Summer Stipends
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: August 15, 2008 (internal deadline for submission to the College of Liberal Arts)
October 1, 2008 for Towson University’s nominees and those exempted from nomination*
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Summer Stipends program, supports individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges and universities or independent scholars or writers. Faculty members teaching full-time at colleges and universities must be nominated by their institutions in order to apply for a Summer Stipend. Degree candidates may apply only if they have completed all work, including any kind of requirement for an oral defense of the dissertation, by October 1, 2008.
Summer Stipends awards provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Individuals who have held a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the last three academic years prior to the October 1, 2008 deadline are ineligible to apply. A major fellowship or research grant is a postdoctoral award of at least $10,000 that provides support for a continuous period of time equal to at least one term of the academic year; that enables the recipient to engage in scholarly research, personal study, professional development, or writing; and that comes from sources other than the recipient’s institution. Recipients may hold other research grants during this time but must devote full-time to their Summer Stipend projects for the two months of the stipend tenure.
Each college and university in the U.S. may nominate two faculty members. Each nominee may be either a junior faculty member (assistant professor, instructor, or a scholar at a comparably early stage of his or her career) or senior faculty member (associate professor or professor).
Please note: Dr. Terry Cooney the Dean in the College of Liberal Arts, will coordinate a nominating committee this year, in consultation with college deans of applicants from eligible disciplines, to review nomination materials and choose the University’s two nominees. As the NEH’s submission deadline is October 1, 2008, faculty members wishing to be considered should submit to Dean Cooney, by August 15, 2008, a one-page summary of their proposed projects and a CV. Faculty may also contact Dr. Cooney directly if they have questions about eligibility or process. Interested faculty members may wish to consult the NEH guidelines for a description of what is expected in full application narratives. The summary submitted to the nominating committee should very briefly address the basic questions listed in the “project narrative” section of those guidelines.
According to the act that established the NEH in 1965, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.” Any faculty member with a humanities project may apply for nomination for a Summer Stipend. The field of the project determines the eligibility for nomination to and application for NEH Summer Stipends, not the field of the applicant.
The following five criteria will be used by reviewers in evaluating Summer Stipends applications:
1) The intellectual significance of the proposed project, including its value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities.
2) The quality or promise of quality of the applicant's work as an interpreter of the humanities;
3) The quality of the conception, definition, organization, and description of the project, and the applicant’s clarity of expression;
4) The feasibility of the proposed plan of work, including, when appropriate, the soundness of the dissemination and access plans.
5) The likelihood that the applicant will complete the project.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
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Agency: American Education Research Association (AREA)
Deadline: August 29, 2008
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are: (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES and NSF, and have U.S. education policy relevance. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Description
AERA invites education policy- and practice-related research proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level researchers. Applicants for Research Grants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Applicants must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant. Please note a recent policy change that researchers who have previously received a Research Grant as a PI or Co-PI, a Postdoctoral Fellowship, or an AERA Fellowship through the AERA Grants Program may not apply for a Research Grant. Awards for Research Grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects. In accordance with AERA's agreement with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs on these awards. Successful principal investigators may consult with NCES or NSF staff regarding their proposed research projects and the handling of NCES, NSF, and other federal agency data sets pertinent to their projects.
Research topics may cover a wide range of policy- or practice-related issues that include but are not limited to: science and mathematics education; the supply (pipeline) of students taking mathematics and science courses; teachers and teaching, including supply, quality, and demand; policies and practices related to student achievement and assessment; policies and practices that influence student and parental attitudes; contextual factors (individual, curricular, and school related) in education; educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through career entry); at-risk students; early childhood education; US education in an international context; school finance; the quality of educational institutions; and methodological studies. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the project. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.
URL: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/res_grants/RGFly.html
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