Political Science Archives - Sponsored programs

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now accepting applications for its Summer Research Team Program (SRT). Faculty from Minority Serving Institutions are encouraged to submit applications for their faculty-led student research teams to spend 10-weeks conducting research at university-based DHS Centers of Excellence (DHS Centers).

Faculty will earn $1,200 a week; undergraduate students $600 a week. Eligible areas of research include engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological/life sciences, environmental science, social science, and more. The program website will provide more information on DHS Areas of Research.

U.S. citizenship is required. The deadline to apply is December 29, 2017, 11:59 EST.

Applications and supporting materials can be submitted here.

Detailed information about the SRT can be found here.

The UNCF has been invited to submit a nominee for the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York will award up to thirty-five fellowships of $200,000 to support travel, research assistants, and/or sabbatical time.

Extraordinary senior or junior scholars at Spelman are invited to submit their names for consideration. Because the fellowship program aims to support the social sciences and humanities, proposals should “incorporate historical precedents, cultural underpinnings, and/or moral arguments.” This fellowship is available only to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Faculty wishing to be considered for nomination should forward a CV and one-page project summary to Claudia Scholz by October 30, 2017.

If you are selected as the nominee, you must prepare a prospectus, budget, and summary, as well as submit your photo, CV, abridged CV and nomination letter by November 17, 2017. Fellows will be selected by April 2018.

Projects must be research-based and fall into one of the eligible topic areas:

Strengthening U.S. democracy and exploring new narratives

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, inequality, access to education, religion, gender, race, migration and immigration, the widening poverty-wealth gap, political polarization, civic participation, individual rights and privacy, forms of cultural expression, incarceration, judicial and criminal justice reform, rule of law, the voting process, the party system, and the public good.

Technological and cultural creativity—potential and perils

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, cybersecurity, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, the impact of technology on privacy, civic participation, impact of traditional and social media, accountability of tech industry, challenges to and varieties of individual expression, the power of imagery, approaches to death and dying, cognitive science and human creativity, definitions of the human and the post-human, and ethical issues raised by medical and scientific research.

Global connections and global ruptures

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, threats to democratic institutions;
nationalism; national sovereignty; human rights; race; gender; religion; access to education; migration and immigration; refugee crises; demographic changes; challenges to cultural legacies; national security and civil liberties; poverty; terrorism; international law; nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; war and peace in the 21st century; and translation, transmission, and transformation of cultures.

Environments, natural and human

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, political and economic stability, global
climate change, health, inequality, human rights, defining the Anthropocene, ethical implications of environmental issues, and literary and cultural expressions of environmental change.