American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Scholars Program – Apply by October 25, 2019

The Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) recently received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support current and future American Indian and Indigenous students, staff, faculty, and community research partners in the area of Indigenous humanities.

The AIIS scholars’ program is our first Mellon funded program set to begin this Autumn quarter. The AIIS scholars’ program is a year-long research and writing seminar designed to provide intellectual and financial resources that support completion of research projects (e.g., dissertations, articles,  book-length monographs, and other research products) in Indigenous humanities. The AIIS Scholars program responds to a need for intergenerational and interdisciplinary support of research through the creation of cultures of peer mentorship and relationality.

Five scholars (3 faculty, 2 graduate students) will be selected this year as fellows. They will be asked to attend each workshop of the 9 monthly 1-hour workshops, provide feedback to the presenters each workshop, and lead one workshop over their own works-in-progress. To honor the time involved in this commitment, faculty scholars will receive one course buy-out (with the approval of their Chair) or one month of summer salary. Graduate scholars will be awarded a research stipend (up to $10,000), designed to support their ongoing research initiatives.

After the scholars are selected and dates have been set for these monthly lunch sessions, we will do another call for 3 presenters who would like to take advantage of this community to workshop their materials. We will also circulate the full schedule, inviting our entire community to attend each session. All faculty, staff, undergraduate, and graduate students will be invited to these lunch workshops.

The deadline applications to this program is October 25, 2019 (midnight, PST). We encourage you to apply no matter what stage you are in your writing and research process.

AIIS Scholars Application 2019-2020

All submissions should be completed online https://tinyurl.com/AIIS-Scholars

If you are unable to do so, please email the application and accompanying documents as one single PDF to caiis@uw.edu. Deadline: October 25, 2019 (midnight, PST)

If you have any questions about the Center, our goals, or would like to find out about more funding opportunities, go to our webpage www.caiis.uw.edu or email caiis@uw.edu.

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