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The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award: Writing, Literature and Publishing associate professor Adele Lee and Communication Sciences and Disorders associate professor Rihannon Luyster.

Adele Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on “Global Shakespeare,” Renaissance travel writing and the “transnational turn” in literary studies. She is the author of numerous books and journal articles. One of her current research projects is a study of Shakespeare through the lens of Critical Mixed Race Studies. With the Mann Stearns funding, she plans to travel to the Folger Shakespeare Library to complete research on her chapter contribution to the “Mixed Race Shakespeares” issue of Routledge’s Shakespearean International Yearbook.

An Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Dr. Luyster is a developmental psychologist whose program of research focuses on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She has a longstanding interest in early social communication and language in ASD, and she is an author on the Toddler Module of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule – 2nd edition (ADOS-2). She will use the Mann Stearns Award to meet with scholars and researchers in South Korea and Japan in order to enrich her understanding of autism cross-culturally and outside of Western traditions.

About the Mann Stearns Award: Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Emerson alumna Irma Mann Stearns ’67 established a distinguished faculty award to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to at least one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.

2024 Creative Capital Award Cycle

By Diana Potter

On February 16, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities, Professional Development

Many Emerson faculty artists have been interested in The Creative Capital Foundation’s annual awards. The Foundation will open its 2024 individual grant program on March 1, with letters of inquiry due on March 31, 2023. The Creative Capital Foundation provides awards and advisory services to artists in 34 different disciplines, including visual art, performing arts, film, and literature.

In celebration of their 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital has announced one-time theme for the 2023/2024 grant cycles: “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.” In the next grant cycle, Creative Capital is seeking proposals for new artistic work that address social, economic, and environmental justice, and advance the global dialogue around the sustainability of artists, our communities, our planet, and beyond.

This year, artists will be able to submit applications for their projects in

Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged and/or sustainable visual art-based practices

Film & Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices

Creative Capital is one of the only non-profit organizations to offer awards to individual artists through an open application process; therefore, it is very competitive, with less than 1% of applicants receiving awards. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding, and career development services valued at $45,000.

In recent years, more than 75% of awardees have been artists of color—including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists—of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
orcs@emerson.edu
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Summary of Emerson’s Internal Grant Programs

By Diana Potter

On January 31, 2023

In Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

Emerson has a number of internal grant programs with deadlines in the Spring and Fall semesters. Here is a summary of what grant programs are coming up this spring, and which ones to look for in the fall.

Diversity Fellows Program
due annually in Spring
2023 Deadline: March 13, 2023

The Diversity Fellows Program (formerly known as the Inclusive Excellence Fellows Program) is an annual, cohort-based program. This program invites full-time and affiliated faculty participants to critically reflect upon the relationship between social realities, social futures, and their pedagogical practices. Each Fellow will develop goals unique to one of the courses they teach and a pedagogical action plan based on intertwining sociocultural knowledge, content and industry-based knowledge, and empowering pedagogical practices. Fellows will be compensated $1,000.

Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation (PFCI)
due annually in March
2023 Deadline: March 13, 2023

Internationalization, diversity, equity, and inclusion are strategic priorities for Emerson. Inclusive approaches to curriculum development and equitable pedagogical practices help ensure that learning experiences at Emerson are designed to foster student success in a culturally diverse and global society. The aim is to offer curricula that assists students in developing the required critical consciousness, values, awareness, skills and knowledge of differences to thrive as culturally competent, global citizens.

In 2022, the PFCI will support faculty participation in a Curriculum Internationalization and Inclusion Studio. Faculty selected for the Studio will receive a stipend of $1,200 for creating new curriculum, or developing or refining existing courses. Faculty will also have the opportunity to apply for further funding for project-related expenses.

Affiliated Faculty Development Fund (AFDF)
due annually in March
2023 Deadline: March 13, 2023

The Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund (AFDF) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the affiliated faculty members of Emerson College. The AFDF will provide support for approved projects up to $1,500 each. Types of activities include travel and expenses leading to the production of scholarly, creative and artistic works, conference attendance, faculty development seminars, etc.

