IJPM will make available grant money to promote scholarly study in the areas of law, politics, and the media. These opportunities include Research Fellowships and Project Grants.
Research Fellowships
Each year, IJPM will distribute Research Fellowships to support interdisciplinary, law-oriented research.
Research that examines issues at the intersection of law, politics, and the media are preferred. Research that addresses questions related to law and politics or to law and the media will also be considered. Qualitative, as well as quantitative, research is welcome. Research that makes use of the data or research tools provided by Syracuse University's Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is encouraged.
In the 2007-08 and 2008-09, IJPM distributed Reseach Fellowships to full-time faculty and full-time graduate students across Syracuse University. Beginning in 2009-10, IJPM will no longer support a campus-wide fellowship program. Instead, IJPM will partner with the College of Law to distribute Research Fellowships to law faculty that meet the fellowship criteria.
Recipients of Research Fellowships will be listed, along with a description of their research, on our webpage as "IJPM Research Fellows." Research Fellowship recipients will be required to acknowledge IJPM's support in any published work that flows from their research proposal, and to make the details of their completed research available to IJPM in a timely fashion for advertising and promotion. Fellowship recipients will also be required to present their work in an IJPM-sponsored colloquia series organized specifically for the Research Fellows.
For a listing of this year's Research Felllowship recipients as well as links to the Fellows Presentation Schedule and a list of Past Research Fellows, please go here.
For questions regarding IJPM's Research Fellowships, please contact Shannon Johanni at sfjohann@syr.edu.
Project Grants
Each year, IJPM will distribute one $2500 Project Grant to support interdisciplinary research in our areas of interest.
The Project Grants will be awarded to the College of Law, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in successive years.
Lisa A. Dolak, Board of Advisors Professor of Law and IJPM Associate Director, used the 2007 Project Grant to launch a study of how the mass media portrays intellectual property rights (IPR). The recent dramatic expansion of IPR acquisition and exploitation around the globe has made IPR a pressing issue of policy debate and regular item on the Supreme Court's docket. The surge in IPR activity has also drawn increased media attention, including extensive coverage of several high-profile IPR disputes. Professor Dolak assessed this coverage, examining the images of IPR constructed by the media as well as how these media images shaped popular understanding and influenced judicial decisionmaking. Professor Dolak's work served as the basis for the "Creators vs. Consumers" conference organized by IJPM on October 26, 2007.
Mark Obbie, Associate Director of the Carnegie Reporting Program at Newhouse, is using the 2008 Project Grant to help fund a Legal Reporting Fellowship program for freelance journalists. The four Fellowship recipients will receive up to $3,000 each as well as support from student research assistants. Click here to learn more about the Legal Reporting Fellowships.
Keith Bybee, IJPM Director, is the recipient of the 2009 Project Grant. Professor Bybee will use his grant to launch a "Law, Politics, and the Media" subject matter journal on the Social Science Research Network. Watch this space for further details, including instructions on how to subscribe to the journal.
