2010 Call for Applications—Research Development Grant

The Organization for Research on Women and Communication invites submissions for the third annual Research Development Grant. Members are eligible to apply for one of three grants that support scholars at different levels of their career: Category 1 for M.A. students, category 2 for PhD students, and category 3 for instructors or tenure/track faculty.* Each grant offers a maximum of $1,000.00

Grants are designed to assist feminist scholars completing research or creative projects that privilege and advance understandings about the intersectionality and complexity defining women's lives. Broadly speaking, submitted projects are those that chart new ground in disciplinary knowledge about women and gender; that offer insights about the challenges and negotiations confronted by women in light of intersecting identities; and/or that favor the voices, experiences, discourses, performances and lives of women.

Applicants' research projects may be at any stage at time of submission. Grant funds may be used, for example, to pay for: conducting interviews, data transcription, archival research whether for xeroxing costs or travel to archives, clerical support, transportation and/or registration fees for a conference to present the submitted project, among other needs.

Application Requirements:
Be a current member of ORWAC (ORWAC membership is independent of WSCA and vice versa).

Applicants are responsible for becoming members or ensuring their membership is current prior to submitting their grant application. Membership forms are available at http://www.orwac.org; for member status contact Valerie Renegar, Treasurer (vrenegar@mail.sdsu.edu). Executive officers of ORWAC are ineligible for the grants.

Submit a single document containing the completed application form, budget, and current curriculum vita. Grant applications retrievable from http://www.orwac.org.

Forward application materials electronically to: Michelle A. Holling, Immediate Past President, ORWAC (mholling@csusm.edu); office phone 760/750-8576

Within one year of receipt of a grant, awardees agree to submit a one page report detailing the results of the submitted project and use of funds to the President, Diane Blair (dblair@csufresno.edu)

Deadlines:
Applications due July 1st, 2010 by noon time (pst) to the Immediate Past-President. Late proposals will not be reviewed under any circumstances.

Applicants will be notified in September with funds being distributed shortly thereafter.

Review Process:
All applications are reviewed by the grant committee (i.e., composed of officers and/or select members of ORWAC and/or past recipients compose the committee). Grant applicants will receive notification about receipt of their materials, and again later when final decisions are made.
Review criteria and decision making are based upon a project that: 1) most strongly fits and supports ORWAC's mission statement, 2) the overall quality of a submitted proposal, 3) potential and/or likelihood for intellectual contribution to feminist scholarship in the field of Communication, and 4) potential and/or likelihood for scholarly dissemination such as a conference paper, thesis, dissertation or book chapter, journal article, or creative project. One grant will be awarded in each of the categories.

* Note: We aim to support all scholars conducting feminist work regardless of rank. Simultaneously we are mindful of varying levels of institutional support extended to graduate students and faculty. Hence, in category 3, preference will be extended equally to instructors and tenure-track followed by tenured faculty.