The Fulbright Specialist Program provides support for short (2-6 week) visits by US academics or senior professionals in the following fields:
- Agriculture
- American/US studies
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Biology education
- Business administration
- Chemistry education
- Communications & journalism
- Computer science and IT
- Economics
- Education
- Engineering education
- Environmental science
- Law
- Library science
- Math education
- Peace and conflict resolution studies
- Physics education
- Political science
- Public administration
- Public/global health
- Sociology
- Social work
- Urban planning
Fulbright Specialist projects may include activities such as lecturing to undergraduate or graduate students; professional consultations and advising; participation in workshops, symposia or conferences; and development and/or evaluation of academic curricula or educational materials. Projects are encouraged that contribute to the creation of new academic programs or fields of study in Israel. The program does not fund personal and clinical medical research.
Grant Benefits:
The program provides the specialist with round trip airfare (tourist class) and a $200 day honorarium. In-country hospitality (lodgings, meals, in-country transportation) is provided by the Israeli host institution/s, according to terms agreed in direct contacts between the Specialist and the institution/s concerned.
Application Procedures:
US specialists interested in visiting Israel must submit their application to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Application instructions and forms may be found on the CIES website, http://www.cies.org/
Israeli institutions interested in hosting a Fulbright Specialist must submit a request to host the visit to the United States-Israel Educational Foundation. Instructions and forms may be obtained by contacting:
Imri Grinberg, Program manager
Tel: 5172131 ext 203, Email: ImriG@fulbright.org
Tally Barkay, Program coordinator
Tel: 5172131 ext 205, Email: Tbarkay@fulbright.org.il
There is no deadline, the admission is rolling based
We advise to submit at least 90 days prior to the project’s starting date.
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) plans to offer eight fellowships in all academic disciplines to American post-doctoral researchers at Israeli universities during the course of academic years 2018/2019-2020.
Grant Benefits:
Program grants total $40,000, $20,000 per academic year. In addition, the host institution will also provide a standard post-doctoral grant.
Prospective applicants must secure an invitation letter from an accredited Israeli institution of higher education.
Individuals who have already begun research activities in Israel prior to the application date are not eligible.
Application Procedures:
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) administers the Senior Scholar Program for the Department of State. Details on the program and on submission of applications may be found on the CIES website.
Those interested may also contact the CIES staff member responsible for the Middle East region for further information:
Lisa Hendricks, Regional Lead
telephone: 202-686-6239
email: LHendricks@iie.org.
Applications must be submitted to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) by August 1st, 2017.
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) plans to award up to eight grants to members of academic staff, to senior professionals, or to accomplished artists or writers for visits to Israeli institutions of higher education to be carried out during the 2018/2019 academic year.
The visiting fellows’ programs of work may include research, lecturing, or a combination of lecturing and research.
The program grants will support visits of 4 months. This program is open to all fields of study.
Prospective applicants must secure an invitation letter from an accredited Israeli institution of higher education.
Grant Benefits:
Monthly allowance:
- $4,500/month for unaccompanied grantees
- $5,000/month for grantees accompanied by one dependent
- $5,500/month for grantees accompanied by two dependents
- $6,000/month for grantees accompanied by three or more dependents
- limited health insurance for the grantee only
- orientation meetings in the United States (attendance compulsory) and in Israel, and other grantee events during the course of the year
Application Procedures:
The Senior Scholar Program is administered for the Department of State by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Details on the program and on submission of applications may be found on the CIES website.
Those interested may also contact the CIES staff member responsible for the Middle East region for further information:
Lisa Hendricks, Regional Lead
telephone: 202-686-6239
email: LHendricks@iie.org
Applications must be submitted to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) by August 1st, 2017.
Crossdisciplinary Research Clusters are intended to seed new scholarly activity and develop further pathways for collaboration by bringing together UW faculty and graduate students from different departments and disciplines who share research interests. Projects in this category may vary widely in form and scale: innovative models beyond the speaker series are encouraged, as are clusters that develop emerging fields and communities of inquiry, crossdisciplinary or crossdepartmental curricula, and individual and/or collective documents.
- Proposal Narratives (limit eight pages) should:
- detail the focus of the cluster and the activities to be funded
- address near-term goals, and longer-term ambitions if cluster is intended to lead to other forms of collaboration and project development
- include a list three or more participating faculty and graduate students
- Budgets should detail anticipated expenses (e.g. honoraria, travel, accommodations, promotional materials, printing, postage, hospitality, and facilities rentals) as applicable.
- C.V.s for primary project liaison (limited to five pages), and, key organizers (optional—may also be represented in the narrative or an appendix as short bios).
The Simpson Center invites proposals for a new initiative, Next Generation Humanities PhD. We advise potential applicants to be in touch with the Simpson Center—either the director or the assistant director—with your ideas for a grant in this category.
We request that proposals not duplicate support available through the Mellon-funded program Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics.
