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External Opportunities
Please visit this page throughout the year as information will be routinely updated.
For more information about the opportunities listed below, please contact the
individuals listed on the announcement.
FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
South Asia Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Seattle
Post-doctoral Fellowship in South Asian Studies
http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/
The South Asia Center at the University of Washington, Seattle invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow/Teaching Associate for two quarters, Winter and Spring 2009 (Dates of Instruction: January 5-June 15, 2009). Candidates must have research and teaching experience related to contemporary issues in South Asian politics, economic development, cultural studies, or gender studies; knowledge of a South Asian language, fluency in English, and a completed PhD. A research focus on contemporary urban politics and urbanization in South Asia is preferred. The Post-doctoral Fellow/Teaching Associate will pursue their own research and teach one course in each of the two quarters: one undergraduate and one graduate related to topics of their interest. They will also participate in the activities of the South Asia Center including an international conference, "Metropolis and Micropolitics: Contesting Imaginaries and Conflicting Processes in South Asia's Sutured Cities," in May 2009 co-sponsored with the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
The South Asia Center at the University of Washington is a leading center for South Asian Studies in North America. It promotes knowledge about South Asia through innovative research, teaching and outreach to educational, civic, and business institutions and to the community. At UW, over forty faculty across several colleges and professional schools focus their research on South Asia. Our library collection is one of the finest in the country. More information is available a Applicants should submit a cover letter, a one-page description of research plans; a draft of a course syllabus and a title and brief summary of a second course; a CV; and two reference letters. Compensation includes a salary of $28,000, inclusive of standard benefits (See http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/benefits-summaries.html for details on benefits.)
We will accept applications immediately with review beginning on July 20th 2008 and continuing until the selection is final. Please submit all application materials electronically to snodgras@u.washington.edu. Recommendation letters by pdf or email from an institutional address is acceptable. Alternatively, please send all application materials by express mail to:
Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director
South Asia Center
Box 353650
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195. U.S.A.
HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition
Focus: Participatory Learning
www.dmlcompetition.net
The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open! The focus is participatory learning. Awards will be made in two categories: Innovation in "Participatory Learning Awards" support large-scale digital learning projects ($30,000-$250,000), while "Young Innovator Awards" will support projects originated by 18-25 year olds ($5,000-$30,000). The application Deadline is October 15, 2008. Find complete program and application information at www.dmlcompetition.net
Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
Fellowships 2009-2010
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/fellowships.html
The 2009-2010 research focal theme at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities is "Networks/Mobilities." Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with two Senior Scholars in Residence, Keller Easterling (Associate Professor of Architecture, Yale University), and Brian Massumi, Professor of Communications, University of Montreal.
The Society for the Humanities invites scholars to reflect upon the theme of "Networks/Mobilities" in order to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows of peoples, materials, images, and ideas across physical and virtual boundaries. Relations of mobility and immobility, insofar as they are being reconfigured by broad-ranging new technologies of surveillance, detention, and legal/administrative regulation, are also germane to the theme. The Society encourages applicants to investigate the cultural, social, philosophical, and methodological implications of the theme. Fellows should be working on topics related to the year's theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2008.
The (postmark) application deadline is October 1, 2008. For complete program information and details on the application process, visit http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/fellowships.html, call 607-255-9274, or send a message to humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professorship in Studies on Contemporary Society
www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/application_procedure/application_procedure2007
The professorship will focus on themes of topical significance to contemporary society and social justice, including the future of the welfare society, globalisation, cultural conflicts, pluralism and environmental issues. The scope may also include research on the cultural and historical background of themes concerning contemporary society. Due to the location of the professorship, the duties of the holder of the post will focus on research. A special duty of the appointee will be to organise a seminar in his or her own research field at the Collegium.
The appointment will be for a fixed term from 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010. The Collegium for Advanced Studies invites interested academics to notify the Collegium of their interest by the designated deadline.
The application deadline is Wednesday 10 September 2008 at 15.45 local Helsinki time. For detailed information and instructions for notifying of interest in the position, visit: www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/application_procedure/application_procedure2007.htm. Further information is available from Professor Juha Sihvola, Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, tel. 358-(0)9 191 23456, juha.sihvola(at)helsinki.fi and from Dr Minna Franck, Head of Planning and Development, tel. 358-(0)9-191 23261, minna.franck(at)helsinki.fi.
