Graduate Fellowships and Awards Deadlines

There are many upcoming Graduate Fellowships and Awards deadlines. For a full list, see below.

December 4, 2018 Graduate Fellowships & Awards Upcoming Fellowship & Award Deadlines Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Thesis Research Travel Grants Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship  Friday, December 14, 2018 MAGS Excellence in Teaching Award  Thursday, January 10, 2019 Bridging Funds for External Fellowships Fellowship Announcements Torske Klubben Fellowship Program | Application Deadline Varies   The Torske Klubben, founded in 1933, is a Minneapolis luncheon club for individuals of Norwegian heritage who are deeply interested in Norway and Norwegian-American history and relationships. The organization funds University of Minnesota graduate fellowships for Norwegian citizens, as well as this award for Minnesota residents who have an interest in or connection with Norway and/or its culture. The overarching goal of the fellowship program is supporting future leaders. The program is divided into two subprograms: Torske Klubben Fellowship for Minnesota Residents (Deadline 2/18/2019) Torske Klubben Fellowship for Norwegian Citizens (Deadline 2/22/2019) If you have questions regarding graduate fellowships or awards, please contact gsfellow@umn.edu.  Announcements New Doctoral Program to Explore Indigenous Studies Next year the Department of American Studies will offer a new program that will allow doctoral students to pursue indigenous studies. The program is part of Creating Inclusive Cohorts, a larger initiative by the Graduate School Diversity Office to promote diversity. "It’s our hope that this pilot program will increase and enhance the training experience of these students when they are together as a group," said Yoji Shimizu, associate dean of graduate education and director of the Graduate School Diversity Office. Graduate Students Raise Concern Over Lack of Transparency of Student Fees The Council of Graduate Students has received multiple complaints from students saying that appointment letters sent to graduate assistants and potential assistants from certain departments didn’t mention mandatory student fees. The letters are required to include this information, according to an Office of Human Resources policy. OHR does not monitor whether or not letters comply with the policy, said Scott Lanyon, vice provost and dean of graduate education. He said the policy is often overlooked because many of the letters are written by individual departments, adding that graduate assistant appointment letters are not treated like other employment offer letters because they are intended for students. #UMNdriven Spotlight Have a U of M story to share? Submit to the #UMNdriven Spotlight page to be featured on UMN social media channels. You can also nominate stories to be featured.   Register for University Fitness Classes by January 23rd Sign up for a variety of fitness classes, $129 each, and 150 Wellbeing Points each. Classes run 1/28 - 3/28. Events Cross-Sector Approaches to Combating Climate Change  Thursday, December 6, 2018 | 5:00-8:00 p.m. | Humphrey Forum The event will consist of a panel discussion between various representatives from differing industry/academic sectors on collaboration to combat environmental and climate change from a development perspective. Will be followed by a reception, including a meal and an opportunity to network. Download Event Flyer (JPEG)

University of Michigan 2019 U.S. History Graduate Student Conference

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN is pleased to announce their call for papers for their 2019 U.S. History Graduate Student Conference, “Making History Public(s): Presenting the Collective,” on May 10-11, 2019. Scholars working in all periods of American history are welcome. Submissions are due by Sunday, January 28, 2019. For more information, click here.

Destress Mi Corazon

LA RAZA AND CHICANO LATINO STUDIES are hosting Destress Mi Corazon on Wednesday, December 5 at 5:00 PM in Coffman Union Room 211. For more information, click here.

Anthropology Courses Spring 2019

THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT is offering ANTH 3047W Anthropology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality, ANTH 3049W Anthropology of Social Class, ANTH 3145W/5045W Urban Anthropology, ANTH 3980 Queering Capitalism, and ANTH 4003 Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology. For more information on these courses, click the course titles. 

70th International Human Rights Day Commemoration

THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DEPARTMENT is co-sponsoring the 70^th International Human Rights Day Commemoration on Monday, December 10 at 5:30 PM at SEIU Local 26 (825 18^th Ave NE.) The commemoration of Human Rights Daywill mark seventy years since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For more information, click here.

