Grant-Writing Practicum (Half-Term)

Grant writing is a critical skill for anthropologists, not only because grants facilitate the long-term, immersive fieldwork that characterizes the discipline, but also because formulating research plans for different audiences and ensuring their feasibility fosters a robust sense of purpose in fieldwork as well as critical reflection on the ethics of research in context. In this hands-on course, students will study the grant proposal as a genre of anthropological writing, paying attention to hypothesis formulation, theoretical framing, methodology, and ethics, while drafting and revising a complete grant proposal in weekly workshop sessions.