UCCSC GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS 2010-11

Extended Deadline: February 15, 2010                  Grantees of the program for 2009-10

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As part of the University of California (UC) California Studies Consortium (CSC), the UCCSC Graduate Student Research Travel Grant is designed to assist graduate students at UC campuses for travel and access to archives and collections for research in California Studies.

The consortium is interested in California as a site of global intersections and circulations—culturally, economically, and politically. By supporting and nurturing the work of graduate students and young scholars in the field, it hopes to unearth and build upon critical historical mappings and re-mappings of California and its cultures, as it is invested in sustained, multidisciplinary, and differently situated notions of intersection, power, history, language, migration and movement. The consortium wishes to supplement a more traditional sense of California Studies by dealing squarely with questions of public pedagogy that address the antagonisms comprising what it means to be a "Californian." The steering committee seeks new research exploring and exploding current theoretical lenses that include topics as diverse as nativism and the environment to prisons, industry and the military. To refocus the topic of California away from its common identifiers to its underlying layers of contradiction—labor, resources, scarcity, race, tourism, technology, recreation, suburbia, for example—would expand our understanding of California's complex relationship(s) to the world at large.

These grants are intended for direct support of graduate student research; they are not intended for UC student fees and tuition. Travel should take place during the 2010-11 academic year (between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011). Conference travel to professional meetings to disseminate research is NOT eligible for funding. Students advanced to candidacy will be given preference. Applicants must be UC graduate students enrolled or ABD. Awards are contingent upon available funding. UCHRI funds must be spent in accordance with all applicable UC rules and regulations. Please contact the Office of Research at your campus with any questions you may have.

The maximum award is $500.

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To Apply
Applications must be submitted through the online FASTAPPS system (e-mailed, mailed, or faxed applications will not be accepted). Applicants must be registered with the online application system. Basic information as well as uploaded documents such as a project proposal, project bibliography, cv, and itemized budget are required. Applicants must also provide the name of their advisor, who will then be asked by the UCCSC committee to provide a letter of endorsement on the applicant's behalf.

The highlighted tab at the top of each form indicates the current section of the online application. Once you click the "Submit" button at the bottom of a form, the FASTAPPS system automatically advances to the next section and the corresponding tab at the top of the new form becomes highlighted. To move from field to field, use only the Tab key (not the Enter/Return key, which has the same function as the "Submit" button) or click on the field with your mouse.

You may return to your application and make changes at any time prior to the application deadline.

For technical assistance, contact techsupport@hri.uci.edu.
For programmatic questions, contact dnoto@hri.uci.edu.

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