Opportunities for Students

Opportunity
National Student Advisory Council (SAC)
Applications must be submitted by September 30, 2009
http://www.aauw.org/About/campus_connection/studentcouncil.cfm
Members of the SAC provide American Association of University Women (AAUW) staff with essential firsthand accounts of student needs and with ideas for combating sex discrimination in higher education and the workplace. They also promote AAUW and our programs on their campus, build ties to the local AAUW branch, contribute to the AAUW Blog, http://blog-aauw.org/ and serve as student leaders at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders <http://www.aauw.org/nccwsl>, held each June in Washington, D.C.


Call for Nominations
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
Deadline for receipt of materials: October 5, 2009
The award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning; and who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others. The awards are sponsored by K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California-Berkeley. Please go to the K. Patricia Cross page of AAC&U's Web site for complete information.
Eligibility:
All doctoral-level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department. Applicants must demonstrate:
1) Leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, with a strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility; and
2) Leadership or potential leadership in the development of others as leaders, scholars, and citizens.
Nomination Process:
A faculty member or administrator must nominate the student, with a supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator. The following materials must be submitted for an application to be considered:
1) A nomination letter from a faculty member or administrator;
2) A supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator;
3) A statement from the student indicating how he or she meets the award criteria;
4) A copy of the student's curriculum vitae.
Nominations can be submitted anytime, but no later than October 5, 2009. Nominees must also complete an online form with all contact information. Only complete nominations will be considered.
The Award:
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards provide financial support for graduate students to attend AAC&U's 2010 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC January 20-23, 2010. All award recipients are required to attend the conference. The awards include travel, lodging, conference registration, and a one-year affiliation with AAC&U, including subscriptions to all AAC&U periodicals. The awards will be announced in December 2009, and recognized at AAC&U's Annual Meeting in January. Please contact Suzanne Hyers at hyers@aacu.org or 202.387.3760 with any questions. Questions about any of the AAC&U's meetings? Email meetings@aacu.org.

AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal Meeting
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student and Campus Commitments
Student leadership workshop is titled Ethical Identity and Imagination
October 1, 2-5 pm
This AAC&U meeting uniquely invites student participation. Students are conference session presenters and the Open Forum on Friday evening provides opportunity for students to get involved. Additionally, to further strengthen student participation, AAC&U is hosting a student workshop at the outset of the conference
For more information about the student leadership workshop program and to register, please visit http://www.aacu.org/core_commitments/studentworkshop.cfm

Center for the Humanities First Book Program
Proposals due: October 9, 2009
For more information contact the Center for Humanities
http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/
With support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce "First Book," a new program for tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. This program is designed to provide helpful and timely feedback to junior faculty preparing their first academic book. In the pilot year we will offer one seminar in the spring semester. For more information, please see the guidelines below.
Program Description:
The core of the program is a workshop organized by the Center for the Humanities in which two external and 5-7 internal readers are brought together to discuss a book manuscript with the author. The workshop structure will allow the reviewers and author to respond to one another's comments and collectively devise strategies for improving the manuscript. The goal is to turn solid and promising manuscripts into first-rate books. Manuscripts selected for participation in this program will be copied and distributed to participating UW-Madison faculty and external reviewers identified by the author (in consultation with the Center Director). The Center then will organize a workshop in which the readers will discuss the work and assist the author in developing strategies for improving (and placing) the manuscript. The focus of the program will be on collective learning and constructive, informed criticism of a scholar's research. This will be a closed workshop, and it will be recorded for the author's benefit. The workshop will consist of both formal presentations and informal commentary from the group. Invited guests will present their responses to the book, while local participants will participate in a discussion of the book. The author will have a chance to respond to the presentations and the commentaries. In order to continue the discussion, the Center will host a dinner for all participants. The Center will carry all the costs for the program, including copying and distribution of the manuscript, travel, accommodation and honoraria for the external reviewers, and dinner following the workshop.
Eligibility and Criteria:
In its first year, this program is open to all tenure-track, junior faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with manuscripts that are near completion, but still in a position to benefit from the review. Participants in the workshop can be humanities faculty at any rank. Proposals must be for the discussion of scholarly manuscripts being written with the aim to secure a publishing contract. Authors and their book projects will be selected based on the potential significance of the finished work, and the potential impact of the book on the author's career. Academic accomplishments also will be taken into account.

AAUW Campaign College
Applications must be submitted by October 16, 2009.
http://www.aauw.org/education/LeadershipPrograms/CampaignCollege.cfm
Campaign College is the only program in the country that encourages and trains women to run for student government on their college campuses. We are accepting applications to host a campus training in spring 2010.

