THE NEWBERRY LIRBARY IS pleased to announce the competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars, owing to the generous assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowships are in the amount of $75,000 for one academic year and support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. Application Deadline: September 26th, 2013 by 9pm (EDT).
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars in residence at the Newberry Library, Chicago
The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars, owing to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowships are named for Frederick Burkhardt, President Emeritus of ACLS, whose decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constitute a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise.
These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
•Amount: $75,000
•Tenure: one academic year, plus institutional support for an additional period
•DEADLINE: September 26, 2013, 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org). Notifications will be sent by the ACLS in mid-February 2014.
This fellowship program is administered through the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
At the Newberry Library, Burkhardt Fellows join a lively community of scholars composed of long- and short-term fellows, local Chicago area scholars, and the Newberry's professional staff. This collegial environment encourages interdisciplinary exchange, deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences.
The Newberry provides a supportive environment for research and for writing time. Additionally, research at the Newberry is enriched by individual consultations with staff curators, librarians, and scholars, and an array of scholarly and public programs. The library's core collection spans many centuries and includes a range of materials, from medieval manuscripts to rich genealogical resources, and from the personal papers of great Midwest authors to one of the world's strongest collections on American Indians and Indigenous peoples. For more information on the Newberry collection, see: www.newberry.org/catalogs-and-guides
For more information about the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, including application instructions, see: www.acls.org/programs/burkhardt/.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Anthropology at UC-Berkeley
THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor focusing on the anthropology of race and racialization - the processes, practices, and power relations that produce "race" as a social fact and a lived reality. The approach and research specializations are open. Appointment will begin July 1st, 2014, by which date the PhD or equivalent is required. Application Deadline: October 1st, 2013.
Applications must include a detailed letter, a Curriculum Vitae, all published and unpublished scholarly work ready for examination (such as the dissertation or dissertation chapters, a book or book manuscript, articles, and book chapters), and three letters of reference. All items should be submitted electronically.
To apply, please go to the following link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00191
All letters will be treated as confidential in conformity with University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including those whose letters will be provided by a third party (such as a dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality: http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.
The department seeks candidates whose research, teaching, or service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Questions may be addressed to the Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3710.
Review begins immediately. The deadline for application is October 1, 2013.
Anthropology of Race_search ad_07242013.pdf
Applications must include a detailed letter, a Curriculum Vitae, all published and unpublished scholarly work ready for examination (such as the dissertation or dissertation chapters, a book or book manuscript, articles, and book chapters), and three letters of reference. All items should be submitted electronically.
To apply, please go to the following link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00191
All letters will be treated as confidential in conformity with University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including those whose letters will be provided by a third party (such as a dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality: http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.
The department seeks candidates whose research, teaching, or service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Questions may be addressed to the Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3710.
Review begins immediately. The deadline for application is October 1, 2013.
Anthropology of Race_search ad_07242013.pdf
CFP: GIGSS 2nd Annual Conference at Univ. of Minnesota
THE GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY GROUP In Sexuality Studies (GIGSS) at the University of Minnesota invites proposals for their second conference "Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations" to be held on campus March 6th-8th, 2014. Travel grants for presenters will be available, sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies. Submission Deadline: October 1st, 2013.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations
University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesMarch 6-8, 2014
Organized by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies
Sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies
With keynote speaker, Robert McRuer, Professor of English, George Washington University. Professor McRuer will be presenting on his latest book project on "cripping global austerity politics." McRuer is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and co-editor of Sex and Disability.
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies invites proposals for our second conference, "Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations" at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The conference will be a two-day series of conversations in race, ethnic, queer, sexuality, gender, and disability studies, attending to the affective and economic investments in and resistance to financial, sexual, cultural, legal, political, national, and global economies. We invite papers which extend recent debates about homonationalism and "slow death" to consider the ways in which queer attachments to and resistance of capital, globalization, and the state trouble dominant notions of progress. We encourage presenters to consider the multitude of ways in which investments and attachments can be or have been made queerly: investment in communities, in institutions, in movements, in "the future," in citizenship, as well as time and monetary investments; and attachments to debt, relationships, dreams, contracts, medicine/medical interventions, to prosthetics, identities, to cultural and political obligations, to liberalism, radicalism, and so on.
