DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
RASA awards for the 2010-2011 academic year

The Graduate School invites applications for Research and Scholarship Awards (RASA) from full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members at the University of Maryland at College Park with the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor. RASA are for support of research and scholarship and are now available for Summer 2010, Fall 2010, and Spring 2011.
Application Guidelines
• Application, including project summary, description, and CV, must be submitted electronically, preferably as a single PDF, to clanier@umd.edu.
• Application forms are available at www.gradschool.umd.edu/rasa.

The deadline for RASA applications is 3PM, Friday October 30, 2009.

Award Guidelines
• Faculty awarded a Semester RASA will be released from teaching duties during the semester for which the award is granted. Faculty awarded a Summer RASA will receive a stipend of $9,000 for two months during the summer for which the award is granted.

• Summer RASA are available only to faculty on 9-, 9.5, or 10-month contracts who are not teaching during the summer and whose projects are not funded from other sources during the summer.

• RASA can be accepted only by faculty members who will remain on the UM College Park faculty in the year following the receipt of the award.

• Awards are made with the understanding that the holder will relinquish the RASA if external support is received for the same project for the same period

• Faculty members may not apply for a RASA and a CAPAA (or a Semester and Summer RASA) in the same year.

• Faculty members are eligible for only one RASA or CAPAA in any three-year-period (e.g., a faculty member who receives funding in Spring 2010 is not eligible again until Spring 2011).

• Award recipients are strongly encouraged to involve a graduate student or students in the funded project in a mentoring relationship and to present methods and results of the funded project, during or immediately following the period of the award, in a forum or fora directed specifically to graduate students (e.g., a lecture, reading, colloquium, workshop, etc).

• Award recipients are strongly encouraged to apply for external funding in the form of fellowships or grants as appropriate. A demonstrable attempt to secure external funding following the period of a RASA, even if unsuccessful, will be a prerequisite for receiving a subsequent RASA.

• Award recipients are expected to submit a report on the results of the award and the progress of the funded project within three months of the completion of the award period.

• Award recipients are expected to acknowledge RASA in publications or other materials supported by the award.

• The Graduate School will maintain an archive of materials resulting from funded projects. Copies of work supported by RASA should be submitted to The Graduate School upon publication.

Questions should be directed to Interim Associate Dean Gary Hamilton at ghamil@umd.edu or Judith King at jking@gradschool.umd.edu.