As part of the Mellon Foundation’s inaugural higher learning open call on Race and Racialization in the United States, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants to support research that is in close collaboration with a movement-based or community-based organization around topics broadly conceived as housing and land. This opportunity is part of the “Housing the Third Reconstruction” project (PI Ananya Roy/co-PI Robin D.G. Kelley) where the aim is to bring together university and movement-based scholars in a multi-year research endeavor that is concerned with the conditions and possibilities of emancipatory housing and land. This seed grant intends to provide the opportunity for UCLA faculty to be in residence at a community-based organization to generate and contribute to an inter-institutional space of what is envisioned as fugitive scholarship.
It is important that proposals be rooted in an infrastructure of collaboration that ensures a terrain of humanistic inquiry shared by both university-based and movement-based scholars.
The Institute invites applications from UCLA faculty members who either have already established longstanding relationships with a community-based partner, or who are interested in the opportunity to deepen or build a relationship with a community-based partner.
The application link and more information can be found on the Institute's website.
Note: Faculty are asked to apply for either the UCLA Faculty Seed Grants or the Mellon Foundation Scholar-in-Community Seed Grant, but not both.
Award Amount and Details
Award Amount: $6,000 seed grant split between Scholar-in-Community and Community Partner
- One faculty seed grant in the amount of $3,000
- One community partner stipend in the amount of $3,000*
*Community partners must be a designated 501(c)(3), or have a fiscal sponsor who is a designated 501(c)(3), and will be required to register as a UC vendor via PaymentWorks in order to receive the one-time $3,000 stipend.
Deadlines and Date Information
Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 5pm PST
Eligibility Information
All UCLA Academic Senate and Non-Senate faculty are eligible to apply either on an individual basis or as a team. In the case of the latter, the application must indicate a lead researcher.
