Presenter: Randa Tawil, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University

This talk follows the long and circuitous journey of Zeinab Ameen, a young woman from Ottoman Syria, as she confronted the Ottoman, French, British, and U.S. empires and Mexican state on her way to meet her husband in Michigan City, Indiana at the turn of the 20th century. Thirty years after she arrived in the United States, she was tried for murder of her husband in a case that rose to national news. Through a migrant-centered analysis, Ameen’s trial and portrayal in the media is reread to show how she traveled, and the decisions she was forced to make along the way, affected how the public understood her thirty years after she arrived in the United States.

Students explore pedagogies and practices using technologies for promoting student learning through active engagement; designing and assessing online assignments; and teaching inclusively. Through a blend of face-to-face and online class meetings, students will experience and reflect on models of hybrid teaching.

Are you or a colleague collaborating with faculty at the University of British Columbia, or would you like to? UW-University of British Columbia Collaborative Research Awards program has been established to provide a pilot fund that facilitates research collaborations between the two universities. The objectives of this Inter-institutional Collaborative Research Award are to:

• initiate new and strengthen existing research collaborations;
• enable access to unique infrastructure and core facilities; and
• provide collaborative training opportunities.

CSDE is happy to partner with you on such an initiative, if it makes sense.

This pilot fund will support activities that establish or enrich research partnerships between faculty at the two institutions. Activities might include project coordination and grant writing, joint workshops, student exchanges and research meetings. The expectation is that activities could lead to leveraged funding, joint- scholarly/research outputs and enhanced collaborative training.

The maximum value of each grant will be $20,000 CAD, or $15,000 USD. The total funding available for this competition is $100,000 CAD from UBC and $75,000 USD from UW.

Researchers are invited to submit a proposal up to 3 pages (free-form), plus the Budget/ justification template, and 2-page abbreviated CV from the lead PI at each institution. Proposals must be submitted by 5:00 pm February 10, 2020.  For further details of the program please see:  https://www.washington.edu/research/resources/funding-opportunities/collaborative-research-mobility-award/

Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth (CRW) and the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison seek applications for the fourth annual Dissertation Proposal Workshop. The application deadline is 11:59 p.m., CST, February 12, 2020; applicants will be notified by March 13, 2020. This week-long workshop, held at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is aimed at pre-proposal doctoral students in the social sciences from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations who are studying topics related to poverty or inequality in the United States.

The workshop is designed to help provide students the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to prepare a dissertation proposal. Funding is provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as part of IRP’s National Poverty Research Center award.

The workshop will be led by faculty from Howard University, IRP, and other institutions. Students will set and accomplish daily goals, participate in group lectures, work individually and in small groups, and consult with workshop mentors. Topics will include the following:

• Strategies for formulating a solid research question and hypotheses;
• Strategies for determining the appropriate research method and securing data;
• Goal setting and time management strategies; and
• Peer and mentor feedback on draft proposals.

Applicants must be pre-dissertation proposal doctoral students studying at U.S. universities from at least one of the following underrepresented racial or ethnic populations: (a) African American or Black; (b) American Indian or Alaskan Native; (c) Hispanic/Latino; (d) Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian, or Hmong; and (e) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Preference will be given to those who are also of the first generation in their family to achieve a college degree.

The purpose of this initiative is to support research projects to advance the measurement of constructs relevant to health research with sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to hire a faculty member with research interests in aging, health or the life course with requisite background in longitudinal survey use, design and/or management – as well as experience obtaining external funding – to provide social science leadership for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We expect that candidates with the requisite qualifications will be mid-career (associate or full professor), but advanced assistant professors may also be considered. Disciplinary background would likely include a PhD in sociology, demography, public health, public policy, social work, economics or related field; the tenure home will be in the Department of Sociology. Candidates with relevant substantive expertise, an excellent publication record, and experience with obtaining external funding are strongly encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the research, teaching and service missions of the University – and to assume leadership of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring eligibility for employment in the United States on or before the effective date of the appointment. You can find the full position announcement here.

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth seeks to deepen our understanding of whether and how inequality affects economic growth and stability. We are currently requesting proposals on the issue of paid family and medical leave to advance the evidence on how paid leave affects engines of economic growth such as labor force participation, the development of human capital, consumption, and macroeconomic stability.

