The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $400 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: April 7, 2017
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
SPAN is in need of graduate student commentators for the four panels that will be held in conjunction with the annual SPAN Workshop, whose theme this year is “Stigma: Deviance, Criminality, and Sexualities.” The Workshop will take place on April 20th – 21st, with the keynote address taking place on that Thursday and the panels convening on that Friday.
The four panels, along with the names of the invited speakers, are:
The deadline to be considered is Friday, February 24th.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $400 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: January 20th, 2017
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications from Northwestern faculty members for funding to conduct research on sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed) in academic year 2017-18.
SPAN will be allocating up to $150,000 for faculty research projects in 2017-18. Proposals will be funded according to evaluations by external reviewers who are senior scholars in sexuality studies. We anticipate funding both small and large projects, and the requested funding may be of any size up to a maximum of $50,000 per proposal. In recent years, awards have ranged from $3,000 to $40,000.
Deadline for applications: February 24, 2017
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
We 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 2017. The topic for this year is “Thinking with Difference: Critical Race Theories of/and the Erotic.”
We will meet five times, biweekly, 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 12, January 26, February 9, February 23, and March 9. It is expected that participants will attend at least four of the five meetings. Meetings will be held on the Evanston campus.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 16, 2016
This year, ALL APPLICANTS are being asked to complete a brief online application. More information can be found here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites requests to co-sponsor events organized by Northwestern University faculty, staff, and students. Decisions about co-sponsorship funding will be based on the event’s relevance to our mission of promoting research and education on sexuality in social context. We review such requests on a rolling basis.
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $400 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: October 14, 2016
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
A warm welcome to all members of the SPAN community! With Steve and Héctor on sabbatical this year, I am delighted to step in and serve as Interim Director of SPAN for the 2016-17 academic year. As SPAN enters its seventh year of operation, I’d like to inform/remind everyone of various opportunities that the project offers and to give a heads-up concerning events planned for the coming months.
This year SPAN will continue to provide a range of funding opportunities for faculty and graduate students, including small grants for students to present sexualities-related work at academic conferences, summer research awards for graduate students, dissertation fellowships, and faculty research grants. We will also hold a faculty/graduate student reading group during Winter Quarter. Details about all of these opportunities will be posted on this website.
We are particularly excited to announce that the keynote address for this year’s SPAN Workshop will be delivered by the acclaimed gender and sexualities scholar Kane Race (University of Sydney). More information about the theme of the workshop and the lineup of speakers will be available soon. Please note that the workshop will take place on April 20-21, 2017.
We are also delighted to welcome our two new SPAN postdocs, AJ Lewis and Mitali Thakor! You can read more about them elsewhere on our website.
We look forward to seeing you all at events this year, and we always appreciate your feedback and suggestions.
Best,
Gregory Ward
Professor of Linguistics, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Philosophy
Interim Director, the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
We also want to welcome our two brand new SPAN Postdoctoral Fellows, Mitali Thakor and AJ Lewis, who will be in residence at Northwestern from 2016-2018.
You can find more information about AJ’s and Mitali’s work and background here.
