Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program to Fund Education Research – Deadline: November 2nd

The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the doctorate is attained. The fellowships are intended to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation. The 2008 dissertation fellowship instructions will be available at the Spencer Foundation Web site.

http://www.spencer.org/programs/fellows/dissertation.htm

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Accepting Applications for Research Grants – Deadline: February 1st

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. Typically, the range for research grants is $15,000 to $30,000 a year, for a period of one to two years. The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Ten or more dissertation fellowships of $10,000 each are awarded annually to individuals who plan to complete their dissertations by the end of the year. The fellowships are designed to contribute to the support of doctoral candidates in the final year of Ph.D. work so that they can complete their theses in a timely manner. Visit the foundation’s Web site for specific program details and application guidelines.

http://www.hfg.org/

Digital Odyssey
The Digital Odyssey, from UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities, has been re-launched! You will find there an announcement of the 2007-08 Digital Humanities Fellows.

UCLA Litbrarian

A blog maintained by Marta Brunner, Librarian for English and American Literature and Comparative Literature. Marta was chosen as one of the recipient’s of this year’s Digital Humanities Fellows. She’ll work with fellow recipient, Teresa Barnett, (Head, Center for Oral History Research) on a project entitled: Putting Los Angeles Social Movements History on the Map: Automated Tagging of Oral History Transcripts

Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is
pleased to announce the launch of its new issue devoted to the theme of
Difference:

Our fifth issue of Vectors stages multiple examinations of the notion of
difference as it plays out in a variety of spheres, discourses and
practices, while also privileging race and ethnicity as a central
through-line of digital culture, a recurring ghost in our networked
machines.. Featured scholars include David Theo Goldberg/Stefka Hristova,
Wendy Chun, Mark Kann, Jon Ippolito, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry and
Christian Sandvig. Vectors is produced by editors Tara McPherson and Steve
Anderson, co-creative directors Erik Loyer and Raegan Kelly, and
programmer Craig Dietrich with additional design by Alex Ceglia.

Vectors is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to
expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and
transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with
cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking
of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research,
focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social
and cultural relations. We only publish works that exceed the boundaries
of print.

Please also explore previous issues in the Vectors Archive and contribute
to an ongoing dialogue with the project creators via the Vectors Forums.
Feel free to share this announcement widely.