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Celebrating CC’s Expertise
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Invitation to Join 66 Grants Officers for Panel on NSF
Dear colleagues,
Next week, CC will be welcoming 66 grants officers from 52 small liberal arts colleges around the country – the first in-person CLASP conference since its annual meeting in November 2019 at Bowdoin College.
CLASP (Colleges of Liberal Arts – Sponsored Programs) is a group of wise, curious, and generous individuals who believe deeply in liberal arts colleges – and their faculty. CLASP was formed 26 years ago as an informal discussion group for liberal arts college professionals whose responsibilities include supporting faculty and staff in the search for and management of external funding for scholarly and creative work. CLASP has grown considerably since its modest beginning—only six institutions were represented at its first meeting in 1997. There are currently more than 600 subscribers to the CLASP listserv, representing approximately 320 institutions.
CC faculty have benefited from CLASP over the years, but may not have been aware. Each year CLASP compiles a list of all grants and fellowships awarded to our institutions, so that we can share information and insights – especially valuable for harder-to-fund disciplines and projects. Each day the listserv is abuzz, as subscribers answer questions both obsure and profound, urgent and timeless, seeking to learn from each other and share what they know so that our faculty, students and institutions prosper.
The group is especially excited to hear from three members of the CC community who have spent a significant amount of time serving from within the National Science Foundation – Dr. Phoebe Lostroh, Dr. Vanessa Munoz and Dr. Mateo Munoz. As one registrant shared after reviewing the conference agenda, “I was especially struck by the NSF session drawing on CC faculty who have been at NSF and open to CC faculty… How awesome that you have three people at CC with experience at NSF.”
CC faculty and staff are invited to join CLASP at this special lunchtime panel, “NSF from the Inside: Our Experiences Serving Within the NSF” in Bemis Great Hall on Thursday, November 10th, noon. Please RSVP to Marcella Mills as soon as possible, but no later than Nov. 7th.
Whether you are considering an NSF proposal one day [reminder: NSF supports many social science disciplines] or are a current grantee, we would love to have your perspective and expertise in the room.
Tess Powers
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Summary: “NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.”
Career Stage: Scholars from all career stages are encouraged to apply, as are independent scholars
Annual Deadline: mid-April (April 12, 2023)
Award Amount: $5,000 per month for 6 to 12 months
Start Date: NEH has a very generous 20-month window for starting funded projects. For example, you could apply in the spring of your 4th year for sabbatical support. (Projects proposed in April 2023 could begin as late as Sept. 1, 2025.) This flexibility also creates the opportunity to prepare a resubmission based on reviewer feedback, which increases one’s chances of funding.
Outcomes supported: Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research.
Project Stage: Projects may be at any stage of development.
Disciplines supported: According to NEH, “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 science 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.” Typically the field of the project, not the applicant, must fall within one of the above areas.
Resources Available: NEH has posted 22 sample narratives as well as an informational webinar from Feb. 2022; a Spring 2021 webinar on NEH Fellowship featuring three faculty winners from small liberal arts colleges, as well as CC’s Claire Oberon Garcia, on our Advice on Key Funders page; CC’s Unpaid Non-medical Leave of Absence Policy (page 32 of the Faculty Handbook) could be applied to support an award that does not align with a sabbatical.
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Grant for Workshop at CC
Dr. Sarah Hautzinger and her colleague Sophie Bjork-James at Vanderbilt University have been awarded a $19,774 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to support a 4-day workshop to take place at Colorado College next summer. The workshop, titled “Religious Responses to Climate Turmoil: Anthropological Perspectives,” will bring together a total of nine ethnographers focused on religious communities’ engagement with climate challenges. Taking a broad definition of religion, including formal religions as well as new and emergent communities who invoke ritual and various forms of meaning-making, the seminar participants will discuss how religious institutions, leaders, practices, and ethics are responding to the climate crisis and Anthropocene. Participants will include scholars with expertise in multiple religious and spiritual practices, including six international scholars (by birth), including CC’s own Yogesh Chandrani of the Religion Department, as well as scholars from Peru, Guatemala, Nepal, and China.
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Research Suited for the Marketplace?
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Virtual Workshop Jan. 12-13
Interested in learning how to move research to the marketplace? Union College is hosting The SUITED Workshop [Supporting Undergraduate Institutions in Technology and Entrepreneurship Development] geared for faculty at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs).
The organizers have experienced first-hand how Technology, Innovation and Partnership (TIP) activities support and enhance a PUI college’s core research, teaching, and broader societal missions, but also encountered significant barriers and challenges specific to PUIs associated with participating in and gaining support for TIP activities.
A three-part series – which begins with a virtual component on Jan. 12-13 – will help PUIs learn to better access the myriad benefits of TIP activities and help the National Science Foundation (and other key agencies and organizations) to better support and harness the power of PUIs.
The primary objective of Part 1 is to bring together and begin to build community among faculty and administrators and others at PUIs interested in furthering TIP activities in undergraduate settings.
Registration deadline of December 12th.
Who Should Attend Part 1: Individuals or teams of science faculty, academic deans, grants administrators, and other research leaders at PUIs interested in learning more about new TIP activities can support their institution’s core missions.
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Help Us Recognize Our Community’s Accomplishments
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CC Accolades
Help us celebrate your faculty colleagues’ accomplishments! Use this anonymous form to share news of publications, creative work, grants and fellowships, and other accomplishments.
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