As a recently developed Weatherhead Center faculty-funding initiative, the Center now guarantees to every Faculty Associate who is an assistant or associate professor the opportunity to hold a conference on a book manuscript on which she or he is working. The purpose of these conferences is to gather expert assistance to critique and review texts still in draft. The Weatherhead Center will award grants of up to $5,000 to junior faculty who wish to conduct these author’s workshops when they relate to the core interests of the Center. This research focuses on international, transnational, global, and comparative national topics and may address contemporary or historical topics, including rigorous policy analysis as well as the study of specific countries and regions outside the United States.

Who is Eligible

All junior Faculty Associates of the Weatherhead Center are entitled to a book conference one time during the years of their junior faculty status.

How to Apply

Applicants should submit a brief but detailed narrative proposal in addition to a description of the book that will be discussed, a table of contents, a possible list of two to three participants, a tentative budget, and a curriculum vitae. Questions and proposals should be submitted to Adelaide Shalhope.

Deadline

Requests under this category may be submitted throughout the academic year.

Terms

Junior faculty who receive these grants for conferences will be expected to contribute actively to the collective intellectual life of the Center. Faculty who receive support from the Center should acknowledge the support in publications of their research. All grant recipients must submit a one- to two-page memo at the end of the academic year reporting on the use of Weatherhead Center grant funds. This report should focus on the intellectual and scholarly results of the project. Funding is available in the year it is awarded, or it may be deferred for one academic year. Reporting memos are due June 30.

Funding Available

Grants for junior faculty book-manuscript conferences will be for no more than $5,000. The funding available is limited; no more than five such conferences will be funded in any academic year.