Lisa Arrastia who awarded an American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Congratulations to Lisa, who, according to the AAUW was one of 64 Fellows selected from 1,175 applications from such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
University of WI-Madison Visiting Assistant Professor Position
The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a visiting assistant professor for 2009-2010. Applicants are recommended to have past teaching experience. Application deadline: June 1, 2009 or until filled.
University of WI-Madison Visiting Assistant Professor Position
Application Deadline: June 1, 2009 or until filled. The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a visiting assistant professor for 2009-2010 in the area of Hmong American Studies, Critical Hmong Studies, or transnational Hmong Studies with a contemporary U.S. focus. We are interested in someone who is already experienced in teaching a course in any of the following disciplinary perspectives:
Hmong Studies, Sociology, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Community Studies, Political Science, Public Health, Psychology, Counseling, Education, Human Development and Family Studies, Nursing, or a related discipline with a contemporary US focus. Experience with community based research or service learning is desirable but not
required. The teaching load will be 2 courses per semester. This position also includes providing consultation about the future of Hmong Studies as a field and involvement in programming. The teaching load will be 2 courses per semester.
We have already put two courses in the timetable for the Fall (generically titled so that they can be tailored to the interests of the instructor).
Asian Am 240 Hmong Experiences in the U.S.
Asian Am 540 Hmong American Studies
This is a 9 month position that will pay $42,865 plus benefits. If you are interested in being considered for this position, please send BY EMAIL your curriculum vita and a letter describing what your course content and perspective would be for both of these courses by June 1 to:
Lynet Uttal
Director, Asian American Studies Program
luttal@wisc.edu
Note: If a prospective visiting assistant professor has yet to complete the Ph.D. or other appropriate terminal degree by the date of offer, the appointment will be made as a visiting instructor. The appointment letter will include a statement indicating that if all degree work is not completed by the start of the appointment, it will be for one year at the rank of Visiting Instructor at a salary $500 less than the rate to be offered that individual at the rank of visiting assistant professor.
University of WI-Madison Visiting Assistant Professor Position
Application Deadline: June 1, 2009 or until filled. The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a visiting assistant professor for 2009-2010 in the area of Hmong American Studies, Critical Hmong Studies, or transnational Hmong Studies with a contemporary U.S. focus. We are interested in someone who is already experienced in teaching a course in any of the following disciplinary perspectives:
Hmong Studies, Sociology, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Community Studies, Political Science, Public Health, Psychology, Counseling, Education, Human Development and Family Studies, Nursing, or a related discipline with a contemporary US focus. Experience with community based research or service learning is desirable but not
required. The teaching load will be 2 courses per semester. This position also includes providing consultation about the future of Hmong Studies as a field and involvement in programming. The teaching load will be 2 courses per semester.
We have already put two courses in the timetable for the Fall (generically titled so that they can be tailored to the interests of the instructor).
Asian Am 240 Hmong Experiences in the U.S.
Asian Am 540 Hmong American Studies
This is a 9 month position that will pay $42,865 plus benefits. If you are interested in being considered for this position, please send BY EMAIL your curriculum vita and a letter describing what your course content and perspective would be for both of these courses by June 1 to:
Lynet Uttal
Director, Asian American Studies Program
luttal@wisc.edu
Note: If a prospective visiting assistant professor has yet to complete the Ph.D. or other appropriate terminal degree by the date of offer, the appointment will be made as a visiting instructor. The appointment letter will include a statement indicating that if all degree work is not completed by the start of the appointment, it will be for one year at the rank of Visiting Instructor at a salary $500 less than the rate to be offered that individual at the rank of visiting assistant professor.
Fulbright Information Sessions
The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce five Fulbright Information Sessions for students for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Fulbright Information Sessions
The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce five Fulbright Information Sessions for students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2010-11 academic year. Excellent opportunities are available to over 140 countries. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The UM campus application deadline is Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
Those who would like to attend should go to the following link to reserve a place at one of the five meetings:
http://www.grad.umn.edu/fulbright/
Meetings are scheduled as follows:
Tuesday, June 2, at 10:15 a.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Wednesday, June 3, at 2 p.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Thursday, June 11, at 9 a.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Tuesday, June 16, at 9:15 a.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Thursday, June 18, at 2:15 p.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Fulbright Information Sessions
The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce five Fulbright Information Sessions for students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2010-11 academic year. Excellent opportunities are available to over 140 countries. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The UM campus application deadline is Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
Those who would like to attend should go to the following link to reserve a place at one of the five meetings:
http://www.grad.umn.edu/fulbright/
Meetings are scheduled as follows:
Tuesday, June 2, at 10:15 a.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Wednesday, June 3, at 2 p.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Thursday, June 11, at 9 a.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Tuesday, June 16, at 9:15 a.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
Thursday, June 18, at 2:15 p.m., Room 433 Johnston Hall
PCard Receipt Reminder
PCard receipts for all purchases made through 5/22/09 are due to Melanie by May 29, 2009.
