Apply now for UM Women's and Gender Studies Scholarship! Deadline for application is November 15th. See scholarship page for details concerning both the activist and academic Louise Greene/Elizabeth Smith $1000 scholarship.
Student Opportunities
Advising
Students interested in the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the major in Liberal Studies with the option in Women's and Gender Studies, the minor in Women's and Gender Studies, or internships should contact Anya Jabour or Ione Crummy, Co-Directors for Women's and Gender Studies, at 243-4100 to set an appointment. Bring transcripts, a change of major/minor form (from the Registrar), or internship forms (from the Center for Work-Based Learning) unless the Women's and Gender Studies Office already has a folder for you on file.
Internships
Women's and Gender Studies students can choose an internship program, in consultation with the Director of Women's and Gender Studies, though the Center for Work-Based Learning (Lodge 162) at The University of Montana. So far, students have worked at the Women's Center, Student Assault Recovery Services, and the Political Science and Anthropology Departments on campus, as well as Women's Opportunity and Resource Development, Inc. (WORD), Working for Economic Equality and Liberation (W.E.E.L.), YWCA Pathways, and Adventure Life, Inc. in Missoula. Contact Women's and Gender Studies Program or phone 243-4100. Three or more upper-division credits can be earned towards the Women's and Gender Studies option.
Institute for Experiential Learning, the premier internship program in Washington DC, offers placements in Women's and Gender Studies at the National Women's Health Network, the Center for Women Policy Studies, and the National Organization for Women (NOW). Visit their web site at www.ielnet.org
The Feminist Majority Foundation is seeking highly motivated college students who aspire to become leaders in the feminist movement to serve as interns in their Washington DC and Los Angeles offices. The Feminist Majority internship is listed as one of the nation's top 100 internship programs by the Princeton Review. Interns benefit from a challenging atmosphere and substantive projects, and gain experience working on the most pressing women's issues of our time. Full-time Internships (35-40 hours/week), which run for a minimum of two months, are available all year round. Applications are accepted year-round. Contact Silvia Henriquez, Internship Coordinator at silvia@feminist.org.
Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) is a national collaborative of 47 pro-choice organizations dedicated to educating and energizing young women about issues of reproductive choice. PEP offers internships in Prt Chester, New York which are flexible part-time positions available during fall and spring semesters and full-time positions during winter and summer sessions. PEP will offer both a stepend and supervised internship for academic credit. For more info. contact www.protectchoice.org or Taal Mclean, Associate, Pro-Choice Public Education Project, 16 Willett Avenue, Port Chester, NY 10573-4326, 914-934-0148 ext.2 (phone), 914-934-0348 (fax).
Feminist Women's Health Center of Atlanta, GA offers a variety of internship options. FWHC is a women's health provider, educator, and advocate, and there are many avenues in which students could pursue an internship at the Center. The internships are offered year round. Contact Janelle Yamarick or Jennifer Sorrells at (404) 875-7115.
Workstudy Positions
Watch this space for vacancies in one of two office positions on campus: administrative aide and research assistant.
Studies Abroad
Mexico Explore issues of Gender and Sustainable Development in Mexico with The Center for Global Education at Augsburg College Fall Semester: Crossing Border: Gender and Social Change in Mesoamerica. Spring Semester: Social and Environmental Justice in Latin America. Contact globaled@augsburg.edu or 1-800-299-8889 for more info.
Other Opportunities
The Missoula YWCA Pathways Program has many opportunities available to address the needs of women and children who have survived domestic and sexual violence. If being a YWCA advocate interests you, please call 543-6691 for more info.
Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center Volunteer positions at the WMGLCC include: staffing the office, events planning, grant writing, program committee, program director, and board of directors. If interested please call 543-2224
Big Sisters of Missoula Mentoring is a multi-cultural, age old concept where adults befriend a young person in order to pass on wisdom. Mentoring is making a difference in children's lives. Currently Big Sisters is in need of mentors for middle school children; however children of all ages are looking for a friend. Please call 721-2380
The Missoula County Victim Assistance Program is looking for volunteers and interns for the Crime Victim Advocate Office. For application forms and more information call 523-4630.
Scholarship Opportunities
Faculty Opportunities
Travel Grants
Interested in presenting a paper or in attending a conference in the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies? Click here for a guide to calls for papers and upcoming conferences around the country and the world.
Faculty travel grants may be awarded to faculty who have been chosen to present a paper at a meeting or conference. Eligible faculty are those who have taught a Women's and Gender Studies course or served on the Women's and Gender Studies Steering Committee in the past year.