AISCC End of the Year Social

THE AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENT CULTURAL CENTER is co-sponsoring an End of the Year Social on Thursday, December 13 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in Scott Hall Room 105. For more information, click here.

University of Texas Dallas - Assistant Professor

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History, specializing in Women’s and/or Gender History, any period. Applicants should have a PhD. For more information, click here. 

Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY is hosting Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration with Dr. Nicole Fleetwood on Thursday, December 12 at 6:00 PM in Walter Library Room 402. For more information, click here.

New Pilot Program DDF Deadlines

UPCOMING DEADLINES FOR THE NEW PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE DDF:

(1) The first deadline for your proposal is December 12th by 4 p.m.  Only a proposal at this point.
Three to four proposals will be selected in the first round.  Comments will be provided for revising your proposal for the next round.  In consultation with your advisors and other mentors, work on revisions over break.

(2) The second deadline is January 22nd at 4 p.m. Your proposal and two letters of recommendation, one from your advisor(s) and one from another committee member, are due on that date.  The committee will then select two proposals and forward them to the College-wide competition.  On February 14th, we will be notified about which applications will be forwarded to the University-wide competition.  There will be another possibility to incorporate feedback to make proposals stronger for the University-wide competition by Feb. 26th.

Please submit DDF proposals to Deja Just (pul0003@umn.edu) by Wednesday, December 12 at 4:00 PM. For more information, click here.

RIGS Dissertation Writing Retreat

THE RIGS INITIATIVE is pleased to announce the RIGS Dissertation Writing Retreat on March 18-21, 2019. They encourage applications from UMN dissertation writers who are broadly engaged with and/or committed to addressing in their research some of the most pressing socio-economic issues and inequalities of our time. Applications are due Monday, January 28, 2019. For more information, click here.

AMST 3114 The US in International Perspective (focus on Ocean Worlds)

THE AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT is offering AMST 3114 The US in International Perspective (focus on Ocean Worlds) this upcoming spring semester. This course engages the ocean as a geographic and epistemological framework to examine the US in local, regional, international, and global perspectives. This class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM in Burton Hall Room 125 and is taught by Professor Kale B. Fajardo. For more information, click here.

RIGS Dissertation Proposal Development

THE RIGS INITIATIVE is pleased to announce that applications for the RIGS Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship are now open. The DPDF Fellowship includes a week-long dissertation proposal workshop from March 18-21, 2019 and a stipend of $1,000. Application close on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. For more information, click here.

MNLEND 2019-2020 Fellowships

MINNESOTA LEADERSHIP EDUCATION IN NEURODEVELOPMENT AND RELATED DISABILITIES (MNLEND) is pleased to announce that applications for 2019-2020 fellowships are now open. Applications are due by Friday, March 1. For more information, click here,here, and here.

University of Michigan - 23rd Annual CLIFF Conference

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN is pleased to announce their call for papers for their 23^rd Annual CLIFF Conference, Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers, on March 15-16, 2019. They invite graduate students in Comparative Literature and across the humanities to submit proposals to cliff.complit@umich.edu by Friday, December 7. For more information, click here.

Florida Atlantic University Libraries Short-Term Research Fellowships

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES and Huntington Library are jointly offering three short-term research fellowships for advanced graduate students. Doctoral candidates in fields related to the collections who have completed their qualifying exams and received approval for their dissertation proposal from their department are encouraged to apply. The application deadline has been extended to Saturday, December 15. For more information, click here.

American Indian Studies Senior Symposium

THE DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES is hosting their Senior Symposium on Tuesday, November 27 from 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Appleby Hall Room 322. For more information, click here.

Art and Trauma. The Fateful Connection

THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE STUDIES is co-sponsoring Francesc Torres’ lecture, Art and Trauma. The Fateful Connection, on Thursday, November 29 from 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM in Folwell Hall Room 108. For more information, click here.

