Register for the February Glenn Advancing the Agenda Webinar!
Title: Money (That’s What I Want): How to Successfully Fund Your Research
Date & Time: Thursday, February 27th, 12:00-1:30pm ET
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pDvQmazDT4iJgLtphS9urg
If it wasn’t clear before, in the first few days of the new presidency, the necessity and precarity of research funding has become extremely exigent. Our work as feminist scholars is critical, and we need resources to do this work. In this 90-minute webinar, we will explore the (evolving) landscape of research funding in the humanities. Panelists will address and provide examples of writing genres expected in funding applications, such as research plans and budgets. They will also offer advice on how to describe the value of their work to funding audiences. Participants will then have the opportunity to share and learn together in small breakout rooms themed around different kinds of funding. We hope to provide participants with a space to reflect and strategize.
Presenter Biographies
Image 1: Photo of Heather Adams
Heather Adams is an associate professor of English, cross-appointed faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the current Faculty Director of and Principal Investigator for the University of North Carolina Greensboro Humanities at Work (H@W) paid internship program. Adams’s scholarly and pedagogical interests include teaching rhetoric and writing, advocacy education, health rhetorics, community-engaged learning, and intersectional feminist methodologies. Adams’s research investigates themes such as health and wellness through a focus on rhetorics of reproduction and pregnancy in relation to affect, gender, race, and class. Adams’s Enduring Shame: A Recent History of Unwed Pregnancy and Righteous Reproduction (2022) was awarded the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. She also coedited (with Nancy Myers) Inclusive Aims: Rhetoric’s Role in Reproductive Justice (2024) and is the author or coauthor of various articles and book chapters. Her collaborative work has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2024) as well as various UNCG sources, including the Institute for Community & Economic Engagement, the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Office, the Humanities Network and Consortium, and the Department of English.
Image 2: Photo of Brandon Erby
Brandon Erby is an assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies and an affiliated faculty member in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. His scholarship focuses on African American rhetoric, rhetorical history, rhetorical education, and prison studies. He is a recipient of the 2023 Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty and 2022 Book Proposal Development Grant from Princeton University Press. Dr. Erby is also the recipient of several research awards and grants from professional organizations including CCCC, RSA, MLA, and NEH.
Image 3: Photo of Julie Kidder
Julie Kidder is a doctoral candidate in rhetoric and instructor of first-year writing at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a JD from Georgetown. Her scholarship focuses on legal narratives in relation to race, gender, and ability. She is the recipient of the CCCC 2025 Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship, RSA 2024 Janice Lauer Graduate Student Travel Grant, CFSHRC 2023 Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Travel Award, RSA 2022 Gerard A. Hauser Award, in addition to grants from Carnegie Mellon, including the Graduate Student Assembly/Provost Conference Fund, the Graduate Student Assembly Childcare Grant, and the English Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant.