Anthro 5011  Graduate Seminar in Proposal Writing, Spring 2008

Grading:

55 major NSF proposal
10 reviews
25 class partic
10 funder rept

NSF Links

Wenner-Gren

Syllabus revised 12 Jan

Prof. Glenn D. Stone, stone@wustl.edu, 935-5239

Recommended Methods Text: Russ Bernard, Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Fourth Edition

Funder Summaries

NSF Cultural - NSF Archaeology - Wenner-Gren - Fulbright - Fulbright-Hays - SSRC - Nat Geographic
Date Topic Assignment Read
1/18 Intro to course and student research interests    
   

Meet with advisor to settle on either 2 research project options or 2 approaches to one project. Write 2 statements of research. Each has 3-4 paragraphs setting up the problem, then 1-2 paragraphs sketching what research the discussion is setting up.

Funder report (NSF Cultural, NSF Other, Wenner-Gren, NIH, NIMH, SSRC, Guggenheim, Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays) (more); address expertise of reviewers, fundability of each of the other's projects

Bernard Chap 5 (Choosing Research Problems)
1/25

Review student projects. Discuss funders and funder assignments.

     
   

More developed 1-page statements after consultation with advisor; include theoretical payoff, citing at least 1 key work or theory.

NSF reviews (using review sheet) of 2 successful dissertation proposals:

  
2/1 Grant specialists as needed (Amy Suelzer on Fulbright, Priscilla Stone on Fulbright-Hays, others?) Review process and review writing.    
   

NSF reviews of proposal

Final 1-2 page set-up

Krathwoll pp. 119-122, The Review Process

NSF Proposal Review Book (link)

2/8 Discuss proposal reviews; discuss funders; operationalizing variables as a key to setting up the research problem    
   

Final problem setup and first try at research design with variables

 Bernard chapter 2 on foundations of social research, esp. on operationalizing variables and chap 3 on research design
2/15 Discuss reviewed NSF proposals; discuss set-ups    
       
2/22

Discuss final problem statements and research design; discuss lit reviews

    
   

Write & distribute setup + lit reviews

(Bernard Chaps 10-15)
2/29 Finish final problem statements & research design; discuss lit reviews    
    finish lit reviews, write methods  
3/7 Discuss methods    
       
Break .    
    Revised problem, research design, lit rev, methods, schedule  
3/21
 Discuss proposals; introduction to budgets    
    Prepare budget & budget justification  
3/28 Discuss budgets; intro to personal statements, cv's    
    Personal statement for NSF, cv
4/4 Discuss personal statements & CV's. Intro to Broader Impacts & IRB    
    Broader Impact statements and IRB Bernard on debatable research methods, esp. L. Humphreys (1995:347-359 or updated pp); Lederman 2006 "The perils of working at home: IRB “mission creep” as context and content for an ethnography of disciplinary knowledges"
4/11 Discuss broader impacts. Ethics. Human subjects (guest from IRB)   Rosenthal, Joshua P. (2006). Politics, culture, and governance in the development of prior informed consent in indigenous communities. Current Anthropology 47:119-142. Forum on Anth in Public, with commentary.