REM Section: Fellowships and Institutes

Fellowships and Institutes

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Postdoctoral Fellowships - The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2012-13. Recent Ph.D.'s in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences whose research focuses on gender are eligible. We encourage scholars with a strong interest in interdisciplinary methods to apply.

The postdoctoral scholars will focus on the Institute's theme, "Beyond the Stalled Revolution: Reinvigorating Gender Equality in the Twenty-first Century.” While in residence at the Institute, postdoctoral scholars are expected to participate in Clayman Institute activities throughout the academic year in addition to pursuing their own research. Postdoctoral scholar responsibilities will include writing articles for our research publication, Gender News, working with Graduate Dissertation Fellows, and attending our regularly scheduled faculty luncheon discussions. The appointment is for one year. Applicants must have their doctoral degree in hand no later than 30 days prior to the appointment start date, and the start date must be no more than three years after the awarding of their degree. Postdoctoral scholars will receive a stipend and benefits, set and adjusted in accordance with Stanford University rules, and must be in residence for four academic quarters, beginning in the fall quarter of the 2012-13 academic year.

The Clayman Institute is committed to the principles of equal opportunity and fair and open competition.

How to Apply:

Applications must be submitted online by Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Instructions and detailed information are available on our website: http://gender.stanford.edu/postdoctoral-research-fellowships.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Postdoctoral Fellowships - Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has two postdoctoral positions open for the 2012-13 academic year. Postdoc 1:
The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality is seeking a postdoctoral fellow for 2012-13. The fellow will work collaboratively with Center faculty, staff, and students to produce original scholarship on trends in poverty and inequality. The fellow will also be expected to complete her or his own scholarship on issues of inequality or poverty. The appointment will be for one year with a start date of October 1, 2012. Candidates must have received their doctorate by the start of the appointment. Please send a letter of application with curriculum vitae, samples of original work, and three letters of recommendation to inequality@stanford.edu. If submitting via hard copy, application materials may be mailed to Search Committee, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, MC 2066, 450 Serra Mall, Building 370, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. To ensure full consideration, all materials should be received by February 1, 2012.Stanford is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

Postdoc 2:
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), this program will fund one Postdoctoral Fellow for a period of two years, beginning in August/September 2012, in the sociology department at EACH of the following major research universities: Cornell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These awards are intended for scholars who are interested in working on understanding the origins of the current economic crisis and/or the crisis's social impacts on such areas as race and gender relations, employment, housing, education, health, culture, migration, and politics. In addition, research can focus on the social impacts of government and private efforts to address and regulate the crisis, including the sociology of finance and markets, organizational theory, and the sociology of law. For the new NSF Postdoctoral Fellow coming to Stanford University, a mix of recession-relevant research opportunities will be available, some involving individual independent research (under the guidance of faculty), and others involving larger interdisciplinary team projects. The Stanford Fellow will be free to choose from among this mix of opportunities that work best for them. Information on each Stanford position, including how to apply, can be found at http://www.inequality.com

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of California, Davis

Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds.” The Anthropology Department at UC Davis will appoint an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Fellow will be involved in the scholarly activities of the Sawyer Seminar, “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds” that will unfold during that academic year. The seminar has as its goal to convene an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to discuss the innovative possibilities, for scholarship and politics, that might emerge at the crossroads of two major processes-- indigenous social movements and the conceptual production generated by ethnographic studies of science and technology. While taking place in radically different social contexts and geographical regions, currently these two processes offer seemingly coincidental conceptual-political proposals: theyinterrogate the nature-culture divide in a manner that, if addressed and made public, could have far reaching implications as they question a number of correlated divides: mind-body, subject-object, representer-represented, historical-ahistorical, among others. While these concepts continue to carry historical and political import, the epistemic critique leveled jointly by indigenous and scholarly claims also renders them insufficient to grasp events that (as we can acknowledge after such critique) occur outside the purview of the divide between nature and culture that organizes hegemonic knowledge. Thefellow will help organize and participate in seminar events (including workshops, public lectures and reading groups) and design and teach a one quarter-long/ten weeks introductory undergraduate course on the topic. The appointment will be from August 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

Eligibility: Candidates must have earned the doctoral degree no earlier than January 2009 and no later than July 2012. We welcome applicants from anthropology, geography, cultural studies, environmental studies, history, critical law, literature, philosophy, sociology, science and technology studies, and various interdisciplinary combinations. We seek creativity and encourage applications by scholars working on the themes of conceptual relevance to the seminar. A focus on indigeneity is preferred but not exclusive. Topics may include: politics and state/non-state formations, cultures of history, law and property, political ecologies/economies/ontologies, death and life, new materialisms, embodiment and nature-culture assemblages. There is no citizenship requirement or restriction for this fellowship. Non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply.

