Dear CSWAC Members,
The deadline for the
Research Excellence Award for UCLA Associate Professors is less than one month away – March 11th!
We have not received any applications or inquiries, so if you could please forward this announcement (below and attached) to your colleagues, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you,
Kristina
Kristina Magpayo Nyden
Management Services Officer
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Office: 1500 Public Affairs
Phone: (310) 794-7821
Fax: (310) 825-0456
CSW Promotes a Fragrance-Free and Non-Toxic Environment – Share the Air!
From: Center for Study of Women
DEADLINE IS LESS THAN ONE MONTH AWAY!
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women & Institute for American Cultures present the
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Research Excellence Award for UCLA Associate Professors
2019-2020 Academic Year
DEADLINE: Monday, March 11, 2019
(by 11:59pm PT)
https://csw.ucla.edu/funding/faculty/research-excellence-award-ucla-associate-professors
DESCRIPTION OF AWARD
The Center for the Study of Women and Institute for American Cultures
are accepting applications for a joint award: the Research Excellence Award for Associate Professors for the
2019-20 academic year. This Award consists of a monograph manuscript (or equivalent) workshop organized by CSW-IAC to promote continuing excellence in scholarship by UCLA professors at the associate level addressing questions
important to the fields of critical race and postcolonial studies and/or gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies.
This award was established in January 2017 and we received 7 applications in its first year and 6 applications in its second year. Due to strong candidates and interest from various Divisions, ALL applicants
each year were funded.
NOMINATION PROCESS
Candidates for the award must be nominated by a fellow faculty member (does not have to be from UCLA) committed to co-organizing the workshop alongside the CSW-IAC selection committee and staff.
STRUCTURE OF WORKSHOPS
Each workshop will feature a distinguished outside reader from the awardee’s field who will prepare detailed written reports in preparation for the workshop discussion. Also invited will be a select group of local colleagues and intellectual
interlocutors who will have had an opportunity to read the manuscript or portions thereof. These workshops will offer awardees an extended and detailed discussion of his or her manuscript and a pragmatic plan of action for revisions.
APPLICATION AND DEADLINE
The application requires the following materials:
1)
Two-page (single-spaced) abstract of the book manuscript, including a progress report on state of completion by the time of the workshop
2)
CV, with past service to or collaboration with IAC or CSW highlighted
3)
Letter of Nomination, noting three potential outside readers of the manuscript
Materials must be submitted through the Submittable application portal:
https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/122724/research-excellence-award-for-ucla-associate-professors-2019-2020.
Application may be submitted by nominator or nominee.
DEADLINE: Monday, March 11, 2019 (by 11:59pm PT)
QUESTIONS?
Contact Kristina
Magpayo Nyden, Management Services Officer, at
[log in to unmask]
Coming Up!
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Faculty Research Grants
2019-2020 Academic Year
Grants range from $1500-3000
DEADLINE:
Monday, May 6, 2019 (by 11:59pm PT)
https://csw.ucla.edu/funding/faculty-grants/
DESCRIPTION OF GRANT
The Center for the Study of Women offers grants to all UCLA ladder faculty for research development, new project development that may lead to external funding opportunities through CSW, and project completion
that could be considered for CSW publications (policy briefs, research reports).
Preference will be given to junior faculty and projects that link to CSW’s current research projects (for example, Chemical Entanglements, Gender and Water, Feminist Anti-Carceral Studies, Sexual Violence
and Intersectionality). For more information regarding CSW’s current research projects, visit
HERE.
Grant amount ranges from $1500-3000.
CRITERIA
·
Applicants must be UCLA tenure-track faculty and can apply for support for research projects on gender, sexuality, and/or women’s issues.
·
Faculty are not eligible to receive a CSW Faculty Research Grant (formerly known as the CSW Faculty Development Grant) within three years of their receipt of an
earlier one.
·
Recipients must agree to the following:
o
Submit a final report describing the project outcomes
o
Acknowledge CSW in all public informational materials and publications resulting from the grant
o
Collaborate with CSW’s Publications Unit to prepare an article or blog post on results of the grant project
o
Provide one of the following services to CSW based on CSW need:
§
1) Serve on an awards committee
§
2) Moderate a panel at the Thinking Gender conference
APPLICATION AND DEADLINE
The application requires the following documents:
·
Research Proposal (maximum 3 single-spaced description that includes the title and an explanation of the proposed research)
·
Bibliography
·
Itemized Budget (1 page describing how funds will be used)
·
Supporting Documents (quotes/invoices) of Budget Items (e.g., if airfare, provide copy of airfare prices if ticket is not yet purchased)
·
Curriculum Vitae
DEADLINE:
Monday, May 6, 2019 (by 11:59pm PT)
QUESTIONS?
Contact Kristina Magpayo Nyden, Management Services Officer, at
[log in to unmask]