Collaborative for Southern Appalachian and PlaceBased Studies Call for Proposals The Collaborative for Southern Appalachian and PlaceBased Studies, through generous funding from the Mellon Foundation, invites proposals from faculty across the University for funds to support courses and projects that contribute to the emerging goals of the Collaborative, as described below. The Collaborative for Southern Appalachian and PlaceBased Studies—a partnership between Sewanee and Yale—seeks to bring together longstanding, more recent, and yettobeimagined efforts of numerous Sewanee and Yale faculty, students, and community partners to build a transformative and replicable model of public scholarship fundamentally grounded by humanistic inquiry and a focus on place. Insofar as meaningful understanding of and engagement with a place—whether Southern Appalachia or some other locale—demands multiple perspectives, varied methodologies, and realworld application, placebased inquiry can catalyze innovative collaborations that transcend traditional disciplinary, institutional, and academycommunity boundaries. Such collaborations and the approaches emerging from them are likely to be especially valuable in addressing the complex array of challenges and opportunities facing local and global communities. Some central and distinguishing features of the inter and intrainstitutional Collaborative for Southern Appalachian and PlaceBased Studies include: ● the partnership between Sewanee and Yale as an integral part of the Collaborative, through which we combine the strengths of a small liberal arts institution in a rural locale with those of an R1 institution in an urban setting ● deeply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, with faculty, students, and community partners from a variety of disciplines working together on mutually identified questions emphasizing exploration of humanistic themes from a variety of perspectives ● placebased pedagogies that draw their strength from a concrete focus on southern Appalachia while also equipping students with skills that are valuable and imperative for engaging meaningfully with any place, including the science of framing and communication (with the help of our colleagues at the FrameWorks Institute) and communitybased participatory research ● academiccommunity partnerships that recognize the value of public scholarship and of bringing varied sources of expertise and skills together to address community needs and visions Educating effective, engaged, socially responsible citizens and transformative leaders who act for the public good requires that we give our students the knowledge, skills, and inclination to bring multiple perspectives and approaches to bear on enduring ethical, social, and scientific challenges. Interdisciplinary, placebased, public scholarship is one promising route. This Call for Proposals is an invitation to think creatively to develop and strengthen collaborative, interdisciplinary placebased approaches with a focus on humanistic questions and themes. Funds are available to support and enhance the work of those already engaged in such inquiry and to encourage others to consider how place, public scholarship, and interdisciplinary work with a focus on humanistic themes might become a larger part of their courses and scholarship. We encourage you to think about how inquiry, understanding, and action on a topic or question of interest to you might be enhanced by incorporating perspectives and approaches from other disciplines, by meaningful connection with place, and/or by engaging the community. Similarly, we encourage you to think about what your expertise and disciplinary methods might bring to a course or project that you are not currently involved with. What enduring, significant questions are you passionate about, and how might an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues at Sewanee and at Yale—faculty, staff, students, community members—potentially lead to more nuanced, rich, and realistic understandings and mutually transformative experiences for all involved? We especially encourage consideration of the potential power of collaborations that transcend not only traditional disciplinary lines but also traditional divisions between the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences; between faculty, staff, and students; between courses and scholarship/research; between academy and community; between campus life and community life; and between life in this place and in other places. These funds, to be distributed over three years through this and future calls for proposals, both invite and offer support for such efforts, encouraging not only the more obvious collaborations, but also the more unexpected. Particularly when it comes to complex, enduring questions, it may be the non-traditional, unexpected partnerships that offer the greatest promise of meaningful intellectual and actionable imagination, insight, and impact. Funding Categories Funds are available to support development of new and existing courses, scholarship, and research as described below. While we list courses and public scholarship as separate categories for means of exposition, projects that meaningfully integrate the two are very much encouraged. Indeed, given the criteria and priorities stated below and the potential gains in impact, we imagine many projects will demonstrate such integration. Courses: We seek to support courses that engage