Junior & Mid-Career Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops
Call for Applications for AY 2023-2024
The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies’ Junior and Mid-Career Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops aim to provide quality feedback on a first full draft of a pre-tenure or second book manuscript in preparation for publication. Workshop participants are selected by the book manuscript’s author and include:
- Two faculty members or scholars from outside the region who are invited to participate based on their expertise with the book manuscript’s subject matter. Funding for economy class travel and lodging, and an honorarium will be provided.
- Two or more UCLA faculty members.
- Two UCLA doctoral graduate students.
The workshop’s schedule and activities are at the discretion of the book manuscript’s author. Activities usually include time allotted for the invited guest experts to comment on the manuscript, group discussion time, lunch (on-campus or catered) and/or dinner (off campus). Examples of the schedules from previous workshops can be found below.
Up to $5,000 is available for each workshop. Up to four workshops will be selected for AY 2023-2024. Funding is provided by CMRS-CEGS, the Dean of the faculty member’s Division or School, and the academic department of the faculty member whose book manuscript is being discussed.
Eligibility and Application Procedure
CMRS-CEGS junior and mid-career faculty are eligible to apply for a 2023-24 book manuscript workshop. To apply, please submit a letter of request to Director Zrinka Stahuljak at zs@humnet.ucla.edu. The letter should include: 1) description of the book manuscript (1st or 2nd book) to be discussed and its state of completion (500 words); 2) the preferred quarter for the workshop; and 3) a list of potential workshop participants (maximum 8-10).
Please feel free to contact Director Stahuljak if you have any questions.
Application deadline: April 1, 2023
“Inca Architecture: Chapters in the History of a (Gendered) Profession”
Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop
Location: Royce 306
Stella Nair, Department of Art History
Schedule, June 9, 2023
TBA
Invited Participants
TBA
“The Sublime Post: A History of the Ottoman Postal System”
Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop
Location: Royce 243
Choon Hwee Koh, Department of History
Schedule, October 6, 2022
Introduction, 10:00am – 10:15am
Session 1, led by Dina Rizk Khoury, 9:15am – 10:45am
Discussion, 10:45am – 12pm
Lunch, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Session 2, led by Baki Tezcan, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Break, 2:30pm – 2:45pm
Discussion, 2:45pm – 4:30pm
Concluding Remarks, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Dinner
Invited Participants
Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University (Zoom)
Baki Tezcan, UC Davis (Zoom)
Jim Gelvin, History department, UCLA
Tawny Paul, History department, UCLA
Milos Jovanovic, History department, UCLA
Luke Yarbrough, NELC, UCLA
Sixiang Wang, ALC. UCLA
Kevan Harris, Sociology, UCLA
Ted Porter, History, UCLA
“Ingenious Ecologies: Early Modern Rhetoric and Natural Science”
Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop
Location: Royce 306
Javier Patiño Loira, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Schedule, May 17, 2022
Introduction, 10:00am – 10:15am
Session 1, led by Alexander Marr, 10:15am – 11:45am
Break, 11:45am – 12:00pm
Lunch, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Session 2, led by Eileen Reeves, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Break, 2:30pm – 2:45pm
Discussion, 2:45pm – 4:00pm
Dinner
Invited Participants
Alexander Marr, Cambridge University (Zoom)
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University (Zoom)
Barbara Fuchs, UCLA (Zoom)
Fabien Montcher, Saint Louis University (Zoom)
Efraín Kristal, UCLA
Raphaëlle Burns, UCLA
Alexander Mazzaferro, UCLA
Cesar Favila, UCLA
Rhonda Sharrah, UCLA
Robin Kello, UCLA
Cheché Silveyra, UCLA
Susana Hernández Araico, Cal Poly Pomona
Laura Muñoz (USC)
“Reading Against Distraction in Early Medieval England”
Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop
Location: Royce 306
Erica Weaver, Department of English
Schedule, December 3, 2021
Introduction, 10:00am – 10:15am
Session 1, led by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, 10:15am – 11:45am
Lunch, 11:45am – 1:00pm
Session 2 led by Bruce Holsinger, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Break, 2:30pm – 2:45pm
Discussion, 2:45pm – 4:00pm
Dinner
Invited Participants
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, UC Berkeley
Matthew Fischer, UCLA
Chris Chism, UCLA
Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA
Raphaëlle Burns, UCLA
Sarah Bischoff, UCLA
Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia
“Chosŏn Korea and the Imperial Tradition in East Asia, 1392–1592”
Location: ALC Lounge in Royce Hall, Room 243
Sixiang Wang, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Schedule, November 1, 2021
Introduction, 12:00–12:15 pm
Session 1 led by Nhung Tuyet Tran, 12:15–1:45 pm
Break ,1:45–2:00 pm
Session 2 led by Christopher Atwood via Zoom, 2:00–3:30 pm
Break, 3:30–4:00 pm
Discussion, 4:00–5:00 pm
Dinner
Invited Participants
Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS-CEGS Director; Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)
Christopher Atwood (Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, UPENN)
Nhung Tuyet Tran (Associate Professor, History, University of Toronto)
Richard Von Glahn (Distinguished Professor, History, UCLA)
Namhee Lee (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
Torquil Duthie (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
Alden Young (Assistant Professor, African American Studies, UCLA)
Huijun Mai (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
Hyun Suk Park (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
Devin Fitzgerald (Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing, UCLA)
Sunkyu Lee (PhD 2021, History, UCLA)
Yiming Ha (PhD Candidate, History, UCLA)
Richard Kim (PhD Student, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)