The Institute for Research on Poverty invites applications from junior scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations for its 2024–2026 Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship Program. IRP’s Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship aims to support the career development and success of promising emerging poverty scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations by: enhancing the resources available to them; providing high-quality one-on-one mentoring from nationally renowned senior poverty scholars; fostering interaction among a diverse set of scholars through quarterly meetings with the Emerging Scholars cohort and experts in the field; and providing opportunities to highlight the research of the Emerging Scholars through IRP products and events to broaden the corps of U.S.-based poverty researchers. In addition, IRP uses this program to establish long-term relationships between fellows and other poverty scholars, which may lead to future collaborations. Application Deadline: April 23, 2024 (11:59 p.m. Central Time).

The Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program provides opportunities for faculty to engage in full-time research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula. Faculty may request funding for 3-12 months. FY24 applications will be accepted until 4/23/24.

Program features

Faculty may request funding to support overseas research for no less than three months and no more than 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the residence of the fellow and the country or countries of research; maintenance allowances based on the salary of the fellow; and an allowance for research-related expenses overseas. Projects may focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).

Eligible applicants

Institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States are eligible to apply for grants under this program. As part of the application process, eligible faculty submit their individual research narratives and application forms to their home IHE. The IHE compiles all eligible individual faculty applications for inclusion in the institutional application that is submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. Faculty scholars are eligible to receive an FRA fellowship from their IHE if they

• are a citizen or national of the United States or a permanent resident of the United States.
• are employed by an institution of higher education.
• have been engaged in teaching relevant to his or her foreign language or area studies specialization for the two years immediately preceding the date of the award.
• propose research relevant to the faculty scholar’s modern foreign language or area studies specialization, which is not dissertation research for a doctoral degree.
• possess sufficient foreign language skills to carry out the research project.

How to apply

The U.S. Department of Education’s International and Foreign Language Education office (IFLE) expects to make 25 new awards, totaling approximately $750,000, under the fiscal year (FY) 2024 FRA program competition. The FY 2024 application is available online through the U.S. Department of Education’s G5 system between Feb. 23 and April 23, 2024.

Please refer to the official Federal Register notice for detailed information about the FY 2024 competition.

The Evans School will be hosting a seminar with Dr. Bethany Gordon (Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW) on Wednesday, April 24th from 11:30-12:30 PM in 360 PAR. Dr. Gordon specializes in applications of behavioral science and psychology to improve design processes for a more equitable built environment. Her research also focuses on climate justice and addressing designer positionality (i.e., framing assumptions, stakeholder perspective-taking) in large-scale infrastructure design.  Dr. Gordon’s work aims to increase knowledge about how individuals or teams: 1) conceptualize collective identities in increasingly diverse spaces, 2) can overcome the environmental cues that restrict inclinations for equitable and resilient decision-making, and 3), can leverage climate adaptation to remediate past harms enacted by the built environment.

CSSS is excited to host Irini Moustaki On Wednesday, April 24th from 12:30-1:30 PM in 409 Savery and on Zoom (register here). Irini Moustaki is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Read more about Moustaki and her talk on the event page here.

EdFund, a new initiative focused on improving the way we fund schools, has released a request for proposals for new research that supports decision-making around how funds are raised and spent for public schools. Grants will range from $10,000-$100,000, with a goal of awarding $700,000 in 2024 for work that advances what the field knows, provides new data or tools, and connects policy to outcomes. We encourage applications from students and early-career professionals, in addition to veteran researchers. Letters of Interest (LOI) are due on April 25. You can view the RFP and a research agenda on their website or in this pdf version.

CSSS is delighted to offer a limited number of grants for graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers working with CSSS faculty affiliates to cover expenses associated with presenting research at conferences and attending workshops or courses. Travel must occur between July 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024 to be eligible for support. Travel outside this time period will be considered with justification. Read more here and apply by April 25th!