UCSD
CAMPUS NOTICE
University of California, San Diego
 

PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR A UCSD CENTER
FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

February 20, 2001

ACADEMIC SENATE MEMBERS

SUBJECT:  Call for Research Planning Group Grant Applications
                     in International Studies

The Planning Committee for a UCSD Center for International Studies is pleased to announce a call for Research Planning Group grants in the field of international studies. Goals of the program and the application process are described below. Questions about the application process may be directed to Bonnie Horstmann (bhorstmann@ucsd.edu) or Michele Dotson (mdotson@ucsd.edu). Members of the Planning Committee (list follows) will also be happy to respond to questions. Please note that the application due date is Monday, April 2, 2001.

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Peter Gourevitch, IR/PS, Chair (beginning July 1, 2000)
Miles Kahler, IR/PS, Chair (through June 30, 2000)
Charles Briggs, Ethnic Studies
Joe Esherick, History
David Lake, Political Science
Akos Rona-Tas, Sociology
Peter Smith, Political Science
Lisa Yoneyama, Literature

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University of California, San Diego

I N T E R N A T I O N A L S T U D I E S
Research Planning Group
Grant Application February 15, 2001


Applications are invited for funds to support Research Planning Groups in the field of international studies. Funding from the SVC - Academic Affairs is available to support three grants of up to $5,000 each. The Research Planning Groups will link together faculty across departments, disciplines, and divisions who share common interests. The grants are meant to support activities that will help develop those intellectual interests and which may point to future collaborative projects based upon them. These grants are viewed as "seed" money, designed to encourage collaboration and launch new projects that might attract external funding in the future.

Preference will be given to proposals that demonstrate the following qualities:
-- interdisciplinary, interdivisional and interregional (intra-regional is acceptable so long as it is comparative, that is more than one country) topics dealing with international studies,
-- potential for substantial faculty interest, or critical mass,
-- originality, excitement, and breadth of ideas,
-- clarity of plan for expenditure of funds.

Funds may be used for speaker travel to UCSD, activities at our campus (research meetings, paper presentations [copying, distribution], meeting refreshments, etc.). Funds must be expended by June 30, 2002.

At the end of the project, a two-page report to the Director of the proposed Center for International Studies is expected, describing what was done and what benefit was produced. An accounting of the expenditures is also required.

Applications are due no later than 5:00 p.m., on Monday, April 2, 2001, to Michele Dotson (mdotson@ucsd.edu or mail code 0001).

Applications should consist of:

(a) statement of purpose,
(b) faculty participants, with brief biographical information on faculty,
(c) plan for expenditure of funds,
(d) designated Principal Investigator(s).

Selections will be made by the Planning Committee for a UCSD Center for International Studies. Awards will be announced in late April, 2001.