[cid:image001.png@01CDC18D.77A42CD0] Please distribute widely to graduate students. Paula Stone Legal Research Fellowship 2014 Special Criteria: Abolition Democracy Applications due by February 28, 2014, at 12 noon Description: In recognition of Professor Angela Y. Davis’s contribution to the field of carceral and legal studies, the 2013-2014 Paula Stone Legal Research Fellowship will be awarded to a law or doctoral student whose research addresses abolition democracy. Initially conceptualized by W.E.B. DuBois in his landmark 1935 text Black Reconstruction, abolition democracy has subsequently been elaborated and advocated by Professor Davis. With respect to prisons, Davis argues “abolition democracy would mean the creation of an array of social institutions that would begin to solve the social problems that set people on the track to prison, thereby helping to render the prison obsolete.” We therefore seek applications from students whose research uses gender as a category of analysis to advance the intellectual project of prison obsolescence by providing new knowledge about carceral harm and/or alternative social formations. We especially encourage research on prisons, detention, jails, law, or policing and the following topics: • sexual coercion • racial violence • heteronormativity or homonormativity • wealth extraction and capitalism • globalization and empire • political repression • criminalization and the social construction of crime • scales of carcerality • women of color feminism • abolition and contemporary or historical social movements • prisoner rebellions Criteria: • Applicant must be registered and enrolled in a J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., or Ph.D. program at UCLA • Applicant must be pursuing original research for an academic article or doctoral dissertation chapter. Funds may be used for research travel, research assistance, and/or the purchase of necessary research-related materials. To Apply: The following materials are required: • Statement describing the research project and its relationship to the concept of abolition democracy. Applicant should detail the research questions, describing any research that has already been conducted, and explaining the intervention in your field. Please include a brief (1-2 sentence) statement about how the funds will assist in the proposed research project. Total statement length: (1-2 pages). • Letters of Recommendation from two faculty members. Letters should be delivered to CSW by the deadline in a sealed envelope with the recommender’s signature across the back flap. • Curriculum Vitae • Transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) Please visit the link below to fill in the online application:http://www.csw.ucla.edu/current-projects/for-grad-students/awards-grants-and-fellowships/paula-stone/paula-stone-dissertation-research-fellowship Please email to [log in to unmask]<UrlBlockedError.aspx> should you have any questions or concerns. All the best, Kathleen A. McHugh Director, Center for the Study of Women Professor, English and Cinema and Media Studies Find us on the web: [null]<http://www.facebook.com/UCLACSW> [null] <http://twitter.com/UCLA_CSW/> [Blogger] <http://uclacsw.blogspot.com/> [Subscribe to CSW on YouTube] <http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA929BBD1F30DC69A&feature=plcp> [cid:image006.png@01CDC18D.77A42CD0]