To apply, please send a one-page letter to the Women's and Gender Studies Director that includes the following:
1. name of the meeting/conference you will be attending
2. location of the meeting/conference
3. title of the paper you will be presenting
4. abstract of your paper
5. summary of other funding sources for your travel
6. amount of funding requested from Women's and Gender Studies
Deadline for application is April 7, 2007
If you have questions, feel free to call the Women's and Gender Studies office at 243-4100 or 243-2584.
Travel Approval Form
For a printable version of the Travel Approval Form, click here.
Faculty Prize for Outstanding Research or Creative Activities in the Study of Women or Gender
Criteria
1. Nominee must be active in the Women's and Gender Studies Program (teaching a course, serving on the steering committee or a subcommittee) at the University of Montana within the past two years (semesters, intersessions or summers).
2. All faculty (tenured, tenure-track or visiting, instructors, assistant, associate or full professors) or post-doctoral researchers are eligible.
3. The committee will consider the following factors in their review: excellence in scholarship or creative activities, significance, breadth and likely impact for future research in the study of women or gender.
Application Process
Applicants are self-nominated and should submit the following to the Women's and Gender Studies Office (LA 138A):
1. The publication dated 2006 (as offprint, journal or monograph, or galley proofs for publication in 2006) with complete citation of the source: e.g. Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 22, No. 2, (December 2006), pp. 6-38
2. A brief memo stating nominee's participation in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and current address at The University of Montana: e.g. Dr. Margaret Mead. Taught Anthropology of Sex Roles 327 (fall 2006). Department of Anthropology, SS200
Committee Review Process
The Student-Faculty Award Committee will recommend the award, with the awardee notified of acceptance.
Application and award dates will be published in the Women's and Gender Studies Steering Committee "Weekly" e-mail. Also, you are welcome to phone the director's office to inquire when application date and award dates are. WS director's office 243-4100, WS office 243-2584
Fellowships
Fellowships @ The Wilson Center 2004-2005
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics should intersect with questions of public policy or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance. While the Center does not engage in formulating actual policy, it is particularly interested in those projects that help provide the essential background against which current issues can be more thoroughly understood (See Themes below).
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
Applications from any country are welcome. Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, and the professions, as well as academia) are eligible for appointment. For academic participants, eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral level. It is expected that academic candidates will have demonstrated their scholarly development by publications beyond their doctoral dissertations. For other applicants, an equivalent level of professional achievement is expected. An applicant working on a degree at the time of application (even if the degree is to be awarded prior to the proposed fellowship year) is not eligible.
All applicants should have a very good command of spoken English since the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows.
Proposals of a partisan or advocacy nature are not eligible. Primary research in the natural sciences is not eligible, nor are projects that create musical composition, dance, or the visual arts.
Further, the Center does not consider projects that represent essentially the rewriting of doctoral dissertations; the editing of texts, papers, or documents; or the preparation of textbooks, anthologies, translations, or memoirs. If you have questions regarding your eligibility or the suitability of your project, please email the Scholar Selection and Services Office at fellowships@wwic.si.edu.
Selection Process
Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis. Applications are assessed by interdisciplinary panels of distinguished scholars and practitioners. The panels’ recommendations are presented to the Center’s Fellowships Committee of the Board of Trustees, composed of public officials who serve ex officio, citizens appointed by the President of the United States, and citizens from the private sector. The Fellowships Committee of the Board of Trustees makes the final decisions on selection.
The basic criteria for selection are:
• significance of the proposed research, including the importance and originality of the project;
• quality of the proposal in definition, organization, clarity, and scope;
• capabilities and achievements of the applicant and the likelihood that the applicant will accomplish the proposed project;
• the relevance of the project to contemporary policy issues.
The Center welcomes in particular those projects that transcend narrow specialties and methodological issues of interest only within a specific academic discipline. Projects should involve fresh research—in terms of both the overall field and the author’s previous work. It is essential that projects have relevance to the world of public policy, and fellows should want, and be prepared, to interact with policymakers in Washington and with Wilson Center staff who are working on similar issues.
Fellows’ Responsibilities
The Center’s “scholars in residence” are so in both name and fact. Fellows are expected to work from their offices at the Center and to participate in appropriate meetings organized by the Center. Fellows are also expected to present their research to colleagues at our informal internal Work-in-Progress seminars. In addition, fellows are encouraged to make a more formal presentation to the public such as a colloquium, seminar, workshop, or other form of meeting. The Center expects all fellows to seek ways to share their expertise with the Washington policy community. The form of such interaction could range from a deep background briefing for an executive branch agency to an informal roundtable discussion with members of Congress and their staffs.
