UNLV Interdisciplinary/Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty in Residence

THE UNIVERSITY of NEVADA, LAS VEGAS is pleased to announce an open Faculty in Residence position in Interdisciplinary/Gender & Sexuality Studies.

The UNLV Interdisciplinary Degree Programs invites applications for a Faculty-in-Residence to begin January 2016. This is a full-time, 9-month position. Primary responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in both Interdisciplinary Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies; working with students; and participating in appropriate service in the department. Interdisciplinary Degree Programs houses a number of dynamic programs, offering both majors and minors in African American Studies, American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Latin American Studies, Latina/o Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, and Social Science Studies. For more information, view our web site at: http://www.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/

Qualifications include an earned doctorate in an interdisciplinary field from an accredited university, in hand by July 1, 2016; teaching experience; experience in interdisciplinary studies, including Gender & Sexuality Studies or Women’s Studies; experience with and commitment to a diverse student population.  Areas of specialization are open, although we seek a scholar with proficiencies in one or more of the following areas:  interdisciplinary studies; interdisciplinary/feminist research methods; race/ethnic, gender, class and sexuality studies; social justice. 

Submit a letter of application, a detailed curriculum vitae listing qualifications and experience, and three letters of recommendation. Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience, with specific reference to the minimum and preferred qualifications.

Although this position will remain open until filled, review of candidates’ materials will begin immediately.  Materials should be addressed to Dr. Anita Revilla, Search Committee Chair, and are to be submitted via on-line application at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu.  For assistance with UNLV’s on-line applicant portal, contact UNLV Employment Services at (702) 895-3504 or applicant.inquiry@unlv.edu.

American Studies Holiday Potluck

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Occidental College Two Year American Studies Postdoc

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OLPD 5080 Section 3: US Higher Education Overview

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UC Davis Visiting Assitant Professor in Comparative Border Studies

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Longtime UofM History Professor Hy Berman Passed Away

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AMST 8201 Graduate Student Symposium

AMST 8201: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS will be hosting the “Tracing American Studies Graduate Student Symposium” on Monday, December 14^th from 12:30 – 3:15pm in Scott Hall 105 (Commons). The five seminar participants from our first year cohort will present their work from this semester. 

Tracing American Studies Graduate Student Symposium

By AMST 8201: Historical Foundations (of American Studies)

Graduate Seminar Participants

Monday, December 14, 2015

12:30-3:15pm

Scott Hall Commons Room (1^st Floor)

Quick Schedule

12:30-12:40pm

Professor Kale B. Fajardo, Welcome and Introduction

12:40-1:00pm

Rachelle Henderson, “From Mulatta to Mixed Race: Black-White Mixed Race Women in Interracial Literature”

1:00-1:20pm

Chip Chang, “Mapping Afro-Asian Dialogues”

1:20-1:40pm

Brendan McHugh, “Rainbow Tours: Thom Bean's transnational activism, Queer political speaking tours, and Scientific Diasporas, 1989-1991”

1:40-2:00pm

Vanessa Guzman

“Anti-Migrant Sentiment and the Security-Migration Nexus Pre-and-Post 9/11”

2:00-2:20pm
Matthew Treon, “Noisy Dialogics: Auditioning Sound in American Cultural Studies”

2:20-2:40pm Q+A
2:45-3:15pm Light Refreshments


Abstracts

 

12:40-1:00pm: Rachelle Henderson, American Studies PhD Student

“From Mulatta to Mixed Race: Black-White Mixed Race Women in Interracial Literature”

Abstract: I explore the ways in which representations of mixed women in interracial literature have changed over time. Specifically, I explore the ways in which Fran Ross's Oreo (1974)  and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) challenge nineteenth and early twentieth century representations of the tragic mulatta. 

1:00-1:20pm: Chip Chang, American Studies PhD Student

“Mapping Afro-Asian Dialogues”

Abstract: I trace the genealogy of Afro-Asian scholarship in ethnic studies, focusing on the ways in which it is presented and utilized. For instance, oftentimes Afro-Asian scholarship is used to show a history of solidarity between Blacks and Asian Americans, and is then used to argue for current inter-ethnic relations. This paper looks at past and recent scholarship to look at how Asian American studies as a field in ethnic studies has grown.

1:20-1:40pm: Brendan McHugh, American Studies PhD Student

“Rainbow Tours: Thom Bean's transnational activism, Queer political speaking tours, and Scientific Diasporas, 1989-1991”

Abstract: This paper explores an unwritten moment in queer history through the analytics of "the political economies of intimacy," post socialism, and Scientific Diasporas. It examines the interaction of a U.S. black gay activist, Thom Bean, and his meetings with a South African gay activist and a Russian gay activist while they were on speaking tours in the U.S. and the repercussions these meetings had on international LGBT activism in the first decades of the AIDS/HIV epidemic.

1:40-2:00pm: Vanessa Guzman, American Studies PhD Student

“Anti-Migrant Sentiment and the Security-Migration Nexus Pre-and-Post 9/11”

Abstract: This paper examines the ways scholars have approached how anti-migrant sentiment is formed, shaped, maintained and contested across time.  I will also address how perceived threats to ontological security helped to form the security-migration nexus and security regimes in the post 9/11 era.  

2:00-2:20pm: Matthew Treon, American Studies PhD Student
“Noisy Dialogics: Auditioning Sound in American Cultural Studies”

Abstract: This essay deals with ir/rational sound (historically positioned within American Studies discourse) and trades in theoretical lenses for listening. Borrowing analytical tools from Cultural Studies (especially that of the often visual-centric Birmingham Centre) and literary theory, this essay attempts to call attention to two of American Studies’ significant epistemological lineages while also demonstrating how semiotic codes overdetermined by visual language—still shedding the specter of Age-of-Enlightenment-thinking—cannot translate directly onto the study of sound. “Noisy Dialogics” asks what is lost in this translation? What and who are the remainders? How can rethinking the language of sound in cultural studies help to articulate new ways of meaning-making? And what are the politics involved in such a project? Inspired in part by Michael Denning’s recent call to “decolonize the ear,” this essay responds by carrying on a dialogue with emerging theories of sound and society, especially those that take up the political power of noise.