1. Proposal Narratives (limit eight pages) should address:
- Near-term and long-term project goals
- Participating persons and/ units and what they will contribute to the project
- Activities to be funded
- Anticipated outcomes
- Scholarly, public, and/or institutional significance
2. Budget should detail how requested funds will be used (for research, hourly pay for students, stipends or honoraria, travel, accommodations, curricular or promotional materials, hospitality, and facilities rentals), as well as other confirmed and anticipated sources of support.
3. C.V. Include a curriculum vitae for each organizer. Limit five pages per organizer.
Ever since Ehrlich and Holdren proposed the IPAT model in the early 1970s, social scientists have sought to provide elaborations and evaluate the evidence against their model. However, the onset of global climate change research has overtaken much of the nuanced understandings associated with earlier empirical and theoretical work about population, development, and environment linkages. In this Special Issue, we seek to publish papers that reinvigorate this earlier line of inquiry with data and theories that can do so in the context of also understanding the current and future impact of global climate change. Innovative methodologies and a greater array of data sources at multiple levels of analysis should facilitate the observation and evaluation of linkages across these three domains. This Special Issue–overseen by guest editor and CSDE Director Sara Curran–welcomes research papers at any scale, from global to local, but these should explicitly observe factors in each domain and the mechanisms linking across domains. Papers should conform to basic social science research expectations and include a theoretical framework and systematic evaluation of evidence.
More information about the submission process is available below.
Abstract: Recent studies suggest that interpersonal racial discrimination increases the risk of crime among African Americans, and familial racial socialization provides resilience to discrimination’s criminogenic effects. This study seeks to advance knowledge by elucidating how racialized experiences–in interactions and socialization–influence crime for African Americans over time. Elaborating Simon’s and Burt’s social schematic theory of crime, this study aims to trace the effects of childhood and adolescent discrimination and familial racial socialization on adult offending through cognitive and social mechanisms and their interplay. The present study tests this life-course SST model using data from the Family and Community Heath Study (FACHS), a multisite panel study of African American youth and their families followed from ages 10 to 25. Consistent with the model, analyses reveal that the criminogenic consequences of childhood racial discrimination are mediated cognitively by a criminogenic knowledge structure and socially through the nature of social relationships and ties in concert with ongoing offending and discrimination experiences. Specifically, by increasing criminogenic cognitive schemas, interpersonal racial discrimination decreases embeddedness in supportive romantic, educational, and employment relations, which influence social schemas and later crime. Consonant with expectations, findings also suggest that familial racial socialization practices provide enduring resilience by both compensating for and buffering discrimination’s criminogenic cognitive and social effects.
This talk will be delivered by Callie Burt, CSDE Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Sociology at UW.
In addition to her scheduled CSDE Seminar talk on Friday, Elizabeth Cooksey (Department of Sociology, Ohio State University) will be giving a workshop on the NLSY79 Young Adult Survey longitudinal data set. Dr. Cooksey is the Associate Director of the Center for Human Resource Research and is the PI on the NLSY79 survey. This is a great opportunity to learn more about this longitudinal data resource. All students and researchers are welcome.
The Amish in the 21st Century
The Amish are well known for their distinctive dress, restricted use of modern technology, a continued reliance on the horse and buggy for local transportation, maintenance of their Pennsylvania German dialect, and a strict adherence to a rural-based lifestyle. They are also known for their high levels of fertility. In the preface to his 2001 book The Riddle of Amish Culture, Donald Kraybill writes that the Amish story is “a fascinating tale of traditional people navigating their way through the swirling rapids of modern life.” The Amish are not only a draw for tourists, but their rapidly expanding population has also brought them into increased contact with the non-Amish through intensified migration to new geographic areas. This research uses individual and household demographic data to ask the question of how the growing influence of modern life might have impacted core beliefs and behaviors of the Amish in the early part of the 21st century.
Elizabeth Cooksey is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at The Ohio State University. She holds a BA in Human Sciences from Oxford University and a PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She has been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Longitudinal Studies, London University and is a past president of the international Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. Much of her research focuses on children and youth, and life course transitions and she has been the PI of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth’s Child and Young Adult studies for more than a decade. Much of her research on the Amish has been undertaken with rural sociologist, Joseph Donnermeyer. Together they have spent the last decade creating a database of the Amish in the North America and trying to keep up with rapid Amish settlement growth.
You can schedule a meeting with Dr. Cooksey here.
Amelia Gavin, CSDE Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Social Work at UW, recently published research examining the association between maternal early life forced sexual intercourse, offspring birth weight, and socioeconomic status. The study used a life-course framework to analyze how, if at all, early forced intercourse worked alongside adolescent health behaviors to impact birth weight. The results suggest some influence. Given underweight infants’ heightened risk of adverse conditions throughout life, the study’s findings underscore the importance of preventing behavioral risks in the first place. You can read the full study below.