Norman & Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award
due annually in April; Pre-Approval forms due annually in March
2023 Pre-Approval Deadline: March 17, 2023
2023 Application Deadline: April 10, 2023

Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Irma Mann Stearns, class of 1967, established a distinguished faculty award to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.

Kasteel Well Faculty Development Fund (KFDF)
may be offered in Spring

The Kasteel Well Faculty Development Fund (KFDF) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the affiliated faculty members of the Emerson College Kasteel Well Program in the Netherlands. Castle administrative staff manage the fund with assistance from the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS). Small grants of up to $500 are offered from a total available funding pool of $1,500.

Graduate Student Research Assistant Program (GRA)
due annually in October

Formed from a partnership between the Graduate Student Association, the Office of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, the Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) grant intends to extend students’ 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. Through this program, we also hope to encourage external grant applications that include graduate research assistants.

Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG)
due annually in December; Pre-Approval forms due annually in November.

The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the full‐time tenured and tenure-track faculty members. The Fund was established to enable the professional work of Emerson’s faculty in its efforts to sustain academic excellence in teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant supports proposals deemed likely to substantially improve the quality of research, publication, creative activities, teaching, and service that advance the mission of the College and the careers of its faculty.

Greenhawt Family Fund
no fixed deadline

Jeffrey Greenhawt ’68 and Jan Jacobs Greenhawt ’69 have generously provided a gift to Emerson College for the expressed purpose of enabling Emerson faculty to procure resources that might assist them in obtaining external project support. The aim is to assist faculty who desire to pursue external funding for their research and scholarly endeavors, but lack experience in writing successful proposals, or the mentoring connections in grantsmanship that are common at larger institutions.

Funds can be used for activities such as travel to meet with a faculty mentor at another institution for the purpose of assisting in writing a proposal; fees to attend a workshop or seminar on proposal writing and grantsmanship; or consulting services in proposal writing or proposal review. A limited number of grants between $500 and $2,000 will be awarded each year.

External Funding Opportunities: Spring 2023

By Diana Potter

On January 30, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities

The Office of Research & Creative Scholarship would like to share the following funding opportunities with deadlines this spring that may be of interest to faculty in the School of the Arts, Marlboro Institute and School of Communication. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please reach out to the ORCS office.

School of the Arts

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Applications due February 25, 2023
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
Applications due March 8, 2023
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed for artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. In 2023, the program is accepting applications for fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction). Fellowships in poetry will be accepted in March, 2024.

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Applications due May 17, 2023
The Arts Writers grant supports writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The foundation also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.

Marlboro Institute

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowships
Applications due April 12, 2023
NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Award amount ranges from $30,000 to $60,000 for a 6-12 month project period. Faculty may not teach during the grant period.

Boston Athenaeum Fellowship
Applications due April 15, 2023
The Boston Athenaeum (next to campus at 10-1/2 Beacon St) offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenaeum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a four-week residency and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. 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 to apply.

NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges and Universities
Applications due May 9, 2023
The NEH Humanities Initiative at Colleges & Universities strengthens the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Projects must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from such areas of study in the humanities as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills. The project period can be between 1-3 years and the total award is up to 150,000.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Rolling Deadline
The Delmas foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

School of Communication

Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program
Applications due early April, 2023
The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of serious and enterprising journalists. This year-long program allows writers early in their careers to pursue projects they otherwise would be unable to research and report. Applicants should have less than 10 years’ experience as professional journalists and must be U.S. citizens. There are three tiers to the program: Fellowships provide up to $35,000 in grant money and expense assistance. Full Fellowships, which require that recipients devote their full-time efforts to their project, provide up to $75,000. Alumni Fund Fellowships provide support for recipients to write one in-depth, major essay on their topic.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Clinical Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA Clinical Research Grant advances knowledge of treatment efficacy and assessment practices.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholars Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Century Scholars Grants supports innovative studies that foster new research ideas and directions for investigators, and that will advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigators Research Grant
Applications due April 19, 2023
The ASHA New Investigators Research Grant supports new investigators by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research investigations.

