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UC DAVIS: PACIFIC REGIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER TO: MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE September 23, 2002 RE: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR RELEASE-TIME GRANTS TO DEVELOP PROGRAMS/PROPOSALS FOR EXTRAMURAL FUNDING FOR THE PRHC In partnership with the Office of the Vice Chancellor-Research, the Pacific Regional Humanities Center (PRHC) seeks applications from UC Davis senate faculty for release-time grants to develop PRHC-based programs/proposals that then will be submitted to external funding agencies. The PRHC will award up to five (5) grants at average $6,000 each for faculty release-time (one course) to develop competitive projects for extramural support. Selected faculty will serve as P.I.'s for their respective projects; the projects will operate in cooperation with and under the aegis of the PRHC. Projects can be on any topic relevant to PRHC themes/interests (see below) and may be for programs of research, education, preservation, or public outreach. The Pacific Regional Humanities Center at UC Davis is one of nine national centers recently founded under National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grants. The PRHC was established to respond to the NEH charge "to create regional centers where American traditions, cultures, and aspirations can be explored in the context of place... to provide venues for the exploration of a region's history, its people, its diverse cultural expressions, and its symbolic and physical environmentŠregional humanities centers (will serve) as cultural hubs for the support of research on regional topics, the documentation and preservation of regional history and cultural resources, the development of undergraduate and master's level degree programs, collaboration with K-12 teachers and school systems, the design of programming to develop and engage public audiences, and the development of resources for cultural heritage tourism." The PRHC serves an extremely large area which includes California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawai'i, Guam, the Northern Marianas, and American Samoa. Proposals under this program should address issues primarily within the above region, and should fall, ideally, under one of the four themes already established for the Center: -- Pacific Bioregions; -- Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific West; -- The Movement of People: Immigration, Migration, and Cultural Tourism; -- Visual and Informational Technology, the Arts, and Everyday Life. Proposals for the release-time grants should provide: 1. A description of the proposed project, including the relevance of the project to PRHC themes/interests, the significance of the project, theoretical framework and methodology, timetable for the project from development through submission of proposals to external agencies (max. 3-5 double-spaced pages) 2. Potential sources of extramural funding for whom the program proposal (s) will be developed (max. 1 page) 3. The proposed quarter of release-time (winter, spring or fall, 2003) 4. Qualifications of P.I. and other project personnel (max. 1 page). Please include P.I. CV Proposals will be reviewed by a designated committee of UC Davis faculty. Evaluation criteria will include: 1. Scholarly/intellectual merit 2. Appropriateness of the proposed activity to PRHC goals or themes/interests 3. Potential for extramural funding of the proposed project 4 Special consideration will be given to proposals which are interdisciplinary and/or collaborative and those which have some component of public outreach. Seven copies of proposals for release-time grants are due at the Davis Humanities Institute by no later than Tuesday, November 26, 2002. Two workshops on this program will be held at noon on October 22 and 23 in Voorhies 228. Before submission, applicants should confer, where possible, with PRHC staff regarding the application process and evaluative criteria. Applicants may contact Ron Saufley at the DHI (rwsaufley@ucdavis.edu, 752-8965). Further information on the PRHC and its programs may be found on the Center's web site at http://prhc.ucdavis.edu Michelle Yeh, Co-Director Jack Hicks, Co-Director 02-122
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