PCard Receipt Reminder
See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'
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PCard Receipt Reminder
See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'
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The New York Metro American Studies Association Call for Papers
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) announces a call for papers for our 2009 annual one-day conference in Manhattan, November 14, 2009. Proposals due: June 30, 2009.
The New York Metro American Studies Association Call for Papers
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) announces a call for papers for our 2009 annual one-day conference:
A More Perfect Union?
November 14, 2009
9:00am-5:30pm
St. John's University, Downtown Manhattan campus
Our annual conference this year explores the appeal of and challenges to the national ideal of "a more perfect union," initially posited at the emergence of the legal entity known as "the United States."
As this call for papers goes out, the governor of Texas is suggesting that his state secede from the United States. Although his quest is unlikely to succeed, what's most interesting is its transhistorical consistency. One hundred and fifty years ago, William Lloyd Garrison demanded "no union with slavery!" Of course, students of American
studies have long examined cultural and political fault lines in the US, including race, gender, class, religion, and sexuality. Indeed, from our disciplinary perspective, the real surprise may not be the failure of unity in the national polity, but its enduring promise.
Suspending some of our discipline's conventional skepticism, this conference asks what American studies can or should teach us not only about the divisions in US culture, but about its uneven potentials and latent desires for unity. How can we analyze the desire for a "more perfect union" in terms of both perfection and unity?
We invite papers on the multiple nodes--historical and contemporary, virtual and material--which both express and interrupt this urge towards unity: How, for example, does the proliferation of different types of media, from TiVo to Twitter, from blogs to Facebook, disrupt traditional unities organized around nation, region, and family (not
to mention consumer capital)? What do we make of the fact that Obama's overwhelming victory in the presidential election--after a campaign thematized by his calls to "choose unity over division"--was accompanied by majority votes in three states to deny same-sex marriage and to restrict adoption rights for gay Americans? Or that,
afterward, national gay journalists and pundits (many of whom were Obama supporters) led a media charge to scapegoat California's African American voters, while spontaneous protests across California, major US cities, and the internet, targeted the Mormon Church?
We especially invite papers which reflect on the conference location in Lower Manhattan, near Ground Zero, where the redevelopment effort has also involved ideals of unity and perfectability. How have rhetorics around national and transnational unity that emerged out of September 11 been reworked in subsequent years? How have these issues played out in local politics? In what ways do tensions over community dissent/assent, historical and geographic dis/unity, and the conflicting agendas of politicians, cultural and economic groups coexist with a hope (spoken or unspoken) that the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site will spur creation of a "more perfect" urban
area and global city that will heal the ruptures of 9/11/01?
We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines, as well as from culture workers and policy professionals outside academia. Please note that we accept only individual papers (not panels). Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Re-unions
-Dis-union (necessary oppositions, irreconcilable differences)
-Intimate unions (marriage, civil unions, miscegenation, human-animal
relations, therapeutic bonds)
-Labor unions (historical, graduate student unions, after NAFTA and Bush)
-Economic unions (business, wage-labor, slavery, sex work, marriage,
collective bargaining)
-Perfection, perfectibility, progress, and development (economic,
evolutionary, political, and social)
-Political unity (assent, dissent, party politics, strange bedfellows)
-Historical unions (relations across time, subjugated knowledges)
-Geographic unions (territory, jurisdiction, expansion, transportation)
-Alliances (historical, contemporary, uncanny, unexpected, entrenched)
-Temporary unions (flash mobs, blogstorms, Facebook protest groups)
-Collaborations (multi-media, multi-disciplinary, multi-purpose)
-Creative/creating unions (pastiche, editing, compilation)
-Changing unions (moves toward unity or moves away from it, in history,
representation, politics, knowledge, etc.)
