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Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award: Academic Year 2021-22 Recipients

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On May 12, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

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.

Assistant Professor Rashin Fahandej (Photo: Emerson College)

This year’s recipients are Rashin Fahandej, Assistant Professor in Visual and Media Arts, and Dr. Gina Gayle, Assistant Professor of Visual and Multimedia Storytelling in the Journalism Department. Professor Fahandej is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and the public in generating social change. She will use the Mann Stearns Award to support a summer exhibition in San Francisco of A Father’s Lullaby— a VR-based series of interactive public installations and community engaged workshops that highlight the role of men in raising children, and the impact of their absences on families due to the racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Dr. Gina Gayle, Assistant Professor, Visual and Multimedia Storytelling (Photo: Emerson College)

Dr. Gayle is a photojournalist, educator, and researcher with interests in media credibility, the future of photojournalism, and digital media entrepreneurship. Her father, the late James F. Gayle, was a pioneering photojournalist and one of a very few Black photographers documenting Black history in Cleveland and the country during the 1960’s. The Mann Stearns award will support her efforts to preserve, catalog, and archive Mr. Gayle’s work, which will culminate in multimedia installations in the Cleveland neighborhoods and Black communities that Gayle photographed.

About the Mann Stearns Award: Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Irma Mann Stearns established a distinguished faculty award in their name 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.

Research and Creative Scholarship in the News: Spring 2021

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On April 30, 2021

In Cool News and Trending Stories, Federal Regulations, Policies, Scholarship and Research

Biden Made a Promise to Scientists. He Can Still Keep It.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.

Mellon Foundation to Fund Diversity Programs at Library of Congress
The library will start an initiative, called “Of the People: Widening the Path,” which will encourage diversity among future librarians and archivists. The program is funded with a $15 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, part of a shift by the foundation toward issuing art and humanities grants through what it has called “a social justice lens.”

In the News

Arkansas Professor Is Accused of Hiding Chinese Funding
The professor kept the financial arrangements secret, allowing him to secure other grants from American government agencies that the Chinese funding made him ineligible for.

Articles on Proposal Writing, Grantsmanship and Professional Development: Spring 2021

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On April 30, 2021

In Grantsmanship & Proposal Writing, Professional Development, Scholarship and Research

On Grant-Writing: Just What Are Your Project’s ‘Specific Aims’?
What to include on the most high-profile page of your research-grant application: a section-by-section look at the key structural and content features of a specific-aims page, with tips that will improve the success of your grant application.

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Covid-19 Has Robbed Faculty Parents of Time for Research. Especially Mothers
Women with children have lost, on average, about an hour of research time per day on top of what childless scholars have lost. Equity experts have urged colleges and universities to think proactively about how to change policies and procedures so that caregivers, women, and faculty members of color don’t slip out of an already leaky pipeline.

A Research Career at a Liberal-Arts College
It’s been over a decade since this article was first published, and yet it rings true today: the ability to carve out of one’s professional obligations enough time for reading, thinking, and writing should be the true measure of whether an institution is conducive to research.

Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2021 External Grant Recipients

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On April 27, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Scholarship and Research

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    Mneesha Gellman
  • Leonie Bradbury
  • Alden Jones

Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies received a second two-year grant from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation to continue her research on the effects of heritage language learning and use on citizen formation for high school age Native American youth in public secondary schools in Northern California and how state language regimes are crafting educational policy.

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation is a Boston-based foundation that support projects that use research and related strategies of assessment and inquiry to build knowledge and help address social concerns.

Leonie Bradbury, School of the Arts Distinguished Curator-in-Residence and Director of Emerson Contemporary received a project grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to support the Media Art Gallery exhibit Georgie Freeman: Hurricane Lost, a sculptural video and sound installation that that references extreme weather phenomena and visualizes the effects of our changing climate.

Massachusetts Cultural Council Projects Grants are one-year grants for specific, eligible, public programming to provide access, excellence, diversity, or education in the arts, humanities, or sciences.

Alden Jones, Senior Affiliated Faculty in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and the School of the Arts department of Writing, Literature & Publishing received a travel fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation to travel to Vietnam and Cambodia to study the uses of photography as an antidote to cultural trauma fifty years after the first “viral” photo, “The Terror of War” triggered a great shift in the American perception of the war in Vietnam.

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation is a Boston-based foundation whose purpose is to award fellowships to teachers at New England colleges and universities to enable them to study abroad or at new locations within the United States in order to broaden their minds and enhance the quality of their instruction.

Submit your Work to Iwasaki Library’s “Emerson Authors, Creators, and Researchers” Project

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On March 12, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Scholarship and Research

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EMERSON AUTHORS, RESEARCHERS, CREATORS (ARC)

Our full time and affiliated faculty are a vibrant community of Emerson Authors, Researchers, and Creators.  A survey of the landscape at Emerson shows there are currently multiple avenues for showcasing faculty research and works. However, long term discoverability and inter-faculty academic connections are the final pieces missing from this landscape.

