ASIAN STUDIES FACULTY GRANTS

The Asian Studies Center annually offers grants to faculty to promote and support faculty research and travel involving Asia as well as to enhance the teaching of Asia throughout the curriculum. 

 

Click below to find your selection:

 

 

Overall Requirements

While the application form for each grant category is specific to that purpose, the overall requirements are the following:

 

• Each proposal should present a concrete research agenda and/or detailed travel plans.
• Each proposal should include a complete budget.
• Four (4) paper copies of each proposal should be sent to Katherine Carlitz, Assistant Director of Academic Affairs, c/o Asian Studies Center, 4400 WWPH, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
• Curricula Vitae: Submission of paper CV’s is no longer required. Instead, applicants whose data has not been updated since August 12, 2012, must submit updated profile and CV data electronically. Submit profile and CV data at www.ucis.pitt.edu/facsurv (log in with your Pitt username/password). The Faculty Grants Oversight Committee will be able to access applicant CV’s through a password-protected special site that will be deleted at the end of the selection process. (Your profile and CV will remain in the main UCIS server.)
• Faculty who do not update their profile and CV will not be eligible for UCIS and Asian Studies Center funding, including Hewlitt awards, GAP grants, or ASC faculty grants.
• All research involving interventions or interactions with individuals, or the collection of identifiable private information concerning living individuals, requires prospective Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval.  Grantees are responsible for obtaining IRB approval when required, and must provide documentation of IRB approval before a grant can be awarded.  For further information, check the IRB website at www.irb.pitt.edu.

 

Eligibility

Full-time and part-time tenure-stream, tenured and non tenure-stream faculty (including lecturers, adjunct faculty, and contract faculty) at all Schools, Departments, Centers, Institutes and Campuses of the University of Pittsburgh are eligible to submit proposals. See individual grant categories for additional restrictions.

 

 

Application Deadline

The deadline for all 2012-2013 grants (except the Japan Studies Small Grants Program) will be Monday, November 5, 2012.

 

The Japan Studies Small Grants Program has a rolling deadline. A faculty oversight committee will award the grants within one month of the application deadline.

 

 

Global Academic Partnership Grant Competition

 

The Global Studies Center (GSC) in the University Center for International Studies administers the annual Global Academic Partnership grant competition to support interdisciplinary international research conferences or workshops on global themes. Sponsors, eligibility criteria, and an application with further details can be found at http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/gap

 

 

Asian Studies Small Grants

Please click below to access the application form in your preferred format:

2012-2013 Asian Studies Small Grants Application(PDF) | (DOC)

 

These grants fund research and travel for faculty studying the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands and East Asia. Grants are for one year, and generally range from $1000 to $2000.

 

China Studies Research Travel Grants

Please click below to access the application form in your preferred format:

2012-2013 China Travel Grant Application (PDF) | (DOC)

 

These grants support faculty travel to the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, or domestic research and conference travel. Grants are for one year, and generally range from $1000 to $2000.

Japan Studies Publication Subvention Grant

Please click below to access the request form in your preferred format:

Japan Studies Funding Request Form (PDF) | (DOC)

 

Grants of up to $3,000 are available for tenured or tenure-stream University of Pittsburgh faculty who are in the process of publishing book(s) related to Japan. The subsidy is paid directly to the publisher to defray the costs of production. It cannot be used by the author to pay for indexing or any other costs of preparing a manuscript for publication. We encourage cost-sharing -- that is, supplementing funds for subsidies received from other funders within the University and without. Limited funds are available in any given year to provide publication subsidies, and not all requests can be met. Preference will be given to 1) single-authored books, 2) followed by co-authored books, and 3) then edited books of essays and translations. In the case of 2) and 3), at least one of the authors, translators or editors must be an eligible member of the University of Pittsburgh faculty.

>> Applications should include the following:
1. A Japan Studies Funding Request Form (PDF) (download above) from Asian Studies Center
2. A short description of the book and its scholarly merits
3. A copy of the book contract
4. A letter from the publisher explaining the need for a publication subvention
5. Evidence that the author/requester of a subvention has applied to other funders within the University -- for example, the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences
6. Submit applications for subvention to the ASC Associate Director

 

Research-in-Japan Grants

PLEASE NOTE: Both forms below are required for application. Click below to download in your preferred format.

2012-2013 Research-in-Japan Grant application form (PDF) | (DOC)

Japan Studies Funding Request Form (PDF) | (DOC)

 

Awards will be made in the following two types of research:
1. Research projects based on a concrete and clearly defined agenda in Japanese studies.