AAUW Campus Action Projects (CAP)
Proposals must be submitted by October 16, 2009.
http://www.aauw.org/education/cap/
Over the past five years, CAP grants of up to $5,000 each, have enabled teams of student leaders and campus faculty nationwide to design and implement programs that address barriers to equity on their campuses or in their communities. This year, CAP projects will address some of the barriers girls and women face entering and staying in the STEM fields, particularly in physics, engineering, and computer science, areas in which the greatest gender disparities exist.

Call For Papers
The UCLA Center for The Study Of Women
The Twentieth Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
2010 Thinking Gender
Friday, February 5, 2010
Deadline October 19, 2009
http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html
Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. For individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract, a CV (2 pages max, no resumes, please), and a brief bibliography (1 page max). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html, and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted. Please also note that the Center for the Study of Women cannot provide travel funds for conference presenters.

UnitedHealth HEROES Grants
Deadline: October 22
Youth Service America (YSA) and UnitedHealth Group is excited to team up for the second year to offer UnitedHealth HEROES grants to youth-led (5-25 year olds) service-learning projects addressing childhood obesity. Educators, service-learning coordinators, students in the health professions, public health professionals, and community partners are eligible to apply for the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning project grants. Grant recipients will receive up to $1,000 in support for service-learning projects that focus on childhood obesity, engage youth ages 5-25 in the planning and implementation process, and take place during Semester of Service 2010 (MLK Day, January 18, to Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25). Interested applicants should begin by completing the Eligibility Quiz at http://tinyurl.com/heroesquiz If you are eligible, you will be given access the application materials

The 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference:
Inspire. Imagine. Innovate!
March 24-27, 2010óSan Jose, CA
Register before October 30 to take advantage of the early bird rates.
http://nslc.nylc.org/registration/index.php
Online registration is now open for this event, which celebrates service-learning as a force that spans cultural and national boundaries, builds communities, and strengthens young people. The conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, a thought-leader series, service-learning projects, and networking, the conference engages participants in local, national, and global issues that service-learning addresses. Come explore more than 100 exhibits, and nearly 150 hands-on workshops and service-learning projects.

Call for Papers by Graduate Students Exploring Childhood Studies
April 9, 2010
Rutgers University
Deadline for submission is October 31, 2009
Accepted presenters will receive email notification by January 10, 2010
The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student. Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals. The range of open topics within this field is as broad as the contexts of the experiences of children and childhood: war, health, rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, and representations in all modes of fiction. The field of Childhood Studies itself is open to interrogation. Selected papers will be grouped into panels that may be based around discipline, theme, or perspective, but will demonstrate the common grounding of the papers in their mutual exploration of children and childhood studies. Paper presentations should be limited to 20 minutes in length. Please send 250-word abstract for paper or poster presentation (specify which) and cover letter with name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address to m_modica@vfcc.edu. Include the words ìconference abstractî in subject line, and include name on the cover letter only. For further information, contact: Patrick Cox at ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu or Anandini Dar at anandini@camden.rutgers.edu.
Department of Childhood Studies and The Center for Children and Childhood Studies, RutgersñCamden is a leader in the national and international discourse on the state of children and childhood. Visit the Department of Childhood Studies here: http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/

Call For Papers
33rd Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference
General Conference Theme for 2010: Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Panel:
Southern Discomfort: Gender Discipline in the Rural Southeast
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
March 25-27, 2010
Deadline: November 1, 2009
The Student Caucus of the Southeastern Womenπs Studies Association invites abstracts to be submitted for consideration as part of a panel embedded in the general conference, dedicated to the theme of: Space and Place or The politics of doing, studying, teaching gender theory in the United States Rural Southeast
How do undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S. Southeast sustain their gendered consciousness inside (teaching and learning) and outside (at home, at work, in their communities) of the classroom/university? Must gender savvy pedagogies, lifestyles and attitudes wait for urban graduate school migration? What are the effects of studying/teaching gender theory in the Rural US SE? How does our discipline position us? And, how are we as learners, scholars, and practitioners disciplined by our spatial situatedness?
Abstracts (300 Words) should be submitted to: Stacey Haney, SEWSA Student Caucus Co-Chair, sewsastudentcaucus@gmail.com

Call for Papers
'Mysterious Things': The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
March 4-6, 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009
The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Departmentís Womenís History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of womenís and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of womenís and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium. We are delighted to announce a keynote speaker: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presentersí proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com. The subject line of the email must read 'Attn: Programming Committee.' We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.
For more information, please contact gendersymp@gmail.com .

