On August 17, the University of Washington received an invitation from the Mellon Foundation to submit proposals to a newly launched Just Futures Initiative. According to Mellon, this opportunity seeks to support multi-disciplinary teams that include scholars from the humanities, arts, and humanities-inflected social sciences with grants of up to $5 million with a 2-3 year duration to unfold visionary, unconventional, experimental, and groundbreaking projects in order to address the long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality, and injustice that tear at the fabric of democracy and civil society. This call for proposals seeks to support teams whose work focuses specifically on and addresses racial inequality and its many manifestations. Proposals will be prioritized that have a clearly defined workplan for collaboration, and that describe the ways they plan to enact that work. They must also include a description of proposed products from the work. These may (as in the case of some artworks) be ephemeral but they must in all cases be durably documented, discoverable, and accessible.

Turnaround for this opportunity is very tight with the deadline of Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00am.  Please review all of the requirements, guidelines for team structures and possible use of funds found here: https://awmf.app.box.com/s/k4him3dmwwte3futfczr4krfalrkfa7q.  Faculty members who are PIs on or are otherwise involved in current Mellon grants are welcome to apply for this new opportunity. 

To support faculty in navigating Mellon’s complex online proposal submission system and encourage

The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) are pleased to announce that the 2020 FCSM Fall Conference is now open for registration! This year’s policy sessions will focus on the Evidence Act and using statistical data for evaluation purposes. The research sessions will highlight the work being done on nonresponse bias, administrative data and several other topics. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. John Friedman, Brown University. Dr. Friedman will be addressing the question: “Using Federal Data to Evaluate and Inform: A Case Study on Increasing Upward Mobility in the U.S.” Dr. Friedman is a professor of economics, international affairs and public policy.

www.FCSM2020.org.

Please see the call for papers for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health entitled “Social Network Interventions for Health Behaviours. Submit your papers – ideally by December 2020.

For more information,visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/social_network_interventions.

The goal of the program is to conduct original research and evaluate the extent to which health system models of care are advancing health equity for the Medicaid-eligible populations they serve. Projects may be generated from health systems—defined as facility-based provider organizations, or other provider organizations (e.g., public or essential hospitals; federally qualified health centers; integrated delivery systems; community-based organizations)—which primarily serve a high percentage of Medicaid-eligible individuals. Researchers, as well as practitioners and public and private partners working with researchers, are eligible to submit proposals through their organizations. Researchers do not have to be affiliated with a health system but are expected to partner with a health system for the purposes of this project. Learn more HERE.

Application Deadline: Wed, 2 Sep 2020.

IAL-II will provide a new, crucial opportunity to share evidence-based practical advice and lessons learned regarding the inclusion of children and older adults in clinical studies. For registration and more information: https://www.nia.nih.gov/Inclusion-Across-Lifespan-2020#Registration.

The organizers of “Racialization and Immigration: How Immigrant and Immigration Narratives Reproduce and Challenge Systems of Oppression” are inviting paper submissions for their virtual conference in December. The underlying goal of this conference is to highlight research on the social construction of immigrants and immigration that emphasizes racialization approaches and challenges assimilationist paradigms. The conference participants will contribute to the existing literature by complicating the racialization literature through intersectional frameworks, de-centering the state in these analyses, centering analyses on alternative narratives, expanding the focus of immigrant constructions beyond the mainstream media and the state and towards other institutions and groups, and examining under-studied research locales. Consequently, this conference should attract a broad and interdisciplinary audience of scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, intersectionality, political sociology, and social movements.

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Professor Pawan Dhingra (Amherst College) and Professor Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) invite International Migration Section members to contribute to a special issue of the journal Social Sciences that they are co-editing, entitled Immigration and White Supremacy in the 21st Century.

Special issue information: “Where do immigrants fit into this renewed conversation on systemic racism? Immigrants have been victims of historic and contemporary forms of racial discrimination and nativism, which in turn have increased their economic marginalization. At the same time, immigrants are accused of trafficking in anti-Black racism and not supporting mass movements for racial equality. This special issue welcomes articles that incorporate an intersectional (of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability…) approach to the study of immigration and white supremacy, which immigrants are both victims of and accused of reproducing.”

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