GLOBAL URBAN HUMANITIES CALL FOR STUDENT-FACULTY PUBLICATION
PROPOSALS DUE MARCH 14, 2014

The UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative seeks to deepen our understanding of cities through cross-disciplinary inquiry. This initiative brings together faculty and graduate students from the fields of environmental design, the humanities, and the humanistic social sciences to investigate urban form and its relationship to human experience.

We invite student-faculty teams to submit proposals to create an online or traditional publication on an urban theme of their choosing. We are offering support for a one-time collection of research, essays, and/or visual materials around an urban topic or theme that draws on the knowledge of a variety of disciplines such as architecture, music, landscape architecture, literature, art practice, city planning, or history. Themes that connect critique to practice in the realm of city-building or that illuminate the experience of urban life are encouraged. A single geographic focus is not expected but may be considered.

We envision this as a student-led project with significant input from faculty advisors. We offer support for research, editorial work, and online production. We encourage creativity in presentation: the final product may be conceived as an online journal or as a website, although it can also take the form of an edited collection of essays or a journal special issue. The publication will be widely promoted by the email and social media networks of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, as well as via its website.

Proposals should be no more than two pages and should include the publication team, the tentative title of the publication, keywords, and potential authors (identifying their home discipline) and a description of organization, themes, and topics. The authors may come from UC Berkeley or other institutions. Please also briefly outline the proposed process for the peer-review of contributions. The potential for collaboration or links with existing student publications should be described. A budget and timeline with key tasks and milestones should be included.

Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the strength of concept, potential for increasing communication and sharing of theories and methods across disciplines, and the capacity of the team for managing the production of a publication.

BUDGET

Student stipends: $6,000 each for two students, one from the College of Environmental Design and one from the College of Letters & Science (to be paid in summer 2014 although the work will begin before, and last beyond, summer.)

Faculty grants: $2,000 each for two faculty members, one from the College of Environmental Design and one from the College of Letters & Science. These faculty members will contribute papers to the publication and advise the student team.

Production costs: $3,000 for web design, copy editing, images, and other production-related costs.Timeline: Proposal submission deadline: March 14, 2014

SELECTION PROCESS

Publication team selected: late March 2014
Call for papers: Spring 2014
On-line publication: early Spring 2015

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Global Urban Humanities Initiative (GloUH) is a 3.5-year program supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. GloUH supports the creation of three new interdisciplinary, team-taught courses each year, plus symposia and research. A complete description of the Initiative is available at globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu.

Proposal submitters are encouraged to contact Susan Moffat, GloUH Project Director, to discuss concepts prior to submission of a proposal. She can be reached at [email protected] or 510-926-2771.

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