UC California Studies Consortium (UCCSC)

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS 2012-13

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for Graduate Student Research Travel Grants during the 2012-13 academic year (July 1 to June 30).

Who Can Apply: UC Graduate Students enrolled or ABD
Level of Award: Up to $500
Funding Source: UCHRI
Deadline: 5 pm PST, Thursday, March 8, 2012. Apply on FastApps (opens on January 16)

Program Overview
As part of the University of California (UC) California Studies Consortium (CSC), the UCCSC Graduate Student Research Travel Grant is designed to assist later stage graduate students at UC campuses for travel and access to archives and collections for research in California Studies.

The consortium is interested in California as a site of global intersections and circulations—culturally, economically, and politically. By supporting and nurturing the work of graduate students and young scholars in the field, it hopes to unearth and build upon critical historical mappings and re-mappings of California and its cultures, as it is invested in sustained, multidisciplinary, and differently situated notions of intersection, power, history, language, migration and movement. The consortium wishes to supplement a more traditional sense of California Studies by dealing squarely with questions of public pedagogy that address the antagonisms comprising what it means to be a "Californian." The steering committee seeks new research exploring and exploding current theoretical lenses that include topics as diverse as nativism and the environment to prisons, industry and the military. To refocus the topic of California away from its common identifiers to its underlying layers of contradiction—labor, resources, scarcity, race, tourism, technology, recreation, suburbia, for example—would expand our understanding of California's complex relationship(s) to the world at large.

These grants are intended for direct support of graduate student research; they are not intended for UC student fees and tuition. Travel should take place during the 2012-13 academic year (July 1 to June 30). Conference travel to professional meetings to disseminate research is NOT eligible for funding. Students advanced to candidacy will be given preference. Applicants must be UC graduate students enrolled or ABD.

Awards are contingent upon available funding. UCHRI funds must be spent in accordance with all applicable UC rules and regulations. Please contact the Office of Research at your campus with any questions you may have.

Awards will be announced no later than June 2012.

How to Apply:
Applications are accepted exclusively online via UCHRI's FastApps system.

Required documents include:
· Abstract (150 words max.)
· Project Proposal (2000 words max.)
· Project Bibliography (1 page max.)
· CV (2 pages max.)
· Proposed Itemized Budget. Explain how estimates were determined.

For questions, please contact UCHRI program manager Suedine Nakano at snakano@hri.uci.edu.