Faculty Funding

ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMPETITION: ILAS FACULTY GRANTS

Academic Year 2009-2010

DEADLINE:  MARCH 1st, 2009

The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) is pleased to announce its 2009-2010 competition for faculty grants, funded jointly by ILAS and the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI-NRC).

Full time faculty members may apply for the following types of grants:

(1) Individual research/travel

(2) Faculty working groups

(3) Conference/Event

ELIGIBILITY/RESTRICTIONS

1. Competition open to all full-time faculty at Columbia affiliated with ILAS.

2. Individual faculty research travel (1) may take place anytime between July 1st, 2009 and June 1, 2010.  Original receipts for all covered expenses are required upon return. Upon request, ILAS will provide the grantee with a travel advance to the extent permitted by University regulations, with any remainder to be issued as a reimbursement check after your travel is completed and all receipts are provided.

3. Faculty working group activities (2) must be conducted during the academic year beginning September 1, 2009 and must be completed by the last day of classes in spring semester, by May 3rd, 2010. Working group activities must include one or more public events (mini-conference, public lecture by visiting scholar, round table discussion) scheduled and promoted (with ILAS help) well in advance.

4. Conference/Event activities (3) must be conducted during the academic year beginning September 1, 2009 and must be completed by the last day of classes in spring semester, by May 3rd, 2010.

5. Equipment purchases are not allowable expenses under this grant program.

6. Alcohol expenses are not allowed.

7. All international travel must follow Title VI guidelines as described below. ILAS can aid in purchasing air tickets directly.

8. Currently-funded Working Groups are eligible to reapply for funds, though funding priority goes to new applicants, all other things being equal.

9. Faculty may apply for more than 1 type of grant.

FUNDING RESTRICTIONS:

The vast majority of ILAS funding comes from its status as a Title VI National Resource Center, as designated by the U.S. Department of Education. Therefore, restrictions on use of those funding and federal reporting requirements apply to funds for all of the above activities. Approvable expenses are of four types:  (a) Transportation, (b) Lodging, (c) Honoraria, (d) Research Assistance made on a case-by-case basis (wages paid to students for “occasional work,” please contact ILAS for additional information).  Meals, food and drink for receptions, etc, may be paid for with Title VI funds ONLY if the event takes place on campus.

a. Transportation: International air travel must be via US carriers.  Both international and domestic air travel must be approved at least 30 days in advance (by submission of a priced itinerary). Receipts are required for all transportation reimbursements. 

b. Lodging for individual faculty research grantees is also reimbursed against receipts.  Lodging for visitors to NYC can be reimbursed, or, if arranged by ILAS in participating hotels, charged directly to ILAS.

c. Faculty may propose to use grant funds to pay for a research assistant (RA). Approval will be made on a case-by-case basis and the requirements of this disbursement of funds must be discussed prior to proposal submission with ILAS Director and Executive Director. If approved, these funds must include appropriate fringe rates in the budget. The fringe rate for RA’s during the 2009-2010 academic year will be 28%.

A special committee of the ILAS faculty will convene to decide award and amounts awarded.  Awards will be announced by March 16, 2009.

DOWLOAD GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT, APPLICATION GUIDELINES AND FORM.

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2008- 2009 Faculty Grant Winners

Conference or Workshop Grants

• Pablo Piccato
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences    
  Conference: New Political History on 19th Century Latin America
• Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Workshop: Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language

• Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  UN Studies Program, SIPA   
  Conference: Haiti- The Reality of a Peacekeeping Operation

• Ana Obraido
  Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health   
  Conference: The Dominican Air Bridge: A Research Agenda

Working Group Grants

• M. Victoria Murillo y Pablo Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and SIPA
  Political Economy of Latin America Seminar

• Pablo Piccato
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  NYC Latin American History Workshop

• Regina Cortina
  Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College   
  Working Group on Latin American Migration

Single Event Grants

• Caterina Pizzigonni
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Visit from Director of Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology

Individual Research and Travel Grants

• Patricia Velasco and Ofelia Garcia
  Bilingual/Bicultural Department and International and Transcultural Studies,  TC
  Tzotzil-Spanish Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chiapas

• Maite Conde
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Cinema, Literature and Modern Society in Rio de Janeiro, 1890s to 1920s

• Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Inside the Language Classroom: the Student Perspective

• Maria Brave Heart
  School of Social Work    
  Indigenous Research Project: Maya Collective Trauma and Grief

• Rogerio Pinto
  School of Social Work    
  Studying a Community-Focused Model of Disease Prevention in Brazil

• Barbara Taylor and Jennifer Hirsch
  Department of Sociomedical Sciences, CUMC/ Mailman School of Public Health
  Factors Affecting Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications for HIV in Puebla, Mexico

• Isabel Estrada
  Department of Spanish and Latin America Cultures, Barnard College   
  The Memory of the Pinochet Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Documentaries

• Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
  Department of Evolution and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Integrated Agriculture and Environmental Management in the Peruvian Amazon

• Ruth Borgman
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Four Migrations between Mexico and the US

• Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  UN Studies Program, SIPA   
  Haiti - The Reality of a Peacekeeping Operation

• Regina Cortina
  Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College
  Gender Education and Equity in International Development Cooperation

• Anke Birkenmaier
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Engaged Observation: American Anthropology Between the Wars

• Alan Dye
  Department of Economics, Barnard College   
  Trade Reciprocity Between Cuba and the US, 1903- 1958

• Cristiane Duarte
  Department of Child Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons    
  Public School Dropout and Child Mental Health Care in Brazil

• Luis Gonzalves
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 
  Presentation of Two Papers and a Workshop in Brazil

• Vincent Guillamo-Ramos
  School of Social Work    
  Late Adolescence and Sexual Behavior among Dominican Youths: A family-based perspective

• Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences    
  Cuba in the American Imagination

• M. Victoria Murillo
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and SIPA
  Partisan Networks and Political Linkages in Latin American Democracies 

• Pablo Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences    
  Leadership Attitudes Towards Trade, Investment and Privatization in Argentina 

• Pablo Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Partisan Investment in Argentina: When Labor Loves FDI and FDI Loves Labor

• Jose Moya
  Department of History, Barnard College   
  Anarchism in Belle Epoque Buenos Aires

• Rebecca Kobrin
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  East European Jews, Immigrant Organizations and the Development of Argentina’s Garment Industry
  

If you are a current grant recipient and have questions specific to reimbursements, please contact Teresa Aguayo at .