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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
for UC BERKELEY GRADUATE STUDENTS and FACULTY
APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 12, 2010
The Arts Research Center is pleased to announce a new ARC Fellows program
that advances interdisciplinary research in the arts at UC Berkeley by support-
ing self-nominated pairs of graduate students and faculty members as
they pursue semester-long collaborative projects of their own design.
The goals of this program are:
- to encourage collaboration across disciplines, departments, and colleges;
- to cultivate a community of artists and arts scholars with interdisciplinary
interests; - to introduce more opportunities for faculty involvement and faculty enrich-
ment within the successful ARC Graduate Fellows program; - and to develop a climate of shared mentorship for both faculty and graduate
student research.
The faculty-student collaborations may involve pairs from the same department or
from very different departments and can take a number of forms, including:
- A graduate student and a faculty member working together as partners
on a project - A graduate student providing assistance on a faculty member's project
- A faculty member providing assistance on a graduate student's project
Participants in the ARC Fellows program benefit from interaction with a cohort of
colleagues with interdisciplinary research interests. Both student and faculty ARC
Fellows will participate in a twice-monthly lunch seminar, facilitated by one or
more ARC-affiliated faculty member. At each session, one student-faculty pair will
interact with the cohort in the manner that best serves their project. This could
mean any combination of the following:
- Sharing preliminary research results or goals
- Leading group readings of pre-circulated writing
- Presenting one another's work
- Conducting a work-in-progress critique
- "Workshopping" material
- Rehearsing a formal research presentation
For participating in the program for the entire semester, each ARC Fellow will
receive an unrestricted research grant of $1000 (each student-faculty pair
will receive a total of $2000).
ELIGIBILITY:
The ARC Fellows program is open to all advanced graduate students (usually
those who have advanced to candidacy in a PhD program and/or are in a later
stage of research in a Masters program) and ladder-rank faculty at UC Berkeley
who are conducting arts-related research. Students and faculty from different
departments and programs are encouraged to apply together, though graduate
students and their primary advisors may apply together as well. All applications
must be joint applications.
SCHEDULE:
2011 ARC Fellows will be notified of their selection in December 2010. After an
orientation session in late January 2011, the cohort will meet twice a month in
February, March, and April from 12 to 2pm. Participants must be available to attend
these sessions. Catered lunch will be provided.
TO APPLY:
Download and complete the application form (MS Word):
ARC Fellows Application Form
E-mail the completed form as an attachment to ARC Associate Director
Michele Rabkin: micheler@berkeley.edu.
Applications will be reviewed by a panel of ARC-affiliated faculty.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
November 12, 2010
QUESTIONS?
Contact Michele Rabkin: micheler@berkeley.edu or 642-4268.
CURRENT & PAST FELLOWS
2009 Fellows
2010 Fellows
2011 Fellows