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Faculty Research and Writing Workshops

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Past Workshops

May 7, 2026. A Book Proposal and Publishing Workshop with Kali Handelman, Freelance Developmental Editor.

April 24, 2026. A Publishing Presentation by Tim Mennel, Executive Editor, University of Chicago Press.

Friday, March 6, 2026. Grants Workshop: Pivoting in the New Grants Landscape—Special Focus on STEM. Learn more about navigating your research funding in the evolving grants landscape with the Grants Team and several faculty colleagues.

Friday, December  12, 2025. First Book Workshop with Kali Handelman, Professional Editor. Designed for first-book writers at any stage of the process, this workshop is open to all in the Vassar community.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Two Library Research Workshops with the Research Librarians Team.

  • “Building and Maintaining Your Author Profiles and Keeping Current with Scholarship: Faculty Workshop”: Learn to establish and optimize your ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and claim and edit your scholarly profiles in Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus. Led by Gretchen Lieb, “History and Multidisciplinary Librarian”, Melanie Maksin, Head of Academic Engagement, And Elizabeth Salmon, Social Science Librarian.
  • “Open Access Publishing: Faculty Workshop”: Learn about the landscape for open access (OA) publishing support at Vassar, including our read-and-publish agreements with PLoS (Public Library of Science), Cambridge, and Oxford. Led by Debra Bucher, Head of Collections and Discovery, and Andrew Ashton, Director of the Libraries.

February 28, 2025. Humanities Grants Workshop: Members of the Vassar Grants Team held presentations about Internal and External Humanities Grants opportunities for faculty, followed by Q & A and workshopping.

December 13, 2024. A Book Proposal Workshop with Beth Bouloukos, Director of Amherst College Press, followed by one-on-one consultations.

September 13, 2024. Building and Maintaining Your Scholarly Profile in Web of Science and Scopus. This workshop focused on learning to establish and optimize your ORCHID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and claim and edit your scholarly profiles in Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus.

May 7, 2024. A Book Proposal Workshop with Beth Bouloukos, Amherst College Press. This workshop focused on the strategies of academic book proposal writing, and Beth offered general information useful to writers at all stages of the process. Beth also offered one-on-one sessions to discuss a
small number of completed proposal drafts.

March 1, 2024. First Book Workshop with Beth Bouloukos, director of Amherst College Press. A workshop designed for first-book writers at any stage of the process, this workshop is open to all in the Vassar community (in person).

September 29, 2023. Writing Beyond the Academy: Securing an Agent and a Commercial Book Deal. A Writing Workshop with John Ghazvinian, founder of Scholars to Storytellers (in person).

May 23, 2023. Writing Workshop to be offered by Q.M. Zhang, author of Accomplice to Memory (Kaya Press, 2017). Q.M. Zhang is a writer, teacher, editor, and the founder of MemoryWorks, a creative research and writing practice for individuals and communities who are trying to trace their past and reclaim histories in the face of historical omissions and intergenerational silences. 

December 9, 2022. Basics of Academic Publishing: Conceptualizing the Book, Crafting a Proposal, and Beyond: A Workshop with Dawn Durante, UNC Press (virtual).