SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
CURS Scholar-in-Residence
The CURS Scholar-in-Residence Program is designed to encourage faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences to develop and submit research proposals to external funding sources. This competitive program provides a course buy-out and funds for proposal development expenses so that faculty members in the social and behavioral sciences can develop large, ideally interdisciplinary, research proposals. In addition, the CURS Scholar-in-Residence will have full administrative support from the Center’s financial and clerical support staff. With support from the Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences, the Center is able to support one Scholar-in-Residence each semester.
Fall 2008 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
With support from the Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) is pleased to solicit applications again for its Scholar-in-Residence Program. The CURS Scholar-in-Residence Program provides an opportunity for faculty members in the social and behavioral sciences to concentrate on developing major research proposals by providing funds for a course buyout and for proposal development expenses. In addition, the CURS Scholar-in-Residence will have full administrative support from the Center’s financial and clerical support staff. Click here for an application and complete details of the program.
Applications for the fall semester 2008 are due no later than 5:00 p.m., Thursday, January 31, 2008. The candidates will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by February 13, 2008. We look forward to your application.
For further information contact:
Dr. William Rohe, Director or
Todd Owen, Associate Director
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
Hickerson House; CB# 3410
Phone: (919) 962-3076 Fax: (919) 962-2518PAST RECIPIENTS
Spring 2008CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Desegregating the South: Dynamics and Impacts of Civil Rights Protest
Dr. Andrews will focus on whether social movements generate enduring change. In his prior study he examined the impacts of the civil rights movement in Mississippi that culminated in the publication of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (2004, University of Chicago Press). This work will build more recent research on the emergence and diffusion of desegregation campaigns from 1960 to 1964. He has developed an original dataset on 334 Southern cities based on archival research with detailed information regarding the civil rights movement, white opposition, social, political, and economic characteristics of the community. This data will be extended in several important ways to allow Dr. Andrews to test competing theoretical arguments regarding the success and failure of social movements.
Fall 2007 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
Immigrant Skills Acquisition in Changing Urban Labor Markets
The main focus of Dr. Lowe's research is to challenge conventional understandings of skill formation by looking at the possibility that categories of "skilled" and "unskilled" work are ambiguously defined and therefore open to negotiation and contestation. Three inter-related questions will frame her research while Scholar-in-Residence: What are the processes through which the existing skills and tacit knowledge of less-educated migrants become formally recognized and valued by their U.S. employers? How do larger institutional factors (e.g., legal status of migrants, availability of immigrant support services, access to labor market intermediaries, relational ties to other migrant.sender communities) hinder or facilitate this process of skills recognition? To what degree does skills recognition become a source of political and economic leverage for migrant workers and their families.
Spring 2007 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Associate Professor of Geography
While at CURS, Dr. Doyle will study the efficacy and economic realities of market-based approaches to environmental management and restoration. In particular, Dr. Doyle is interested in evaluating the relative importance of spatial variability in land acquisition costs for market-based approaches to wetlands restoration. At the heart of this issue is determining the extent to which land acquisition costs affect the location of restoration activities and if impacts on location decisions affect the benefit derived from the restoration efforts.
Fall 2006 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of Women Studies
Dr. Berger is spending the Fall 2006 semester at CURS exploring the role of communication about health and sexuality (including HIV/AIDS, risk behavior, sexual violence, etc.) among African American mothers and daughters and the ways that intergenerational communication and social support might be strengthened to reduce the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Dr. Berger will use her time at CURS to develop a funding proposal for an extensive project that would include focus groups, semi-structured interviews, a twelve-week pilot intervention, pre-test and post-test evaluation measures for the intervention, and follow-up interviews. The research will take place primarily in Durham, NC. In addition to improved health outcomes for pilot intervention participants, this project will result in a comprehensive, culturally relevant model that can be adapted for other communities.
Spring 2006 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Research Topic: Learning to Lead: The Contemporary Context for Career Socialization and Leadership Development Among African American Teen Girls in Rural and Urban Counties in North Carolina
As Scholar-in Residence, Dr. Parker developed a proposal to examine career counseling processes and practices low-income African American teenage girls. Her study will identify culture-specific career counseling needs for the group, assess the communicative content, quality and structuring of their school counseling interactions, and document the sources, content, and processes of career socialization revealed in interactions with teachers, coaches, parents/guardians, peers, and community programs. Potential collaborative interventions in the school counseling setting will be proposed.
Fall 2004 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of African/Afro-American Studies & Anthropolgy
Research Topic: Meanings and Memories: Tracing Notions of Race and Place in Boley, Oklahoma
Dr. Slocum utilized her time at CURS to begin performing a social history of a historically black town in Oklahoma. Her work on this topic focuses on residents’ changing meanings and goals around the idea of racial solidarity through residence across shifting time periods, and political, social and cultural contexts.
Spring 2004 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of Geography
Research Topic: The Changing Nature of Territoriality and Governance: Jurisdiction, Boundaries, and the Roots of American Globalism
During Dr. Kirsch’s sojourn at CURS he began work on a research project, in collaboration with colleagues in Geography, that explored social and labor market transitions in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area in relation to contemporary globalization trends. His particular focus within that project was the growth of high-tech and pharmaceutical industries in Research Triangle Park.
Fall 2003 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Professor of City and Regional Planning
Research Topic: The Effects of New Urban Developments Compared to Conventional Low Density Developments on Natural Hazard Mitigation
Dr. Berke spent his semester developing a research plan to identify New Urban development projects that are located in hazard prone areas in the U.S., and a control group of conventional low-density development projects. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation to explore the extent to which hazard mitigation practices are integrated into site designs for New Urban developments compared to conventional developments. This research will also evaluate the influence of New Urban design, relative to the influence of local mitigation plans and implementation programs on integration of natural hazard mitigation practices into developments, and draw implications from this proposed research for improving the disaster resilience of New Urban development projects by adjusting site designs, mitigation elements of local plans, and local implementation programs.
Spring 2003 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Topic: Prehistoric Urbanism and the Rise of the Moche State on the North Coast of Peru
The focus of this research is is to obtain more detailed data on social stratification, violence, highland-coastal interaction, and environmental perturbations in the Moche Valley prior to and during the formation of the Moche State.
Fall 2002 CURS Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of Department of Public Policy
Research Topic: Prenatal & Postnatal Substance Use: A Multi-Ethnic Study
As the first CURS Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Perreira developed a proposal to fund a study to evaluate the determinants and consequences of alcohol and tobacco use among pregnant women. Dr. Perreira was particularly interested in variations in alcohol and tobacco use, its determinants, and its consequences for child development by ethnicity and nativity (i.e. foreign born or native born).
