Support for Research Team Seminars in Anthropology

虽然数字交流是团队研究的关键组成部分，但对协作科学实践的研究也表明，面对面的互动是成功推进研究的必要条件，而当研究人员分布在美国各地和其他国家时，这可能是具有挑战性的。国家科学基金会/高级研究学院(NSF/SAR)研究小组研讨会为人类学领域提供了重要的面对面协作跨学科研究的机会，因为缺乏资源将忙碌的学者聚集在一起，延长时间，使他们摆脱日常的专业责任。该项目支持美国和国际学者现有的和新的研究团队，以面对面、不间断的时间讨论、综合和分析他们合作研究的结果，该项目将导致成功完成、扩大和开发新项目的计划，这些新项目将造福和丰富人类学领域。该项目还将支持NSF通过合作和增加对人类社会和文化多样性的原因、结果和复杂性的理解来建设科学基础设施的目标。该项目旨在通过一个面对面的学者团队推进人类学中的协作、跨学科和国际研究。该项目还增加了发现和理解，以及由这类研究框架产生的产品的质量和重要性。在NSF的资助下，位于新墨西哥州圣达菲的人类学及其相关学科的高级研究中心高级研究学院(SAR)将在文化人类学、生物人类学和考古学方面开展为期三年的研究团队研讨会。符合条件的研究团队将主要关注一个具有人类学重要性的问题，这个问题是及时的，并满足特定的需求。研讨会将由一个由特区工作人员和外部学者组成的专家小组通过一年一度的比赛选出。对于每个研讨会，NSF的资助将包括最多10名与会者(6名美国学者和4名国际学者)在特区研讨会之家举行为期三天的国内和国际旅行、住宿、餐饮和其他相关费用。资金还将支持一部分特区工作人员的工资，以管理该项目和为研究团队机会做广告。预计研究团队研讨会的组织者将提前制定会议时间表，并在研讨会结束后向特区提交一份报告，说明活动和结果，包括新研究计划、同行评议期刊和编辑过的期刊上的出版物以及会议报告。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Although digital communication is a key component of team research, studies on the practice of collaborative science also demonstrate that face-to-face interaction is needed to successfully advance research, which can be challenging to achieve when investigators are located throughout the United States and in other countries. NSF/SAR (School for Advanced Research) research team seminars benefit the field of anthropology by providing important opportunities for in-person collaborative interdisciplinary research, given the lack of resources to bring busy scholars together for an extended time that is free of everyday professional responsibilities. Supporting both existing and new research teams of U.S. and international scholars with in-person focused, uninterrupted time to discuss, synthesize, and analyze results of their collaborative research, this project will result in plans for successful completion, expansion, and development of new projects that will benefit and enrich the field of anthropology. This project will also support the NSF's goals of building scientific infrastructure through collaboration and increasing understanding of the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability.This project addresses the advancement of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international research in anthropology by an in-person team of scholars. The project also increases discovery and understanding, as well as the quality and importance of the products resulting from this type of research framework. With NSF funding, the School for Advanced Research (SAR), an advanced research center for anthropology and allied disciplines located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will implement three years of research team seminars in cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. Eligible research teams will have a primary focus on a question of anthropological importance that is timely and addresses a specific need. Seminars will be selected by an expert panel of SAR staff and external scholars through an annual competition. For each seminar, NSF funding will cover domestic and international travel, lodging, meals, and other related costs for up to 10 participants (6 U.S. and 4 international scholars) to meet in the SAR Seminar House for three days. Funding will also support a portion of SAR staff salaries to administer the project and advertising of the research team opportunity. Organizers of the research team seminars are expected to develop a meeting schedule in advance and provide SAR with a report after the seminar concludes that describes activities and results, including plans for new research, publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and conference presentations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.