with place and community; this might be through an existing community-based research program, a new project of public scholarship, or another proposed means of engagement (e.g., community partners co-teaching a course). Courses might be introductory courses within the first-year Finding Your Place (FYP) portfolio or more advanced offerings that could be included in an eventual course cluster or potential minor or major in Southern Appalachian and Place-Based Studies. Interdisciplinary teams of scholars and community partners are encouraged. (See additional criteria below.) Public Scholarship: We seek to support public scholarship utilizing best practices such as community-based participatory research to address community-identified goals and needs, again with an emphasis on interdisciplinary teams of scholars and community partners. (See additional criteria below.) Within the above categories, funds are available to support: ● summer salary for course development and/or summer stipends for research supervision (up to $32,000 available to be allocated annually) ● co-curricular course expenses, including but not limited to costs associated with working with community partners (up to $10,000 available to be allocated annually, with an anticipated maximum of $1000 per course) ● contribution to research costs at the host institution for exchanging students (up to $8000 available to be allocated annually, with an anticipated maximum of $1000 per student) ● travel costs for faculty, staff, community partner, and/or student exchanges for brief residencies (up to $16,000 available to be allocated annually, with an anticipated maximum of $1600 per trip) ● honoraria for visiting faculty (up to $20,000 available to be allocated annually, with an anticipated maximum of $2000 per faculty member) ● pass-through grants to external organizations or partners that provide key educational experiences to students or support community based participatory research (up to $8000 available to be allocated annually) ● other project costs that seed new projects and/or support ongoing projects, particularly those that directly support the criteria above (up to $18,000 available to be allocated annually) The amounts specified above are the total available funds the Collaborative has available to allocate across projects in one year for each category. Funding Criteria Proposals may come from individuals or collaborative teams of faculty, staff (e.g., in Student Life, Athletics,...), students, and/or community partners. Proposed projects should contribute to the mission of the Collaborative by meaningfully and substantively incorporating all or nearly all of the following: ● placebased inquiry and/or pedagogies: topics, questions, and/or approaches should make contact with place in meaningful ways, shaped by attention to place and geared toward a nuanced understanding of issues in the context of place or place in the context of issues; development and application of skills and approaches of particular value to place-based understanding are especially encouraged; priority will be given to those proposals that link with places and/or communities in southern Appalachia, although these need not be the primary focus (e.g., primary focus might be another place, with our region as a useful comparison) ● humanistic inquiry and approaches: “humanistic,” can be conceptualized in a number of ways (e.g., disciplinary, methodological, philosophical, to name a few), with each more relevant to some projects than others; we encourage a range of possible construals, with clear articulation of those most relevant to each proposed project ● public scholarship: scholarship for the public good, including but not limited to: inquiry into topics and areas particularly relevant to critical social issues, scholarship applied to and shaped by societal concerns, commitment to effective communication of scholarship to a wider public in ways that promotes productive discourse, intentional integration of scholarly and social commitments ● interdisciplinarity and/or transdisciplinarity: integrating knowledge, perspectives, and methodologies from multiple disciplines; priority will be given to efforts in which the arts, humanities and/or humanities-centered social sciences are the conceptual driver(s) of a broader interdisciplinary effort that builds meaningful humanities-science collaborations ● community collaboration: this might take any of a variety of forms, with priority given to proposals that not only integrate community experiences, expertise, and perspectives toward addressing community-identified goals and interests (e.g., in health, education, youth empowerment, work-force development,...), but also engage the community as a full and equal partner in efforts with strong potential for community benefit ● interinstitutional collaboration between Sewanee and Yale: this might involve collaboration among any combination of faculty, staff, and/or students from these institutions and their affiliates (collaboration with other institutions is encouraged but not specifically supported by these funds); priority will be given to those efforts in which inter-institutional collaboration is integral to or clearly enhances the project Among proposals meeting the criteria described above, priority will be given to those that: ● incorporate the above components in ways that are particularly integral and/or meaningful to the course or project ● address