Fellowships, scholarships, and internships
SCSU Alumni Scholarship program
As of January 31, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., the 2008-2009 Alumni/Foundation Scholarship application process is closed.
Notification letters will be mailed by August 31, 2008.
http://www.southernct.edu/alumni/scholarshipprogram/
Minority Student Internship Program
SPONSOR Smithsonian Institution
TITLE MINORITY STUDENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
CONTACT
Office of Fellowships
750 9th Street, NW, Suite 9300
P. O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Phone: 202.275.0655 Fax: 202.275.0489
e-mail: siofg@si.edu
url: www.si.edu/ofg/intern.htm#iofg
AVAILABILITY
Full time (40 hrs/week), ten-week appointments during the Summer, Fall, or Spring.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should be currently engaged in undergraduate or graduate study; Overall GPA of 3.0 generally expected.
INFORMATION
Note: Graduate students interested in pursuing independent research should apply for the 10-week Graduate Student Fellowship or the Predoctoral Fellowship Program.
BENEFITS/AWARD
Stipend of $400/week with additional travel allowances offered in some cases.
DEADLINE
February 1 Summer (starting June 1)
February 1 Fall (starting October 1)
October 1 Spring (starting February 1)
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION
Complete Application Form with Required Essay; Resume; Transcripts; Two Letters of Recommendations.
PRE-DOCTORAL / POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY - PREDOCTORAL / POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Beginning of Fellowship Award: Fall 2008
Application Deadline: November 9, 2007, for first consideration
The College of Arts and Sciences and the Latin American Studies Program at Lehigh University invite Ph.D. candidates specializing in Latin America, with a clear contemporary Latin American cultural studies focus, to apply for a two-year predoctoral / postdoctoral fellowship, beginning Fall 2008. Applications are welcome from candidates whose research concentrates in any of the following areas: social movements, identity (gender, ethnic, religious, etc.), transnational migration, and/or urbanization. Successful candidates will also demonstrate breadth and depth of cultural and Spanish language experience, and ability to design and offer a Latin American Studies introductory course.
TERMS
The two-year award carries a stipend of $25,000 in the first year. It is renewable for the second year, with a $40,000 salary, provided the fellow completes his/her Ph.D. in time to meet all requirements for the home institution's spring graduation. The fellowship also carries up to $1500 in moving expenses and $1500 in research/travel support in the first year and $3000 in the second year.
ELIGIBILITY
Completion of all requirements for the Ph.D., except the dissertation, by May 15, 2008. Demonstrated potential to complete all Ph.D. requirements in time for Spring 2009 graduation.
CONDITIONS
Renewal of award - Renewal of the award depends on the predoctoral fellow's completion of all Ph.D. requirements in time for Spring 2009 graduation and meeting all expectations below.
Teaching load - One course during the first year as a doctoral candidate and 2 courses during the second year as a postdoctoral fellow.
The fellow is expected to design and teach an introductory course to Latin American Studies.
Other expectations: Contribution to programming of Latin American Studies events and lectures. Active presence on campus and establishment of links with faculty and students. Periodic presentations of the fellow's research to the larger Lehigh academic community.
APPLICATION MATERIALS
· Letter of application stating reasons for interest in the program and indication of objectives to be accomplished during the candidate's time at Lehigh.
· CV, including the following: personal information; date(s) and location(s) of degree(s) earned; honors and awards; lectures and conference presentations;publications; courses taught; names and telephone numbers of referees.
· Project description, NOT TO EXCEED THREE DOUBLE-SPACED PAGES. This should include a dissertation abstract, dissertation outline, and schedule for completion.
· Three confidential letters of reference to be sent directly by persons qualified to evaluate the candidate. (Original only)
· Send application materials to:
Latin American Studies Advisory Council
Predoctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Modern Languages
Lehigh University
9 W. Packer Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18015
DEADLINE: November 9, 2007 for first consideration
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM FELLOWSHIP 2008-2009
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scholars/applicationa.html
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 2007
THE SCHOMBURG CENTER residency program assists scholars and professionals whose research on the black experience can benefit from extended access to the Center's resources. Fellowships funded by the Center will allow recipients to spend six months or a year in residence with access to resources at the Schomburg Center and other research units of The New York Public Library.
SCOPE
The Scholars-in-Residence Program is designed to (1) encourage research and writing on the history, literature, and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, (2) to promote and facilitate interaction among the participants including fellows funded by other sources, and (3) to facilitate the dissemination of the researchers' findings through lectures, publications, and the ongoing Schomburg Center Colloquium and Seminar Series. Applicants must indicate in their proposal how they propose to use the resources of the Schomburg Center as well as those of other research units of The New York Public Library to further their research. For access to the catalogs of the Schomburg Center and The New York Public Library, go to: http://catnyp.nypl.org. For assistance from a reference librarian, call 212-491-2218.
ELIGIBILITY
The Fellowship Program is open to scholars studying the history, literature, and culture of peoples of African descent from a humanistic perspective and to professionals in fields related to the Schomburg Center's collections and program activities. Projects in the social sciences, science and technology, psychology, education, and religion are eligible if they utilize a humanistic approach and contribute to humanistic knowledge. Creative writing (works of poetry and fiction) and projects that result in a performance are not eligible.