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Postdoctoral/University Researcher Positions
www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/application_procedure/application_procedure2007.htm
The term of office for successful applicants will begin on 1 August 2009. The monthly salary will depend on the assessed job demand level and personal work performance. The Board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will determine the length of the appointments for a fixed term of 1 - 5 years based on the research plan of each applicant.
Applicants best able to meet the requirements of the post will have a doctoral degree, previous research experience in the humanities and/or social sciences, and demonstrated ability for scientific work at a high international level. The applicant must also demonstrate how she or he would participate in the multi- and cross-disciplinary cooperation practiced at the Collegium. The working language of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is English.
The Collegium will appoint applicants who are at different stages of their academic careers. The Collegium encourages applications also from professor-level applicants. Such applicants may be recruited to the Collegium under the title Research Director.
The application deadline is Wednesday, 10 September 2008, at 3.45 p.m. (local Helsinki time). At this hour the electronic application system will be closed. For further information, please visit the application procedure web page at www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/application_procedure/application_procedure2007.htm
or send email to: collegium-office(at)helsinki.fi.
Stanford Humanities Center
Faculty Fellowships 2009-10
http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/about.htm
The online application for 2009-10 faculty fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center is now available. Fellows are in residence at the Center during the regular academic year (September to June) and participate in the Center's intellectual life, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse community of scholars from across the spectrum of academic fields and ranks.
Applicants must have a PhD and will normally be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. Fellows are awarded stipends of up to $60,000. In addition, a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000 is offered, dependent upon need. Programs include External Faculty Fellowships (deadline October 15, 2008), a Digital Humanities Fellowship (deadline October 15, 2008), and an Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellowship (deadline December 1, 2008).
Visit http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/about.htm for complete program information and application instructions.
Pembroke Center, Brown University
Postdoctoral Fellowships 2009-2010
"Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspective"
http://www.pembrokecenter.org/research/UpcomingSeminar.html
"Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspective" raises questions about global flows of people and technology that involve reimagining the body and transforming what it means to be human. We want to understand the changing ways bodies are being commodified, and the individual experiences and ideological constructions of these processes. The seminar explores innovations in international migration and biotechnology that push ahead of the law. How are these sites moralized and politicized? How are international norms and regulatory strategies formulated to define rapidly moving currents of change?
We welcome applications from all scholars who do not hold a tenured position. This is a residential fellowship. Fellows participate weekly in the Pembroke Seminar, teach one undergraduate course, and pursue individual research. Brown University is an EEO/AA employer. The Center strongly encourages underrepresented minority scholars to apply. The term of appointment is September 1, 2009-May 31, 2010. The stipend is $50,000, plus a supplement for health and dental insurance, unless otherwise covered.
Full program details, application instructions and forms may be obtained at http://www.pembrokecenter.org/research/UpcomingSeminar.html. Questions should be directed to Donna_Goodnow@brown.edu. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 10, 2008.
National Humanities Center
Fellowships 2009-2010
DEADLINE October 15, 2008
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2009 through May 2010. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and recent Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States.
Areas of Special Interest
Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research. These include environmental studies and history; English literature; art history; French history, literature, or culture; Asian Studies; and theology.
ACLS Burkhardt Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
The National Humanities Center is a participating institution in the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship Program of the American Council of leanred Societies. Application must be made directly to the ACLS by October 1. Further information is available on the ACLS website.
Stipends
Fellowships up to $60,000 are individually determined, the amount depending upon the needs of the Fellow and the Center's ability to meet them. The Center provides travel expenses for Fellows and their dependents to and from North Carolina.
Facilities and Services
Located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, near Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, the Center provides an environment for individual research and the exchange of ideas. Its building includes private studies for Fellows, conference rooms, a central commons for dining, lounges, reading areas, a reference library, and a Fellows' workroom. The Center's noted library service delivers books and research materials to Fellows, and support for information technology and editorial assistance are also provided. The Center locates housing for Fellows in the neighboring communities.
Support
Fellowships are supported by the Center's own endowment, private foundation grants, alumni contributions, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Deadline and Application Procedures
Applicants submit the Center's form, supported by a curriculum vitae, a 1000-word project proposal, and three letters of recommendation. You may request application material from Fellowship Program, National Humanities Center, Post Office Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2256, or obtain the form and instructions from the Center's website. Applications and letters of recommendation must be postmarked by October 15, 2008.
Materials may also be requested via e-mail at nhc@nationalhumanitiescenter.org.