The Society of Environmental Journalists Fund for Environmental Journalism
Applications due in May, 2023

The SEJ offers a small grant for journalism story projects on a particular environmental topic. Proposals that support multiple journalists are encouraged. Award includes a $2,000 stipend per journalist and other travel or project costs up to a total of $5,000.

Film & Media Funding

By Diana Potter

On January 24, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities

Many Emerson School of the Arts and VMA faculty have expressed interest in finding funding for narrative and documentary film, and media projects. ORCS has prepared a list of film and media funders to get you started.

Some of these funders make awards to individual artists; some may require a fiscal sponsor. Emerson can serve as a fiscal sponsor many of those cases. Please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu for more details.

Funder Name

Film Type/Topic

Next Deadline

Sloan Distribution Grant

narrative fiction feature film related to science, technology or economics in distribution phase

Application open: rolling deadline

Doc Society Climate Story Fund

long form, shorts or episodic documentaries, podcasts, radio documentaries engaging in climate conversation

February 1, 2023

SFFILM Rainin Grant Program

narrative feature films that address social justice issues: screenwriting, development, or post-production

March 24, 2023

VMM Public Media Fund

public media film & television projects representing culture & experience of Native Americans

March 31, 2023

Roy W. Dean Grant (From the Heart Productions)

documentary; short film; feature film

March 31, 2023

Creative Capital Award

2023 call for new Visual Arts & Film/Moving Image projects that push boundaries

April 1, 2023

Sundance Documentary Film Program

non-fiction projects, priority to raising underrepresented voices

April 17, 2023

Rogovy Foundation Miller/Packan Film Fund

feature-length documentaries addressing social issues: advanced development, production & post-production

May 15, 2023 November 15, 2023

FWB Filmmaking Grants

short films, feature films, new media projects: development, production, post-production

June 1, 2023

LPB Public Media Content Fund

documentaries & limited series on the Latino experience: production & post-production, limited research & development funds

June, 2023 (expected)

Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant

documentary producers with deep roots in southern states: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV. Projects in production only.

July, 2023 (expected)

NEH Media Projects Grants

documentary films, radio programs, podcasts that engage with humanities: development, production & distribution

August 9, 2023

LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund

documentary film, new works by New England filmmakers: all stages of production

August 31, 2023: Development/Pre-Production
January, 2024 (expected): Production/Post-production

ITVS Diversity Development Fund

Applicants of color working on standard-length non-fiction projects that have not begun production

September, 2023 (expected)

CAAM Documentary Fund

documentaries for public televison about Asian Americans: production or post-production

October, 2023 (expected)

CAAM Documentaries for Social Change Fund

social issue documentary films highlighting Asian American narratives: research & development and early production

November, 2023 (expected)

California Documentary Projects

documentary films related to California: Research & Development, Production

November 1, 2023

Puffin Artist Grant Program

small grants to individuals for independent film/media projects

December, 2023 (expected)

Faculty Spotlight: Summer 2022

By Diana Potter

On November 18, 2022

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.

If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1554130584108118016

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1554862154695729156

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1557018815418044416

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1557760502486339584

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1559571352629268480

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1560333519511068673

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1562157224771846146

https://twitter.com/Emerson_ORCS/status/1562460471676096512

Summary of Emerson’s Internal Grant Programs: Fall 2022

By Diana Potter

On November 3, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

Emerson has a number of internal grant programs with deadlines in the Fall and Spring semesters. Here is a summary of what grant programs are offered this fall, and which ones to look for in the spring.

Graduate Student Research Assistant Program (GRA)
due annually in October
2022 Deadline: October 21, 2022

Formed from a partnership between the Graduate Student Association, the Office of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship, the Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) grant intends to extend students’ 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. Through this program, we also hope to encourage external grant applications that include graduate research assistants.

Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG)
due annually in December; Pre-Approval forms due annually in November.
2022 Pre-Approval Deadline: November 10, 2022
2022 Application Deadline: December 5, 2022

The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the full‐time tenured and tenure-track faculty members. The Fund was established to enable the professional work of Emerson’s faculty in its efforts to sustain academic excellence in teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant supports proposals deemed likely to substantially improve the quality of research, publication, creative activities, teaching, and service that advance the mission of the College and the careers of its faculty.

