Bambi Chapin
Telling Family Stories: An Ongoing Ethnography of Continuity and Change in Sri Lanka
During the summer of 2024, I plan to conduct participant observation and interviews in the
homes of six Sinhala-speaking women in Sri Lanka with whom I have been conducting
ethnographic research since 2000. My research this summer will focus on three objectives: 1)
Follow up with these women and others who have been engaged with me in this longitudinal ethnographic research, something which is especially important given the serious political, economic, and health challenges the island nation has faced since my last research trip in 2019; 2) Interview members of the next generation for the first time, which includes 10 teenagers and young adults; 3) Talk with each of the six women and others in their families about how to tell their stories in my next book in ways that they will value. The work this summer will be vital to my second book on Sri Lankan families.
Irina Golubeva
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education
In the summer of 2024, I will conduct a project on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education. The overall goal of the proposed research project is three-fold, consisting of completing the manuscript for Cambridge University Press, piloting the book in a variety of contexts, and disseminating the results at the international level. The significance and the originality of the book is that it critically evaluates the contemporary state-of-the-art of Intercultural Citizenship Education (ICitE) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work. In addition to providing concise and comprehensive coverage of the key topics and notions, and very recent research in both fields, I will invite the readers to reflect on the complexity of DEI and ICitE, as well as their intersections. This book will be the first publication that explicitly addresses the synergies between DEI work and ICitE in the higher education context. The book proposal has been accepted by Cambridge University Press, and I have already secured a contract with the publisher.
The significance and the originality of the book is that it critically evaluates the contemporary state-of-the-art of Intercultural Citizenship Education (ICitE) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work. In addition to providing concise and comprehensive coverage of the key topics and notions, and very recent research in both fields, I will invite the readers to reflect on the complexity of DEI and ICitE, as well as their intersections. It will be the first publication that explicitly addresses the synergies between DEI work and ICitE in the higher education context.
Renée Lambert-Brétière
Documentation linguistique de l’innu: A multimedia website at the intersection between language, documentation, technology, and linguistic analysis
Documentation linguistique de l’innu [Linguistic Documentation of Innu; DLI] is the result of a collaborative research enterprise that seeks to democratize access to technological tools involved in the documentation of Innu, an endangered Indigenous language of Quebec and Labrador in Canada, and empower the Innu people to develop, run, and manage language documentation projects. DLI is a multimedia website, the first of its type in French, that aims at bridging the digital divide between researchers and community members who do not necessarily have the digital literacy to access and use these tools. It proposes an analytical framework to build a collection of transcribed, translated and annotated audio, video, and written records that are suitable for archiving purposes. Grounded in ethical methodologies, and mobilizing methods of linguistics and language documentation, DLI is likely to be of significant value for Innu communities and scholars interested in the promotion and safeguarding of endangered languages, and offers new ways to engage Innu people in language revitalization efforts.
Funds for this fellowship are provided by the Center for Social Science Scholarship and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS).
Prior awardees include Marina Adler (SAPH), Mir Usman Ali (PUBL), Keisha Allen (EDUC), Dena Aufseeser (GES), Pamela Bennett (PUBL), Amy Bhatt (GWST), William Blake (POLI), Bambi Chapin (SAPH), Christy Chapin (HIST), Sarah Chard (SAPH), Dennis Coates (ECON), Jeffrey Davis (POLI), Amy Froide (HIST), Tim Gindling (ECON), Irina Golubeva (MLLI), David Greenberg (ECON), Brian Grodsky (POLI), Loren Henderson (SAPH), Andrea Kalfoglou (SAPH), Tasneem Khambaty (PSYC), Douglas Lamdin (ECON), Jiyoon Lee (EDUC), Tania Lizarazo (MLLI), Camee Maddox-Wingfield (SAPH), Christine Mair (SAPH), Marvin Mandell (PUBL), Susan McDonough (HIST), Zoe McLaren (PUBL), Nancy Miller (PUBL), Sara Poggio (MLLI), Bob Rubinstein (SAPH), Dena T. Smith (SAPH), Nianshen Song (HIST), Eric Stokan (POLI), Fernando Tormos-Aponte (PUBL), Christelle Viauroux (ECON), and Noor Zaidi (HIST).