Emory
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content: Karp, Ivan
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content: Ivan Karp papers
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content: Ivan Karp papers / Series 6: Born Digital Files / 6.3: University
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content: 1994 - 2010
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content: This folder holds material from the many administrative positions and committees Karp chaired at Emory. The free-standing files in the "EMORY" folder concern three main projects: A) Dean Robert Paul asked Karp to lead a committee to review and redefine Emory College policies on research support and leave in the Humanities and Social Sciences. B) Dean Paul also later asked Karp to assist Sam Cherribi in developing a concept, structure and proposal for a unit called Emory Development Initiative (predating the Development Studies program at Emory). The unit was also to raise funds from donors (the suffix JPA on one file indicates that Jennifer Arnett from the development office worked on the draft). Karp helped Cherribi with reports,
drafts, proposals etc. and EDI worked with CSPS on some programs. C) Dean Lisa Tedesco asked Karp to work with Rosemary Hynes of the Graduate School to redesign the program of graduate student research funding and conference funding. Other files here are a) a draft of the terms Karp and Kratz were discussing with the dean in relation to the first retirement agreement they negotiated (this was later changed and full retirement postponed until August 2013); b) draft language Karp was sending to the Vice Provost for International concerning a letter nominating Kratz for Emory's Creekmore award; and c) comments on the draft report that would be part of the review of the Office of International Affairs and Vice Provost for International at the time, Holli Semetko.

Kratz divided other Emory material into a series of subfolders. See specific notes on "CSPS" subfolder for the wide-ranging work done through the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship. Other subfolders:

"Development_Studies" covers some of the work Karp did as co-chair (with Rick Doner) of the Arts and Sciences Development Studies Steering Committee, appointed to develop the structure and intellectual foci of a Development Studies
Program at Emory. The committee met initially for a semester, then extended. Included are draft memos for the dean to send to committee members, a report that outlines the proposed program and budget, memos to administrators to followup on resources committed. "DevelopmentStudiesResourcesFlowchart2.doc" adapts a flowchart Kratz created for the Grant Writing Program to Development Studies. The committee predated the Laney Graduate School's involvement in and development of the Masters in Development Practice program. Emory College did start a Development Studies program based on the work of this committee.

"FORD" covers initiatives from when Karp was directing both the Institute of African Studies (IAS) and the Emory Center for International Studies (ECIS) (1996-1999) as well as some later, related work. This involved a number of outside foundation
grants. There were grants from the Ford Foundation's Crossing Borders program through ECIS, and IAS had a Ford grant for a program called African Initiatives in Knowledge (AIK) working with other Atlanta universities. There was a second funding round for the latter program, which was applied for, but relations in the university consortium were fraying and the other universities decided to have their own focus rather than work together (files for their separate projects are in this folder). That was not funded.There was also a second round of funding through Ford's Crossing Border's program in 1999. When that opportunity arose Karp decided to assist and promote a colleague to develop the next phase, so he worked with Bruce Knauft to create the Vernacular Modernities program as the followup (draft in file "fordbecky.txt"). In 1997 Karp also led Emory's submission to the Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar; files relating to that include the overall framing introduction ("SAWYER") and the specific proposal he developed with Abdullahi An-Naim ("MELLON_SAWYER"). Files include draft proposals and budgets, draft text by various colleagues who were working together on the proposals and the two working groups of the Crossing Borders program (Comparative Postcolonial Culture and Comparative Development and Industrialization), memos to Emory and Ford administration, and announcements to recruit the graduate student fellows for the Crossing Borders program. Several files address the future of ECIS; Karp had been mandated to restructure it and to propose a larger organization to consolidate area studies and comparative work at Emory.

Also included in the"FORD" folder is a position paper that Karp was invited to write for Ford (the file "FORD2" is one version of it) as they were rethinking their area studies programs and funding. This was all happening in the mid-late 1990s, when
there was a rethinking of area studies and its Cold War origins across a number of organizations. This paper eventually became his 1997 publication "Does Theory Travel? Area Studies and Cultural Studies".