Presidential Fund for Curricular Innovation (PFCI)
due annually in March

Internationalization, diversity, equity, and inclusion are strategic priorities for Emerson. Inclusive approaches to curriculum development and equitable pedagogical practices help ensure that learning experiences at Emerson are designed to foster student success in a culturally diverse and global society. The aim is to offer curricula that assists students in developing the required critical consciousness, values, awareness, skills and knowledge of differences to thrive as culturally competent, global citizens.

In 2022, the PFCI will support faculty participation in a Curriculum Internationalization and Inclusion Studio. Faculty selected for the Studio will receive a stipend of $1,200 for creating new curriculum, or developing or refining existing courses. Faculty will also have the opportunity to apply for further funding for project-related expenses.

Affiliated Faculty Development Fund (AFDF)
due annually in March

The Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund (AFDF) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the affiliated faculty members of Emerson College. The AFDF will provide support for approved projects up to $1,500 each. Types of activities include travel and expenses leading to the production of scholarly, creative and artistic works, conference attendance, faculty development seminars, etc.

Diversity Fellows Program
due annually in Spring

The Diversity Fellows Program (formerly known as the Inclusive Excellence Fellows Program) is an annual, cohort-based program. This program invites full-time and affiliated faculty participants to critically reflect upon the relationship between social realities, social futures, and their pedagogical practices. Each Fellow will develop goals unique to one of the courses they teach and a pedagogical action plan based on intertwining sociocultural knowledge, content and industry-based knowledge, and empowering pedagogical practices. Fellows will be compensated $1,000.

Norman & Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award
due annually in April; Pre-Approval forms due annually in March

Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Irma Mann Stearns, class of 1967, established a distinguished faculty award to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.

Kasteel Well Faculty Development Fund (KFDF)
may be offered in Spring

The Kasteel Well Faculty Development Fund (KFDF) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the affiliated faculty members of the Emerson College Kasteel Well Program in the Netherlands. Castle administrative staff manage the fund with assistance from the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS). Small grants of up to $500 are offered from a total available funding pool of $1,500.

Greenhawt Family Fund
no fixed deadline

Jeffrey Greenhawt ’68 and Jan Jacobs Greenhawt ’69 have generously provided a gift to Emerson College for the expressed purpose of enabling Emerson faculty to procure resources that might assist them in obtaining external project support. The aim is to assist faculty who desire to pursue external funding for their research and scholarly endeavors, but lack experience in writing successful proposals, or the mentoring connections in grantsmanship that are common at larger institutions.

Funds can be used for activities such as travel to meet with a faculty mentor at another institution for the purpose of assisting in writing a proposal; fees to attend a workshop or seminar on proposal writing and grantsmanship; or consulting services in proposal writing or proposal review. A limited number of grants between $500 and $2,000 will be awarded each year.

Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) Program (Deadline: October 20, 2022)

By Diana Potter

On September 30, 2022

In Internal Grant Announcements

In partnership with the Graduate Student Association and the Office of Graduate Studies, the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS) is again soliciting proposals to support Graduate Research Assistants to work with and be mentored by a faculty member for the 2022-23 academic year. The intent 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. Through this program, we also hope to encourage faculty to submit external grant applications that include graduate research assistants.

Funds are available to support a limited number of GRA positions for this academic year. If you are interested in mentoring a GRA this year, please submit a completed proposal, using the GRA Application Form, by October 20, 2022 to orcs@emerson.edu.

Note: Proposals that do not use the required Google Form application will not be reviewed.

Deadlines

The application deadline for the FY2023 GRA grant will be on October 20, 2022.

Upcoming Grant Period

Grants awarded in FY2023 must be conducted between November 1, 2022 and May 7, 2023.

GRA Funding

The maximum award will be $2,000 per student, though amounts awarded are dependent on the number of applications received and availability of funding. The funds can be used to hire a graduate student assistant at a recommended hourly rate of $15.25. Additionally, a portion of the amount requested may be allocated to the costs associated with a mentored GRA attending a relevant academic or professional conference.

