Graduate Students Summer Research Opportunity

The Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership has initiated a project under the theme Women at Howard University. The project will document gender diversity across the university’s colleges and schools, by historicizing women’s roles in academia at Howard University over time. The project will consist of an anthology of reports covering departments and schools across campus and highlighting the contributions of women to academia at Howard University. Each report will consist of a historical mapping of women’s entry into an individual department, college, school, or program, and trace the changes in the representation and roles of women over time, viz-a-viz national debates, and developments on women in higher education.

Report Format:

Each report must be grounded in existing scholarship on women in academia and educational leadership. Reports must be data-driven and graphical (factsheets, infographics).

Each report will use the following outline:

• Introduction

• Background information on the department (establishment etc.)

• First women (students, faculty, and staff) in the department

• Leadership within the school/department-- women vs men. Short analysis of the “first” women in leadership in the department or college deanship.

• Demographic data on women vs men, and analysis of such data

• College or department’s ranking vis-a vis other HBCUs and other colleges and universities

• Popular alums and remarkable achievements (brief mention of • name, industry, and impact) --present in a table

• Projections on the gender diversity of the department in the next 5-10 years

• Closing reflections

General Writing Guidelines:

Citation: APA

Word count: No more than 5000 (including references)

Add images (check for copyright)

Use tables and or graphs to represent data.

Compensation:

$1,000.

To Apply:

• Current CV

• An academic writing sample

• Send a short letter of interest that contains your program or department, year of study (M.A or Ph.D.)

• Indicate in your letter of interest if you are working for an HU department over the summer

• Propose the name of a faculty mentor (if you do not have one you can still apply).

• Indicate your preferred department or college (there is no guarantee you will be assigned same)

• Send the required documents as one pdf file to womenscenter@howard.edu (subject line: Women’s Center Reports).

TIMELINE:

Application Deadline: April 20, 2022, at 11:59 PM

Orientation: April 27, 2022, at 3 PM

First draft due: May 30, 2022

Final paper due: June 30, 2022

Colleges and Departments to be covered.

1. Dentistry

2. Medicine

3. Divinity

4. Nursing and allied health

 

Have questions? Contact Dr. Plummer (anita.plummer@howard.edu)