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Institute for Oral History's Faculty Fellow: Call for Proposals

Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for the Institute for Oral History's Faculty Fellow program for 2010-2011. Each year since 1971 the Institute for Oral History has sponsored the interviewing research of Baylor University faculty members. Faculty Research Fellows record oral history interviews with individuals in their specific fields of interest. Fellows use the information gained in interviews to enhance publications on their topics in scholarly articles, papers, and monographs. The recordings and transcripts from their interviews become part of Baylor's permanent oral history collection.

The Institute will accept project proposals through Friday, November 13, 2009, from Baylor faculty members for oral history interviews to be completed within the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Proposals will be evaluated and applicants will be notified of the results by the end of November. To apply, complete and submit the Faculty Fellow Application Form from our Web site at www.baylor.edu/oral_history.

For successful applicants, the Institute will provide

• interviewer training
  
• recording equipment
  
• transcription (for English-language interviews
  
• $2,500 stipends (payable as salary, one-half in summer 2009, and one-half upon completion of the project).

Faculty Fellows may conduct biographical interviews covering the life of one individual or collect stories or life experiences from a number of narrators around a central theme. The following are titles of recently funded Faculty Fellow projects:

• "Trouble So Hard: Black Sacred Music and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States"
  
• "City of Boerne v. Flores"
  
• "Baptists in Spain during the Franco Years, 1939-1974"
  
• "Midwifery as a Vocation: In Service to the Poor of Texas"
  
• "Recalling Texas Modern: Modern Art Made in Texas"
  
• "Winfred Moore: A Model for Ministry"
  
• "Folk Music of the Appalachian Coal Miners"
  
• "Will Cotton Still Be King? Texas Cotton Farmers and the Changing Economics and Politics of Agriculture"

To ask questions, e-mail Stephen Sloan or call the Institute at ext. 3437.

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