2. Exploratory Japan Studies Research based on well-defined research proposals.

 

The following statement defines the necessary qualifications of University of Pittsburgh faculty and staff eligible to apply for "Research-in-Japan Grants" funded from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments Funds, which are administered by the Strategic Planning and Budget Committee of the Asian Studies Center of the Univesity of Pittsburgh's University Center for International Studies:

 

Any University of Pittsburgh faculty member who meets the following requirements is eligible to apply:

1. Full-time and part-time tenure-stream faculty, whether tenured or not.

2. Members of the university's full-time administrative staff who have joint or adjunct appointments in academics departments.

3. Non-tenure stream faculty who are employed by the university to teach or conduct research on longer than a one-year-contract.

 

Non-contract, part-time faculty hired on an ad hoc basis, even if they have adjunct appointments in academic departments, are not eligible to apply.

 

To Apply:

1. Applicants must present three-page proposals in which they state concisely the scholarly purpose, methodology, and feasibility of their projects.

2. Applicants are expected to have identified field sites, archives, libraries, museums and other research facilities at which they will conduct their research if funded.
3. Applicants are expected to show evidence in their proposals that they have identified the primary Japanese-language informants and sources they will use while in Japan.

 

Grants up to $5,000 can be awarded for a one-year period and up to $10,000 in any 2-year period. This award covers air and ground transportation, meals, and lodging expenses.

 

>>2012-2013 Research-in-Japan Grant application form and Japan Studies Funding Request (download above) must be submitted.

 

Japan Studies Small Grants

PLEASE NOTE: Both forms below are required for application

2012-2013 Japan Studies Small Grants application form (PDF) | (DOC)

Japan Studies Funding Request Form (PDF) | (DOC)

These grants support research and teaching related to Japan Studies. Awards will be made up to $1,500 per fiscal year.  Multiple applications are allowed, up to a total of $1,500 per fiscal year.

>>2012-2013 Japan Studies Small Grant Application and Japan Studies Funding Requestmust both be submitted.

Japan Studies Emeritus Faculty Grant Policy

Please click below to access the application form in your preferred format:

Japan Studies Funding Request (PDF) | (DOC)

 

Contingent on the availability of funds, Japan Studies emeritus faculty members are eligible to receive funding no more than twice within the five years immediately following retirement:

 

1. Up to $2,000 per academic year for research travel to Japan, which is expected to result in a significant publication/creative work.

2. Up to  $2,000 for publication subvention. ** The requirement that the requester seek other sources of funding within the University of Pittsburgh —applicable to incumbent faculty— does not apply to emeriti. 

 

In both cases, endowment funding shall be acknowledged in any creative works that result from the funding. In order to apply for funding, emeritus professors must be uncommitted to teaching at another academic institution during the academic year that funding is requested.

 

The ASC Oversight Committee will look favorably upon applicants who meet one or more of the following conditions:

 

1. Teaching at least one Japan-related course at the University of Pittsburgh during the year that funding is requested.

2. Serving on a graduate thesis committee in Japan Studies at the University of Pittsburgh during the year that funding is requested.

3. Showing evidence of continuing research/scholarly activities.

 

 

 

Korean Studies Grants

Please click below to access the application form in your preferred format:

Korean Studies Grant Funding Request (PDF) | (DOC)

Korean Studies Grant
The Korea Council is accepting applications for the Korean Studies Grant. This grant provides up to $3,000 per academic year to encourage and develop Korean studies at the University of Pittsburgh. All Pitt faculty, students, staff, and related personnel are eligible to apply. Applications may be for any amount up to $3,000 and multiple applications by the same person are allowed. All applications will be considered by the Korean Council. There is a rolling deadline for applications.
The Korea Council will look favorably upon projects that meet one or more of the following conditions:

Directly contribute to the development of Pitt’s Korean Studies program.

Place Koran Studies within a transnational or multidisciplinary context.

Request partial/matching funds from other sources.

Examples of funding requests for Korean Studies projects would include, but not be limited to:

Public speakers,

Hosting events (films, performances, etc.)

Holding symposia, conferences, etc.

Travel to conferences, meetings, etc.

Support for research or teaching.

Library collection/acquisitions.

Outreach projects.

Each proposal should present a concrete agenda and/or detailed travel plans.

Each proposal should include a complete budget.
A final report must be submitted to the Korea Council within 3 months of the project’s conclusion.

The Korean Endowment at the University of Pittsburgh shall be acknowledged in any works that result from the funding.

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Updated October 10, 2012