Global Studies Outreach
in Higher Education

About Us

Global Studies currently has limited but growing outreach resources and opportunities for higher education professionals. Please check back with us over the coming year for additional information and opportunities, including more on the 2007 Scholar Access Grant.

To learn more about the many (other) programs and centers on campus that focus on global issues and globalization, visit the Global Portal.

Reseach Funding

Global Studies, the International Institute, and the Division of International Studies, ponsor a number of Research Circles, Speaker Series, and related interdisciplinary programs. These thematic groups involve UW-Madison faculty and graduate students from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and are designed to create new forms of area knowledge that cross traditional regional and disciplinary borders. The following groups have been funded for the 2007-2008 academic year:

• TARGET Research Circle on Gender Equity Training, co-chaired by Myra Marx Ferree and Christine Ewig, administered by Global Studies. (First year of three.)
• Empires in Transition Research Circle, co-chaired by Paul Hutchcroft, Al McCoy, Francisco Scarano, and Mike Cullinane, administered by Southeast Asian Studies. (First year of three.)
• Emerging Powers: BRICS Research Seminar, co-chaired by Aseema Sinha, Ed Friedman, and Scott Gehlbach, administered by Global Studies.
• Law in Transitional Societies Research Seminar, co-chaired by Heinz Klug and Sumudu Attapatu, administered by Global Legal Studies
• Biocultural Diversity Research Seminar, co-chaired by Yongming Zhou, Katherine Bowie, Ed Friedman, Kirin Narayan, and Zhengyu Liu, administered by Global Studies
• Human Rights Research Seminar, co-chaired by Scott Straus, Aili Tripp, and Heinz Klug, administered by the Division of International Studies
• Trauma Tourism Research Seminar, co-chaired by Jo Ellen Fair and Leigh Payne, administered by Global Studies
• John Bowen Strategic Speaker Series, co-chaired by Nancy Kendall, Amy Stambach, and Adam Nelson, administered by Global Studies

Scholar Access Grants

Global Studies offers a Scholar Access Grant program (every other year - there will be no award in Summer 2008). This program is open to all faculty currently teaching at any two-year, four-year, or technical college in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, or Minnesota. The application process for Summer 2009 will be announced early that year.

Campus & Community Events

Global Studies sponsors or co-sponsors a number of events throughout the year. We also offer the Global Happenings Newsletter -- a weekly listing of campus & community events with a global focus. You can also subscribe to Global Happenings and receive it by email.

Global Studies 301 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53706 Ph 608.265.2631 Fx 608.265.2633 info@global.wisc.edu