Collaborative
Grants
Ford
Foundation
The University at Albany’s Gender Studies in Global Perspective
project received a $250,000 grant from the Ford
Foundation to promote and strengthen gender studies graduate
training with an international focus. The project is a collaborative
effort of the Center
for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC)
and the Institute for Research on Women (IROW).
Co-directors
of the project are Edna Acosta-Belén, Distinguished Service
Professor in the departments of Latin American & Caribbean Studies
and Women’s Studies and Christine Bose, associate professor
in the departments of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Latin
American & Caribbean Studies.
One
of the main goals of the project, according to Bose, is to "foster
growing interactions between area studies (which focus on geographic
areas of the world such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia)
and gender studies."
Bose
adds, "This program provides an incentive, through the use of
assistantships, to encourage students to combine these interdisciplinary
fields of study and indirectly encourages the University to
hire faculty to support these fields. Through this program,
international interests and an interest in gender can be linked."
The
three-year effort made available a minimum of five graduate
assistantship awards per year for those students specializing
in women’s studies or pursuing gender studies in a global context.
Selections will be made in an open competition, the criteria
for which will be announced later this fall. A postdoctoral
fellow position and an annual lecture will also be supported
by the project.
The
University made a commitment to continue beyond the grant
period by providing three assistantship awards per year for
an additional five years (2001-2006) for graduate students doing
gender-focused research from a global perspective in any department
in the social sciences and humanities.
USIA
A new grant from USIA, "Democracy and Human Rights in Higher
Education," involves collaboration between the Program in Russian
and East European Studies, IROW, and other University at Albany
units in a continuing affiliation with the University of Sofia
in Bulgaria. IROW Advisory Board member Gwen Moore will be working
with a Bulgarian colleague on a comparative study of women in
higher education during the three year project.
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