Dear colleagues: would you please post the following message to the POLMETH
listserv? Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Liz Gerber.

 

 

 

EITM ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY

Dear Colleagues:

The University of Michigan will host the eighth annual Summer Institute on
EITM: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models this June 15th through
July 10th, 2009. Applications are now being accepted. The application
deadline is February 15, 2009. See www.fordschool.umich.edu/eitm for
application details and materials.

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), EITM is training a new
generation of scholars to integrate theoretical models more closely,
effectively, and productively with empirical evaluation of those models. The
Summer Institutes are highly interactive training programs for advanced
graduate students and junior faculty. They are led by teams of scholars from
across the discipline who are working at the forefront of such
empirical-theoretical integration.

Summer Institutes generally accept 25 participants - advanced graduate
students and junior faculty - through a competitive selection process.
Tuition, dormitory lodging, meals, and domestic travel are covered for
participants through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Graduate students will benefit most from the program if they are committed
to using both theoretical models and empirical data in their dissertations.
They should have some training in both formal methodology and quantitative
analysis, and advanced training in at least one of these areas. We also
welcome applications from junior faculty looking to improve their defended
dissertation in a direction that incorporates EITM, or who are embarking on
an EITM-style post-dissertation project.

A recent addition to the EITM Summer Institutes is the participation of a
team of Mentoring Faculty-in-Residence (MFR). We expect that MFRs will be
drawn from the ranks of tenure-track or recently tenured political science
faculty who use EITM methods in their research. Each MFR will have a
mentoring group, consisting of a small number of EITM participants. MFRs
will work closely with his/her mentees, helping them integrate ideas and
methods from the Institute into their own projects. MFRs will also work
closely with lecturing faculty to supplement the classroom instruction,
develop their own teaching materials, and make presentations of their own
current research. Additional information and application materials for MFRs
are also available at www.fordschool.umich.edu/eitm. The application
deadline for MFRs is also February 15, 2009.

Please contact Elisabeth Gerber at [log in to unmask] if you have any
questions.

 


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