1. What is the focus of your investigation and your goal for the fellowship period?
   1. Be sure to provide a fellowship title and the location of your investigation.
2. Briefly discuss the major scholarly literature on your topic (mention at least several scholars whose work is relevant), and suggest how you hope to contribute to the discipline of anthropology.
3. What are your proposed methodologies for conducting your feasibility study?
4. Describe the contacts, arrangements, and/or on-the-ground knowledge that you already have, and how you will initiate your investigation.

1. What language skills do you have that are relevant to your research? What permissions do you have or need? Have you applied for necessary approvals?
2. Who is your advisor? Has he or she read and approved this proposal? ∗See below: Please have your advisor send a letter of recommendation directly to anthgrad@iu.edu.
3. Please indicate clearly whether this application is for your first or second Skomp award. Be sure to justify in the text why you need a second award (see fellowship information sheet for further explanation.)
4. Please acknowledge that you are aware that by accepting an award, you are required to present the results of your research in next year’s AGSA symposium.
5. Prepare an itemized BUDGET, with a justification for your anticipated expenses.
6. Please compile all of the above pieces into a single PDF in the above listed order.

The Department of Anthropology requires that you obtain approvals from the appropriate institutional boards before funds are disbursed for your summer feasibility fellowship. This includes the Human Subjects Committee (IRB), the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and the Institutional Biosafety Committee (see research compliance links at https://research.iu.edu/compliance/index.html). ****You must demonstrate that you have applied for approval by the time you submit the application. Once you receive approval, email the DGS with protocol approval numbers and expiration dates. We cannot distribute funds until approval is in place.

Exception: If your research does not involve human subjects or archives of human subjects, animals or any biological materials, you probably constitute an exception, but you should check with your advisor to make certain. If you need further information and assistance, contact the DGS or a member of the Graduate Affairs Committee, or consult the link posted above.

Have your primary advisor read your proposal and prepare a letter of recommendation, and send it to the anthgrad@iu.edu by the deadline. The letter should acknowledge that demonstrate your advisor’s approval and review of the proposed feasibility research plan.