amount: $3,000
Duration: Summer Quarter
The Division of the
Social Sciences is offering grants that can be used for academic activities
during the summer of 2013. Grants will be awarded on the basis of merit,
financial need and support of progress to a major academic goal.
Up to 20 grants will be
awarded.
Purpose:
The award may be used for
various academic activities, including proposal or exam preparation, language
study, research and dissertation write-up. It may also be used for conference
participation and travel for academic purposes. Students who have a summer
grant from their social sciences fellowship are not eligible. There will be a
preference for students who are ABD or approaching candidacy.
Application:
Students must submit to
the Dean of Students Office:
1. The Summer Grant
Application Form (see: https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/about/dean-of-students#forms);
2. A 500-word (maximum)
statement of purpose;
3. C.V.;
4. A letter of
recommendation from a faculty member familiar with the applicant's work.
Deadline:
Friday, April 26, 2013.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Applications and letters
of recommendation can be submitted in person to Foster 107 or by email to ssd-fellowships@uchicago.edu.
