Faculty Initiatives

WEISER FACULTY GRANTS
2009-11 Call for Proposals

The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) and its affiliated units, the Center for European Studies-European Union Center (CES-EUC), Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED), invite University of Michigan faculty who are associated with CES-EUC, CREES, and/or WCED to submit proposals for grants to support initiatives that will take place in 2009-11 and extend the missions of these centers. The deadline is rolling; initial allocations will be made for proposals received by November 6, 2009. more info

Weiser Faculty Grants, 2008-10

Over the past year, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia has funded eight projects on a wide range of subjects, across the disciplines and covering our region.

Joshua Cole, History, for sequential conferences at U-M and the University of Minnesota, “From Colonial History to Post-Colonial Societies: (Re) placing the Maghrib at the Center of the Twentieth Century.” Alexander Knysh, Near Eastern Studies, for a workshop at U-M, “Teaching Islam in Eurasia.” Arland Thornton, Sociology, for a workshop in Brno, Czech Republic, “Freedom, Development, Family, and Demography.” Jindrich Toman, Slavic, for a project on the transformation of cultural initiatives in the Czech Republic from the 1990s to the present. Anca Trandafirescu, Architecture, for the installation of an inflatable monument commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Romanian revolution. Magdalena Zaborowska, American Culture/CAAS, for a collaborative community-based project in Sejny, Poland. William Zimmerman, Political Science; Zvi Gitelman, Political Science; and Mikhail Krutikov, Slavic/Judaic Studies; for a series of video-based seminars to be taught jointly with faculty at the European University at St. Petersburg. Geneviève Zubrzycki, Sociology, for a comparative research project on religion, nationalism and democratization in Poland and Quebec.