<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">MFAs, you should look into this. Brenda Varda won one a few years ago and produced some very exciting work.<div><br></div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Georgia Warnke <<a href="mailto:georgia.warnke@ucr.edu">georgia.warnke@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">March 7, 2011 11:48:13 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:chass-faculty@lists.ucr.edu">chass-faculty@lists.ucr.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Laura Lozon <<a href="mailto:laura.lozon@ucr.edu">laura.lozon@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Chass-faculty] Mellon Workshop applications now open</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;tab-stops:3.5in 279.0pt right 423.0pt 7.0in"><!--StartFragment--></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Call for
Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Due May 2,
2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Mellon
Workshops for faculty and advanced graduate students<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Applications are now
open for Mellon Faculty and Graduate Student Workshops in the Humanities for
2011-12</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Mellon Workshops
bring together several UCR faculty members and graduate students from different
departments, meeting regularly to present their work-in-progress and otherwise
explore a topic or problem of common intellectual concern in the humanities or
humanistically oriented social sciences.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Funding: $5000 per
group</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Goals</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" align="center" style="text-align:center;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>To support innovative interdisciplinary
research.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>To encourage the pursuit of ideas and issues
that span traditional disciplinary boundaries.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;
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</span></span></span>To create dynamic intellectual communities that
support new research possibilities and agendas.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>To provide supportive contexts for graduate
student scholarship, particularly for dissertation-stage students.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;
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</span></span></span>To prepare graduate students to make smooth
transitions from their roles as students to those of peers and colleagues.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" align="center" style="text-align:center;
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</span></span></span>To assist faculty members in their efforts to
provide top-level graduate student intellectual and professional training.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" align="center" style="text-align:center;
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text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">For further information please go to <a href="http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/applications/index.html">http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/applications/index.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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