Call for Applications
Mark L. Sosower Fund
to support faculty research travel
The College of Humanities and
Social Sciences invites applications for support for research travel as called
for in the terms of the Mark L. Sosower Fund. The purpose of the fund is:
To provide support for faculty travel for research. Awards will be
available to all CHASS faculty. Awards will be made by a committee, to be
chaired by the head of the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
A review committee has been formed,
consisting of Dr. Ruth Gross, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures and chair of this committee, Drs. Martha Crowley (Sociology and
Anthropology), Akram Khater (History, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora
Studies), and Shevaun Neupert (Psychology). Dr. Tom Birkland, Associate Dean
for Research and Engagement, will staff the committee, but is not a member.
The committee seeks applications
for support for research and scholarly travel.
This call for applications is not for conference travel. Rather, the fund was intended
to assist faculty in funding travel for doing research and scholarship,
including but not limited to fieldwork, visits to libraries and archives, and
similar research-related travel expenses. We will consider funding to work with
collaborators, although such proposals will need to be well justified. We will
not fund visits to research funders under this call—the college will soon
inaugurate a separate program for this.
Priority will be given to projects
that show high scholarly promise, and for which travel is a necessary element
of the research or scholarship. Such funds will not be granted to faculty with
existing external or internal funding. Scholars who have applied for this
year’s round of SRA’s are eligible to apply, and may be funded through one
program or the other, but not both.
How to apply:
Your application should consist of a brief (one to two page) proposal explaining the purpose of the travel, the research project for which travel is necessary, a short budget (not included in the 2 page limit) and a letter of support from your department head. We anticipate funding up to four proposals at no more than $1350 per proposal.
Email your application to Tom
Birkland at tabirkla@ncsu.edu by
November 1, 2015. You may propose to undertake travel in calendar year 2016.