We hope to create a vibrant space for intellectual exchange with an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. We welcome submissions from graduate students from a wide range of fields, including gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, American studies, geography, history, education, media and communication, sociology, and cultural studies, among others.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Affect, attachments, and investments
Immigration, citizenship, and diaspora
Empire and colonialism
Labor: sexual, affective, activist, academic, etc.
Production and consumption of media, aesthetics, and culture
Race, place, and identity
The politics of idleness, unproductivity, and failure
Kinship, family, and coalition
Consumption, consumer culture, and tourism
Neoliberalism and biopolitics
-Industrial complexes: military, non-profit, prison, and medical
Disability and crip politics
Post-humanism, animality, and technoscience
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio of no more than 100 words to queerattachments@gmail.com by OCTOBER 1, 2013. Conference applicants will be notified by November 1.
TRAVEL GRANTS for presenters will be available, sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies. We will award up to three travel grants of up to $500 each. More details will be available upon acceptance to present.
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies (GIGSS) is a group of graduate students from all disciplines and all levels who are committed to creating new opportunities for interdisciplinary conversation and research in sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota.
The Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies, named for the late University of Minnesota alumnus, is dedicated to the advancement of GLBT scholarship across the University and in the broader Twin Cities community.
For more info: http://queerattachments.wordpress.com/
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations
University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesMarch 6-8, 2014
Organized by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies
Sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies
With keynote speaker, Robert McRuer, Professor of English, George Washington University. Professor McRuer will be presenting on his latest book project on "cripping global austerity politics." McRuer is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and co-editor of Sex and Disability.
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies invites proposals for our second conference, "Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations" at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The conference will be a two-day series of conversations in race, ethnic, queer, sexuality, gender, and disability studies, attending to the affective and economic investments in and resistance to financial, sexual, cultural, legal, political, national, and global economies. We invite papers which extend recent debates about homonationalism and "slow death" to consider the ways in which queer attachments to and resistance of capital, globalization, and the state trouble dominant notions of progress. We encourage presenters to consider the multitude of ways in which investments and attachments can be or have been made queerly: investment in communities, in institutions, in movements, in "the future," in citizenship, as well as time and monetary investments; and attachments to debt, relationships, dreams, contracts, medicine/medical interventions, to prosthetics, identities, to cultural and political obligations, to liberalism, radicalism, and so on.
We hope to create a vibrant space for intellectual exchange with an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. We welcome submissions from graduate students from a wide range of fields, including gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, American studies, geography, history, education, media and communication, sociology, and cultural studies, among others.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Affect, attachments, and investments
Immigration, citizenship, and diaspora
Empire and colonialism
Labor: sexual, affective, activist, academic, etc.
Production and consumption of media, aesthetics, and culture
Race, place, and identity
The politics of idleness, unproductivity, and failure
Kinship, family, and coalition
Consumption, consumer culture, and tourism
Neoliberalism and biopolitics
-Industrial complexes: military, non-profit, prison, and medical
Disability and crip politics
Post-humanism, animality, and technoscience
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio of no more than 100 words to queerattachments@gmail.com by OCTOBER 1, 2013. Conference applicants will be notified by November 1.
TRAVEL GRANTS for presenters will be available, sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies. We will award up to three travel grants of up to $500 each. More details will be available upon acceptance to present.
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies (GIGSS) is a group of graduate students from all disciplines and all levels who are committed to creating new opportunities for interdisciplinary conversation and research in sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota.
The Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies, named for the late University of Minnesota alumnus, is dedicated to the advancement of GLBT scholarship across the University and in the broader Twin Cities community.
For more info: http://queerattachments.wordpress.com/
Applying to a PhD program in the fall?
The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University offers the Hayek Fund for Future Scholars. This fund is for students applying for fulltime PhD programs and may receive up to $300 to offset application fees. Click here for more info.
Two positions in Sociology Dept at Ithaca College, NY
THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT Ithaca College is looking to hire two faculty to start fall 2014. They seek a colleague to teach courses related to critical Criminal and Juvenile Justice Studies, and a colleague to teach critical Health Studies and Medical Sociology. One of the positions will be tenure-eligible and one will be a three-year visiting position. PhD in Sociology is required by time of appointment. Continue reading for more info.