clearly meaningful and significant questions ● involve a multidisciplinary team of faculty, students, and community partners, particularly one that brings together seemingly unlikely partners in a potentially powerful way ● include steps to ensure that any promised deliverables to community partners are realized ● incorporate meaningful approaches to project assessment/evaluation ● have aspirational yet realistic goals ● show evidence of feasibility and sustainability ● provide a foundation for development of future efforts ● have the potential to impact and/or involve a significant number of faculty, students, and/or community members through mutually transformative experiences This is an excellent opportunity to think broadly and creatively about how ● your intellectual passions might align with the above goals; ● the above components might expand and enhance your existing courses and scholarship (e.g., enrich an existing course that already focuses on a faraway place by incorporating direct comparisons with our local place or vice versa); ● the availability of funding might allow the freedom and/or provide the motivation to try something new (e.g., develop an FYP or CEL course, work collaboratively with community partners you know to develop a course or research project relevant to local concerns, have students tackle a project that is grounded in issues and realities of a particular place and community, make contact with a Sewanee colleague in a far-flung discipline to develop a course or research project with a unique combination of perspectives and approaches, seek out a colleague at Yale perhaps with expertise in a relevant discipline not represented at Sewanee and develop a collaborative place-based course or research project, develop a Sewanee-Yale collaborative project that benefits from the access to both rural and urban settings); ● a number of the components above might come together to create a particularly rich project; ● less conventional forms of the above might be more effective and productive (e.g., rather than an individual faculty member making a trip from Sewanee to Yale or vice versa, consider sending or bringing an interdisciplinary team; rather than developing a completely new course, perhaps two existing courses could be partnered across institutions in innovative and valuable ways); ● collaborating with others might allow leveraging of funds for greater impact. Timeline For work to occur during the Spring 2015 semester Proposals due November 30, 2014 Notification of awards anticipated by December 15, 2014 For work to occur during Summer 2015 Optional one-page preliminary project ideas due December 5, 2014 Proposals due February 15, 2015 Notification of awards anticipated by March 1, 2015 For work to occur during the Fall 2015 semester Optional one-page preliminary project ideas due February 15, 2015 Proposals due April 15, 2015 Notification of awards anticipated by May 15, 2015 In addition to the above, more preliminary statements of interest describing a vision for a project idea to be developed into a complete proposal after consultation will be accepted on a rolling basis. Future calls for proposals are anticipated to support work through the next three years, through summer 2017. Sequential proposals that work toward a larger-scale initiative over this longer time span will also be considered. Proposals Proposals should be submitted via the online proposal form (https://urforms.wufoo.com/forms/mellon-collaborative-proposal-for-funding/) and should include the following: Project Title Names of all collaborators, with classification (e.g., student, post-bacc, staff, community partner, faculty member) and with institutional and departmental/disciplinary affiliation where relevant Project Abstract Project Narrative Project Description Project Alignment with Collaborative Goals and Criteria Project Timeline For courses, this should include: whether the course is new or existing, when it will first or next be offered, and the endorsement of the timeline by the department chair/department Anticipated Project Impact and Sustainability Project Budget Itemized Budget Narrative/Justification When funds are needed Additional Supporting Materials (optional) Before a proposal is funded, all members of the project team must register through the the Collaborative Member Profile form at https://urforms.wufoo.com/forms/collaborative-member-profile/ Resources Below, we list the names of those on the Collaborative Advisory and Implementation Committees. As you consider and develop project ideas, we are glad to assist in helping to identify colleagues and/or community partners with whom to collaborate. The list below is start at developing a comprehensive list of Sewanee and Yale faculty, staff, students, and community partners who might be particularly interested in working together on Collaborative initiatives. We recognize that this list is incomplete and may not completely or accurately represent the interests of those listed. We hope that you will help us to create a more complete and accurate list by notifying us of any errors, by sharing information about yourself via the profile form should you be interested in collaborating, and by encouraging others to do the same. We urge all who are even potentially interested to complete the profile form. We hope to soon make this information accessible via a searchable, sortable database. Should you wish additional help in identifying or