Potential applicants who want to know what makes a successful New Frontiers proposal can read the examples posted here. There are six New Frontiers proposals and six New Perspectives proposals, two of each from the three most recent years of the program (2007, 2008, and 2009). All of these proposals were funded, and each was one of the highest-ranked applications in its year. A range of disciplines is represented. Clicking on a proposal on the list will take you to the proposal and the reviews by the three members of the New Frontiers Review Committee who served as its primary readers.
The Principal Investigators, and named Collaborators if any, have given permission to have their proposals and reviews posted. The Review Committee members have also given permission to have the reviews posted. For reasons of confidentiality, letters of recommendation have been deleted; otherwise the proposals are intact. Reviewers have been kept anonymous in accordance with OVPR policy (http://www.research.iu.edu/recipients/confident.html).
There are no New Directions proposals included because the competition is new in 2009-10, and there are no examples of successful proposals from the past.
Also, there are no examples of Exploration Traveling Fellowship proposals included. When these proposals are not approved for funding, it is almost always for one of three reasons:
- The project did not fall within the arts and humanities.
- The primary purpose of the proposal was pedagogical, rather than research.
- The project was not exploratory; it involved travel to a conference or other venue to present work that was already well advanced.
Exploration Traveling Fellowship applicants who follow the guidelines and avoid these mistakes are likely to be successful.
List of Proposals
For Principal Investigators with multiple affiliations, the unit through which the proposal was submitted is listed first.
New Frontiers
Kevin Cramer (History, IUPUI), 2007, Expanding the Boundaries of Europe: The Gustavus Adolphus Association and Diasporic Nationalism in Germany, 1832-1945
Christiane Gruber (Fine Arts--History of Art, IUB), 2007, From Pen to Paper: The Islamic Manuscript Tradition
Claude Baker (Music, IUB), 2008, Compact Disc Recording with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Jeffrey Wolin (Fine Arts-Studio, IUB), 2008, Vietnamese War Veterans: Portraits and Stories from the Other Side
David Craig (Religious Studies, IUPUI), 2009, Debating Desire: Ritual Performance and the Politics of Marriage
Stacie King, 2009 (Anthropology, IUB), Archaeology of/as Political Action in Southern Mexico
New Perspectives
Deborah Cohn (American Studies/Spanish & Portuguese, IUB), 2007, Weekend-Long Workshop on "Globalizing American Studies"Eileen Julien (Comparative Literature-Project on African Expressive Traditions, IUB), 2007, Literature and the Arts in Senegal: Birago Diop and Lˇopold Sˇdar Senghor, Then and Now
Lesley Walker (World Language Studies, IUSB), 2008, New Paradigms in French Revolutionary Studies: A Franco-American Colloquium
Edward Watts (History, IUB) 2008, Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity
Colin Allen (Poynter Center/History and Philosophy of Science/Cognitive Science, IUB), 2009, Neuroethics: Ethical and Social Implications of Neuroscience
Portia Maultsby (Archives of African American Music and Culture/Folklore & Ethnomusicology, IUB), 2009, Black Rock Music and Audio Visual Archives: The Conference as a Solution to Filling the Documentation Gap