Critical Criminology/Juvenile Justice
Ithaca College invites applications for a full-time teaching position to begin August 16, 2014. We seek a colleague to teach courses related to critical Criminal and Juvenile Justice Studies. Current examples of our courses include Definitions of Normality; Sociology of Crime; Sociology of Law; Race, Racism and the Law. Interest in developing some new courses is welcomed: suite crime, environmental crime,law/(in)justice, public policies, and/or critical criminology. The position requires a rotation in one or more of Sociology Theory, Research Methodology, and/or Introduction to Sociology. The department's goal is to encourage students to integrate a wide range of social issues with theory, method, and practice.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Sociology is required by time of appointment. The ideal applicant will: have a clear motivation to teach and supervise undergraduate research in a liberal arts environment; have a defined research/practical program. Please watch for details on how and when to apply; a more complete position description will be in the ASA JobBank, the ABS Job Listing Service, and in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
We seek to create a work environment and organizational culture reflecting our society and community and as such, Ithaca College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Members of underrepresented groups (including people of color, persons with disabilities, military veterans andwomen) are encouraged to apply.
Critical Health/Medicine
Ithaca College invites applications for a full-time teaching position, to begin August 16, 2014. We seek a colleague to teach courses related to critical Health Studies and Medical Sociology and to develop courses in any of the following: global health, health disparities, environmental health, and/or addiction. The position requires a rotation in one or more of Sociology Theory, Research Methodology, and/or Introduction to Sociology. The department's goal is to encourage students to integrate a wide range of social issues with theory, method, and practice.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Sociology is required by time of appointment. The ideal applicant will: have a clear motivation to teach and supervise undergraduate research in a liberal arts environment; have a defined research/practical program. Please watch for details on how and when to apply;a more complete position description will be in the ASA JobBank, the ABS Job Listing Service, and in The Chronicle of Higher Educatio
Critical Criminology/Juvenile Justice
Ithaca College invites applications for a full-time teaching position to begin August 16, 2014. We seek a colleague to teach courses related to critical Criminal and Juvenile Justice Studies. Current examples of our courses include Definitions of Normality; Sociology of Crime; Sociology of Law; Race, Racism and the Law. Interest in developing some new courses is welcomed: suite crime, environmental crime,law/(in)justice, public policies, and/or critical criminology. The position requires a rotation in one or more of Sociology Theory, Research Methodology, and/or Introduction to Sociology. The department's goal is to encourage students to integrate a wide range of social issues with theory, method, and practice.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Sociology is required by time of appointment. The ideal applicant will: have a clear motivation to teach and supervise undergraduate research in a liberal arts environment; have a defined research/practical program. Please watch for details on how and when to apply; a more complete position description will be in the ASA JobBank, the ABS Job Listing Service, and in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
We seek to create a work environment and organizational culture reflecting our society and community and as such, Ithaca College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Members of underrepresented groups (including people of color, persons with disabilities, military veterans andwomen) are encouraged to apply.
Critical Health/Medicine
Ithaca College invites applications for a full-time teaching position, to begin August 16, 2014. We seek a colleague to teach courses related to critical Health Studies and Medical Sociology and to develop courses in any of the following: global health, health disparities, environmental health, and/or addiction. The position requires a rotation in one or more of Sociology Theory, Research Methodology, and/or Introduction to Sociology. The department's goal is to encourage students to integrate a wide range of social issues with theory, method, and practice.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Sociology is required by time of appointment. The ideal applicant will: have a clear motivation to teach and supervise undergraduate research in a liberal arts environment; have a defined research/practical program. Please watch for details on how and when to apply;a more complete position description will be in the ASA JobBank, the ABS Job Listing Service, and in The Chronicle of Higher Educatio
CFP - SGMS: Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures
SMGS: MECHADEMIA CONFERENCE on Asia Popular Cultures invites submissions for conference presentation panels. The conference will be held at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design September 27th - 29th, 2013 and explores and celebrates global popular cultures influenced by anime and manga. Submission deadline: August 20th, 2013.
Register at: http://mcad.edu/events-fellowships/schoolgirls-mobilesuits/2012-registration
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SGMSatMCAD
For conference presentation panel, submit suggested panel title, and all abstracts, participant names and contact information; or for singular presentation paper submission, please send contact information and a 200-word abstract by August 20, 2013 to: Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson at: gretchen_gasterland-gustafsson@mcad.edu
Based on the book, Mechademia 5: Fantropologies, SGMS: Mechademia Conference will explore the breadth of fandom and fan cultures. Popular cultural objects and fans -- or otaku -- are at the center of an ever-expanding network of influences, differences, obsessions, practices, knowledges and performances. Fans have transformed Japanese popular culture into a pervasive global discourse. Fanthropologies will address the vast but disparate movements that have begun to define communities across ethnic and national boundaries. Communities linked by common passions and conceptions are sewn together by conventions, web sites, blogs, downloads, and other performative practices.
