UCCSC SYSTEMWIDE WORKSHOPS 2010-11

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

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The UCCSC invites proposals for a series of systemwide faculty workshops throughout the coming academic year. Submissions should be based on a clear theme relating to California Studies in a global context and open to different disciplinary approaches. Proposals that focus on interactions and flows within, across and through California are particularly encouraged. Major contemporary issues affecting California, such as a focus on social movements that foreground more complex examinations of "resistance" within various California discourses, might provide other open and opportune directions in thought.

The California Studies Consortium stresses collaboration between scholars from different campuses and multiple disciplinary locations. These workshops should be made up of diverse faculty, graduate students and archivists, and are open to postdoctoral fellows within three years of degree conferral. Workshops should strive to integrate emerging scholars and senior specialists into these new terrains of California Studies. Possible engagements including faculty, students, community, K-12 practitioners, and artists offer another form of interdisciplinarity and cross-textual dialogue. Incorporating and possibly centering non-California based scholars to address "California" as a polemic may also provoke stimulating discussions. The proposals might also consider utilizing available technological resources, such as electronic repositories for bibliographic data or UCTV videotaping at the local campuses, to include more integrated approaches to the sharing and preservation of new research content and knowledge production.

Preferred proposals might show some level of engagement—whether in alignment, tension or contestation—with the growing field of California Studies, itself.

UCCSC will award grants up to $10,000 during the
2010-11 academic year (July 1 to June 30).
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.

Criteria:
Proposals submitted to the UCCSC will be evaluated for scholarly merit, originality, purpose, relationship to existing research, theoretical framework and methodology, adequacy of available resources, justification for the budget, anticipated scholarly and/or creative products, tentative schedule, and plan for dissemination of the research results. While "collaboration" is broadly defined and need not be required in every aspect of the research, collaborative projects should be aimed at facilitating, whenever possible, long-term ties between the UC, other institutions and organizations, and individuals throughout California and beyond. Projects should enable researchers who have not previously approached California Studies subjects to interact with colleagues who are already experts in the field. Applicants are also encouraged to seek additional outside funding.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be UC faculty members who are eligible to be Principal Investigators on their campuses. A graduate student may participate, but must obtain sponsorship from a faculty member who will have budgetary and project oversight responsibilities. All successful applicants must maintain eligibility during the life of the grant. Grants are not transferable to non-UC institutions. Each applicant may submit no more than one proposal per annual competition cycle.

Note:
1:2 Cost-sharing requirement: Funding is contingent on your securing matching monies from outside granting agencies and/or your home campus. At least one dollar of cost-sharing must be documented for every two dollars of UCHRI funds spent (for example, for a UCCSC/UCHRI grant of $5,000, award recipients must obtain a minimum of an additional $2,500).

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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. Graduate Student 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.

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