Grant Writing Workshops for Graduate Students and Faculty
in the Humanities and Social Sciences
September 22, 2005 (Graduate Students)
Reception Hall, Michael C. Carlos Museum
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September 23, 2005 (Faculty)
Jones Room, Woodruff Library

Steve Everett, acting director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, introduces Rosemary Hynes, Assistant Dean for Finance in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to talk about how to find relevant research grants to apply to.
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Both workshops included presentations by Rosemary Hynes that demonstrated ways to identify sources for research funding.
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Faculty listen closely to presentations at the workshop on September 23, 2005. Over fifty people attended, coming from a wide range of humanities and social science departments.
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Maria Carrion (front left, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portugese) discusses the art of writing research grants with Benjamin Hary (Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies) after the faculty workshop.
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Ivan Karp, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, describes features of a good grant proposal during the workshop for graduate students on September 22, 2005.
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Students concentrate on Ivan Karp’s advice on how to
write a successful grant proposal.
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Jeff Lesser, Professor of History and Director of the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, explained how grant committees review applications to participants in both workshops.
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Tanya Weimer, graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a Dissertation Completion Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, recounted her experience working on grant applications. In addition to the CHI fellowship, Tanya also received dissertation research funding from the Social Science Research Council and Emory’s Fund for International Graduate Research.
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Saul Tobias, Visiting Assistant Professor and former graduate student in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, advised students about writing grant proposals in the humanities. Saul was awarded a DAAD research fellowship and support from Emory’s Fund for International Graduate Research. He later received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and a two-year postdoctoral Humanities Fellowship at Temple University’s Center for the Humanities.
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Corinne Kratz, Co-director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, moderated a panel of Emory graduate students who have received external research grants. At the faculty workshop, she described how career stages coordinate with different kinds of grants.
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Ivan Karp wraps up his discussion of a successful proposal before a full house of faculty participants.
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