UCR Internal Call for Proposals - 2024 Limited Submission

The Mellon Foundation has invited UCR to submit one application for consideration to the 2024 Sawyer Seminars program. The Center for Ideas and Society will facilitate an internal review of submissions, led by a committee of CHASS faculty reviewers. Applicants should review the following information and proposal timelines carefully to ensure that, if their proposal is selected, they will be available to complete the application by the various deadlines.

In honor of the program’s 30th anniversary, this year’s Sawyer Seminar theme focuses on the study of major social and political challenges that directly impact the structures, policies, and practices of United States universities. The subject for 2024 – academic freedom and democracy in the American university – is in keeping with the Sawyer Seminar’s original commitment to elevate critical scholarship while also reframing it to engage with current concerns. As you consider potential approaches and methods of inquiry into the designated topic, bear in mind that Mellon and the Higher Learning program are fundamentally interested in the themes of social and racial justice. The program seeks to fund humanities-grounded seminars wherein multidisciplinary teams of faculty and other academic leaders collaboratively address timely issues affecting their campuses.

UCR applications to the Sawyer Seminar limited submission call are due by 11:59PM on September 25, 2024.

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