SUAD JOSEPH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS
2024-2025 APPLICATION OPEN NOW!
The Middle East / South Asia Program welcomes applications from all students while especially encouraging applicants from under-represented groups whose contributions to studies of ME/SA peoples and cultures have been marginalized or silenced. Projects involving research conducted in languages of the ME/SA region will receive special consideration. Research projects that recognize entrenched forms of social injustice, discrimination, neo-colonialism and/or racial capitalism, and that seek to address these problems in some way, are of special interest to the review committee.
Grants for undergraduate students
Suad Joseph Undergraduate Student Research Grant
Application Details
- Deadline: Friday, December 6, 2024
- Eligibility: Open to undergraduate students in good standing majoring in social sciences or humanities doing research on the Middle East and/or South Asia or their diaspora.
Grant Amount
- Funding: Up to $500 for research in Winter and/or Spring 2025.
Application Components
- Research Project Description (up to 500 words):
- Your name, class year, major, and minors.
- Faculty supervisor's name, department, and email.
- Title of the project.
- Description of the project.
- List of any other research grants received in 2024-2025.
- Detailed Budget:
- Itemize expenses for research materials, travel, supplies, etc.
- Recommendation Letter:
- A confidential letter from your faculty supervisor sent via email by Tuesday, December 6, 2024.
Submission Instructions
- Email all application materials to Wilson Xieu, ME/SA Program Coordinator, at mesastaff@ucdavis.edu.
- Recommendation letter should be submitted separately by the faculty supervisor to mesastaff@ucdavis.edu.
Special Considerations
- Applicants from under-represented groups are encouraged.
- Projects involving languages of the Middle East/South Asia (ME/SA) are encouraged.
Requirements for Grant Recipients (post-award)
- Submit a one-page description of your research by Friday, June 6, 2025, and include details on where you presented or plan to present your research (e.g., conferences, publications).
Deadline: Friday, December 6, 2024
Grants for graduate students
Graduate students in good standing pursuing a Ph.D. or Master's degree may apply for grants of up to $2000 for use in academic year 2025-2026 including summer 2025. Students who are awarded grants will be required to submit a one-page, single-spaced description of the research that they accomplished with the funds including information about when and where they will present or publish the research, such as a ME/SA student research conference, a UCO student research conference, or another venue. Submit application materials as PDFs attached to one email addressed to Wilson Xieu, Program Coordinator, Middle East/South Asia Studies. E-mail address: mesastaff@ucdavis.edu
Deadline: TBD
Application must include:
1. A single-spaced description of the research project up to 1000 words including the following information:
a. Your name, year of matriculation at UC Davis, degree program, department, any designated emphases, quarter in which you completed or plan to complete exams
b. The name, department, and email address of the UC Davis professor who will supervise the research
c. Any special courses in 2024-25 in which you will make progress in this research project
d. The title of the project
e. The content of the project: discipline, topic, methods, research questions, and scope of the project
f. Name and amount of any grants received so far for 2024-25 including summer 2024
2. A budget
3. One confidential letter of recommendation sent via email by the UC Davis professor who will supervise the research to Wilson Xieu, Program Coordinator, Middle East/South Asia Studies (mesastaff@ucdavis.edu)