Gender Studies Faculty Research Support Competition

The Gender Studies Program at the U of A is pleased to announce its first Faculty Research Support competition. This competition is designed to support tenure track and non-tenure track faculty working on gender studies projects in any department or college for spring or summer 2022. Recipients of the award will receive $1,500 that can be used to cover travel, transcription costs, registration fees for conferences or webinars, archival access, acquisition of images, proofreading services, mentors and other covered and justifiable research expenses.

Applications are due by midnight Dec. 29.

The competition is open to any faculty member whose project centers on issues of gender, including, but not limited to:

• gender and race
• gender and colonialism
• gender and the Global South
• gender and political resistance
• gender and violence
• gender and politics
• gender and disability
• gender and foodways
• gender and religion
• gender and the family
• gender and sexuality
• gender and affect
• gender and labor
• gender and Anthropocene
• gender and propaganda
• gender and authoritarianism
• gender and aesthetics
• gender and popular culture
• gender and epistemology
• gender and health

Requirements:

1. Tenure track and non-tenure track faculty are eligible. Tenured faculty are not eligible.
2. The faculty support must be spent by Aug. 30, 2022.
3. Faculty will be asked to present their work-in-progress at the Gender Studies Spring 2022 Roundtable on April 22, 2022, from 12-5 p.m.

Application:

The application will consist of one .pdf file that includes:

• a one-page CV
• a 250-word biography stating the candidate's eligibility and how this project fits into the candidate's research program
• a 250-word abstract of the project being proposed
• a budget with a very short narrative justifying how the support will be spent

Application Submission Guidelines:

All applications are due by midnight Dec. 29. Email them to Lisa Corrigan at lcorriga@uark.edu as one .pdf file titled: YOUR LAST NAME GNSTResearchComp (ex: CorriganGNSTResearchComp.pdf)

Please direct any questions to Corrigan at lcorriga@uark.edu.