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The Fifth ASA International Partnership Grants - Awarded in April 2007
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and the Special Collections and University Archives at George Washington University: “Calling Freedom, Coloring Self: Writing the Rights of African American Women.”
$500 to highlight the milestones in the journey of American Democracy for self actualization focusing on the political and literary activism of African American women from the period of slavery to the present. This project seeks to bring home the experience of African American political and literary activism to the college students at the University of Delhi through a series of lectures using the audio-visual and print materials in the collections of Gelman Library at George Washington University.
The Fourth ASA International Partnership Grants - Awarded in April 2006
Empire State College: “Proposed Sistership between the Center for Distance Learning, Empire State College, and The Department of North American Studies, University of Tehran.”
$500 seed money to begin a partnership between these two departments. The University of Tehran has a need for basic audio, visual and printed materials, and there is hope that Empire State scholars could visit Tehran. Future projects may include collaborative conferences and workshops on education and multicultural exchange. The $500 would aid in shipping costs, the beginnings of a fund for travel, and solicitation of future funds elsewhere.
New York University: “NYU-ADMU Transnational Partnership Program”
$500 to support the development of an exchange program, future funding system, and collaborative research between NYU’s Asian Pacific American Studies Program and Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of English.
St. Louis University: “Proposal for an American Studies exchange program between St Louis University and the University of Groningen, Netherlands.”
$500 requested towards development of a student and faculty exchange program between the Department of American Studies, St Louis University, and the Department of American Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands. The program will begin with students, then expanded to American Studies faculty, with an eye towards becoming a general exchange program for any qualified students. The ASA money would assist in funding promotional materials, such as pamphlets and a web site.
The Third ASA International Partnership Grants - Awarded in April 2005
University of Hawai’i at Manoa and The Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines): “Critical Approaches to American Studies in the Philippines and the United States.”
This international partnership grant will be used to like the two universities to develop a graduate-level curriculum module on both campuses. Faculty trained in American and Philippine studies will collaborate in its development, and explore how Honolulu and Manila inform topics of empire, ethnicity, indigeneity, mass communication, and culture as sites of tradition and transition. This project will also inaugurate a special section of the online academic journal, Kritika Kultura, based at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines on “American Studies in the Philippine Diaspora.”
University of Kansas-St. Petersburg State University: “Deepening U.S.-Russian Cultural Understanding through Student E-mail Dialogue.”
This international partnership grant will help fund the shipping of English-language course material to students in St. Petersburg. These students will use the materials to enhance and strengthen their knowledge of the United States, and expand their participation in existing collaborative research projects with students at the University of Kansas.
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York-Humboldt University of Berlin: “Urban Sophisticates: Black Cosmopolitans in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.”
This international partnership grant will help sponsor an international conference ("Urban Sophisticates: Black Cosmopolitans in Europe, Africa, and the Americas") in the spring of 2006, and a publication of the same title in spring of 2007. The conference’s working idea is to invite a number of prominent intellectuals who have done work on the African Diaspora to the Graduate Center to present essays under the general rubrics of Urban Sophistication and Black Cosmopolitanism.
The Second ASA International Partnership Grants - November 2004
Rutgers University and Universidad de Leon
This International Partnership Grant will be used for an enhanced association with the Universidad de Leon. A number of the Universidad de Leon’s faculty members have traveled to Rutgers work on their dissertations. They have all participated in departmental functions, sharing their work, teaching, and attending the symposia sponsored by Rutgers. The grant will be used to fund modest honoraria for the graduate students from Leon who come to work at Rutgers, and to help them attend the American Studies Association’s annual conventions.
University of California, Berkeley and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
This grant will help its recipients develop a collaborative edited volume and a research proposal comparing the transnational migration experience of Moroccan women in Cataluña and Mexican women in California from a Gender perspective. Their focus is on the gendered multicultural identity processes that migrant women develop in the process of incorporation to the host society. They plan to compare the particularities of migrant women as active agents in the process of construction of new identities and their consequences for processes of incorporation to the host society. They intend to organize two meetings to discuss the papers for the edited volume and to prepare a transnational comparative research proposal to apply for funds to conduct research on the topic. The funds from the ASA’s International Partnership Grant will provide seed-monies to apply for other grants.
Utah State University and the University of Innsbruck, Austria
This ASA Partnership Grant will help underwrite the cost of documentaries and films in DVD format that will enhance the content of courses taught in the American Studies Department at Innsbruck. It will also help set up an electronic format to allow students in participating classes at both universities to exchange viewpoints and ideas evolving from such films. An example of how this proposal would help would be to purchase NPR’s video recordings of the presidential debates to be used in a course about the American presidency or to purchase a recent Native American film like Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing.
The First ASA International Partnership Grants - May 2004
George Washington University and al-Quds University, West Bank
In spring of 2004, George Washington University and al-Quds University began a series of lectures via Digital Video Conference on U.S. culture and history. Run through the auspices of the State Department, these lectures linked GW faculty with students at the American Studies Institute at al-Quds University. The lecture series allowed al-Quds students to hear lectures by GW faculty on a range of topics and then to engage in short question and answer session afterwards. After the success of the spring pilot program both al-Quds and GW hope to continue and develop the lecture series by introducing assigned readings and/or films to supplement lecture topics. To this end, the ASA International Partnership Grant will be used to purchase a range of books and associated films, television shows, and/or documentaries to supplement a planned additional lecture series in the fall. The materials will be chosen by agreement between GW and al-Quds faculty.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Hebrew University, Israel
Rutgers University has long-standing ties with Israel and is making major strides in the development of Jewish Studies as a college major. Rutgers now offers Jewish Studies as a major with courses cross-listed with American Studies. The American Studies department and faculty have long taken a leadership role in Israel Studies and the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life has encouraged faculty exchanges with Israeli universities. Rugters aims to use its International Partnership Grant to develop its relationship with the Department of American Studies at Hebrew University to help enrich both universities.
San José State University and University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
San José and Ostrava hope to use the International Partnership Grant to build upon a relationship initiated this year through a visiting Fulbright scholar. Both departments hope to encourage and develop some collaborative research projects, transnational pedagogy and curriculum discussion, and possible subsequent exchanges or visits for faculty working in American Studies areas. It is hoped that the partnership will encourage the growth of international cooperation and inclusion in discussions of the practice and definition of American Studies as a discipline.
Stanford University and Tbilisi State University, Georgia
The International Partnership Grant to Stanford University will be used to establish the newly created American Studies Center at Tbilisi State University as a sister school to the Program in American Studies at Stanford University. In its initial stages, the partnership will involve collecting books suited to the curricular and research needs of the Tbilisi center and shipping them to Georgia. Stanford faculty will also be involved in discussion over three Tbilisi projects (a textbook, a television series, and a digest journal), as well as curriculum development.
Washington State University and Yunnan University, China
Washington State University is currently coming to the end of a three-year State Department funded partnership with Yunnan University, China. The dual goals of the State Department Educational Partnership were to set up the first American Studies graduate program in western China, and to internationalize the American Studies program at WSU. The International Partnership Grant will be used to continue the partnership between WSU and Yunnan.
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