Call for Proposals
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics
Postmark Deadline: November 2, 2009
The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University is pleased to announce the competition for the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. This annual competition is designed to encourage and reward scholars embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics. Numerous proposals from a variety of academic disciplines are received each year. Proposals are blind-reviewed by a faculty committee. The prize includes a $1,000 cash award for each project selected. Honorable mention prizes of $500 per project are sometimes given.
Proposals for the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics must be postmarked by November 2, 2009. Research projects submitted for prize consideration can address any topic related to women and politics.
Scholars at any level, including graduate students and junior faculty members, can apply.
Four (4) copies of a detailed description (5 to 10 pages) of the research project including a (1) 150-200 word abstract summarizing its purpose and content; (2) discussion of relevant theory, contributions to literature in the field, and methodology; (3) statement about how the Catt Prize will contribute to the research project; and (4) timetable for completion of the project. As the proposals will be blind-reviewed, the author(s) name(s) should not appear in this description.
A detachable cover sheet that lists the name, institutional affiliation, and address (mailing address, telephone, and e-mail for spring 2010) for each author.
A one-page (or less) biographical statement for each author, highlighting her/his research interests, significant publications and/or presentations, and professional interests and experiences related to the project.
Awards will be announced by February 2010. Winners of the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics are to acknowledge their honor when their research results are published and to transmit one copy of each publication for the Centerís archives. Materials should be mailed (not faxed or e-mailed) to the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, 309 Carrie Chapman Catt Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1305. For more information, contact the Center at
cattcntr@iastate.edu or call 515-294-3181.

Call for Proposals
American Psychological Foundation
Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grants
Deadline: November 2nd, 2009
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) provides financial support of innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. The Roy Scrivner Research Grants provide graduate student grants (preference given to dissertation candidates) for empirical or applied research that encourages the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender family (LGBT) psychology and LGBT family therapy. Researchers from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences are encouraged to apply.
Amount: One grant for a graduate student of up to $12,000.
Goals: The program seeks to address:

• Challenges faced by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people in forming, defining, and maintaining families

• Sources of support and resilience for LGBT members of families

• Diversity among families led by LGBT people including cultural and racial diversity, socioeconomic diversity, and diversity in family structure

• Clinical issues, interventions, and outcomes in LGBT family therapy

All research involving human subjects must have IRB approval.
Eligibility: Applicants must be graduate students and include a letter of support from their supervising professor. Research involving human subjects must have been approved by an IRB from the principal investigatorís institution before funding can be awarded. APF encourages applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation. For submission instructions go here: http://www.apa.org/apf

Call for Papers
33rd Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference
Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC
March 25-27, 2010
Submission Deadline for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS and SESSIONS of 3-5 PAPERS: December 1, 2009
Check for updates and more detailed instructions for submitting abstracts at the conference website (http://www.cas.sc.edu/wost/conference.html) and the SEWSA organization website (http://sewsa.nwsa.org/events.html).
The Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) is a feminist organization that actively supports and promotes all aspects of women's studies at every level of involvement. The organization is committed to scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. SEWSA is a regional organization under the National Women's Studies Association serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Thematic papers are encouraged, but we welcome paper proposals on all womenís studies topics. Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. Selected panels will also be sponsored by the Student Caucus, the LGBTQ Caucus, and the Women of Color Caucus.
LGBTQ Caucus Of SEWSA
In response to the challenges of institutional and cultural homophobia in the U.S. Southeast, and in an effort to foreground antihomophobic feminist cultural work, SEWSA is building an LGBTQ Caucus that will provide a strong network for support and the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around LGBTQ issues throughout the region.
Women Of Color Caucus Of SEWSA
In recognition of the central place of "intersectionality" in contemporary women's studies--a widespread disciplinary commitment to analyzing race, class, and gender as powerful interlocking principles by which people are organized globally and locally--SEWSA is building a Women of Color Caucus. The objectives of the group will be to provide a strong network for support and the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around issues of race throughout the region. Calls for papers for these panels will be announced soon.
Student Travel Grants
A total of $1,500 is available for student travel grants to the annual SEWSA conference. Student travel grants of up to $100 each will be awarded to students presenting papers at the SEWSA conference who
attend college within the southeastern region. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. The request should include the student's name, academic affiliation, enrollment year, contact information (including surface address, email address, and phone number), a brief statement giving the paper title, an explanation as to how the conference fits with the student's interest in Women's/Gender Studies, and why attending the conference is important to the student's work. Requests for student travel grants should be submitted via email by January 15, 2010 to SEWSA President Elect Lisa Johnson at mjohnson@uscupstate.edu.


