We are thankful to a cohort of Davidson faculty willing to share their grant success expertise across all academic divisions, in the video links below.

We look forward to meeting with you.

Humanities and Arts: https://youtu.be/YQ5dGYqUyOo

Social Sciences: https://youtu.be/p7O71jhybwM

Natural Sciences: https://youtu.be/1u5zzT_E7_Y

Registration is required for each session. If a session has reached capacity for the Zoom webinar, you may stream the presentation on YouTube Live. Please visit the registration webpage on the session date for the YouTube Live link. All webinars will be recorded and made available on the NSF Resource Center webpage following the event.

Contact the Office of Grants and Contracts to discuss proposal planning and research funding opportunities.

Four recent Guggenheim Fellowship winners will provide a panel discussion of how they approached the grant competition, plus Q&A with participants. The featured panelists will be Myriam J.A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College; John Cort, Professor Emeritus of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison University; Pradip Malde, Professor of Art at the University of the South; and Philip Metres, Professor of English at John Carroll University. 

This webinar should be useful for faculty at liberal arts colleges who are interested in applying for the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 (or further into the future) and would like a sense of how colleagues at liberal arts colleges have approached the competition. The Guggenheim is a fairly unusual fellowship, so this webinar may provide some helpful insights even for faculty who are seasoned grant applicants.

Please register using this form to participate.

Three recent American Council of Learned Societies’ Fellowship winners (Eduardo Moncada, assistant professor of political science at Barnard College; Christina Neilson, associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at Oberlin College; and Brent Rodríguez-Plate, professor of religious studies and media studies at Hamilton College–project abstracts available at the links) will provide a panel discussion of how they approached the grant competition, plus Q&A with participants.

This webinar should be useful for faculty at liberal arts colleges who are interested in applying for the ACLS Fellowship and would like a sense of how colleagues at liberal arts colleges have approached the competition. The next two rounds of the ACLS Fellowship are restricted to untenured faculty members who earned their PhDs no more than eight years ago. All of our panelists received the award as untenured faculty, which we hope will make their advice particularly relevant to this year’s applicant pool.

Please register using this form to participate.

The Fulbright Program has opportunities to match varying goals and availability. There are over 450 awards in more than 125 countries, and many are open to all disciplines. The complete list of opportunities can be found in the Catalog of Awards. Opportunities range from 2 to 12 months in length and include flexible options for multiple shorter visits to many host countries. Additionally, some awards provide dependent support for scholars wishing to bring family members. U.S. citizenship is required.

For more information, visit cies.org or contact scholars@iie.org.

The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology, Joseph Ewoodzie Jr., on a National Science Foundation CAREER award (1944961). 

The $400,000 grant will support the project titled, “Transnational Lives in the U.S.” This 5-year project aims to use the experiences of Ghanaian migrants to the U.S. to investigate gaps in current transnational literature along three main lines of inquiry: motivations, processes and consequences. Along with undergraduate student researchers, Professor Ewoodzie will use a mixed methods approach that will include: collecting data from a historical letter archive of over 2,000 letters; oral histories of families who began traveling to the U.S. in the early 1980s; and ethnographic studies in Atlanta, GA, Bronx, NY and Accra, Ghana. During two years of the project, Professor Ewoodzie also plans to teach a seminar on Globalization and Social Change titled “The African Migration Experience” which will culminate in a two-week trip to Ghana for up to twelve students.

The CAREER is NSF’s most prestigious research award, with the vast majority of awardees hailing from large research-intensive universities.  Professor Ewoodzie’s accomplishment is especially notable since it follows his successful 2018 NSF REU grant (1757506) “Collaborative REU Site: Examining the Intersection of Food, Housing and Healthcare,” in the Beatties Ford Road Corridor, Charlotte, NC, which will host its final season summer 2020.

The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Heather Smith, on two grant awards from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). 

The AMS Mathematics Research Communities (MRC) has funded “Trees in Many Contexts,” a week-long summer 2021 workshop on graph theoretic trees with a focus on applications to biology and chemistry.  Along with collaborators Miklos Bona, Eva Czabarka, Stephan Wagner and Hua Wang, Professor Smith will engage 40 early career mathematicians in research problems in a context that develops collaborative research skills while networking and receiving mentoring.

Professor Smith has additionally received an AMS-Simons Foundation Travel Grant for research-related travel through June 2021.  The AMS-Simons Travel Grants Program acknowledges the importance of research interaction and collaboration in mathematics, particularly for early career mathematicians. The program also includes a structured mentoring component.

The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Assistant Professor of History and Director of Davidson in India, Sarah Waheed, on a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award.

The Fulbright fellowship in India funds six months of research for the project “Chand Bibi Sultan: Why a Medieval Muslim Queen from Southern India Matters Today.”  In researching the life of a 16^th century queen, Professor Waheed intends to highlight the prominent role of women leaders “challenging the narratives of an India long characterized by perpetual Hindu-Muslim conflict, where Muslim women, if they figure in them at all, largely exist on the margins or ‘behind the veil’ as oppressed victims of enduring patriarchy.”

In addition to the Fulbright fellowship, Professor Waheed has also been awarded an American Institute of Pakistan Studies fellowship in support of her research on the impact of the coronavirus on women, workers, and religious minorities in Pakistani cities.

The Making of Modern Brazil

The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in Buddhism

City of Print:  New York and the Periodical Press

Radio and Decolonization:  Bringing Sound into 20^th Century History

The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath

Engaging Geography in the Humanities

David Hume in the 21^st Century:  Perpetuating the Enlightenment

Worlds in Collision:  Nahua and Spanish Pictorial Histories and Annals in 16^th Century Mexico

Emmanuel Levinas:  Ethics of Democracy

The Office of Grants and Contracts is available for guidance or to review your application.  Contact Mary Muchane at ext. 2644 to schedule an appointment.