Imagining America: Artists And Scholars In Public Life
Ninth Annual National Conference
Public Engagement in a Diverse America: Layers of Place, Movements of People
***CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS***
Thursday, October 2 – Saturday, October 4, 2008
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
What is "Publicly Active Graduate Education"? How does scholarship activate civic engagement, and vice versa? When theory and practice unite in community-based projects led by graduate students, what are the implications—for graduate students, for the communities involved, and for graduate education?
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites graduate students in the arts, humanities, and design with a demonstrated interest in public engagement to apply to be PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellows at Imagining America’s 2008 national conference. Fellows will attend the day-long, pre-conference PAGE Summit (Thursday, October 2nd) devoted to building the theoretical and practical language with which to articulate their own public scholarship; will attend the general conference sessions; will have an opportunity for individual mentorship with leaders in the field of public cultural practice; and will be invited to participate in the conference’s poster session.
Graduate students at all stages of their MA/MFA/PhD programs are eligible to be PAGE Fellows or if they have received their degree in the last two years.
Fellows will receive $600 towards the expenses of attending the conference, and will have their conference registration fee waived. To apply, send a brief letter of interest and a 1-2 page CV by July 1st, 2008 to: Robin Goettel, Assistant Director, Imagining America, Syracuse University. Applicants should address their specific interest in this year’s conference theme (see below) and their active investments in public engagement. Applications may be sent electronically (rjgoette@syr.edu) or via mail (Robin Goettel, Imagining America, Syracuse University, 203A Tolley Building, Syracuse, NY 13244). Priority will be given to Imagining America member institutions, although all applications will be considered. A list of member institutions, and more information about Imagining America, can be found at: www.imaginingamerica.org.
Conference Theme
Imagining America invites faculty, students, and community partners to participate in our October 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by USC. A particular focus will be the diverse layers of people, places, and disciplinary intersections that shape the work of public engagement.
Los Angeles is a world city that attracts and reconfigures people, culture, ideas, and capital from across the globe. It is an urban center, an overlapping convergence of local communities and landscapes - spatial and imagined, urban and suburban, cultural and commercial, racial, ethnic, and generational, religious and ideological, agricultural and preserved wilderness. These layers of place and populations create multi-textured, intersecting, and contested meaning.
We invite conference proposals for seminars, roundtables, workshops, and panels (see descriptions below) on partnerships and projects touching on these topics as they relate to diversity and engagement:
Layers of Peoples, Places, and Histories: What is the relationship of colleges and universities to the layers of local life, both evident and submerged, all around them? How can we peel back the strata of these landscapes and histories in order to draw attention to what came before? In what ways can scholars and artists respond to the displacement of peoples and sites that result from the "development" of the university, college, city, or town?
Social Movements & Diversity: What roles do public scholars and artists play in political and cultural conversations about the meaning of demographic, racial, and ethnic change within rapidly changing communities of all sizes, nationally and internationally? How do scholars and artists contribute to public understanding of social movements that connect or divide people locally and across the nation? How might recent developments in the worlds of politics and culture (the 2008 election, the immigration reform debate, reconfigurations in technologies of communication) reshape the research and artistic agendas of public scholars?
Engagement across Sectors: How does scholarship in the humanities and the arts serve as a bridge between colleges and universities and the local, national, and global communities in which they reside? How might collaborations between scholars in the humanities and the arts contribute to public discussion of demographic, social, and political change?
Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 2008-09 Fellowships
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for our 2008-2009 fellowship competition. Applicants should be working on topics related to the year's focal theme, “Water, A Critical Concept for the Humanities.” Their approach to the humanitiesshould be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines. Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with two Senior Scholars in Residence: Fall 2008: Verena Andermatt Conley (fall 2008) and Marcus Rediker (spring 2009). Complete application information at: www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/fellowships.html
Stanford Humanities Center
The
online application for 2008-2009 faculty fellowships at the Stanford Humanities
Center is now available. Fellows are in residence at the Center during the regular
academic year (September to June) and participate in the Center's intellectual
life, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse community of scholars
from across the spectrum of academic fields and ranks.
Applicants normally will have received their PhD in or before September 2005
to be eligible for 2008-2009 fellowships. Fellows are awarded stipends of up
to $60,000. In addition, a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000 is
offered, dependent upon need.
For more information, visit http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/about.htm.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) 2008 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
The purposes of this fellowship program are to:
help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources;
enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available;
encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad; and
provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.