Persons seeking support for research leading to degrees are not eligible under this program. Candidates for advanced degrees must have received the degree by December 1 of this year.
Note: This program does not fund dissertation research.
Foreign nationals are not eligible unless they will have resided in the United States three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Applications for the Scholars-in-Residence program will be reviewed by a Selection Committee consisting of the Residency Program Director and external reviewers chosen from scholars in the humanities and the social sciences. Fellows will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:
* Qualifications of the applicant.
* Quality and feasibility of the project plan.
* Importance of the proposed project to the applicant's field and to the humanities.
* Relationship of the project to the humanities.
* Relationship of the project to the resources of the Schomburg Center.
* Likelihood that the project will be completed successfully.
* The provisions for making the results of the project available to scholars and to the public at large.
STIPENDS AND RESIDENCY
Fellowships are awarded for continuous periods of six or twelve months at the Schomburg Center with maximum stipends of $25,000 for six months and $50,000 for twelve months. Fellows must devote full time to their research projects. They are expected to be in continuous residence at the Schomburg Center and to participate in the intellectual life of the Program. They may not be employed during the period in residence except sabbaticals from their own institutions. Those selected as Scholars-in-Residence may supplement their stipends with support from their own institution or small outside grants if the requisite approval is received from the Schomburg Center. Fellows may begin residence at the Center after September 1. This program is made possible in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
A complete application must include 10 copies of each item listed below, and a self-addressed, stamped post card to acknowledge receipt of the application package:
* The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Application Form
* A 1500 word description of the proposed study
* Curriculum vitae
Three (3) reference letters should be mailed directly to the Scholars-in-Residence Program and received no later than December 1st.
DESCRIPTION OF STUDY
In no more than 1500 words the applicant should provide a detailed description of the proposed study, including but by no means restricted to the following elements:
* A statement of the topic under consideration with specific reference to the major questions, problems, and theses being investigated.
* An outline of the plan for carrying out the study or project.
* Discussion of the sources/data for the study and plans for examining them.
* Description of research methods.
* Applicant's competence in the use of any foreign languages needed to complete the study.
* The place of the study in the applicant's overall research and writing program.
* The significance of the study for the applicant's field and for the humanities in general.
* The final objective and expected products of the study. Plans for publications, lectures, exhibitions, teaching, and other vehicles of dissemination should be detailed. Fellows will be expected to share their findings through these means and as participants in the Schomburg Center Colloquium and Seminar Series during their residency.
Download an application here (PDF format for printing)
BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG)
at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY
SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Call for Applications for Academic Year 2008-2009
(Deadline for applications is March 15, 2008)
The BBRG Scholars In Residence Program is a site for the production and dissemination of critical, interdisciplinary research on women, gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality and/or transnational feminisms. Each year the BBRG hosts a new group of competitively selected scholars.
The BBRG will accept a total of eight Scholars In Residence for the academic year 2007-2008. The Scholars In Residence Program is open to faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from the U.S. and abroad, whose work is centrally on women, gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality and/or transnational feminisms. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their residency at BBRG.
The BBRG is non-stipendiary.
For more information on the BBRG Scholars In Residence Program and application procedures, please see the following website:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7013/scholarprog.html
Dr. Paola Bacchetta
Associate Professor
Department of Gender and Women's Studies Director, Beatrice Bain Research Group
3407 Dwinelle Hall, MC 1070
University California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1070
Tel: 510 643 3080
Fax: 510 642 0246
E-MAIL: pbacchetta@berkeley.edu
ASA Section on Race, Class and Gender Undergraduate Student Paper Award
This award recognizes the best undergraduate student paper that focuses on the relationship between race, class, gender, and class in social interaction. We encourage critical and innovative scholarship. The winner will be announced at the section's business meeting in New York during ASA's 2008 meeting. Papers should not exceed 25 pages and must be entirely student-authored, written while the author was an undergraduate student. Self-nominations and/or nominations by faculty are welcome. Three copies of the paper should be submitted with a cover letter indicating the student's name, address, telephone number, email address and/or fax number, institutional affiliation, undergraduate student status. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2008. Please send materials to: Mignon Moore, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 264 Haines Hall, 90095-1551, (310) 825-1313, moore@soc.ucla.edu.
ASA Section on Race, Gender and Class Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
The American Sociological Association Race, Gender and Class Section invites nominations for the 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for the best paper in the field of Race, Gender and Class written by a graduate student. Eligible papers must be unpublished, sole-authored and have been written while the author was enrolled as a graduate student. Papers will be accepted from authors who hold their terminal MA or PhD degree if the degree was awarded no earlier than 12/07. Eligible papers must be no more than 25 pages in length and the references must follow the ASA Style Guide reference format. Authors may submit their own work with a cover letter; nominations also are welcome and should include both the letter of nomination and a copy of the paper. Materials should be sent via mail and postmarked NO LATER THAN March 1, 2008 to: Celine-Marie Pascale, Department of Sociology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016-8072, (202) 885-2524, Pascale@american.edu.