Iwasaki Library’s mission is to facilitate access and create opportunities for discovery and campus-wide connection. This has led us to the creation of an online space facilitating the discovery of faculty research and works.  We will be gathering author, researcher, and creator data on projects, including keywords and descriptions, and creating a searchable and faceted database dedicated to faculty works.  

Please help us get started in this important project by entering your 2020 works at: http://bit.ly/emARC2020

2021-22 FAFG Recipients

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On March 9, 2021

In Faculty News, Faculty Spotlight, Internal Grant Announcements, Scholarship and Research

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship thanks the Faculty Development and Research Council for their contribution of time in service to review this year’s FAFG applications and develop their recommendations. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Faculty Advancement Fund Grant:

  • Amy Beecher, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Container Store Cantastoria: A Contemporary Picture Story Recitation
  • Gino Canella, Department of Journalism: Activist Media: Book
  • Lindsay Griffin, Communication Science Disorders: Determining an optimal delivery method for tongue strengthening
  • Amer Latif, Marlboro Institute: Reading the Qu’ran with Rumi
  • Ed Lee, Department of Visual and Media Arts: F*** You, It’s Funny
  • Pablo Muchnik, Marlboro Institute: Judging the ‘Inner-Judge’: Kant on the Limits of Sincerity and the Infallibility of Conscience
  • Rituparna Mitra, Marlboro Institute: In Partition’s Ruins: Beyond Trauma in South Asian Literature
  • Ougie Pak, Department of Visual and Media Arts: RED CARD
  • John Rodzvilla, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Looking Beyond the Advance: Trade Publishing and #publishingpaidme
  • Magda Romanska, Department of Performing Arts: Transmedia Performance Project: Hamlet/Ophelia/Machine
  • Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Cuba – 1968: World Historical Location
  • Rae Shaw, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Untitled Black Kung Fu Chick Mobile Game App

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.

Free CITI Webinar: “Getting Started in Grant Writing: An Introduction for Graduate Students, Postdocs, and New Faculty”

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On February 26, 2021

In Scholarship and Research, Tips and Tutorials

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The CITI Program, which provides online training in research and compliance will offer a complimentary, one-hour introductory webinar on grant writing on March 3, 2021.

Across professions and academic levels, an understanding of grants and what it takes to find them and submit proposals are critical skills. This webinar will demystify the process of grant proposal writing. Following a high-level view of the major phases of proposal development, the webinar will look more closely at the process of finding and selecting funding opportunities that are a good fit for your research or program priorities.

Learning objectives:

  • Identify the major phases in grant proposal development
  • Locate relevant sources of information on funding opportunities
  • Summarize the information found in a Request for Proposals (RFP)
  • Outline the steps to go from concept to submission

The webinar will be hosted by Nancy L. Devino, Ph.D., Executive Director of Sponsored Programs at the University of Houston-Clear, on Wednesday, 3 March 2021 at 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific.

Please note: On the day of the webinar, access will be limited to the first 100 individuals who enter the webinar. A recording of the webinar will be available on the CITI Program website after the event, for a fee.

To register, go to this page.

Tips for Preparing Journal Articles for Submission

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On January 13, 2021

In Scholarship and Research, Tips and Tutorials

Recently we have received some inquiries from faculty about publishing their articles in academic journals. A number of funders make awards with the goal of a research article resulting from their funding. Often a research article is a scholarly summary of what has been done during the grant period, with arguments to support the validity of the conclusions reached. In a future post, we will discuss the differences between writing a research article and writing a grant proposal; for now, we’d like to share some tips on preparing journal articles for submission.

Faculty who are writing and preparing journal articles for submission, and going through the submission process may find useful this pre-submission checklist from the Taylor & Francis Group, which publishes books and journals across a wide range of subjects and disciplines including Social Science and Humanities books under the Routledge, Psychology Press and Focal Press imprints.

journal pre submission checklist

Here are a couple of other helpful tips from the late Howard B. Altman, professor emeritus at the University of Louisville, founder of the Center for Faculty and Staff Development, and Kentucky’s statewide faculty development consortium, as reprinted with permission by Union University’s Center for Faculty Development:

  • Have at least one colleague (whom you trust) read your manuscript critically and give you feedback. Two colleagues are even better. Consider this feedback as you revise the manuscript.
  • If you are not certain that your article is really appropriate for a given journal, contact the editor and ask. Don’t just send it in and wait to get feedback.
  • If you need to publish (lest you perish), aim for journals whose rejection rate is not so high. (You can get this information from editors.)
  • It is often easier (and frequently more prestigious) to publish in foreign journals. (And some foreign journals actually pay for contributions!)
  • Consider finding a co-author. . .ideally one who brings to the writing task skills and knowledge which complement your own. Two heads are often better than one.
  • If your submission gets rejected, don’t give up! Ask the editor for reader feedback (if this hasn’t been sent to you already). Consider a revision which takes into account the objections/ recommendations of these readers. If you do this revision, resubmit the paper to the same journal. (It will probably be sent out again to the same readers for a second evaluation.)

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