Anthropology 609
Spring Semester, 2008
Purdue University

Syllabus (pdf format).

Save the Date:
Proposal writing workshop for graduate students: January 30, 7pm, Room 214, Stewart Center. Register at http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/development/. Questions should be directed to Peter Dunn at 494-6840 or pedunn@purdue.edu.

Useful Links:

• From A to $$: Getting started with grants. http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/talks/findingfunding05.html
• NSF:A guide for proposal writing.
  http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm
• NIH: All about grants tutorials
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/default.htm
• Annotated NIH R01 grant application
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/app/default.htm
• The Art of Grantsmanship
  http://www.hfsp.org/how/ArtOfGrants.htm

Readings (click author[s] for pdf. Note that list may change throughout the semester):

Week 2:

• Bernstein J.H. (2002). First recipients of anthropological doctorates in the United States, 1891-1930. American Anthropologist 104(2):551-564.
• Brenneis D. (2004). A partial view of contemporary anthropology. American Anthropologist 106(3):580-588.
• Stearns S. and R. Huey (1987). Some modest advice for graduate students. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 68:144-153.
• Weinberg S. (2003). Four golden lessons. Nature 426:389.

Week 3:

General – All read:

• Plattner S. and C. Mcintyre (1991). The funding of dissertation research in anthropology at the National Science Foundation. Human Organization 50(2):203-208.
• Plattner S, G. Aronson and B. Abellera (1993). Recent trends in funding anthropological research at the National Science Foundation. Human Organization 52(1):110-114.

Archaeology – If not in archaeology, please skim:

• Casteel R.W. (1980). National Science-Foundation funding of domestic archaeology in the United-States: where the money ain’t. American Antiquity 45(1):170-180.
• Yellen, J.E. (1994). Women, archaeology, and the National Science Foundation: an analysis of fiscal year 1989 data. In Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology, edited by M. C. Nelson, S. M. Nelson and A. Wylie, pp. 53-57. Archaeological Papers No. 5. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
• Yellen, J. and M.W. Greene (1985) Archaeology and the National Science Foundation. American Antiquity 50:332-341.
• Yellen J.E., Greene M.W., Louttit R.T (1980). National Science-Foundation funding of domestic archaeology in the United-States: where the money ain’t. American Antiquity 45(1):180-181.

Biological Anthropology - If not in bio anth, please skim:

• Yellen, J.E. and S. Zeleznik (1986). National Science Foundation support of physical-anthropology research. American Journal Of Physical Anthropology 69 (4): 517-526.

Cultural Anthropology - If not in cultural anth, please skim:

• Mastriani M. and S. Plattner (1997). Cultural anthropology research support at the National Science Foundation, 1991-95. Human Organization 56(1):121-125.
• Plattner, S., L. Hamilton, and M. Madden (1987). The funding of research in social-cultural anthropology at the National Science Foundation American Anthropologist 89(4):853-866.
• Allmendinger J. and T. Hinz (2002). Programmed (in-)equality? Gender-specific funding of research grant proposals. Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie 31(4):275-293. (IN GERMAN).

Medical Anthropology - If not in medical anth, please skim:

• Price L.J. (1992). A medical anthropologist’s ruminations on NIH funding. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(2):128-146.

Week 4:

• Silverman S. (1991). Writing grant proposals for anthropological research. Current Anthropology 32: 485-489.
• Wenner-Gren guidelines. See link here.

Week 5:

• Madsen L. (2007). A Guide to NSF Success. Science 32: 485-489.
• Przeworski A. and F. Salomon (2007). The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions.

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