Gender Studies Faculty Research Support

The Gender Studies Program at the U of A is pleased to announce another round of its Faculty Research Support competition. This competition is designed to support tenured, tenure track and non-tenure track faculty working on gender studies projects in any department or college for summer or fall 2026. 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, and other covered and justifiable research expenses.

Applications are due by midnight March 13.

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. Tenured, tenure track and non-tenure track faculty are eligible. 
2. The faculty support must be spent by Dec. 31, 2026.
3. Faculty will be asked to present their work-in-progress at a Gender Studies Faculty Research Luncheon in the spring 2027 semester.

Application:

Send ONE pdf file that contains: 1) a one-page CV; 2) a one- to two-page summary of the project being proposed and how it relates to your research program and 3) a budget that includes a justification for the support.

Email your single PDF document to Kathryn Sloan at ksloan@uark.edu by midnight on March 13, 2026. Please use subject line "GNST Research Faculty Support 2026."