Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Awards (ISRCA)
The Provost and the Vice President for Research invite applications for the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards (ISRCA) - a new funding opportunity to support faculty pursuing independent scholarly and/or creative projects. Funds of up to $10,000 per award will support semester teaching release, summer salary, and/or research related expenses.
This program is designed to support the professional advancement of faculty engaged in scholarly and creative pursuits that use historical, humanistic, interpretive, or ethnographic approaches; explore aesthetic, ethical, and/or cultural values and their roles in society; conduct critical or rhetorical analyses; engage in archival and/or field research; or develop or produce creative works. Awardees will be selected based on peer review of the quality of the proposed project, the degree to which the project will lead to the applicant’s professional advancement, and the potential academic and societal impact of the project.
RFP for the full guidelines (PDF)
ISRCA - Letter of Support Template (DOCX)
Applications will be accepted through the UMD InfoReady Portal
Please direct any questions about the program to Eric Chapman, Associate Vice President for Research.
- Moroccan Jews between Morocco and Israel, 1948-1962
Shay Hazkani, ARHU-History and Jewish Studies
- The Politics of Outbreak Response: The Evolution and Effectiveness of WHO’s International Health Regulations
Catherine Worsnop, SPP-School of Public Policy
- Nativism and the New Immigrant in Coal Country, USA
Paul Shackel, BSOS-Anthropology
- Wars R Us: Violence and Identity in the U.S., the Middle East, and Russia After the Cold War
Valerie Anishchenkova, ARHU-Arabic/Film Studies/SLLC
- Afterlives of AIDS: Oral histories of Black women living and aging with HIV
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, BSOS-Anthropology
- ‘Relatable Meets Remarkable’: Crafting Race in the Reality Television Industry
Eva Hageman, ARHU- American Studies and Harriet Tubman Department of Women Gender and Sexuality studies
- The First Freedom Riders: Streetcars and Street Fights in Jim Crow New York
Richard Bell, ARHU-History
- Picturing Resilience: A Photo-Elicitation Study of High-Achieving Black Undergraduate Students’ Community Cultural Wealth in the COVID-19 Era
Jennifer Turner, EDUC-Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
- Game On: Boxing, Race, and Masculinity
Jordana Saggese, ARHU-Art History and Archaeology
- Teaching Slavery and Settlement: Plantation Pedagogy in Currents of Conquest
Bayley Marquez, ARHU-American Studies
- Conundrum of Loyalty: Dynasty, Governance, and Political Allegiance in Imperial Russia, 1850-1900
Mikhai Dolbilovl, ARHU-History
- Django Generations: Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France
Siv Lie, ARHU-School of Music
- Funding Black Power: Race, Philanthropy and the Politics of Social Impact
Claire Dunning, SPP-School of Public Policy
- One Driver, One Mic: How Immigrant Taxi Drivers Formed a Coop to Take on Uber, Lyft and the Taxi Industry
Krishnan Vasudevan, JOUR-Philip Merrill College of Journalism
- Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of Foreign Policy
Shannon Carcelli, BSOS-Government and Politics
- Identifying Crime Hot Spots: A Multi-source Investigation of Crime Distribution in Peterborough, England
Lauren Porter, BSOS-Criminology & Criminal Justice
- Understanding the Social Reception of Proposed Energy Infrastructure in the Developing World
Jennifer Hadden, BSOS-Government and Politics
- The Twitter Presidency: Who Trump Talks About, How He Talks About Them, and Why It Matters<
Sarah Croco, BSOS-Government and Politics
- Anthropogenic: The Cultural Heritage of Climate Change
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, BSOS-Anthropology
- Deportation's Aftermath: Little LA and Making a Life in Exile
Perla Guerrero, ARHU-American Studies
- Hannes Meyer, Post-Revolutionary Mexico, and the Poetics of Place and Displacement
Ryan Long, ARHU-School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- Empire and the Black Pacific: A Record of the Darker Races
Edlie Wong, ARHU-English
- Fabricating Catullus: Catullus' Reception by Postmodern Women
Katherine Wasdin, ARHU-Classics