Latino Youth: Preparing Minnesota's Economic Future

EL COLEGIO is hosting Latino Youth: Preparing Minnesota’s Economic Future on Thursday, December 6 from 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM at El Colegio High School (4137 Bloomington Avenue, Minneapolis). For more information, click here.

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PFund Foundation Scholarships

 THE PFUND FOUNDATION is pleased to announce that its 2019 scholarship cycle is now open and accepting applications until Tuesday, January 15, 2019. The PFund Foundation awards grants to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and allied individuals for their commitment to leadership within their communities. For more information, click here.

University of Michigan's Black Research Roundtable

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN’S BLACK RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE is pleased to announce its call for submissions for its first annual graduate student conference on Feminist, Queer, and Trans Perspectives on the Future of Black Studieson May 10-11, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Submissions are due by Friday, December 14. For more information, see below. 

The University of Michigan’s Black Research Roundtable invites submissions for its first annual graduate student conference on Feminist, Queer, and Trans Perspectives on the Future of Black Studies.

This conference asks: where are we and where are we going? Black Studies is 50 years out from its scholar activist-origins. In that time, the study of Blackness has been taken up across disciplines and institutions. Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and political interventions within the (inter)discipline--of which, Black queer studies, Black trans studies, and Black women’s history have been central. Among these fields, Black gender has arguably emerged as the central object of analysis. As graduate students who will contribute to the future of the (inter)discipline, this context means we must re-engage the theories, methods, and practices that undergird Black Studies in general, and Black gender studies in particular.

Looking simultaneously backwards and forwards, the Black Research Roundtable hopes to reconsider the perennial questions for any (inter)disciple forged in struggle: How is our theory engaging with both the institutionalized reality of the (inter)discipline and the material concerns of Black people in the world? What can the debates and contributions of Black feminist, queer, and trans theory offer in this moment? As graduate students trying to find our grounding as scholars and professionals, we hope to use this conference as an opportunity to  re-engage the space between abstraction and the practice of situating our scholarship.

The Black Research Roundtable invites papers, and workshop proposals. We anticipate and encourage a wide range of topics, but seek work in particular that grapples with: Black feminist, queer, and trans theory, futures, lived experiences, archival fragments, and the aesthetic objects etc. that ground our work. We welcome work that addresses but is not limited to the following questions:

Context

· What role does Black Studies play in our current political moment?

· How is the current structure of the university shaping the conditions of the production of Black thought?

· What are the political futures suggested by Black queer, trans, and feminist studies? How do they converge? How might they be in tension?

· What are the unspoken realities of our discipline? How do the class dynamics of Black Studies academics affect Black studies scholarship?

· What theoretical gaps are produced by divergent geographies of Black analytics?

· Black thought is produced all over the world. However, much emerging work on Black gender seems to be fairly U.S. centric, with some key exceptions. How does this U.S. centric nature shape the questions we ask about the nature of Black gender?

Relating theory, method, and practice

· What topics and who have we overlooked in Black gender and queer studies?

· How can queer and trans analytics be used to understand social transformation?

· How do we grapple with the relationship between ontologies of Blackness and the lived realities of Black people?

· How do we continue to do the work of connecting the theoretical interventions of Black queer studies, Black trans studies, and Black gender studies more broadly to the political needs of Black people?

· How does the U.S. centric nature of most Black Studies scholarship shape the questions we ask about the nature of Black gender?

Theory

· What dominant theoretical trends are shaping Black Studies today?

· What is the relationship between  Black feminism and Black queer studies?

The conference will be held from May 10-11, 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We hope to cultivate a space with a focus on rigorous, collegial feedback and lively conversation on graduate students’ current scholarship. In lieu of the traditional keynote, we’ll be having a faculty roundtable on a recent publication thinking about gender and Blackness.  

Proposals must contain a 250 word abstract and an abbreviated C.V. of no more than 2 pages.  Materials must be submitted no later than December 14th, 2018. BRR will notify selected authors whether their abstract has been accepted by January 18th 2019. Please submit abstracts via this form and contact Eshe Sherley (esherley@umich.edu) or Reuben Riggs-Bookman (reubenr@umich.edu) with any questions. 

