Global Dialogues Faculty Development Grant Program
The Global Dialogues Faculty Development grant program supports faculty efforts to examine their role in global dialogues and networks of knowledge, commerce, technology, environment, and culture. GDFD grants provide opportunities as well for faculty members to connect across areas of specialization and grapple together with complex global problems and dynamics of concern in our research, teaching, and academic institutional life.
Grants may fund reading and writing groups, course development, and research projects, among other globally focused endeavors.
Who may apply
All Whitman College faculty are eligible to apply. Faculty may also invite staff members into their project, with the approval of the staff supervisor. Priority will be given to continuing faculty and to collaborative projects.
Funding
Applicants may request up to $2000 per faculty member per year. Additional funds for supplies may be available, as our annual budget allows. Details can be found in the application form.
Proposal Process
Applications will be reviewed twice per year. Apply by September 15th for projects to be carried out the following spring semester, and by March 1st. for summer and fall semester projects.
Grant Deliverables
After the project has concluded, the project member(s) must submit to the Director of Global Studies a report to the Center for Global Studies Advisory Board that explains:
- how the goals of the project were met
- the project’s anticipated impacts on research, teaching, or professional service
- any future directions of inquiry and/or action that participants plan to pursue as a result of the project
Questions?
Contact Nicole Simek (simeknj@whitman.edu), Director, Center for Global Studies.
Recent Grant Recipients
Janis Be and Aarón Aguilar-Ramírez, for “Multi-Ethnic Perspectives on Diaspora and Displacement in Young Adult Narratives,” a project to enrich existing courses and develop new co-curricular campus programming.
Krista Gulbransen and Francesca Chubb-Confer, for “Hindu Art and Culture in the Indian Ocean World,” a project addressing a lack of course offerings about South Asia and the Indian Ocean world at Whitman in a time of rising Hindu nationalism and sectarian violence across the region.
Andrea Sempértegui, for a “Co-Labor Water-Monitoring Project with CASCOMI,” carried out with Michelle Báez and the Indigenous community CASCOMI impacted by the Chinese mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. Co-sponsored by PDA/ASID.
Shampa Biswas, Robert Flahive, Camilo Lund-Montaño, Gaurav Majumdar, Daniel Schultz, and Zahi Zalloua, for a cross-disciplinary reading group on the South Africa-Israel International Court of Justice Case.
Sophia Nuñez, Brian Bigio, Patrick Frierson, and Aaron Strain, for a cross-disciplinary, semester-long reading group devoted to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Baroque poet, playwright, scholar, and Hieronymite nun from 17th-century colonial Mexico.
Lisa Uddin, for “How Will The NewOnes Free Us?” a collaborative panel to investigate the global dimensions of a sculpture group attributed to the contemporary Nairobi-based artist Wangechi Mutu.
M Acuff, for “Arctic Circle Residency Alumni Trip” with an international group of artists and scientists circumnavigating the entire polar region around Svalbard. Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies & PDA/ASID.