We support inquiry using many different kinds of evidence, relying on a variety of methodological approaches and cutting across academic disciplines. We also support data collection, measure development, and more foundational investigations into how employers and individuals interact with the paid leave system, as we see completing these research efforts as foundational first steps to connecting the dots between paid leave, inequality, and broadly shared economic growth.

Equitable Growth supports efforts to increase diversity in the social sciences. We recognize the importance of diverse perspectives in broadening and deepening the Center’s research on these topics of core interest.

We are currently requesting proposals in three core areas of interest: medical leave, caregiving leave, and employers and paid leave. Though parental leave to care for a new child is not a core interest, we will consider proposals that focus on parental leave and may fund exceptional work in this area that will advance the research and policy conversation.

For all research questions, we are interested in how outcomes vary across the earnings distribution and by demographic group, as well as by medical condition where relevant. For all causal inference studies, we are interested in how policy design elements including wage replacement rates, leave duration, intermittency of leave, determination processes, and especially job protection and the use of privatized insurance options affect the outcomes under study.

Proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, March 1, 2020. Proposals will be reviewed by Equitable Growth staff, external peer reviewers, and will be reviewed and approved by our Steering Committee. Funding decisions will be announced in June 2020. We anticipate that funds will be distributed at the start of the 2020–2021 academic year. Questions? Please email grants@equitablegrowth.org.

The Climate Museum has been awarded a generous grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its work in public engagement with the climate crisis. The grant, in the amount of $500,000 over a 2-year period, establishes Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships focused on climate and inequality within a humanities framework. The Fellows will work with the Climate Museum’s staff and partners to create interdisciplinary public programs, including exhibition content, highlighting climate and justice.

 “Climate change sharply intensifies social inequalities. Just as the Pentagon describes the crisis as a ‘threat multiplier,’ it is also an inequality multiplier. We are deeply grateful to the Mellon Foundation for its generosity and vision in supporting public engagement and outreach on this crux issue,”  says Miranda Massie, the Museum’s Director.

 “With this grant, the Mellon Foundation has greatly enhanced our capacity and our expertise, particularly in the humanities, and thus our ability to provide the highest quality of interdisciplinary programming. Museums have great transformative potential because they are so popular and so trusted. This grant harnesses that potential on the most critical challenge we face, the climate crisis,” says Peter S. Knight, Climate Museum Board Chair.

 The Fellowships will start in August 2020 and run for two years. For further information:

• Post-Doctoral Fellowship   
• Pre-Doctoral Fellowship    

About the Climate Museum

The Climate Museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. Most people in the US are worried about the climate crisis, but silent and inactive. Building on the popularity and trust held by museums, we bring people together to learn about solutions and join the fight for a brighter future, providing multiple pathways into civic engagement. The Climate Museum received a provisional museum charter from New York State in 2015 and has been presenting public programming for two years. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org.

The EarthLab Salon is a 3-part quarterly public lecture and workshop series designed to highlight expertise and leadership on this subject in the UW-wide community, especially among students, and build a foundation of shared understanding, values and language among participants. In doing so, we hope to foster opportunities for a new cross-cutting community to connect and collaborate on shared interests. We plan to take lessons learned into our work at EarthLab.

We invite proposals from pairs of presenters from two distinct fields, who will work collaboratively and present contrasting or complementary perspectives on a theme. Joint talks will take place that centers around the question: What does it mean to center equity and justice in environmental work?  We encourage presenters to seek new colleagues from across units, professions, and positions, and to integrate creative modes such as dance, spoken word, or music, into presentations that enable multiple perspectives to be expressed.

Presenters will be invited to deliver a 35-minute evening public lecture or performance followed by a Q&A and social hour at one of UW’s three campuses (Seattle, Tacoma, or Bothell). We will also invite presenters to share advanced readings, videos or other related resources and join a subsequent lunch and workshop with the EarthLab community to discuss their work in a more informal setting. All presentations will be live-streamed and curated in a UW Libraries digital publication. An honorarium of $200 will be available for community partners.

Any member of the UW community is eligible to submit a proposal, including students, staff, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and more. One of the pair may be from outside UW, such as a community partner. Student-only pairs must designate a faculty or staff contact.

Write a proposal of up to 500 words that describes how you will answer the question, “What does it mean to center equity and justice in environmental work?” Include a description of your chosen topic (250 words), a description of your joint presentation format (100 words) and a brief biography of each presenter that illustrates why this topic is important to you (75 words each). For questions, contact sarajo@uw.edu.

Presentation ideas are due January 13, 2020