{"id":1708,"date":"2006-11-01T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/01\/i-asked-for-a-lot-of-money-today\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T03:23:00","slug":"i-asked-for-a-lot-of-money-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/01\/i-asked-for-a-lot-of-money-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I asked for a lot of money today"},"content":{"rendered":"

My application to Wenner-Gren was submitted today… phew<\/span>! PhD students who collect their own data are rare in my field, most use secondary datasets. From the beginning, I wanted to conduct my own study and receive funding to do so. Today I actually put some omph behind it by asking for $24,040 towards dissertation fieldwork.<\/p>\n

Wenner-Gren is an anthropologic foundation, so the application is written towards an audience of anthropologists. I love anthropology; I came to Tulane because I wanted to study with a medical anthropologist who worked academically in public health (i.e. my committee chair). The application I sent in today is far from a prospectus (what I have to defend and get approved by my committee before moving on to actually doing the dissertation) but it is the very rough start. Good gracious, I almost have a dissertation.<\/p>\n

Should inquiring minds care, here is the title: <\/p>\n

Mi vida aqui es puro trabajo<\/i>: Latinos, labor, and family in post-Katrina New Orleans<\/p>\n

And here is the brief (less than 200 word) project description:<\/p>\n

The primary aim of this research is to explore the experiences of newly arrived Latino migrants and immigrants in New Orleans. <\/span>The secondary aim is to examine the range and magnitude of this population through a specialized methodology uniquely suited to the challenges of studying hard-to-reach groups. <\/span>Within these aims, there are several sub queries that will serve as foci for the investigation: exploring what vulnerabilities are unique to this population; determining what sub-populations exist within the m\u00c3\u00a9lange of recently arrived Latinos; investigating the factors that influence permanent settlement; and considering how racial tension, workplace exploitation, and other challenges to life in the region are negotiated. <\/span>This research utilizes respondent driven sampling, a specialized chain-referral methodology uniquely suited for three reasons: illegals within the population are clandestine; the population has transient qualities; and because the methodology allows tuning so that subgroups of interest can be sufficiently explored. <\/span>By capturing a wide range of subjects, insight may be had on how individual response, adaptation, and resistance differs according to various social determinants, structural limitations, and cultural barriers. <\/span>The approach offers comparisons within groups to identify individual differences and between groups to identify national, linguistic, economic, or newly emerging differences.<\/span><\/p>\n

The good news: my chair has been a reviewer for Wenner-Gren for several years and his comments about it have me walking about 5 feet off the ground.<\/p>\n

The bad news: I won’t find out until July!<\/p>\n

** Extra note: my neighbor is a retired medical anthropologist and gave great last-minute feedback to my application. How wonderful is that?! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My application to Wenner-Gren was submitted today… phew! PhD students who collect their own data are rare in my field, most use secondary datasets. From the beginning, I wanted to conduct my own study and receive funding to do so. Today I actually put some omph behind it by asking for $24,040 towards dissertation fieldwork. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}