CREST Center Call for Project Proposals

01/16/2024

Saint Louis University’s CREST Center seeks to integrate humanistic interdisciplinary scholarship with innovations in science and technology for the service of humanity.

Full-time tenured or tenure-track SLU faculty may apply for the Interdisciplinary Community of Scholars. This is a one-year project. 

Successful applicants will receive research work-load reallocation (3-6 units) a year and summer funding of $5,000.

The program involves a bi-weekly seminar-style discussion or workshops on relevant literature, research topics, and work in progress, as well as up to one full day workshop each semester.

Project proposals related to the interdisciplinary project theme outlined below. Projects in the spatial humanities and geospatial sciences are especially welcome. The abstract should be 150 words, and the letter of intent a maximum of 1,000 words.

To apply send an abstract and letter of intent to jeffrey.bishop@slu.edu and emily.dumlerwinckler@slu.edu with a letter of support from your department chair.  

The application deadline is Friday, Feb. 9. Decisions will be announced Friday, March 1. 

Short Project Description 

Geospatial Information Science (GIS) is a developing and highly interdisciplinary science that draws on and advances technological innovation. While GIS can assist scholars of the humanities and the human sciences in their own work, GI scientists will also benefit from conversations about the social, historical, political, and philosophical frames in which GIS operates. 
  
To encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and research among GIS and scholars of the humanities and human sciences, CREST will host a year-long project for a Community of Scholars (CS) from various fields across Saint Louis University. The Community of Scholars (4-6 scholars) will participate in a biweekly seminar, reading relevant literature and sharing work in progress.

About CREST 

Saint Louis University’s CREST Center seeks to integrate humanistic interdisciplinary scholarship with innovations in science and technology for the service of humanity. CREST gathers an interdisciplinary team of researchers from a wide range of fields in the sciences and humanities (broadly construed) to collaborate on a shared project theme related to innovations in science and technology. CREST seeks to foster innovative academic and public scholarship, effective teaching, and community building among scholars in the humanities, sciences, and technology.