Mechademia - the book series and the conference -- creates new links between different communities, challenges the hegemonic flows of information, and acknowledges the broader range of professional, academic, and fan communities rather than accept their current isolation. This conference will move beyond pejorative or self-satisfied stereotypes of fandom to reveal the plurality and the potential agency of this emerging subjectivity and community. We aim at more than an ethnographic map of the fan landscape--more than case histories of fandom, or other approaches that might isolate or exoticize the fan. Instead, we seek proposals from a range of disciplines that investigate, interrogate and theorize the ruptures and the peculiarities that define fans and their unique communities - both actual and virtual.
With the addition of our special guest, Azuma Hiroki, the conference will also be looking at the political and economic issues, as well as issues of emerging changes in the self conceptions of the Japanese people after and around the Fukushima disaster. Azuma's controversial work in situating a future Fukushima as a tourist site and the concomitant implications for fan-like communities will enhance the scope of our study. Discussions and papers around the issues and fan structures evolving from this momentous event will also be welcomed.
Our subject area extends from the fandoms associated with anime, manga, games, subcultural fashion, and art, fan-based global practices and disaster issues associated with Asian popular cultures. Proposals may include textual readings that problematize the fan experience, critical theories of fandom, and investigations and excavations of fan-produced texts and performances.
The submission deadline is August 20, 2013. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes in length. Projection and other technical facilities will be available in all conference session rooms. Details on hotel accommodation and schedules will be forthcoming. Check the SGMS Facebook site for updates.
Register at: http://mcad.edu/events-fellowships/schoolgirls-mobilesuits/2012-registration
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SGMSatMCAD
For conference presentation panel, submit suggested panel title, and all abstracts, participant names and contact information; or for singular presentation paper submission, please send contact information and a 200-word abstract by August 20, 2013 to: Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson at: gretchen_gasterland-gustafsson@mcad.edu
Based on the book, Mechademia 5: Fantropologies, SGMS: Mechademia Conference will explore the breadth of fandom and fan cultures. Popular cultural objects and fans -- or otaku -- are at the center of an ever-expanding network of influences, differences, obsessions, practices, knowledges and performances. Fans have transformed Japanese popular culture into a pervasive global discourse. Fanthropologies will address the vast but disparate movements that have begun to define communities across ethnic and national boundaries. Communities linked by common passions and conceptions are sewn together by conventions, web sites, blogs, downloads, and other performative practices.
Mechademia - the book series and the conference -- creates new links between different communities, challenges the hegemonic flows of information, and acknowledges the broader range of professional, academic, and fan communities rather than accept their current isolation. This conference will move beyond pejorative or self-satisfied stereotypes of fandom to reveal the plurality and the potential agency of this emerging subjectivity and community. We aim at more than an ethnographic map of the fan landscape--more than case histories of fandom, or other approaches that might isolate or exoticize the fan. Instead, we seek proposals from a range of disciplines that investigate, interrogate and theorize the ruptures and the peculiarities that define fans and their unique communities - both actual and virtual.
With the addition of our special guest, Azuma Hiroki, the conference will also be looking at the political and economic issues, as well as issues of emerging changes in the self conceptions of the Japanese people after and around the Fukushima disaster. Azuma's controversial work in situating a future Fukushima as a tourist site and the concomitant implications for fan-like communities will enhance the scope of our study. Discussions and papers around the issues and fan structures evolving from this momentous event will also be welcomed.
Our subject area extends from the fandoms associated with anime, manga, games, subcultural fashion, and art, fan-based global practices and disaster issues associated with Asian popular cultures. Proposals may include textual readings that problematize the fan experience, critical theories of fandom, and investigations and excavations of fan-produced texts and performances.
The submission deadline is August 20, 2013. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes in length. Projection and other technical facilities will be available in all conference session rooms. Details on hotel accommodation and schedules will be forthcoming. Check the SGMS Facebook site for updates.
New DVDs at University Libraries
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES HAVE ACQUIRED new videos for research and teaching. As a reminder, DVDs can be reserved for classroom use and put on reserve for student viewing in Walter Library SRC. Click here to view the list of new DVDs.
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