"ILA", "ILA_CultureHistoryTheory" and "ILA_MEMOS" contain work related to Karp's home department at Emory, the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts. He directed the ILA from 1993-1996. Files in "ILA_MEMOS" come entirely from this period and
cover routine administrative matters with faculty and office staff. "ILA_CultureHistory Theory" contains files from 2000-2001 when the conceptual, intellectual and curricular structure of the ILA was under revision, as summarized in the letter to Dean Robert Paul included. The folder "ILA" contains miscellaneous files: comments to an ILA colleague on her book proposal, an unapproved proposal by another faculty member to develop a science program in the ILA, comments by Stan Katz on public scholarship initiatives begun in the ILA from an ILA external review, a memo to ILA graduate students concerning their required attendance at a programming series on public scholarship that Karp coordinated for the ILA, a To Do list about students and recommendation letters for colleagues that Karp had to do.

Subfolder "CSPS": Karp founded the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (CSPS) within the ILA a year or so after moving to Emory. CSPS was the base from which Karp successfully applied for a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities residency program with three different theme years. Randy Packard directed the first year, Karp and Kratz codirected the second year, and Dana White and Rick Beard directed the third. After that program Karp and Kratz jointly developed a new proposal for Rockefeller with their South African colleagues and received support for the Institutions of Public Culture (IPC) program, which continued until around 2008, with support from Emory in the final years. The structure of CSPS as a center within the ILA was renegotiated around 2000 or so and CSPS moved out of the ILA and began to report directly to the dean as a freestanding center. At that time Karp and Kratz began to co-direct CSPS and they were seconded from their academic departments to run CSPS and the IPC program and develop associated programming and teaching. It was around this time also that they developed the Grant Writing Program, initially running workshops and forums for both graduate students and for faculty, but later dropping the faculty component (see folder on Grant Writing Workshop). CSPS was shut down by Emory along with a number of other interdisciplinary programs and centers during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. CSPS closed at the end of March 2009.

Material in this folder relates to administration and activities of CSPS during its existence. This includes budget memos, files on staff (annual review, position description, RIF), some annual reports. It also includes memos and notes concerning
CSPS-ILA relations, the terms of the change of structure and Karp and Kratz's secondments, as well as files related to a few workshops and speakers series they organized. Some files relate to the IPC program: lists of fellows, fellows obligations, fellows' reports. Other CSPS activities represented in the folder: a) Karp and Kratz were Emory's liaison to the national Imagining America program; b) for several years Karp and Kratz collaborated with the Smithsonian's Folklife program to offer summer fellowships for Emory graduate students in Washington DC; c) Karp and Kratz held regular biweekly seminar meetings as part of the IPC that students on the program took as a course and postdocs attended as a work-in-progress seminar, called South African Public Culture. ILA grad students for some years were required to fulfill a public scholarship requirement by attending a number of lectures, events, etc. drawn from CSPS activities that were organized under the rubric the Workshop in Public Scholarship. Karp administered this for the ILA. The folder also contains files related to two Emory-internal grant proposals Karp and Kratz developed--one for a temporary funding program called Collaborative Research in the Humanities grant program (CritH) and another for a short-lived funding program through the Institute of Developing Nations (IDN). They also developed a faculty seminar on Public Scholarship through the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE) that they ran in Spring 2011 (NOT 2010 as in the files – it was postponed a year) with the CFDE director Laurie Patton and Emory faculty who applied to participate, including a couple who received fellowships for their projects. The folder contains several files related to this. The folder also contains a proposal that Karp was commenting on for colleagues at Indiana University who were applying for a Rockefeller Humanities residency grant in 2002, and a proposal to the Coca Cola Foundation that Karp and Kratz were advising the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute about and communication about a Rockefeller proposal and grant that they helped their colleagues in South Africa (L. Witz and C. Rassool) get for the museums and heritage program in Cape Town.

The subfolder "RF Proposal" contains files related to the Rockefeller Foundation grants, including proposals from 1996 and 1999, fellows' reports and annual reports for both programs, administrative correspondance with the provost and deans at Emory about the IPC proposal, documents in preparation for a site visit by Rockefeller that was done before the initial Humanities residency program. The folder also contains proposals written by Karp and Kratz's Cape Town colleagues for several programs and projects that they created, which served as material and background for their codeveloped projects (these are listed under the files with names Witz and Bunn). Karp also kept a copy of his paper on "Public Scholarship as a Vocation" here as a resource when working on proposals.