Faculty Opportunities
The Center for African & African American Studies offers funding and recognition opportunities for faculty working in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies at the .
CAAAS Faculty Awards
The purpose of the CAAAS Faculty Teaching, Research & Creative Work Awards (aka “CAAAS Faculty Awards”) are to assist faculty with their teaching, research, and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies. CAAAS Faculty Awards provide modest funding for a variety of projects. For example, CAAAS Faculty Awards can be used for conference presentations, on-campus conferences, research assistance, travel for research purposes, materials and equipment for increasing teaching efficiency, etc. Partial funding is possible, and most awards are between $3,500 and $5,000. The CAAAS will consider funding up to $7,500 for international travel based on airfare and lodging costs. There may also be instances when domestic research travel requiring a longer stay than a traditional conference may also be funded for a higher amount (but no greater than $6,000). All tenured and tenure-track faculty and full-time instructors with demonstrable teaching, research, and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies are eligible to apply.
CAAAS Faculty Awards open September 1st and close May 1st annually.
CAAAS Faculty Fellowships
The CAAAS Faculty Fellowship provides a two-course teaching reduction (taken in a single semester) for faculty teaching a 2/2 load; faculty teaching a 2/1 load will receive a single course reduction and be expected to take the fellowship in the semester they are scheduled to teach their single course.
Deadlines Academic Year 2023-2024
FALL 2023
Faculty Fellowship: December 1