Department of American Studies Main Office Closed August 1-3

THE DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES MAIN OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED on August 1 through August 3 during asbestos remediation as we prepare to renovate 105 Scott Hall. Questions and concerns will still be addressed electronically during this time.

From the Old World to the New World: The Formation of American Jewish Identity

THE MUSEUM of RUSSIAN ART and THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA and the DAKOTAS invite you to a special presentation: From the Old World to the New World: The Formation of American Jewish Identity. Click here for more information.

Job opportunity with Boynton Health

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA- BOYNTON HEALTH is hiring a consultant to conduct an audit of best practices for providing health care to the LGBTQIA community in a university setting. Click here for more information.

The Humanities Without Walls Consortium Fellowships

THE HUMANITIES WITHOUT WALLS CONSORTIUM invites applications for fellowships from pre-doctoral students to participate in a three-week intensive, residential summer workshop for individuals who are working towards but have not yet received a PhD in a humanities discipline, and who are interested in learning about careers outside the academy and/or the tenure-track university system. Applications are due to the IAS on Friday, September 30, 2016. More information here.

Dartmouth Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE is pleased to announce applications are open for several 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Society of Fellows. The fellowships are open to any discipline and provide teaching experience, while providing many resources to write and research. Click here for more information and to apply.

Commenting on and Grading Student Writing Workshop

WRITING ACROSS the CURRICULUM PROGRAM is pleased to offer its annual Commenting On and Grading Student Writing Workshop on Wednesday, August 31 from 1:00 – 4:00pm in Bruininks 114. The workshop is recommended for new and returning TAs and Graduate Instructors who will be responding to and grading student writing this academic year. Click here for more information about the workshop and to register.

Saint Mary's College Assistant/Associate Tenure Track Ethnic Studies Position

SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE of CALIFORNIA is pleased to announce applications are open for an Assistant/Associate Tenure Track position in the Ethnic Studies Program. The candidate is expected to assume directorship of the program within two years of hire as well as teach courses around social justice, critical race theory, and anti-racist and feminist pedagogies. Click here for more information and to apply

Butler-Wall and Owens receive PhDs

KARISA BUTLER-WALL has received her PhD with her dissertation entitled, "Feeling Healthy: Media, Affect, and the Governance of Health."  Reg Kunzel, Kevin Murphy, adviser.

TAMMY OWENS has received her PhD with her dissertation entitled, "Making Black Girls Real: Reconstructing Black Girlhood in the U.S., 1861-1963."  Rod Ferguson, adviser.

ASA Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship Nominations

ASA invites nominations for the Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship. The award recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for the “public good,” explicitly that which aims to educate the public influence policies or seek to address inequalities in other ways. Click here for more information and to nominate someone.

UMN Research Data Management Camp

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES’ RESEARCH DATA SERVICES and LATIS are pleased to offer a Research Data Management Camp from graduate students from any discipline to learn strategies for data management, collection, research workflows, analysis tools, and more. The workshop will take place on August 23^rd and 24^th from 9:00am – 12:30pm in Anderson Hall 110, breakfast will be provided. Click here for more information and to register (space is limited).

Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks Assistant or Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies

THE UNIVERSITY of ALASKA, FAIRBANKS is pleased to announce applications are open for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies. Applicants are preferred to have previous university and teaching experience as well as experience working with Alaska Native/Indigenous cultures  and peoples. Click here for more information and to apply.

University of Maryland Digital Humanities and African American Hisotry and Culture Postdocs

THE UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND is pleased to announce applications are open for postdoctoral positions in Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture. The two positions are two year appointments with the Mellon-funded initiative “Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture” (AADHum). Click here for more information and to apply.

College of William and Mary Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies

THE COLLEGE of WILLIAM and MARY is pleased to announce applications are open for a Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies. The position is one year with the possibility of renewal. They are seeking an applicant with expertise in Africana Studies and African American Literature, with a preferable ability to teach courses on Anglophone African Literature. Click here for more information and to apply.

Princeton Society of Fellows Postdocs

PRINCETON is pleased to announce applications are open for their Princeton Society of Fellows 2017-2020. There are four postdoctoral fellowships available in the fields of Humanistic Studies, LGBT Studies, Race and/or Ethnicity Studies, and the fourth one is open. The positions are open to those currently finishing their PhDs and those who received their degree after January 1, 2015. Click here for more information and to apply.

AMST 8920 sec002 "Queering Economies" with Prof. Lorena Muñoz

AMST 8920 sec 002
Wednesday 3:35-5:00 p.m.
Instructor: Prof. Lorena Muñoz
Title: "Queering Economies"

Description:
This course will primarily explore how economic practices rendered as informal around the globe dialectically shape the material and embodied spaces of everyday life of informal workers across spaces and places. In order to theoretically understand how these spaces and places are produced, we will look towards Queering economies—That is rethinking the (in)formal economy by understanding heterogeneous economic processes as queer, entangled and relational. We will explore how recent work moves away from dualist frameworks of informal/formal economy, that reify capitalisms as a totalizing organizing frame that we theorize from against and within. What Gibson Graham calls Capitalcentrism- as the positioning of all economic references to capitalism. Instead we will engage with work that theorizes economies as diverse, heterogeneous processes as entanglements, rather than categories that exclude, include and define binary systems.

American Studies Fulbright Award Applications Open

THE CORE FULBRIGHT U.S. SCHOLAR PROGRAM is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for the 2017-2018 awards in American Studies. These awards are across Europe including Bulgaria, Romania, Netherlands, and France. Click here for more information about the various programs and to apply.

Mahdi (PhD '15) Accepts Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at University of Oklahoma

WALEED F. MAHDI (PhD ’15) is joining the University of Oklahoma for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of International and Area Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics. There he will continue working on his current book project on the visual representation of Arab Americans in Hollywood and Arab filmmaking and contributing to a multi-institutional collaboration that examines Arab contemporary public spheres.

CFP - American Quarterly Special Issue "The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies

AMERICAN QUATERLY is pleased to announce a call for papers for their 2017 special issue, “The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies.” The guest editors will be Chih-ming Wang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Submissions are due August 1, 2016. Click here to learn more about the issue, submissions guidelines, and to submit papers.