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Faculty Research, Teaching and Outreach Grant

Purpose

To support faculty working on projects that align with the mission and current engagement initiatives of the Area Studies Centers: East Asian Studies Center, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Middle East Studies Center. 

Eligibility

Full-time and part-time tenured and appointed instructors who are affiliated with one of the Office of International Affairs’ five Area Studies Centers, or who could become affiliated to one of the Area Studies Centers if their research or scholarship is directly connected to any of their respective regions of the world. 

Amount of funding

$500 to $2,000 per grant 

To apply

Review the grant guidelines, complete the Faculty Grant Application Form, and submit your application materials online. Please email oia-grants@osu.edu upon submission. 

Deadline

To be determined.

Grant guidelines

The Faculty Teaching, Research and Outreach Grant supports engagement from all disciplinary backgrounds. All awards must contribute to the knowledge and visibility of one of the five Area Studies Centers’ initiatives. 

Proposal narrative

All applications must describe how the proposed activities relate to one or more of the Area Studies Centers’ foci and how they support critical languages pedagogy and/or outreach and global engagement on and with their respective regions of the world. Applications should be between two and four pages, excluding references (double spaced), and include a one-page budget (table and narrative). 

Proposal budget

All spending must comply with university budgetary regulations. Grant recipients will sign a document governing the funding. 

Acknowledgment

Recipients must acknowledge the assistance of the Faculty Teaching, Research and Outreach Grant in any publication, scholarly performance, course development, conference paper, or other product resulting from funds supported by the Office of International Affairs and Area Studies Centers grant. 

The grant recipient must provide the Office of International Affairs communications unit and Area Studies assistant director with a one-page written report within three weeks following completion of the project.  The report must include: 

  • How the funds were utilized 
  • A travel schedule (if travel was included) or course number if used for curriculum development or virtual global teaching and learning 
  • A description of what was accomplished 
  • A photograph that captures the project (if available)

Recipients

2023 - 2024

Faculty Awardees

  • Valente B. Alvarez (Department of Food, Science and Technology) for The Importance of Food Science and Technology as an Area of Agro-Industries,” Peru, South America, Center for Latin American Studies
  • Felix Chang (Moritz College of Law) for “Research Project on Renminbi Internationalization,” China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, East Asian Studies Center
  • Theodora Dragostinova (Department of History for “The Repatriation of Children in the Post – 1918 Balkans, Eastern Europe, Balkans, Center for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Matthew Johnson (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures) for “Yiddish Archival Sources and the Holocaust,” Eastern Europe, Center for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Yonsoo Kang-Parker (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures) for “Immersive Virtual Tour Catalog of South Korea,” South Korea, East Asian Studies Center
  • Namiko Kunimoto (Department of Art History) for “Transpacific Erasures: Art, Gender, and Race and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism,” East Asia and Southeast Asia, East Asian Studies Center
  • Aimee Moore (Department of Architecture for “Latin American Architecture: Diverse Community
    Outreach Program, Student Workbooks,” Latin America, Center for Latin American Studies
  • Hollie Nyset-Nzitatira (Department of Sociology) for “Understanding the Genocide in Guatemala, Guatemala, Center for Latin American Studies
  • Scopas S. Poggo (Department of African American and African Studies) for “Voices of War and Peace in The Sudan, 1955-2022 Civilians, Combatants, and Foreign Observers,” Sudan, Center for African Studies
  • Ana Elena Puga (Department of Theatre, Film and Media Arts) for “Japanese Migration to Latin America in Three Works by the Contemporary Playwright and Director Kamisato Yudai,” East Asia, Japan and Latin America, East Asian Studies Center
  • Johanna Sellman (Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) for “Dimensions of Arabic: Critical and Creative Perspectives on a Global Language, Middle East, Middle East Studies Center
  • Caroline S. Wagner (John Glenn College of Public Affairs) for “Geopolitical Concerns and Political Trends Influence the Formation of International Collaborative Research Teams,” China, East Asian Studies Center
  • Max D. Woodworth (Department of Geography) for “Urbanization, Urbanism, Urban Planning and Design in East Asia,” Taiwan, East Asian Studies Center