Application Materials: Letters of application and supporting material should include the following: 1) A two-page cover letter stating your interest in the Postdoctoral Fellowship providing details on your current research and how it would benefit from and contribute to the Sawyer Seminar; 2) A curriculum vitae; 3) Two letters of reference; 4) One writing sample (30 pages maximum). 5) Abrief course proposal for a one-semester course that would introduce undergraduate students to the topic. Please double-space and use 12-point type. Deadline is February 5, 2012.

Applications will only be accepted online at: http://anthro.facultysearch.ucdavis.edu. Referees should post their letters directly—same web page. The University of California is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Address administrative questions to Grace de Guzman, phone: 530-754-4936; fax: 530-752-8885; email: gdeguzman@ucdavis.edu. UC Davis is an AA/EO employer and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - The Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, June 6-9, 2012

The Knapsack Institute supports educators across the nation as they create curriculum and pedagogy to integrate race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and other forms of social inequality into their work and strive to create inclusive classrooms.

The Knapsack Institute provides educators with a framework for teaching about the matrix of privilege and oppression. Our interactive, collaborative Institute welcomes all educators ((broadly defined, including K-12, higher education, non-profit staff, private sector, diversity trainers, etc.). Alumni include faculty, teachers, and facilitators at many levels, from a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, and organizations.

The Knapsack Institute:

Is a forum for sharing ideas and strategies
Emphasizes pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity, privilege, and intersectionality
Provides professional growth and development, including CEUs & academic credit
Provides mentoring and leadership development
Provides hands-on activities, tools and practices that can be replicated
Provides strategies for dealing with resistance
Provides suggestions for creating institutional change in your organization
Provides resources and networking to support on-going change Is facilitated by faculty and informed by the latest research

K-12 Track! We are partnering with a number of national organizations to offer a separate K-12 track. Breakout sessions will examine issues such as: bullying, ally building, issues of safety for students, gender identity, creating inclusive environments, and culturally responsive practices. Co-sponsored by the ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCEÒ Institute

Evaluation Highlights: for the fourth consecutive year, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being fully agree, participants rated the KI a 10 in the following key areas:

This Institute was very useful and valuable to me
I would recommend this Institute to colleagues
Speakers were knowledgeable and engaging

The Knapsack Institute is a program of The Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the home of the national, award-winning White Privilege Conference. Early registration discounts available. Details and application at: http://www.uccs.edu/~knapsack

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Department of African American Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences - Northwestern University

The Department of African American Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY invites applications for a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship. PhD must be completed by September 1, 2012. Recent Ph.D.s (degree granted during or after 2010) with a commitment to the field of African American and/or African Diaspora studies are encouraged to apply.

This two year fellowship is residential and provides a competitive stipend and benefits, a visiting appointment in the Department of African American Studies (including teaching of one or two classes in the Department), and participation in the intellectual life of the Department and University.

Applicants should submit one copy (postmarked no later than December 30, 2011) of: 1) a current curriculum vitae, 2) a letter of application detailing the research project to be undertaken during the fellowship years, 3) a sample of scholarly writing, 4) evidence relating to the quality of teaching (syllabi and teaching evaluations), 5) three letters of recommendation (including one letter from the dissertation advisor) to:

Department of African American Studies
Northwestern University
1860 Campus Drive,
Crowe 5-128
Evanston, IL 60208-2210
Attn: Postdoctoral Fellowship Search

All inquiries should be addressed to Suzette Denose at 847-491-5122 or s-denose@northwestern.edu. AA/EOE.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University

Applicants should submit one copy (postmarked no later than December 30, 2011) of:

1) a current curriculum vitae,
2) a letter of application detailing the research project to be undertaken during the fellowship years,
3) a sample of scholarly writing,
4) evidence relating to the quality of teaching (syllabi and teaching evaluations),
5) three letters of recommendation (including one letter from the dissertation advisor) to:

Department of African American Studies
Northwestern University
1860 Campus Drive, Crowe 5-128
Evanston, IL 60208-2210
Attn: Postdoctoral Fellowship Search

All inquiries should be addressed to Suzette Denose at 847-491-5122 or s-denose@northwestern.edu. AA/EOE.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - The Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Africana Research Center invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in any aspect of African American and Diasporan Studies, beginning August 2012. During their residency, fellows have no teaching or administrative responsibilities, though they may request a teaching assignment. They will be matched with a mentor, attend professional development sessions and other relevant events, and be expected to be active in Penn State’s community of Africana researchers. Successful applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. within the previous four academic years. Salary/benefit package is competitive. Submit complete application packets online at http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch by November 7, 2011.

Direct questions about the process via email to africanacenter@la.psu.edu. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.