FELLOWSHIPS ARE OPEN TO ALL TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK FACULTY AT CSULA
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
PROGRAM
CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS
2009-2010
AMERICAN EPISTEMOLOGIES: CORPOREALITIES, BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE, AND COMMUNITIES
The 2009-2010 fellowship theme is designed to initiate conversations and research about the various knowledges produced in and by disciplines and methods in the humanities and how those knowledges participate in the formation, disruption, and/or perpetuation of American identities. Through research, teaching, and the sharing of insights, this program will analyze and assess the evolving nature of what it is to be an American. We invite proposals from tenured and tenure-track faculty at CSULA that discuss historical and/or contemporary manifestations of issues including but not limited to the following:
- How are certain types of bodies (individual and/or communal) known and represented in American cultures?
- How is knowledge of what constitutes Americanness produced from within and without?
- What sorts of knowledges are made available through particular genres and disciplines in the humanities?
- What is the value of the humanities in 21st-century America?
- How and why have the content and cultural authority of certain knowledges and discourses (scientific, religious, economic, legal, etc.) shifted at particular historical moments? How do certain ways of knowing faciliate and/or foreclose other knowledges?
- How have notions of American exceptionalism impacted the ways particular bodies and communities have been known?
- What are the relationships between content and form? Do certain knowledges or bodies challenge or resist representation?
- Are we post-national? How does such a question impact how we explore American identities?
- How do new media change the way knowledge of Americanness and/or individual identity is constructed and/or disseminated?
- What pedagogical interventions or innovations contribute to the study of American communities and identities?
- What are the intersections between scholarly knowledge and community engagement?
The Fellowships
Three fellowships will be awarded to applicants who engage in humanities-based inquiry. Preference will be given to proposals that best explore the theme and incorporate student research in innovative and meaningful ways. One of the three fellowships, the Bailey Fellowship, will be awarded to an original project that applies this year's research theme to African American communities and/or individuals and preferably involves archival materials.
The program welcomes proposals from the arts that can be presented in a lecture/recital. All proposals, however, must include a research or analytical component based in the humanities. Each fellowship awards 8 units of release time and a $1,000 stipend for a student assistant or other project-related expenses. Fellows must present their research at the ACP's Spring 2010 symposium.
Application Materials
Please submit four hard copies of your
application to
Dr. Maria Karafilis
Acting Director
American Communities Program
Dean’s Office
College of Arts and Letters
MUS 228
Application materials consist of a two-page curriculum vitae and a 500-word research proposal. Proposals should explain the relevance of the proposed project to this year's research theme, the originality of the research, and how students will participate as partners in the research. The submission deadline for the 2009-2010 fellowships is 5pm, April 10, 2009.
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CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM FELLOWSHIPS
2008-2009
POLITICAL AFFECT AND POLITICAL EFFECT: RHETORIC, REPRESENTATION, AND RESPONSIBILITY IN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The 2008-09 fellowship theme is designed to initiate conversations and research in the humanities about the ways in which American Communities have been or are forged, fractured, and/or transformed by political affiliations and disavowals as they are articulated and performed in various forms and genres. In an election year, attention to the ways in which American communities and identities are invoked, mobilized, and represented seems especially imperative, and the methodologies of disciplines in the humanities offer unique perspectives on such phenomena. We invite proposals from tenure-track faculty at CSULA that discuss historical and/or contemporary manifestations of issues including but not limited to the following:
-the aesthetic and affective dimensions of political rhetorics and the bases of their persuasive powers
-new media and their effects on community formation
-the rhetoric and discourses of progressive movements
-neo-conservatism and its appeal
-connections between political and aesthetic representation; what are the points of -intersection between artistic/literary representation and representative democracy?
-ways in which abstract notions of communal or political identity are embodied, lived, and performed
-possibilities and limits of different genres and forms (architecture, literature, monuments, theatrical performances, music/song, reportage, cartoons, portraiture, etc.) in expressing -individual and communal identities
-American identity from the outside in; how do other nations and communities construct -American identity and for what purposes?
-how have the responsibilities as well as the rights of Americanness and/or membership in different American communities been envisioned?
The Fellowships
Three fellowships will be awarded to applicants who engage in humanities-based inquiry. Preference will be given to proposals that: 1) best explore the theme, 2) incorporate student research, and 3) contribute to curricular development. One of the three fellowships, the Bailey Fellowship, will be awarded to an original research project that applies this year's research theme to African American communities and/or individuals and preferably involves archival materials.
The program welcomes proposals from the arts that can be presented in a lecture/recital. All proposals, however, must include a research or analytical component based in the humanities. Each fellowship awards 8 units of reassigned time and a $1,000 stipend for project-related expenses. Fellows must present their research at the ACP Spring 2009 symposium.
Application Materials
Please submit four hard copies of your application to
Dr. Maria Karafilis
Acting Director
American Communities Program
Dean’s Office
College of Arts and Letters
The application consists of a two-page curriculum vitae and a 500-word research proposal. Proposals should explain the relevance of the proposed project to this year's research theme, the originality of the research, and how students will participate as partners in the research. The submission deadline for the 2008-09 fellowships is April 25, 2008.