Themes
The Center devotes significant attention to the exploration of broad thematic areas. Primary themes are:
• governance, including such issues as the key features of the development of democratic institutions, democratic society, civil society, and citizen participation;
• the U.S. role in the world and issues of partnership and leadership—military, political, and economic dimensions; and
• key long-term future challenges confronting the United States and the world.
Priority will be given to proposals related to these themes. Within this framework, the Center also welcomes projects that provide the historical and/or cultural context for some of today’s significant public policy debates.
Affiliation at the Center
Fellows in residence will be affiliated with one of the Center's programs/projects. As of March 2003, these include the United States Studies Division and the International Studies Division and programs on Africa, Asia, Brazil, Canada, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Mexico, the Middle East, Russia and the former Soviet Union, and Western Europe; and projects on America and the Global Economy, Comparative Urban Studies, Conflict Prevention, Congress, Environmental Change and Security, Foresight and Governance, and History and Public Policy. Read more about the work of the programs/projects at the Center.
Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Once awarded a fellowship, fellows who do not already have book contracts for the project they wish to pursue at the Center are encouraged to seek out the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. The Center’s Press, in collaboration with the Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and Stanford University Press reaches a worldwide English-language readership. For titles with special audiences, the Press seeks out other major copublishers, such as Oxford University Press, M.E. Sharpe, and Columbia University Press. The Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published more than 120 books based on fellows’ research and other writing at the Center. Read more about the Press and the titles it has published.
Facilities and Services
Each fellow is assigned a furnished office available every day around the clock. The Center is located in the heart of Washington, D.C., and includes conference rooms, a reference library, and a dining room. The building is a smoke-free environment. Professional librarians provide access to the Library of Congress, university and special libraries in the area, and other research facilities. Windows-based personal computers are available, and each fellow is offered a part-time research assistant. Although fellows are responsible for locating their own housing in the Washington, D.C. area, the Center provides written materials to help facilitate the search process.
Stipend
The Center tries to ensure that the stipend provided under the fellowship, together with the fellow’s other sources of funding (e.g., grants secured by the applicant and sabbatical allowances), approximate a fellow’s regular salary. Stipends provided in 2002 ranged from $26,200 to $85,000 (the maximum possible in 2004-2005). Stipends include round trip travel for fellows and for their spouses and dependent children who will reside with them during the entire fellowship period. In addition to stipends, the Center provides 75 percent of health insurance premiums for fellows and these accompanying family members.
Length of Appointment
Fellows are expected to be in residence for the entire U.S. academic year (September through May, i.e., nine months), although a few fellowships are occasionally awarded for shorter periods with a minimum of four months. The Center does not award fellowships for the summer months (June, July, August). Fellowships may not be deferred.
Conditions of Award
Fellows must devote full time to the fellowship study and may not accept a teaching assignment, another residential fellowship, or undertake any other major activities that require absence from the Center during the tenure of their fellowship. In order to foster a true community of scholars, fellows must devote a proportionate amount of time to the daily life of the Center. Applicants must notify the Center when they receive other sources of support, including other fellowships or foundation grants, which may affect their request for financial support from the Center. Once fellowships are awarded and at the Center’s discretion, project titles may be modified to reflect the Center’s mandate to serve as a bridge between the world of learning and the world of public affairs.
Deadline for Applications
The Center holds one round of competitive selection per year. The deadline for receipt of fellowship applications is October 1 and decisions on appointments are announced by early April of the following year.
Women's and Gender Studies Research Forum
FRAU, the Women's and Gender Studies research forum, meets throughout the semester to review and discuss faculty works in progress. Papers are available for review in the Women's and Gender Studies office, LA 138A. Interested faculty should contact G.G Weix (x6319) for meeting times and locations.
Research Opportunities
The Council on International Educational Exchange is offering Faculty Development Seminars for faculty and/or administrators at two- or four-year institutions of higher education. Applicants from all academic concentrations are encouraged to apply. Deadlines are October 15 for Cuba, November 1 for Ghana, and March 15 for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Jordan, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, and Vietnam.
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) invites membership from individuals and institutions interested in issues related to motherhood and mothering. Contact Andrea O'Reilly at arm@yorku.ca for more information.