Call for Submissions
Independent Girls, Inc.
Open Submission deadline
www.independentgirls.org
Independent Girls, Inc. is a new nonprofit organization based in Florida, that aims to provide positive role models for girls, to get them thinking about goal setting and success, and to give them the tools to be self-confident, emotionally grounded, healthy, and independent. Each week the website will feature a different role model for girls as well as an article related to positive, healthy girls' development. The site will send regularly scheduled e-mails to girls and parents who subscribe. Independent Girls' goal is to create a counterbalance to the celebrity-saturated, image-based culture of 9 ñ15 year old girls by providing girls with the strong, positive female role models who are currently missing from teen media and by addressing issues germane to girlsí healthy development. Independent Girls seeks people to write original content for the website and weekly newsletters. Writers will identify, research, and write about topics and trends salient to 9 ñ 15 year old girls, with an emphasis on how to become a healthy, balanced, emotionally grounded, confident girls. Additional emphasis will be placed on understanding popular culture and developing the critical thinking skills necessary to becoming media literate/savvy. Weekly articles should provide girls with information about things that girls deal with between the ages of 9 - 15, for example self-esteem, body image, puberty, bullying/ cyberbullying, healthy relationships, eating disorders, healthy eating/nutrition, exercise, time management/stress management, goal setting, leadership, cliques and popularity, frenemies, peer pressure, financial independence, internet safety, and media awareness. Articles should be between 250-500 words long; some topics may need to be covered in a series of articles. Articles should be informative and easy to read and, most importantly, must engage girls. Articles should answer questions that girls have (and perhaps even answer questions that girls didn't even know that they had). The site will also feature blogs where writers can have on-going editorial columns about different topics. Please contact Julie Simons if you are interested in getting involved with this project: julie@independentgirls.org/561-352-3511. Compensation will be per article published and will be based on both the length of the article and how ready for publication the article is upon receipt by Independent Girls.

Internships and Job Opportunities at the National Organization for Women
With over 500,000 contributing members, NOW is the largest feminist organization in the United States. Since NOW was founded in 1966, we have struggled to end the injustice and inequality women face daily. As an intern with the National NOW Action Center you will be on the front lines of the women's rights movement. An important element of our program is comprehensive leadership training. We hold a series of workshops to empower young feminists and give you the tools and knowledge to become leaders on your campuses and in your communities. You will learn the organizing skills from leaders of the most prestigious feminist organization in the world. Becoming a NOW intern is a commitment to apply the skills learned during the internship and to become, or continue to be, an activist leader. Each semester NOW interns participate in a wide range of activities which distinguish us from other Washington, D.C. based programs. These are just a few of the activities provided for interns each semester: First-hand observation of how a sexist, racist, and classist political system impacts women in this country. Frequent opportunities to organize and attend Congressional and U.S. Supreme Court hearings, press conferences, demonstrations and rallies. Intern Lobby Day which includes a "how to lobby" workshop. Training in our successful, time-honored grassroots organizing including workshops on campus organizing, coalition building and networking. Weekly intern discussion groups and field trips on a wide range of feminist issues which are led by National NOW staff and officers. Please read the application and information. Your assistance in this fight is crucial. We must stop the backlash against women and regain total power and control over our bodies and our lives. Visit: http://www.now.org/organization/work.html

Internship Program
A National Internship Program in Feminism and Public Policy
www.feminist.org/intern
The Feminist Majority and Feminist Majority Foundation seek highly motivated undergraduate students who aspire to become leaders in the feminist movement to serve as interns in our Washington, DC and Los Angeles offices. The Feminist Majority Foundation, one of the nation’s leading research and advocacy organizations for women’s rights, develops creative long-term strategies and permanent solutions for the pervasive social, political, and economic obstacles facing women. Through educational and research projects the Feminist Majority Foundation seeks to transform the public debate on issues of importance to women’s lives. The Foundation also publishes Ms. Magazine in editorial offices in Los Angeles and publishing offices in the greater DC area.
Applications are processed on a rolling basis.
Full details at www.feminist.org/intern

4collegewomen.org
Members of the Brandeis Community want to help inform women everywhere of an ever-developing website that has evolved into a useful resource. The website includes links to other sites that address all aspects of women's health and features spotlight articles researched by Brandeis students. The website is created and maintained by Brandeis University students and is sponsored and overseen by the Former Assistant Surgeon General, Dr. Susan J Blumenthal. This site focuses on women's issues and beyond but specializes in college-aged women.
The website is http://www.4collegewomen.org

http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. http://scholar.google.com/