Research Cluster Proposal 2020

The CU Latin American Studies Center invites applications from groups of faculty, or faculty and graduate students for interdisciplinary research slusters that will be active during Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. The deadline for this application is Friday, March 6, 2020.

Proposals should be initiated by University of Colorado Boulder graduate students or faculty from at least two different departments or programs. The organizing principal (i.e. research question, theme, country, region, data set) should deal centrally with Latin America (understood to include Latin American populations in the United States) and should plan to meet throughout the year. Applicants are particularly encouraged to propose clusters that foster interdisciplinary collaborations, generate research data, contribute to graduate education, and/or include public events. Clusters should contribute to the mission of the Latin American Studies Center.

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Proposals should be initiated by faculty from at least two different departments or programs.
Please enter the names, position(s), and institutional affiliations of other cluster members. No cluster may be drawn entirely from one department or discipline.
Please provide a description of the aims and objectives of the cluster in 2-3 paragraphs.
Please provide a chronological timeline of activities that will be undertaken by the cluster in 2016 - 2017.
Please provide an estimated schedule of when the activities will take place (timeline of activities).
What are the desired outcomes of this 1-2-year-long cluster? Outcomes may include scholarly communities formed, networks built, events held, papers prepared for publication, new initiatives undertaken, faculty research enabled, graduate students mentored, university-community collaborations created, external funding sought, etc.
Explain how you expect to spend the funding that will be awarded by the Center. Please be as specific as possible about your budget. Permitted: conference attendance, conference planning on campus, publication costs, food and drink budget, honorarium for speakers.
How will this cluster contribute to the mission of the CU Latin American Studies Center?