Global Dialogues Faculty Development Grant Program
The Global Dialogues Faculty Development grant program supports faculty efforts to examine their role in global dialogues and networks of knowledge, commerce, technology, environment, and culture. GDFD grants provide opportunities, as well, for faculty members to connect across areas of specialization and grapple together with complex global problems and dynamics of concern in our research, teaching, and academic institutional life.
Grants may fund research projects, course development, and reading (e.g. texts, objects, collections, performances) and writing groups, among other globally-focused endeavors.
Who may apply
All ³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty are eligible to apply. Faculty may also invite staff members into their project, with the approval of the staff supervisor. Priority will be given to continuing faculty and to collaborative projects.
Funding
Applicants may request up to $1000 for stipend per project, and no more than $2000 per faculty member per year. Additional costs may include honorariums for outside collaborators and costs of supplies or other project expenses. Total project costs must not exceed $6,000.
Proposal Process
The deadline for proposals for next year is April 17th. If we have sufficient funds left after this point, we will do another solicitation for applications in the fall.
Please use the online to provide:
- A brief abstract of the project (50 words or less)
- A list of participants and their relevant expertise and/or interest
- A narrative outlining the format and goals of the project and their relationship to the GDFD grant program’s purpose (no more than 500 words)
- Supporting documents relevant to the project, such as a preliminary bibliography or list of resources
- Proposed budget and timeline
Grant Deliverables
After the project has concluded, the project member(s) must submit to the Director of Global Studies a report to the Center for Global Studies Advisory Board that explains:
- how the goals of the project were met
- the project’s anticipated impacts on research, teaching, or professional service
- any future directions of inquiry and/or action that participants plan to pursue as a result of the project
Questions?
Contact Prof. Shampa Biswas (biswassa@whitman.edu), Director, Center for Global Studies.
Recent Grant Recipients
Janis Be and Aarón Aguilar-Ramírez, for “Multi-Ethnic Perspectives on Diaspora and Displacement in Young Adult Narratives,” a project to enrich existing courses and develop new co-curricular campus programming.
Krista Gulbransen and Francesca Chubb-Confer, for “Hindu Art and Culture in the Indian Ocean World,” a project addressing a lack of course offerings about South Asia and the Indian Ocean world at Whitman in a time of rising Hindu nationalism and sectarian violence across the region.
Andrea Sempértegui, for a “Co-Labor Water-Monitoring Project with CASCOMI,” carried out with Michelle Báez and the Indigenous community CASCOMI impacted by the Chinese mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. Co-sponsored by PDA/ASID.
Shampa Biswas, Robert Flahive, Camilo Lund-Montaño, Gaurav Majumdar, Daniel Schultz, and Zahi Zalloua, for a cross-disciplinary reading group on the South Africa-Israel International Court of Justice Case.
Sophia Nuñez, Brian Bigio, Patrick Frierson, and Aaron Strain, for a cross-disciplinary, semester-long reading group devoted to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Baroque poet, playwright, scholar, and Hieronymite nun from 17th-century colonial Mexico.
Lisa Uddin, for “How Will The NewOnes Free Us?” a collaborative panel to investigate the global dimensions of a sculpture group attributed to the contemporary Nairobi-based artist Wangechi Mutu.
M Acuff, for “Arctic Circle Residency Alumni Trip” with an international group of artists and scientists circumnavigating the entire polar region around Svalbard. Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies & PDA/ASID.