connecting with possible collaborators, please do let one of the co-directors of the Collaborative know so that we might facilitate this process. Stay tuned, too, for upcoming conversations and workshops around issues and possibilities related to the Collaborative. The work of our colleagues at other institutions offers additional valuable resources and ideas. In addition to the above items, below we also list some noteworthy initiatives at other institutions, to which the Collaborative is both similar and distinctive. This is by no means a comprehensive list and we very much welcome suggestions for additions. Nor are the examples below meant as idea-constrainers, but rather idea-generators. They also encourage us to think, even as we may focus on particular courses and scholarly projects, of these efforts as part of a sustainable, larger-scale initiative that is transformative for students, faculty, and communities. Might a Collaborative transcending traditional boundaries yet grounded in place-based, public scholarship be exactly what is needed to build effective, engaged, socially-responsible, and transformative citizens and leaders—individuals with the skills, inclination, and courage to think big and act big to address enduring ethical, social, and scientific challenges for the public good? There is good reason to believe that the version we develop together could very well be, especially with your expertise, insights, and ideas. Please direct any questions to: [email protected] Some Related Initiatives at Other Institutions http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/ http://today.duke.edu/2014/09/humanities http://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/about_us/ http://www.newschool.edu/cps/ http://frankeprogram.yale.edu/ Collaborative CoDirectors Karen Yu, Professor of Psychology and Director of Sewanee-Yale Collaborations, Sewanee Linda Mayes, Arnold Gesell Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Epidemiology, of Pediatrics, and of Psychology, and Special Advisor to the Dean of the School of Medicine, Yale; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology, Sewanee Collaborative Program Coordinator Sabeth Jackson Collaborative Community Liaison, 20142015 Emily Partin, Director, Grundy County Family Resource Center Collaborative Advisory Committee, 20142015 David Haskell, Professor of Biology, Sewanee Pradip Malde, Professor of Art, Sewanee Deb McGrath, Professor of Biology and Director of Finding Your Place, Sewanee Richard O’Connor, Biehl Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology, Sewanee Jim Peterman, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Community Engagement and Community Engaged Learning, Sewanee John Willis, Jessie Ball duPont Professor of History, Sewanee Kevin Wilson, Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Certificate in Creative Writing, Sewanee Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany, Yale Walter Gilliam, Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychology and Director of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale Nat KendallTaylor, Vice-President of Research at the FrameWorks Institute and Visiting Professor at the Child Study Center, Yale Megan Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center, and of Epidemiology, and Director of New Haven Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) Partnership, Yale Raffaella Zannutini, Professor of Linguistics, Yale Jack Murrah, South Cumberland Community Fund; former President of the Lyndhurst Foundation Jama Jacks, junior Psychology major, Sewanee Lindsay Selden, senior Psychology and Spanish double-major, Sewanee John Swallow, Provost, Sewanee, ex-officio Tom Sanders, Foundation Relations & Development Communications Officer, Sewanee, ex-officio Emily Partin, Collaborative Community liaison for Year 1, ex-officio Sabeth Jackson, Collaborative Program coordinator, ex-officio To be determined, Yale administration, ex-officio Linda Mayes, Arnold Gesell Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Epidemiology, of Pediatrics, and of Psychology, and Special Advisor to the Dean of the School of Medicine, Yale; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology, Sewanee Karen Yu, Professor of Psychology and Director of Sewanee-Yale Collaborations, Sewanee Collaborative Implementation Committee, 20142015 Paige Schneider, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, Sewanee Sarah Sherwood, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and University Archaeologist, Sewanee Jerry Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Religion and Marshal of the University Faculties, Robert M. Ayres Jr. Distinguished University Chair, Sewanee Chip Manning, J.D., M.B.A., Director, Babson Center for Global Commerce, Sewanee Emily Partin, Collaborative Community liaison for Year 1, ex-officio Sabeth Jackson, Collaborative Program coordinator, ex-officio Linda Mayes, Arnold Gesell Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Epidemiology, of Pediatrics, and of Psychology, and Special Advisor to the Dean of the School of Medicine, Yale; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology, Sewanee Karen Yu, Professor of Psychology and Director of Sewanee-Yale Collaborations, Sewanee The Emerging Collaborative Network (a growing list of potential collaborators) Karen Baicker Director of Community Affairs, Scholastic Inc. Ms. Baicker is director of Community Affairs