October 10th - October 24th 2023 |
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Call for Proposals: Research Grants & Book Project Funding for Enhancement, Translations, and Workshops
CISSR provides up to $25,000 for faculty research projects at any stage of development. Funds may be used for a wide range of research-related activities, including field and archival research, purchasing data, research assistance, hosting a visiting collaborator on a short-term basis, or organizing a conference for publishing a special issue or edited volume.
ELIGIBILITY: University of Chicago faculty in any discipline or unit are welcome to apply. Priority will be given to projects led by faculty in the Division of the Social Sciences.
REQUIREMENTS: CISSR seeks to support individual and collaborative international, transnational, and global research projects that address contemporary and historical questions. Projects should be theoretically informed and empirically grounded and should stand to benefit from critical dialogue across disciplinary, methodological, and geographic boundaries.
CISSR invites University of Chicago faculty to apply for book workshop and/or monograph enhancement awards to support scholarly manuscripts in preparation for publication.
- Book workshops provide faculty an opportunity to improve their manuscripts through an intensive day-long workshop in which colleagues, editors, and other key readers gather to provide critical input and suggestions.
- Monograph enhancement awards support scholarly book projects in myriad other ways. Awards are intended to offset the costs of open access fees, subvention fees, translations, indexing, permissions, cartographic services, and other expenses that aid in the completion of highest quality manuscripts.
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Join us to celebrate Sarah Newman's Unmaking Waste. She will be in a round-table discussion with Claudia Brittenham, Pauline Goul, and Mariana Petry Cabral about her new book. A reception will follow.
5:00pm at International House 1414 East 59th Street
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October 12
Center for Latin American Studies
12:30pm, Saieh Hall 103
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Taiwan Ministry of Culture
5:00pm, Classics Room 110
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October 13
CISSR, The Medicine & Its Objects Workshop
"Fishing for Patients to Medicate: Diagnostic Practices in Contemporary Psychiatry in India" with Dr. Shubha Ranganathan, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
10:00am - 11:30am, Pick 105
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October 16
Department of Anthropology
Monday Seminar: "Elemental Ethnography" Dr. Cymene Howe, Rice University
3:00pm, Haskell Room 315
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Global Studies & CSGS
CSGS - 5733 S. University Avenue
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October 20
The Pearson Institute
All Day - in person and remote
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October 21
Humanities Division
All Day - in person and remote
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Comparative Politics Workshop
Tuesdays 3:30 - 4:50pm in Pick 506
October 17: Luis Martinez, University of Chicago
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Thursdays 12:30 - 1:50pm in NORC conference room, Room 232 at 1155
October 12: Juan Pedroza, UC Santa Cruz, Child Care in Mixed-Status Households
October 19: Mike Esposito, University of Minnesota, Historical Redlining and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Life Expectancy
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Empires Workshop
Mondays 12pm - 2pm in SSRB 201
October 16: Kris E. Lane, Tulane University
October 23: Charles Walker, UC Davis
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(Alternate) Tuesdays, 5.00-6.30pm, Virtual Unless Otherwise noted in the Schedule
October 17: “Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct Gender Ideologies” Eman Abdelhadi, Assistant Professor in Comparative Human Development
and Anna Fox, PhD Student in Sociology
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Thursdays 12:30 - 1:50pm in Room 1022 at Harris Public Policy, Keller Center (1307 East 60th Street)
October 12: Dan Alexander (University of Rochester) - "Electoral Contests over Voter Beliefs"
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October 20: Simon DeDeo, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Carnegie Mellon University, TBD
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Thursdays 5:00 - 6:30pm in Pick 118
October 12: Thomaz Amâncio: “Bittersweetness and Power: Mário de Andrade’s Commodity Fieldwork”
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Thursdays 3:30 - 5pm in Pick Hall 506 & Zoom
October 12: Ryan Brutger, University of California, Berkeley "Fairness According to Whom? Equality & Equity in Black American Attitudes Towards Trade"
October 19: Paul Poast "Accounting for Survivability in the Decline of War Debate"
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Around Town and Down the Road |
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October 18
Northwestern University
12:30 - 2:00pm on Zoom
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October 19
Loyola University
4:00pm, Damen Student Center 6511 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago
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Dr. Wan-Zi Lu and Prof. J. Michael Millis explains the Chicago organ donation infrastructure and compares it the global norms |
Dr. Wan Zi-Lu, a CISSR 20-21 Dissertation Fellow & Postdoctoral Fellow at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute co-authored a book chapter in Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation: A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong. The chapter titled “The Concepts and Development of Organ Donation Policy in the United States” is co-written with Professor and Vice Chair of Global Surgery at the University of Chicago, J. Michael Millis, explores organ donation regulations and trends in the U.S. with a particular focus on Chicago. The article assesses the historical development that provides for a moral incentive for increasing organ donations laid out in the relevant legislation such as National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA). Dr. Lu and Prof. Millis compares the practice on the ground for transplants versus the policy priorities of governments, finding that the public understanding of organ donation and its benefits requires a robust structure of OPOs and government organizations to do the work of processing organ donors, procurement of organs, and connecting families to hospitals and patients. The article provides an American perspective on organ donation practices and structures in comparison to the rest of the book covering Hong Kong and Tehran donation practices. To take a deeper look at the chapter, click here.
