Grants
Faculty Grants
The IPGS grant program is designed to stimulate and support high-quality and high-profile research, teaching, and extension activities by allowing OSU faculty the resources to conduct publishable research, host high-impact speakers, conferences, or workshops, develop innovative courses, provide outreach and address public needs, and to raise the visibility of the program. IPGS Faculty Grants are open to any faculty member at Oklahoma State University.
2024-2025 IPGS Faculty Grant Call for Proposals
The Chair of the Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program (IPGS) at the School of Global Studies at Oklahoma State University (OSU) invites proposals forIPGS Faculty Grants for the term July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 for three grant types:
- IPGS Course Development Grant is open to current OSU faculty in any field to support development of courses that incorporate modules, case studies, assignments, and/or other pedagogical elements that include a focus on Iran & the Persian Gulf region. At the completion of the grant period, grantees are required to submit the completed syllabus of a registered course and a narrative demonstrating the incorporation of content, assignments, and/or activities related to Iran and/or the Persian Gulf in the course.
- IPGS Faculty Research Grant is open to current OSU faculty in any field to support research with a focus on Iran & the Persian Gulf region. Proposals should articulate a project narrative that demonstrates how the research will contribute to greater understanding of Iran and the Persian Gulf and its needs. All proposals must include a budget narrative and timeline. At the completion of the grant period, grantees are required to submit a narrative demonstrating how the grant funds contributed to the research proposed. Any publications resulting from the proposal should acknowledge the IPGS program at OSU for the support.
- IPGS Extension Grant is open to current OSU faculty in any field to support extension activities that include a focus on Iran & the Persian Gulf region in line with OSU’s land grant mission. Proposals should include a budget narrative, details about community partners and planned public activities, as well as a timeline. At the completion of the grant period, grantees are required to submit a narrative demonstrating how the grant funds were used for extension activities.
Faculty interested in consideration for IPGS Grants are invited to see additional details and instructions in the Call for Proposals. Proposals are due no later than 11:59pm CT on April 30, 2024.
Current Faculty Grant Recipient
2023-2024: Dr. Tonia Sharlach, Department of History
Project: “Water Crises in Iran and Iraq Then and Now: Historical Parallels and Contemporary
Challenges in Water Supply”
Access to adequate and clean water is a major challenge in Iran, Iraq and the Persian Gulf region today, where climate change, diversion of river courses, salinity and impurity in water supplies create widespread suffering. In fact, similar problems with salinity and catastrophic environmental collapse resulting from irrigation practices are well documented in historical records from the Bronze Age. This project aims to show how ancient responses can help us understand contemporary environmental challenges.
