CFP: SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation

Fund for Curricular Innovation: Apply NowWe invite Northwestern faculty members to submit a proposal to the SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation as part of SPAN’s new Curricular Fellowship Program. The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is a multi-pronged, critical, and interdisciplinary initiative to promote research and education on sexuality in social context. We are seeking to expand SPAN’s mission to include a curricular component designed to offer courses across a broad range of disciplines to provide undergraduate students with a solid interdisciplinary foundation in sexuality studies. These courses are meant to complement existing offerings in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (GSS), as well as to foster links between GSS and departments/programs that have not traditionally co-listed undergraduate courses with GSS.

Each SPAN Curricular Fellow will serve a three-year, non-renewable term. Our goal is to select three SPAN Fellows per year over each of the next three years, for an eventual total of nine Fellows at any given time. Any NU faculty member with a continuing or renewable appointment is eligible to submit a proposal, including professors of instruction.

Deadline: May 11, 2018

Please click here for more information about the SPAN Curricular Fellowship Program.

Call for Proposals: Dissertation Fellowships

Dissertation Fellowships: Apply NowThe Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Dissertation Fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students who either have advanced to candidacy or will advance in the current academic year, and whose dissertation relates to the topics of sexual orientation and/or sexuality (including health in social context), are invited to apply.

Deadline May 4, 2018

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.

Call for Proposals: Summer Research Grants

Summer Research Funding: Apply NowThe Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Summer Research Grants for Summer 2018 are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students – at any stage – who have a research project that relates to the topics of sexual orientation and/or sexuality (including health in social context) are welcome to apply. SPAN Summer Research Grants are designed to cover expenses related to research (within the guidelines outlined below). Projects of all sizes are welcome, up to a maximum of $2,500 per grant.

Deadline May 4, 2018

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.

Call for Proposals: Graduate Student Conference Presentation Funding

Apply Now: Conference funding for graduate studentsThe Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation. This year SPAN has obtained a small grant that allows us to fund a limited number of applications that are strictly in the humanities (in addition to our usual focus on the social sciences broadly construed). 

Deadline: April 13, 2018

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.

Call for Proposals: Graduate Student Conference Presentation Funding

Apply Now: Conference funding for graduate studentsThe Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation. This year SPAN has obtained a small grant that allows us to fund a limited number of applications that are strictly in the humanities (in addition to our usual focus on the social sciences broadly construed). 

Deadline: Jan 26, 2018

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.

Call for Proposals: Faculty Research on Sexuality from a Social Science Perspective

Apply Now: Faculty Research FundingThe Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications from Northwestern faculty members for funding to conduct pilot research on sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed) from July 2018 to June 2019.

SPAN will be allocating up to $30,000 for faculty research projects. Requested funding may be of any size up to a maximum of $10,000 per proposal.

Awards will be announced in Spring Quarter, and funding will be available as of July 1st, 2018. Projects must be completed by June 2019.

Deadline for applications: February 23, 2018

The application procedure has changed from previous years. Click here for detailed instructions and other information.

SPAN is a project of the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and is funded by an NU endowment for research and education on sexual orientation and sexuality.

Call for Proposals: Reading Group (Winter 2018)

readinggroup-button2We invite faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to participate in a small, focused reading group (15 to 18 people) that will meet during Winter Quarter 2018. The topic for this year is “‘Female Sexualities’: Between Feminist Theory and Sexuality Studies.”

We will meet five times during the quarter to discuss short texts (for example, three or four articles or book chapters per meeting) that explore the reading group’s theme. Meetings will be on the following Thursdays from 5:00-6:30 p.m.: January 11, January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8. It is expected that participants will attend at least four of the five meetings, which will be held on the Evanston campus.

Application Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017

ALL APPLICANTS must complete a brief online application. More information can be found here.

Seeking Post-doctoral Fellows in Sexualities Studies

Apply Now: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sexuality StudiesThe Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications for two-year post-doctoral fellowships in sexuality studies (social scientific approaches), to run from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2020. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work falls within one or more of the following fields: African American Studies, Anthropology, Communication Studies, History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, or Sociology. The deadline to apply is January 5, 2018.

Click here for a more detailed description of the positions (PDF). The application page can be found here. We would appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with any contacts and listservs in these fields.

Many thanks!
Héctor Carrillo and Steven Epstein | Co-directors, The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)