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Prof. Albertus writes about Spain's struggle to reconcile with their Authoritarian past |
Michael Albertus, a previous CISSR Faculty Fellow and Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago, wrote about Spain's grappling with its authoritarian past for the London School of Economics (LSE) Blog. In his piece, Prof. Albertus assesses Spain’s struggle in facing and coping with the wounds of their authoritarian past while contextualizing these same issues more widely across Europe. Dubbing the post-Franco bureaucratic tendency to avoid discussions about generational trauma and the reverberating effects of the authoritarian past on their current society as the “pact of forgetting”, Prof. Albertus points to the relationship between remembrance and responsibility. In that sense, the political behavior of the settlers towards the successors of the Franco mindset and regime appears to have created a natural public demand for confronting the past thus giving way to a belated 2022 law in Spain which aimed to bring justice and implement reparations for the victims of the civil war. However, like many efforts that aim to restore justice and incite contemplation in the aftermath of social tragedies, the act came with a convolution and debate over the ethics, proportionality, effectiveness, and method. Still, Prof. Albertus Sees the attempt as a balancer or a signal of the country that even despite administration-led relapses into populism, xenophobia, nationalism, and authoritarian rule, there remains a drive for remembrance and justice in Spain and across Europe. Read more here.
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An Epidemic of Uncertainty Book Launch for Jenny Trinitapoli Review
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On September 22nd, CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli celebrated the publication of An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi at the Logan Center alongside collaborator Gertrude Finyiza, an MA student at University of Denver. The event was sponsored by the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination and the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research. After being introduced by Professor of Medicine John Schneider, Trinitapoli and Finyiza read two ethnographic vignettes together and then enjoyed a lively Q&A with the audience.
The book draws on ten years of survey data collected in Balaka, Malawi, with a focus on HIV, romantic relationships, fertility desires, food security, and employment. The population-based approach characteristic of Trinitapoli’s work is distinct from clinical studies focused on patients living with HIV. Despite improvements in HIV policy and treatment throughout the study period, around 40% of young-adult respondents from Trinitapoli’s population-representative sample were uncertain of their HIV status. Many respondents who had been tested for HIV recently and received a negative result reported doubts about their status. The experience of HIV in Balaka epitomizes the central theme of Trinitapoli's work: the impact of known unknowns on individuals’ behaviors and well-being.
An Epidemic of Uncertainty provides some practical policy recommendations and argues for the importance of acknowledging uncertainty in social science research. The book presents a blend of longitudinal data, ethnographic insights, and survey results through visualizations, theoretical exploration, and engaging storytelling. Read more about the book and Prof. Trinitapoli’s research in the article published in August from UChicago News.
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Asst. Professor Sarah Newman talks about her intellectual pursuits and what led her to Archaeology and Anthropology in Episode 100 of The Course |
Sarah Newman, an environmental anthropologist and archaeologist at The University of Chicago and a CISSR 2020-21 Faculty Fellow was a guest in one of the episodes of The Course, a podcast produced by the UChicago Network, and talked about her journey within the field as well as her research. Originally a biomedical engineering major, Prof. Newman realized that she really did not have any passion for the topic, so, in her junior year, “going through the course catalog and not going much further from the letter A” in her own words, took a lot of archaeology and anthropology courses. Prof. Newman’s research encompasses a variety of topics including land use, the interaction between humans and animals, the use of animals for various purposes, the perception of non-human animals, and a prehistoric human self-consciousness that grew from human and nature interaction across time and place. Prof. Newman worked on Petra excavation site in Jordan and is currently doing research in Honduras. You can listen to the full episode of The Course featuring Prof. Newman here.
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