Current News and AwardsThe Baecke committee will accept proposals in any of the award categories. Please see the .pdf below for a complete list.
Grant applications are due Nov. 2, 2012.
Download descriptions of all Baecke awards and application procedures (pdf)
The Baecke New Faculty Research Award supports the research endeavors of faculty in their pre-tenure years at St. Ambrose. Eligible are tenure-track faculty conducting research in areas related to the humanities. As many as three awards up to the amount of $3,000 may be given this year. Funds will support travel to research sites as well as costs of research materials. Funds permitting, a second round of applications will close on Feb. 3, 2012.
The Baecke Faculty Research Award supports the research endeavors of tenured faculty at St. Ambrose University. Eligible are tenured faculty conducting research in areas related to the humanities. As many as three awards up to the amount of $3,000 may be given this year. Funds will support travel to research sites as well as costs of research materials. Funds permitting, a second round of applications will close on Feb. 3, 2012.
The Baecke Colloquium will be held September 14 at 3 p.m. in the Rogalski Center Annex room. Presentations will be made by Ethan Gannaway and Albert Chan about the projects they engaged in last year and how the Baecke Endowment was able to help fund their projects. Light refreshments will be served.
The 2012 Baecke Endowment for the Humanities Lecture will be delivered by Cornel West, PhD, Princeton University, philosopher, author, and civil rights activist.
"Race Still Matters" will be delivered Friday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Rogalski Center Ballroom as part of the 2012-13 Project Series, Race Matters.
From cornelwest.com:
"Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris.
He has written 19 books and edited 13 books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear Brother, Tavis Smiley's PBS TV Show. He is also co-host of the popular radio show "Smiley & West" heard on PRI around the country. The Smiley and West radio show is a highly acclaimed progressive program."
