CASE-UC Berkeley Field Project: Spring 2008
- Requests for Proposals
- Application
- Program Description
- Working Products from Previous CASE Participants
Request for Proposals
The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) is soliciting proposals from scholars at Centers for Advanced Studies and Education (CASE) universities in the Russian Federation to participate in a two-week field survey workshop at UCB from April 5-April 19, 2008. The workshop is funded by a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
A total of four scholars from CASE universities (“Carnegie Fellows”) will be brought to UCB for an intensive review of the key literature, theoretical approaches, and methods employed in a particular field of scholarship. Each Carnegie Fellow will work with a paired UCB faculty member and graduate student with knowledge of the Carnegie Fellow’s field theme to develop undergraduate and graduate syllabi and teaching materials, explore innovative teaching and research techniques and technologies, and prepare a field survey (with a literature review) for use by other Carnegie Fellows and Russian scholars at non-CASE universities. The language of the workshop will be English.
Airfare, hotel, and meal expenses will be paid for by ISEEES. In addition, ISEEES will either pay for or reimburse each Carnegie Scholar for up to $600 in expenses relating to purchasing, copying, and posting teaching materials.
Applicants must have an advanced degree (kandidaty nauk or above) and
be fluent in English. Proposals should indicate how the empirical and
theoretical interests of the applicant relate to one of the following
themes:
- Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and the Limits of Tolerance
- Frontiers, Borderlands, and Boundaries
- Modernization and Globalization
- State and Nation-Building in Comparative Perspective
- The Cultural Turn and Beyond
- The Idea of Europe
Proposals should include a completed application form, a statement of the applicant's research and teaching experience and future plans (not exceeding 3 pages), a sample of scholarly research (not exceeding 10 pages), and a curriculum vitae. Finalists will be interviewed by telephone or computer (VOIP) by the Berkeley organizers.
Proposals should be sent to Irina Laktionova, Executive Director, INO-Tsentr, by . Proposals must be received by February 8, 2007. Winning applicants will be notified by e-mail on February 15, 2008.
Download the request for proposals and program description in PDF format:
- In English [2007-2008case.pdf], 5 pages, 125KB
- In Russian [2007-2008case-cyrillic.pdf], 2 pages, 130 KB
Application
Download the application form (Word document):
- [2007-08case-application], 5 pages, 106 KB
Program Description
The Spring 2008 CASE program will take place at Berkeley from April 5-April 19, 2008.
At the time they are notified of their winning applications, the Carnegie Fellows will be informed of the names, backgrounds, and contact information of their assigned Berkeley faculty mentor and graduate student facilitator (GSF). Each Carnegie Fellow and each GSF will then have one month to prepare separately a preliminary reading list, a draft graduate seminar syllabus, and a draft undergraduate syllabus on the field theme. These will then be e-mailed to the faculty mentor, who will review these materials, make recommendations for additions, and provide a list of additional faculty contacts at UCB and neighboring institutions.
The Carnegie Fellows will arrive at Berkeley on or about Saturday, April 5, and will have Sunday to rest and explore the area. On Monday, April 7, the field survey will begin with a daylong workshop. The workshop will be attended by the full project team (the four Carnegie Fellows, the four Berkeley faculty mentors, the four Berkeley GSFs, and the three Principal Investigators, unless one or more of the Principal Investigators serves simultaneously as a faculty mentor). The workshop will be broken up into four 1½ hour sessions, one for each Carnegie Fellow and corresponding field theme. The UCB faculty mentors will make presentations reviewing and discussing key works in their disciplines, new theories and lines of research, and his or her intellectual approach to the topic. They will also provide syllabi from courses taught currently or in the past and comment on the draft bibliography/reading lists. Discussion will follow each presentation.
After the initial workshop, the Carnegie Fellows, with the assistance of the GSFs, will use the Berkeley and Stanford libraries (e.g., the Hoover Library) to gather materials, supplement their reading lists, expand on their course syllabus, and prepare their field reports (see below). They will also be given demonstrations on various technologies available for teaching purposes (the effective use of presentation and graphics software in the classroom, course webpages and proctored discussion groups, internet research, library databases and search engines, the distribution of course materials through the Internet, videoconferencing, etc.) and attend undergraduate lectures and graduate seminars given by the faculty mentor or, with permission, by other UCB faculty. The faculty mentor will meet periodically with the Carnegie Fellow to discuss progress and make additional suggestions as to reading material. In addition, the Carnegie Fellows will meet with other faculty at Berkeley, Stanford, or elsewhere in the Bay Area when practicable. During the entirety of their stay, the Carnegie Fellows will be assisted by the GSF with regard to use of the library, gathering of materials, appointments, class attendance, library use, transportation to Stanford or to San Francisco, and the preparation of their reading lists, syllabi, and field reports.
A second workshop will be convened on the afternoon of Friday, April 18, with the entire project team. Each Carnegie Fellow will present a field report (maximum ten pages) at the workshop along with their revised readings lists and syllabi. The field reports will consist of a literature review, an analysis of major contending theoretical approaches in the field, and a description of the main goals/topics that the visiting scholar would cover in an undergraduate lecture class and a graduate seminar on the field theme.
After the visit, ISEEES will place the project work products (reading
list, undergraduate syllabus, graduate syllabus, and field report) on
a special website for dissemination purposes. In addition, within one
month of their return to their home universities, the CASE scholars will
translate their work products into Russian. These will then be posted
on existing CASE websites as well as to the central site of INO-Tsentr.
They should be final drafts that will not require editing.
Work Products from previous CASE participants
