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We invite you to submit a proposal to the SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation as part of SPAN’s 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. Each year, we select three SPAN Fellows per year, for a total of nine Fellows at any given time.

Deadline: May 17, 2021

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

The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Summer Research Grants for Summer 2021 are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students – at any stage – who have a research project that relates to the topic of sexuality (including health in a 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 10, 2021

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.

The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Dissertation Fellowships for the 2021-22 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 sexuality studies from a social science perspective are invited to apply.

Deadline May 10, 2021

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 $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.

Deadline: January 25th, 2021

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.

Traditional cultural industries have long excluded those deemed non-normative, including queer and transgender people of color. These barriers include gatekeeping practices that prevent these groups from having access to traditional modes of cultural production. This conversational roundtable discussion will convene a group of transgender artists, media producers, and activists to discuss how they envision their work as a form of revolt against normative modes of cultural production.

The Sexuality Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is seeking a facilitator to lead a small, focused reading group (consisting of 15 to 18 people) on a theme of their choosing that will meet during Winter Quarter 2021. We invite applications from any faculty member with a continuing appointment who has research and teaching interests in the area of sexuality studies, broadly construed. Themes that address new research areas and directions will be particularly welcome. This year, we invite faculty members to submit either an individual application or a joint application with another faculty member, post-doctoral fellow, or advanced graduate student.

The facilitator(s) will, in consultation with the Co-Directors of SPAN, select a topic in the area of sexuality studies as well as a set of readings (3-4 articles/chapters per week) that explore this topic.

The reading group will meet five times during Winter Quarter on the following Thursdays from 5:00-6:30 pm: January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, and March 4.

We are currently planning for all meetings to be held online, but that is subject to change, so please prepare your proposal accordingly. The reading group facilitator(s) must attend each session and actively engage in and promote the discussion of the assigned readings.

The facilitator(s) of the Reading Group will receive a total research stipend of $7500. Faculty members only will have the option of having their stipend converted into an equivalent amount of summer salary.

Application deadline: Monday, October 19, 2020. 

To apply, please send your name, department/program, contact information, and a brief description of your proposed topic (as well as a set of representative readings) to Cassilyn Ostrander at sexualities@northwestern.edu.

For information on reading groups from past years, please click here.

The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce the availability of a limited amount of financial support to graduate students to assist with expenses related to research activities during the academic year including but not limited to books, equipment, and other supplies.  Students are invited to apply for up to $250 in support to offset expenses incurred in conducting research related to sexuality or sexual orientation.

Deadline: October 26, 2020

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 $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.

Deadline: October 19, 2020

For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.