Associate Professor Crossdisciplinary Research Initiative

This program targets associate professors, who undertake a large share of teaching and committee work but rarely have resources for research committed specifically to them. Associate Professor Crossdisciplinary Research Initiative Grants enable approximately three associate professors to pursue research on a humanities-related topic that will benefit from expertise in another area. Any associate professor in a humanities discipline or with a humanities-related topic who has been in rank at least three years is eligible to apply for this award.

Each recipient will be released from teaching two courses during the academic year. Each applicant is asked to propose a faculty counterpart—in any department, discipline, or school other than the applicant’s own—with whom she or he would value regular conversation and guidance (about debates in this other field, recent research that would be useful, etc.). Faculty counterparts may be of any rank, and applicants may or may not have previously worked with them. (The Simpson Center will be happy to help identify potential counterparts). It is expected that these pairs of faculty will communicate throughout the year. At some point during late Winter Quarter or the Spring Quarter, all of the associate professors involved in this initiative will present their research at the Simpson Center along with their faculty counterparts. It is understood that faculty members will continue to work with their graduate students during their release time from teaching.

The Simpson Center will furnish replacement costs to the faculty member’s home department for two graduate students up to the level of Predoc. Teaching Assoc. II who teach one course each (or for one graduate student who teaches two courses); these funds include benefits and a tuition waiver. Counterparts receive a research budget of $1500.

Application

1. Submit a proposal (limited to 1,750 words or approximately six double-spaced pages n.b. not 500 words as previously circulated) that describes the research project and includes a description of what the faculty counterpart can bring to it.
   
   
2. Submit a curriculum vita (maximum five pages) with the project description.
   
   
3. Submit a curriculum vita from your proposed faculty counterpart with the above.
   
   
4. Request a letter from your proposed faculty counterpart: the letter should indicate an understanding of the project and your counterpart’s specific intellectual contribution to its development.
   

Checklist

• Proposal cover sheet (print out and submit to your departmental chair and administrator/fiscal specialist for signatures, return signed hard copy to the Simpson Center) Download Word Document
  
  
• Complete our Catalyst survey. This contains the same information as the paper cover sheet: www.simpsoncenter.org/coversheet
  
  
• Project description and curriculum vitae (maximum five pages per person) as a single Word or PDF document: www.simpsoncenter.org/application
  
  
• Letter from counterpart (send as email attachment to red2@u.washington.edu, or in hard copy to the Simpson Center.)
  

Assistance

Assistance using Catalyst Tools is available on the Catalyst Website.

Simpson Center Funding Deadlines and Procedures