Proposals need to include a clear and concise description of the project, the expected outcomes, and how the work will be evaluated and/or disseminated. Applicants should outline how this work benefits their discipline, their professional research/scholarship agenda, and the student. Applicants should include a short job description for the Graduate Research Assistant position, including responsibilities, required skills, and any other pertinent aspects that will be used when the open position gets posted on the Student Employment website. If the application includes funds for conference travel, the applicant must identify the conference, its location and dates, and explain how it will enhance the student’s learning and academic growth.

Eligibility

FOR FACULTY Full-time term and tenured/tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply.

FOR STUDENTS

Students must be enrolled in Emerson graduate courses during the academic year, and not be employed by the College as a teacher or affiliated faculty member.

Eligible Projects

Examples of Eligible Projects:

Support for a student to assist in research, literature review for a book or other project
Support for a student to assist in development or curating of curricular or scholarly materials
Support for a student to assist in data collection, cataloging, and analysis
Support for a student as a film or production assistant
Support for the student to attend an academic or scholarly conference related to their field of study (alongside student wages)

Ineligible Projects Examples of Ineligible Projects:

Support for a student to provide general clerical and administrative assistance for regular academic and teaching duties
Projects that do not clearly demonstrate a meaningful work and learning experience for students
Compensation or support for regular curricular, credit-bearing activities, such as coursework, theses, or directed studies
Requests for travel/conference funds that do not also include student wages

Criteria & Considerations Proposals must include:

A clear and concise description of the project
The expected outcomes of the project or research
How the work will be evaluated
Outline how this work benefits your discipline, your professional research/scholarship agenda, and the student
Include a short job description for the Graduate Research Assistant position, including responsibilities, required skills, and any other pertinent aspects that will be used when the open position gets posted in Workday
If the application includes funds for conference travel, applicants must identify
- The name of the conference
- The dates and location of the conference
- An explanation of how the conference will enhance the student’s learning and academic growth

The maximum award will be $2,000 per student at a recommended hourly rate of $15.25/hour.

GRA Application Form

Eligible faculty members can access the FY2023 GRA Application Formhere. Applicants can fill out the application and make changes to the form until the deadline date of October 20, 2022.

FY2023 Calendar

October 1, 2022
GRA Application cycle opens

October 20, 2022
GRA Applications are due via Google Forms.

October 21 through October 28, 2022
Review and selection of applications

November 1, 2022
Applicants notified of funding decisions

November 1, 2022 through May 7, 2023
Approved projects conducted

Review and Selection of Applications

ORCS will review the applications and make recommendations for selection to the Office of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Association.

Eric Asetta, Executive Director of Research and Creative Scholarship

Kimberly McLarin, Professor and Interim Dean, Graduate and Professional Studies

Robin Van Impe, Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student Association.

Fellowship Opportunity: Radcliffe (due Sep 8)

By Diana Potter

On August 11, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunities

The Radcliffe Fellowship is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present.
This fellowship is open to full and part-time faculty who have received a doctorate or terminal degree at least 2 years prior to the start of the fellowship, and who have published a monograph or at least two articles in refereed journals or edited collections.

Applications in humanities, social sciences, and creative arts (which includes film/video, visual arts, creative writing and journalism) are due by September 8, 2022, and applications in science, engineering, and mathematics are due by September 29, 2022

Radcliffe welcomes proposals relevant to the Institute’s focus areas, which include:

Law, education, and justice
Youth leadership and civic engagement
Legacies of slavery
Women, gender, and society

Applying for a Radcliffe Fellowship is a direct-to-sponsor proposal submission, meaning that an application does not require the signature of an authorized Emerson official. We nonetheless strongly encourage you to notify your department chair and/or school dean if you are thinking of applying.

While ORCS cannot submit a Radcliffe proposal on your behalf, we are happy. to proofread and provide feedback on your application. We will give feedback on any materials sent to us by Monday, August 29.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

Faculty Spotlight: June 2022

By Diana Potter

On June 24, 2022

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Scholarship and Research

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.

If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.