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.

Announcing our two new SPAN postdocs for 2018-2020

We’re happy to share the good news that our SPAN postdoc search has now concluded. Our two top candidates have accepted our offers and will be joining us this coming fall.

Scott De Orio received his PhD in History and Women’s Studies in 2017 from the University of Michigan, where he wrote a dissertation entitled “Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights.” He is currently working on a book manuscript bearing the same name that examines the American “war on sex offenders” and its targeting of LGBTQ people. De Orio shines a spotlight on the criminalization of “‘bad’ LGBT subjects”—namely, sex workers, people with HIV, and trans people—in recent decades, ironically during the same period typically thought of as the “age of LGBT rights.” Scott will be affiliated with the Department of History and the GSS program.

Tony Silva will receive his PhD in Sociology from the University of Oregon this spring. He is currently finishing his dissertation, “Bud-Sex: Sexual Flexibility among Rural White Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men.” For a related article, published in Gender & Society, Silva received the 2017 Distinguished Article Award from the Section of Sexualities of the American Sociological Association. His work has received considerable coverage in the media, including in New York Magazine and Psychology Today. Tony will be affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the GSS program.

This year SPAN received 112 applications, which collectively were indicative of the remarkable vibrancy and innovation that mark the field of sexuality studies. Many applicants were top contenders for the fellowship, making us wish we had more fellowships to grant.

Many thanks to our colleagues in GSS who volunteered to be part of our selection committee, and to Eliot for their assistance throughout the selection process.

All best,
Héctor Carrillo and Steve Epstein
Co-Directors, The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

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.