La Raza - Nuestra Cultura

LA RAZA presents Nuestra Cultura on Saturday, November 17 from 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM in Coffman Union. For more information, click here. 

Grand Valley State University - Assistant Professor in Global Studies

GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY is now accepting applications for an assistant professor with research specialization in global studies, including areas such as global inequality, migration, transnationalism, global health, global communication, environment/sustainability, human rights and global perspectives on issues of identity, gender, race, and ethnicity. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant field by August 6, 2019. Applications are due by Sunday, January 6, 2019. For more information, see below. 

Assistant Professor - Area and Global Studies (Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Apply nowJob no: 492951
Work type: FAC - Tenure Track Faculty
Location: Allendale
Categories: Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Summary:

Area and Global Studies Department at Grand Valley State University invites applications for assistant professor with research specialization in global studies, including areas such as global inequality, migration, transnationalism, global health, global communication, environment/sustainability, human rights and global perspectives on issues of identity, gender, race and ethnicity. Candidates must demonstrate teaching experience at undergraduate level, a commitment to serving diverse communities of learners and collaborating with diverse colleagues whose expertise spans disciplinary boundaries.

Required Qualifications:

·         Ph.D. in relevant field by August 6, 2019.

·         Demonstrated interdisciplinary scholarship in global studies that connects to disciplines such as African/African American Studies, Middle East Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies.

·         Demonstrated scholarly activity and research agenda in global issues and social impact.

·         Demonstrated experience in teaching about global issues at undergraduate level.

·         Commitment to serving diverse communities of learners, collaborating with colleagues whose expertise spans disciplinary boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications:

·         Ph.D. in Global Studies.

·         Demonstrated local or global community engagement with global issues.

·         Ability to teach both in classroom and online environment.

·         Demonstrated experience in teaching a broad range of courses in the existing interdisciplinary programs in the college, including Environmental Studies, and Human Rights.

Position Responsibilities: The successful candidate will teach introductory and advanced level courses in Global Studies and Social Impact and contribute to other programs in the college. Faculty members are required to demonstrate excellence in teaching, maintain an active research agenda and contribute service to the department, college, university and community. Ordinarily, tenure-track faculty members teach three courses per semester.

Salary: Competitive Salary and benefits package.

Campus: Allendale

Department/Division: Area and Global Studies/Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Application deadline:  January 6, 2019.

How to Apply: Apply online at jobs.gvsu.edu, click "Apply now." Include curriculum vitae; cover letter addressing required and preferred qualifications; research statement (1 page); and teaching philosophy statement (1 page). (Please note only specified documents should be uploaded.) Three letters of recommendation should be sent directly to Search Committee Chair, Dr. Andrew Schlewitz, Grand Valley State University, Area and Global Studies, 1 Campus Drive - 106 LOH, Allendale, MI 49401-9403. For more details, see www.gvsu.edu/ags

Grand Valley State University is guided by values for inclusiveness and community which are integral to our mission to educate students to shape their lives, their professions, and their societies, and to enrich the community through excellent teaching, active scholarship, and public service. The University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution. It encourages diversity and provides equal opportunity in education, employment, all of its programs, and the use of its facilities. Members of the University community, including candidates for employment or admissions, and visitors or guests have the right to be free from acts of harassment and discrimination, including sexual misconduct, which are prohibited if they discriminate or harass on the basis of age, color, disability, familial status, height, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex/gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, veteran or active duty military status or weight. The University will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. See www.gvsu.edu/affirmative/. [Include the following for job advertisements:] TDD Callers: Call Michigan Relay Center 1-800-649-3777.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Must have the physical stamina to work long hours and/or more than 5 days per week. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act as amended by the ADA Amendment Act (2008), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and other applicable federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. GVSU will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.

Advertised: 29 Oct 2018 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 06 Jan 2019 11:55 PM Eastern Standard Time