This program awards $500 grants to graduate students at the University of Michigan planning or conducting research, scholarship, and creative activities focusing on women and gender. These grants are for expenses such as books, travel, production or exhibition costs, software, data collection, or payment of subjects. Students at any stage in their graduate careers may apply. Although most awards are made to doctoral-level students, students currently in master’s degree programs, but planning research or creative careers, are invited to apply.
Call for Proposals now available.
The following criteria play some role in the selection process.
- Centrality of focus on women and gender
- Anticipated contribution of this project to scholarship on women or gender
- Inclusion of appropriate attention to issues of race/ethnicity, sexuality, culture, nationality, social class, or other differences among women and men
- Quality of scholarship
- Clarity of definition of the project
- Use of interdisciplinary approach to scholarship
- Evaluation and breadth of disciplines in the entire group of proposals
- Good standing in the applicant’s academic program
- Contribution of this project to the applicant’s professional development
This program was initiated in 1997.