LSA Bulletin
October 2004
Grants
Advanced German and European Studies
The Freie Universität Berlin and GSA Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians, working on the period since the mid-19th century. The program accepts applications from US and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have completed all coursework required for the PhD and must have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are US and Canadian PhDs who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. Awards provide 10-12 months of research. Deadline: 1 December 2004. For complete information and an application, please go to our website: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an email to: bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
CLIR is offering fellowships funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support dissertation research in the humanities in original sources. The purposes of the program are to: (1) help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources; (2) enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be rather than just where financial support is available; (3) encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the US and abroad; and (4) provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future. Applications postmarked by 15 November 2004 (1 November 2004, if mailed from outside the United States) will be considered. Application information and forms are available under "Fellowships" at www.clir.org, or may be requested from CLIR by e-mail at info@clir.org, by phone at 202-939-4750, or by mail at CLIR, 1755 Massachusetts Av, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC, 20036-2124.
International Center for Advanced Studies (NYU)
Fellowships for 2005-2006. Theme: "Politics of the Unprivileged". This is the second year of a larger project on 'The Authority of Social Knowledge Global Age'. The project, which welcomes applications from scholars with PhDs at all career stages in any social science or humanities discipline from the US and abroad, seeks to examine the production, circulation, and practical import of knowledge generated in the various disciplines of social inquiry. What are the costs of the growing divide between social science inquiry and humanistic scholarship? What are the implications of the growing dominance of US-based models of social inquiry for the understanding of other cultures and for the fundamental concepts of political experience and inquiry? The stipend is $35,000 for nine months and includes eligibility for NYU housing. Application deadline: 6 January 2005. See http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas for more information and application forms, or write to the center: 212-995-4546 (fax); icas@nyu.edu.
LSA Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL)
Minority students who are LSA members and have a paper accepted for presentation at the LSA Annual Meeting or any of the concurrent meetings may apply for travel funds (up to $500). For the purpose of this fund, the term 'minority' is defined as "members of racial and ethnic groups in the US that have been historically disenfranchised in the US and are traditionally underrepresented in higher education in general, and in linguistics in particular”. Application consists of a letter from the applicant indicating minority status and estimated travel costs, a copy of the abstract, and a brief letter from the student’s chair or advisor indicating applicant's standing and how the home institution will support their participation. All materials should be sent to: Tracey L. Weldon, English Dept., The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; 803-777-2074 ; 803-777-9064 (fax); weldont@gwm.sc.edu. The deadline for receipt of materials is 31 October 2004.
National Science Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities
NSF and NEA are jointly funding 'Documenting Endangered Languages', a multi-year program to support projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Principal Investigators and applicants for fellowships may propose projects involving one or more of the following activities: (1) fieldwork to record in digital audio and video format one or more endangered languages; (2) later stage documentation including preparing lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases; (3) digitizing and otherwise preserving and providing wider access to such documentary materials, including previously collected materials and those concerned with languages which have recently died and are related to currently endangered languages; (4) developing standards and databases to make this documentation widely available in consistent, archivable, interoperable, and web-based formats; (5) initial analysis of findings in the light of current linguistic theory; (6) training native speakers in descriptive linguistics; and (7) creating other infrastructure, including workshops, to make the problem of endangered languages more widely understood and more effectively addressed. The first proposal deadline is 1 November 2004. For more information, see: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04605/nsf04605. Please direct questions about project grants to: jmaling@nsf.gov; direct questions about fellowships to: haguera@neh.gov.
Of interest to grant and fellowship applicants: Research Projects and Research Proposals: A Guide for Scientists Seeking Funding, Paul G. Chapin (Cambridge University Press, 2004).