Museum anthropologists, museum folklorists, and community-based researchers often share a need to secure funding to support research with existing museum collections and to pursue museum- and material culture-relevant research in both historical archives and contemporary social worlds. Research grants made on the basis of formal application to a diversity of government and private funding agencies are a key source of such research funding. In this CMA Mentoring series session, Jason Baird Jackson will unpack the grant application process and share practical strategies for successfully applying for research grants to support new research work in museum ethnography. While ethnographic collections and their study, together with associated practices of ethnographic fieldwork and ethnohistorical research will center the discussion, many of the processes and practices involved carry over into archaeological and art historical research. To provide additional perspectives during the session, Kristin Otto and Emily Jean Leischner will participate in the session as informal respondents.
Bios:
Jason Baird Jackson has cycled through museum-based and university professorial roles throughout his career as a museum ethnologist. He was editor of Museum Anthropology for 2005-2009 and has edited Museum Anthropology Review since 2007. Previously a curator at Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum and the University of Oklahoma's Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, he is currently Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University, where he directed the Mathers Museum of World Cultures between 2013 and 2019. He directs the Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory where current projects are being supported with grants from the American Philosophical Society, the Gilcrease Museum, The Henry Luce Foundation, and various (internal) grants from Indiana University.
Emily Jean Leischner is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Anthropology.
Kristin Otto is Curator of the University Museum, New Mexico State University. She is a member of the CMA Board and the organizer of the CMA Mentoring Series.
Date + Time: October 15th, 3PM Eastern
Zoom registration: https://nmsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUudemhrTwoGdcAauifZtkQr5WmOGm2l_z5