The program offers about ten competitively awarded fellowships for 2008. Each provides a stipend of $1,600 per month for 9-12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $800 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $20,000.
Fellowship stipends will support research beginning between June 1 and September 1, 2008, and ending within 12 months of commencing. Fellowships will not be renewed or extended. Fellows are expected to devote full time to their dissertation research without holding teaching or research assistantships or undertaking other paid work. Applicants may apply simultaneously for other fellowships, including Mellon awards, but fellows may not hold other fellowships simultaneously with CLIR's. Fellows may use stipends to meet living expenses, travel costs, and other expenses that enable dissertation research to be carried out, but not to defray tuition.
Applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, but must be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school in the United States.
For further information on eligibility, requirements, and deadlines, please visit CLIR’s website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html.
A flyer for this fellowship (suitable for printing and posting or forwarding via e-mail) may be found here: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellFlyer08.pdf
CONFERENCES/CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Applied Anthropology 69th Annual Meeting
Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement, Partnerships and Practice
March 17-21, 2009
Santa Fe, NM
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (papers and posters) for the Program of the 69th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, March 17-21, 2009. The theme of the Program is Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement, Partnerships and Practice.
The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines.
Deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2008.
For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit our web page (www.sfaa.net, click on Annual Meeting).
For meeting information visit http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html
Call for Presentations
Curating Difficult Knowledge
April 16-18, 2009
Concordia University, Montréal
How are public spaces used to shape memories of systematic mass violence? What unique challenges arise in attempts to deploy narratives and documents of collective suffering for public display? And what innovations in exhibition, museology, and the activation of memorial sites might these challenges inspire? Employing as a point of departure a notion of "difficult knowledge" as that which challenges or disrupts anticipated experience (and thus potentially induces transformations in understanding or subjectivity), and considering "curation" in its deeper meaning of "taking care of," this conference will provide a venue in which to grapple with these questions as they arise in theory and practice.
The Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence (CEREV) at Concordia University is pleased to announce our first international conference, co-sponsored by the Canada Research Chairs in Post-Conflict Studies and Latin American History. Keynote speakers will include Prof. Roger Simon, Faculty Director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Media and Culture in Education and Director of the Testimony and Historical Memory Project at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
The specific aims of the conference are:
To engage an emerging body of interdisciplinary scholarship and practice around representing and conveying experiences and meanings of historical suffering and injustice
To envision and critique innovative attempts at public knowledge production and transmission about post-conflict experience
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To reflect on the creation of public spaces for the discussion of past violence as part of community and nation-state recognition of the past for future generations
We especially encourage participation by scholars, curators, artists, activists and other practitioners who are engaging with these questions in the context of museums, memorials, and "sites of conscience." Our goal is to bring together individuals who are engaged in experimental curatorial work in the aftermath of violence with researchers undertaking fine-grained reporting on and analysis of such work.
Instructions for Submission
We invite 250 word abstracts for 15- or 30-minute presentations that will explore the conference themes outlined above. Since a central goal is to foster conversation among participants, we encourage you to request the shortest time-slot in which you can communicate your key points in your chosen medium (i.e. a spoken conference paper should
fit in 15 minutes). We welcome the use of photographs, sound/video clips and other digital media in presentations, and for this reason are offering the option of a 30-minute time slot. Please send abstracts, along with a current CV and a 100-word description of your current area of research/practice to: cerev@alcor.concordia.ca.
Deadline for abstract submission: August 31st, 2008.
Notification: by September 30th, 2008
Pending funding, we hope to be able to offer some travel subsidies to participants coming from beyond North America. Please indicate in your submission if such funding would be essential for your participation.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Center for the Humanities, University of California, San Diego
Director and Professor
For more information, please visit: http://dah.ucsd.edu/faculty/recruitment.shtml
Prospective applicants may contact the Search Committee directly at humctr@ucsd.edu
Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Editor (Assistant Director)
The Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's interdisciplinary humanities research center, seeks an Editor (Assistant Director) who will work on the Center book series, write the Center's newsletter, supervise on-line publications, and maintain the Center's web site. Responsibilities will include coordinating and promoting faculty and graduate student research initiatives and providing general support for events. Experience in academic research publishing required, including at least an MA/MFA, and excellent writing, communication, and web master skills essential. Review of applications will begin August 18, 2008, and continue until the position is filled; for details and application procedures, see www.jobs.uwm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50685. UWM is an AA/EOE.