Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities

 

CEAH Fellowships for Scholarship and Creative Activity

 

Deadlines: October 7, 2008 and February 3, 2009

 

• Description
• Eligibility
• Guidelines
• Award Options
• Application
• Sample Proposals
  
• Previous Award Winners
  

 

Description:
Fellows of the Center are eligible for up to $5,000 in funding, awarded as either a grant account or as summer salary support. The funding is to assist with research or creative activity expenses or to buy out teaching time during the summer months. During the year the Center will call upon its Fellows to talk briefly about their scholarly projects to a diverse audience that may include both the university community and the general public.

Eligibility:
Awards are available for tenured or tenure-track faculty only.

Fellows must be returning to Iowa State University the following academic year. An award will need to be forfeited if the recipient decides not to return to ISU subsequent to award notification.

There must be a two year interval between fellowships, and the Center requires that subsequent applications be for a separate project or a different phase of the previously funded work. In order to be eligible to apply for a fellowship this fiscal year (July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008), your previous summer support award must have been paid out on or before June 30, 2006.

Faculty who are receiving internally funded summer research support at the college level are not eligible to apply.

State funds are used to support this program, so faculty members who wish to apply for the salary award option and have other salary commitments for summer 2008 (teaching or administrative) should contact the Center regarding their eligibility.

B-base faculty who are teaching during the summer may apply for the salary option, but only if their payment for teaching does not exceed one-ninth of their current academic salary. That is, a faculty member may receive no more than two months of salary from summer teaching and/or research activities.

A-base faculty are eligible to apply for salary support if the buyout is approved at the department and college levels.

Faculty members who wish to apply for the salary award option and who will receive salary support in June from another administrative unit may not be eligible for the full fellowship award. Please contact the Center if you have questions about your eligibility.

Guidelines:

Proposals are accepted biannually. The deadline for the fall round of proposals is October 2, 2007. The deadline for the spring round of proposals is February 5, 2008.

Proposed projects must demonstrate a connection to the arts and/or humanities.

The CEAH does not support the scholarship of teaching. Faculty interested in submitting a proposal on pedagogy should visit the website for the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, found at http://www.celt.iastate.edu/grants_awards/grants.html

Applicants are encouraged to review the evaluation criteria the Center uses to rank proposals.

Do not include supplemental illustrations or artwork within or as an attachment to the application form. If you believe graphic information is essential to your proposal, please contact the Center.

Award amounts will not exceed $5,000. There is no minimum award, but the two-year interval between fellowships applies regardless of the amount of funding received.

Compliance Approval: If the proposal involves animal subjects, human subjects, radioisotope or radiation producing device use, recombinant DNA, animal or plant pathogens, or biological toxins, you must obtain approval from the appropriate Office of Research Compliance administrative review committee(s) prior to release of funds.

Award Options:

You will be asked to specify your preferred disbursement method on the application form. Please review the eligibility section above, which includes additional information regarding awards disbursed as salary support.

Salary Support:
Salary support is the equivalent of one month's salary, plus fringe benefits, up to $5,000. Salary support will be paid out in June 2008 unless alternate arrangements are approved in advance.
Advantages: Award is disbursed as one payment, and the funds may be used without time or purchasing restrictions. No budget need be submitted with your application.
Disadvantages: Fringe benefits are deducted and taxes are withheld, decreasing the overall amount of the award.

Grant Account:
Funds will be made available in a university (700) account to cover allowable expenses that will most benefit the project: travel expenses (including airfare and lodging but not per diems), materials, supplies, and hourly wages. Purchases should be made in compliance with the university's procurement policies and will be approved at the department level.
Advantages: Funding is available immediately and is received in full; taxes are not withheld, and fringe benefits are not deducted.
Disadvantages: Funding is available for allowable expenses only. All funds must be spent by June 30, 2008. An itemized budget must be submitted with the application, and subsequent changes to the budget must be approved by the Center. Supplies and equipment purchased through university grant accounts are considered property of the university.

Application:
Applicants are required to use the electronic application form provided. The text of the form must be typed in 12-point double-spaced type--no exceptions. Do not include supplemental illustrations or artwork within or as an attachment to the application form. If you believe graphic information is essential to your proposal, please contact the Center.

Download the CEAH Fellowship Application Form (Word)

Submission: Proposals should be sent by campus mail or hand-delivered to the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (171 Carver Hall) and should include 17 copies of the following:

• the completed application
• an itemized budget (this is required only if applicant is requesting a grant account; applications requesting summer salary support do not require a budget.
• your two-page curriculum vitae
• a letter of transmission from your department chair. You only need provide one copy of this letter (Chairs: please do not rank multiple submissions from your department or program.)

Please collate and staple copies; do not use paperclips or binder clips.

Contact the Center staff with questions regarding the application process.

 

Sample Proposals:

Kevin Amidon (World Languages and Cultures)
"The Applied Science of Cultural Value: Eugen Fischer, Biological Mendelism, and the Invention of Apartheid" (PDF)(application for grant account)

Sara Gregg (History)
"Contested Commons: Subsistence Farms, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia" (PDF)

Diane Price Herndl (English)
"Breast Cancer as Metaphor" (PDF)

Wei-Cheng Lin (Art and Design)
"Building a Sacred Mountain: Buddhist Monastic Architecture at Mt. Wutai, China, during the Tang Dynasty, 818-907 C.E. (PDF)

Other proposals may be available upon request.

Mary Sawyer, Religious Studies, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her work, The Black Church Since 1968: Forty Years of Wilderness

Kevin Amidon, World Languages and Cultures, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for his work, The Applied Science of Cultural Value: Eugen Fischer, Biological Mendelism, and the Invention of Apartheid

Ingrid Lilligren, Art and Design, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her work, Accumulations: Crystalline Glazes on Ceramic Sculpture

David Hollander, History, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for his work, Dependency and Self-Sufficiency in the Greco-Roman Household

Linda Shenk, English, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her project, Elizabeth I, Learned Queen: Sovereignty, Court Poetry, and International Politics

Kristin Vander Lugt, World Languages and Cultures, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her project, The Retrun of the Haunted Screen:German Horror Film after 1945

Chrisy Moutsatsos, Anthropology/Women's Studies, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her work on Global Gaze, Local Bodies: An Ethnography of Consumption and Femininity in Urban Greece

April Eisman, Art and Design, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her work, Neo Rauch and the "New Leipzig School" in Context

Amy Bix, History, is a 2008 CEAH Fellow for her work, Creating "Chicks Who Fix": Women, Technical Knowledge, and Home Repair, 1920-2007