at Scholastic, Inc. and a published author of children’s and young adult books. Ms. Baicker has taught in the Child, Family, and Community Development in Rural Appalachia course. She is also a collaborator in Discover Together, a program created collaboratively by the local community, Sewanee, the Yale Child Study Center, and Scholastic, Inc. to promote resilience by fostering social connectedness and community engagement through literacy-based approaches to shared knowledge and appreciation of local places, people, and their stories. http://frizzleblog.scholastic.com/post/resilient-community-one-shares-stories Anna W. Bardaus Senior Editor, Scholastic Inc. Anna currently works as a Senior Editor in Scholastic’s Education Group. There she develops a wide array of literacy products for children of all ages, their caregivers, and educators. As part of her editorial work, she has also written several books for children ages 0-5 that promote social-emotional skills, community awareness, and active, healthy development. Titles include Dinos On The Move, When We Grow Up, and I Am SuperKid! Other recent publications include Parent & Child magazine’s “100 Greatest Book For Kids” and “The 25 Coolest Schools.” Ms. Bardaus holds degrees in English and music, as well as a master's degree from NYU, where she specialized in contemporary trends in children's and young adult literature. Ms. Bardaus has taught in the Child, Family, and Community Development in Rural Appalachia course and is a collaborator in Discover Together, a program created collaboratively by the local community, Sewanee, the Yale Child Study Center, and Scholastic, Inc. to promote resilience by fostering social connectedness and community engagement through literacy-based approaches to shared knowledge and appreciation of local places, people, and their stories. Al Bardi, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Sewanee C. Albert Bardi, a clinical psychologist, earned BA degrees in Psychology and Philosophy at North Carolina State University. After completing a Harvard fellowship and earning his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor Bardi worked as a tribal clinician for the San Carlos Apache of Arizona and the Passamaquoddy of Northern Maine. As an academic, Professor Bardi has followed his own and his students’ interests in the development and validation of personality measures that relate to functioning including shyness, optimism, entitlement, comfort-seeking and assertiveness. More recently Professor Bardi has been working with students to construct similar measures that are specifically tailored for non-dominant U.S. cultural groups. Professor Bardi teaches introductory psychology, research methods, human diversity, abnormal behavior, abnormal seminar and advanced research. He has also taught in the Child, Family, and Community Development in Rural Appalachia course. Padraig Barry Executive Camp Director, Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Padraig Barry is the Executive Camp Director for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a role he has held since 2014. Prior to that, Padraig was at the Support Center, SeriousFun Network serving in many capacities domestically and abroad, though his relationship with Camp and the network dates back nearly two decades. Padraig began his career with our sister camp, Barretstown, Ireland in 1995. After two seasons, Padraig joined the Gang in 1997, running the woodshopfor the Spring and Summer programs. A few years later, Padraig relocated to the United States for a fulltime position at Camp as the Assistant Camp Director (Residential Life), before heading back to school and then joining the SeriousFun Network. Mr. Barry has taught in the Child, Family, and Community Development in Rural Appalachia course. Helen Bateman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair, Sewanee Helen Vrailas Bateman earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Professor Bateman earned a postdoctoral research fellowship award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation that enabled her to continue her research on the relationship of psychological sense of community in classroom and school settings to children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development in St. Louis, MO. Prior to coming to the University of the South, Professor Bateman worked for three years as a Research Fellow at the Learning Technology Center of Peabody College, Vanderbilt University investigating the impact that different and innovative learning environments have on students’ psychological sense of community. Professor Bateman teaches a variety of courses including Child Development, Adolescence, Adult Development, Social Psychology, and Community Psychology. She has also taught in the Child, Family, and Community Development in Rural Appalachia course. Professor Bateman’s previous research at the University of the South included the creation of innovative learning tools using video technology. In her research project "Students as Teachers and Learners" college students created video resources that served as both teaching and learning tools that helped promote students’ sense of community in the classroom. Professor Bateman’s previous research also examined the relationship between perceived drinking behavior, psychological sense of community, and social acceptance in college settings.
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