-Unified fields
Please send proposals and inquiries to nymasa09@gmail.com by June 30,
2009.
http:// www.nymasa.org
The New York Metro American Studies Association Call for Papers
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) announces a call for papers for our 2009 annual one-day conference:
A More Perfect Union?
November 14, 2009
9:00am-5:30pm
St. John's University, Downtown Manhattan campus
Our annual conference this year explores the appeal of and challenges to the national ideal of "a more perfect union," initially posited at the emergence of the legal entity known as "the United States."
As this call for papers goes out, the governor of Texas is suggesting that his state secede from the United States. Although his quest is unlikely to succeed, what's most interesting is its transhistorical consistency. One hundred and fifty years ago, William Lloyd Garrison demanded "no union with slavery!" Of course, students of American
studies have long examined cultural and political fault lines in the US, including race, gender, class, religion, and sexuality. Indeed, from our disciplinary perspective, the real surprise may not be the failure of unity in the national polity, but its enduring promise.
Suspending some of our discipline's conventional skepticism, this conference asks what American studies can or should teach us not only about the divisions in US culture, but about its uneven potentials and latent desires for unity. How can we analyze the desire for a "more perfect union" in terms of both perfection and unity?
We invite papers on the multiple nodes--historical and contemporary, virtual and material--which both express and interrupt this urge towards unity: How, for example, does the proliferation of different types of media, from TiVo to Twitter, from blogs to Facebook, disrupt traditional unities organized around nation, region, and family (not
to mention consumer capital)? What do we make of the fact that Obama's overwhelming victory in the presidential election--after a campaign thematized by his calls to "choose unity over division"--was accompanied by majority votes in three states to deny same-sex marriage and to restrict adoption rights for gay Americans? Or that,
afterward, national gay journalists and pundits (many of whom were Obama supporters) led a media charge to scapegoat California's African American voters, while spontaneous protests across California, major US cities, and the internet, targeted the Mormon Church?
We especially invite papers which reflect on the conference location in Lower Manhattan, near Ground Zero, where the redevelopment effort has also involved ideals of unity and perfectability. How have rhetorics around national and transnational unity that emerged out of September 11 been reworked in subsequent years? How have these issues played out in local politics? In what ways do tensions over community dissent/assent, historical and geographic dis/unity, and the conflicting agendas of politicians, cultural and economic groups coexist with a hope (spoken or unspoken) that the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site will spur creation of a "more perfect" urban
area and global city that will heal the ruptures of 9/11/01?
We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines, as well as from culture workers and policy professionals outside academia. Please note that we accept only individual papers (not panels). Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Re-unions
-Dis-union (necessary oppositions, irreconcilable differences)
-Intimate unions (marriage, civil unions, miscegenation, human-animal
relations, therapeutic bonds)
-Labor unions (historical, graduate student unions, after NAFTA and Bush)
-Economic unions (business, wage-labor, slavery, sex work, marriage,
collective bargaining)
-Perfection, perfectibility, progress, and development (economic,
evolutionary, political, and social)
-Political unity (assent, dissent, party politics, strange bedfellows)
-Historical unions (relations across time, subjugated knowledges)
-Geographic unions (territory, jurisdiction, expansion, transportation)
-Alliances (historical, contemporary, uncanny, unexpected, entrenched)
-Temporary unions (flash mobs, blogstorms, Facebook protest groups)
-Collaborations (multi-media, multi-disciplinary, multi-purpose)
-Creative/creating unions (pastiche, editing, compilation)
-Changing unions (moves toward unity or moves away from it, in history,
representation, politics, knowledge, etc.)
-Unified fields
Please send proposals and inquiries to nymasa09@gmail.com by June 30,
2009.
http:// www.nymasa.org
Congratulations Juliana Hu Pegues
Congratulations to Juliana Hu Pegues who has won an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for 2009-2010.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Marie Milsten-Fiedler Retirement
As Marie Milsten-Fiedler nears her date of retirement, please join us to mark her over 23 years of service to the University. Marie's last day at the University is Friday, June 5th, but American Studies will host a public celebration on Wednesday, May 20th from 1:30 - 3:30. Please see attached invitation for details.
Marie Milsten-Fiedler Retirement
See attachment below for invitation.
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Marie Milsten-Fiedler Retirement
See attachment below for invitation.
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