(For Fall 2007 Only)
About
the Center |
Research Collaboratives | Goals & Expectations | Past Research Topics
| Funding | Proposal
Guidelines, Development, & Submission
ABOUT
THE CENTER
The
Center for German and European Studies is a consortium of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The
Center is designed to facilitate and coordinate the interdisciplinary
approach to research and teaching in contemporary German and European
studies across all fields.
The
goals of the Center are to educate the next generation of German and
European specialists and to create new interdisciplinary knowledge about
Germany and the New Europe. The Center accomplishes its goals by organizing
and supporting a series of interdisciplinary Research Collaboratives
on both campuses.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIVES
The Center for German and European Studies will select a Research Collaborative to receive support
from the Center for a two-semester period. The Research Collaborative is
expected to feature interdisciplinary groups of scholars from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and another university (Collaborative with the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities strongly preferred) and to examine the philosophical, social,
historical, political, economic, legal, and cultural issues which make
Europe (and Germany) a locus of contested ideas. Collaboratives are
encouraged to involve faculty and graduate students from the Humanities,
Social Sciences, Law, Natural Sciences, and Business.
By
bringing together scholars and graduate students from different fields
in cross-disciplinary groupings, we hope to shed light on the emerging
role of Germany in the New Europe and on the emerging role of Europe
in the world. From these CGES-supported joint research projects, the
Center hopes the Research Collaboratives will have an institutionalizing
effect in the long term, leading to publications, further collaboration,
undergraduate coursework, etc. The Center welcomes proposals for Research
Collaboratives that meet the Center's goals and its expectations from
this research initiative.
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GOALS
AND EXPECTATIONS
The
Research Collaborative will last for two semesters. In its first "Planning"
semester (Spring 2007), the Collaborative will establish a research
agenda, develop the intellectual parameters of your common research
project, and determine who will do what when. During the Planning semester,
Research Collaborative faculty will make arrangements for a joint graduate
seminar, and Lecture Series.
During
the "Seminar" semester (September 2007 to December 2007) of the Collaborative,
lead faculty on both campuses will co-teach a graduate seminar related
to the research via internet video conferencing. During the semester,
ideally, both sides of the Collaborative seminar will meet in person
at least once. The Lecture Series will run concurrently with the graduate
seminar, and will include graduate
students participating in the seminar.
Faculty
will have one Project Assistant (33%) to be funded during the seminar
semester to assist with the realization of the Research Collaborative's
various activities. Additionally, Collaborative leaders will supervise
four Research Assistants (33%) during the seminar. All five graduate
assistants will be chosen from the pool of CGES Fellowship Competition
applicants by the Collaborative faculty in conjunction with the CGES
Executive Committee.
The
Collaborative will receive Center administrative support during both
the Planning and the Seminar semesters. In addition, the collaborative
will be provided funds in the Planning semester for faculty travel for planning
the Collaborative, and, in the Seminar semester, supplies and expenses,
joint seminar meetings, and Lecture Series.
Finally,
the Research Collaborative will submit reports about their plans for
the institutionalization of the research project and about the publications
emerging from the Collaborative at the end of that Seminar semester.
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EXAMPLES
OF PAST RESEARCH TOPICS
Previous
Research Collaboratives have explored the following topics:
The
preliminary proposal must include:
1.
CGES cover page (download here: pdf
or Word);
2. Information about overall Collaborative: definition of the
topic and how it addresses the interdisciplinary goals of CGES, range
of backgrounds of those who would be potentially interested in participating
and why, and the relation of the seminar to the longer-term research
agenda of the Collaborative (2-3 pages double spaced);
3. The scope and focus of the seminar topic, and ideas about students to be recruited;
4. Information about faculty who will participate in the Collaborative
-- Please include a CV for each of those confirmed participants
and, where possible, provide names of others who are qualified to work
on the topic and might be approached to join;
5. General information about potential speakers for the Lecture
Series;
6. A proposed budget to support the Collaborative's needs for
faculty travel, joint seminar meetings, miscellaneous expenses, and Lecture
Series (please refer to the section on "Funding"
above) - If the collaborating institution is one other than UMN-TC,
the budget should include possible funding sources for the Collaborative
partners; and
7. A letter from at least one Collaborative participant from the
cooperating institution stating intended commitment to the Collaborative
pending the proposal's acceptance.
PROJECT
DEVELOPMENT
Faculty
who are considering submitting a proposal are encouraged to discuss
their plans with CGES Director, Professor Myra Marx Ferree as much in
advance of the deadline as possible. Professor Ferree can be reached
directly at 263-5204 or via email: mferree@ssc.wisc.edu.
PROPOSAL
SUBMISSION
Please
send a copy of the proposal to both Center Directors at the following
addresses:
CGES,
UW-Madison
Attn: Myra Marx Ferree
213 Ingraham Hall / 1155 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
Ph.
608.265 8032 Fax. 608.265 9541 Email: cges@intl-institute.wisc.edu
CGES,
UMN-Twin Cities
Attn: Eric Weitz
214 Social Science Bldg. / 267 19th Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Ph.
612.624 7705 Fax. 612.626 2242 Email: cges@tc.umn.edu
For questions
about the Research Collaborative proposals, please feel free to contact
the CGES office.
PROPOSALS
MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 31, 2006!
Download
a copy of this Call for Research Collaborative Proposals here
(pdf).
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