Office of Research & Creative Scholarship

Month: November 2023

The Laura Bassi Scholarship for Editorial Assistance: Applications Due November 30

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On November 9, 2023

In Direct-to-Individual Awards, External Funding Opportunities, Scholarship and Research

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the scholarship is remitted solely through editorial assistance as follows:

Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500

These figures reflect the upper bracket of costs of editorial assistance for master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and academic journal articles, respectively. All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. There are no institutional, departmental, or national restrictions.

Deadlines

Winter 2023

Deadline: 30 November 2023
Results: 11 December 2023

How to ApplyApplicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV using the portal prompted by the ‘Apply’ button below by the relevant deadline.

To help defray the Scholarship’s administrative costs, applicants are subject to a voluntary USD 10.00 fee. All applicants who are unable to pay the application fee are welcome to take advantage of the fee waiver option on the application portal. If you wish to pay the application fee in a non-USD currency, please consult the FAQ below for instructions.

Answers to common questions about the application process are provided in the FAQ section. In order to avoid delays, applicants are encouraged to read the FAQ carefully before writing to us with their questions.

Please do not submit your application material by email, as this would breach our impartiality rules and potentially invalidate your application. If you wish to update your application material, please upload your documents afresh using the same email address as your initial submission. Your dossier will then update automatically. Please also note that your application documents need to be uploaded together rather than separately.

Boston Athenæum Fellowship Opportunities

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On November 9, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunities, Scholarship and Research

The Boston Athenæum offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible.

Applications for most fellowships are due annually by April 15. Additionally, the Athenæum participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of 31 major cultural agencies that will offer at least two dozen $5,000 awards for eight weeks of research between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025. Applications are submitted online via the Massachusetts Historical Society, and are due February 1, 2024.

Faculty Spotlight – November 2023

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On November 9, 2023

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

Performing Arts Professor Magda Romanska’s celebrated 2013 play, Opheliamachine, will be published by Methuen Drama in February 2024. Bringing together eight different translations and two introductory essays, this new edition was supported in part by an award from the Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG). 

CSD Associate Professor Rhiannon Luyster was awarded a new subaward from New York University for an NIH-funded project entitled, “Language processing and word learning in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.” This is Dr. Luyster’s second NIH-supported collaboration with Professor Sudha Arunachalam of NYU’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders.

Three VMA faculty members were awarded Pre-Production and Early Development Grants by the LEF Moving Image Fund for feature-length documentary films they are currently working on. These are Marc Fields and Shaun Clarke for The Midway in Sunlight and Shadow; and Kathryn Ramey for SILVER & earth.

WLP Affiliated Faculty Member Michael Boezi, who is also a musician, released a single, “Fever“, on his website and on all streaming services. Supported in part by a grant from the Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund (AFDF), the song is about, in Michael’s words, “having empathy for the victims of disinformation, propaganda, and gaslighting. We have more in common than the media distortions of division, and we have to start talking to one another in order to solve the urgent issues of our time.”

VMA and WLP Affiliated faculty member Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall published three scholarly articles in 2023: “Collaborative timeslips in Gabrielle Civil’s black feminist performance art and writing” in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 32, no. 2 (2023): 1-27; “Calling Out and In: In Plain Sight and Queer Feminist Care at the Border(s)” in Public Art Dialogue 13, no. 1 (2023): 101-123; and “Sexual-Textual-Spiritual: Artistic Practice & Other Rituals as Queer Becoming and Beyond” in Rejoinder (journal of Rutgers University’s Institute for Research on Women), Issue 8, May 2023.

AY2023-24 Graduate Student Assistantship (GRA) Grant Recipients

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On November 3, 2023

In Faculty News

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, the Office of Graduate Studies, and the Graduate Student Association would like to congratulate the following faculty members, who were awarded funding from the Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) program this year:

Faculty
Member		Current RankDepartmentProject
Title
Raquel PidalAssistant
Professor		Writing, Literature, and PublishingRe-Visioning: A Guide to Developmental Editing for the Twenty-First Century
Marc FieldsProfessorVisual and Media ArtsTHE MIDWAY IN SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW: IMMERSIVE COUNTER-NARRATIVES ABOUT THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
Mili MathewAssociate ProfessorCommunication Science DisordersAspects of Hand Gesture and Discourse Production in Persons with Fluent and Nonfluent Aphasia
Joshua Rashon StreeterAssistant
Professor		Performing ArtsTheatre for the Very Young: New Work Development Process

Formed from a partnership between the Graduate Student Association, the Office of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, the GRA grant intends is to extend the student’s classroom learning, expose them to current challenges in their discipline, build analytical skills, and provide a meaningful work experience that will also benefit faculty in the development of their research and scholarship agenda.

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