UCR Program on Global Studies
(PoGS)
Research Funding for
Graduate and Undergraduate UCR Students
The
Program on Global Studies (PoGS)
is an interdisciplinary research and education initiative at the University of California, Riverside.
PoGS
is co-Directed by Professors Juliann Allison (Political Science) and Christopher
Chase-Dunn (Sociology).
Four
student research stipends ($500 each – two for graduate students and two for
undergraduates) are available to support original research projects on
global
processes and social change. One page (single-spaced) proposals stating
the research problem and plan should be submitted to Nelda Thomas,
IROWS Administrative
Assistant. Your name, contact information, and a brief (roughly
100 word) summary stating how this project fits into your education
at UCR should be
provided on a second page. The POGS co-directors will review the
proposals and will award the stipends to the four most promising projects
(2 graduate and 2
undergraduate. The deadline for submission of research proposals is
February 1, 2009. Students receiving this support may be asked to
present their
findings at a public meeting of the PoGS symposium. Recipients of the
research stipends will be notified by February 15, 2009.
Mail Proposals to:
Or
Nelda Thomas
IROWS
College Building South
The Program on Global Studies is the UCR branch
of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC),
a multi-campus research unit of the