Post Doctoral

The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

DUE DATE: October 15, 2003 (Receipt  NOT postmark)

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
The Academy Scholars Program 2004-05
The purpose of the Academy Scholars Program to identify and support outstanding scholars who are at the start of their careers and whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with an in-depth grounding in particular non-Western countries or regions. The Academy Scholars are a select group of individuals who show promise of becoming leading scholars at major universities.  They are appointed and supported by the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies to provide opportunities for advanced work at Harvard UniversityThose selected as Academy Scholars are given time, guidance, access to Harvard facilities, and substantial financial assistance as they work for TWO YEARS conducting either DISSERTATION OR POST-DOCTORAL research in their chosen fields and areas.  The Senior Scholars, a distinguished group of senior Harvard faculty members, act as mentors to the Academy Scholars to help them achieve their intellectual potential.

Each year, about 275 individuals submit applications for Academy Scholarships.  From this pool four to six Academy Scholars are named for two-year appointments.  Scholars are expected to reside in the Cambridge/Boston area for the duration of their appointments unless traveling for approved research purposes.

Pre-doctoral Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $25,000 and post-doctoral Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $38,000.  This stipend is supplemented by funding for conference and research travel, and some health insurance coverage.Applicants are welcome from any accredited university without regard to nationality.

For further information regarding the Academy Scholars program:

Phone: (617) 495-2137
Fax:   (617) 384-9259
E-mail: bbaiter@wcfia.harvard.edu
Web site: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy
Web site: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/content/asp_how_to_apply.html

Application materials should be mailed to:

The Academy Scholars Program
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1033 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138.

All materials must be RECEIVED by October 15, 2003. The selection process begins immediately thereafter. Applicants whose materials are late or incomplete are at a disadvantage when considered by the Selection Committee.  Announcements of the awards will be made in January 2004.

Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities

DUE DATE: was October 15, 2003 (receipt)

The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of postdoctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2002-2003. Fellows newly appointed for 2003-2004 must have received the PhD between January 1, 1997 and July 1, 2003.

Aims
The Society seeks to enhance the role of the humanities in the University by exploring and clarifying the interrelationships within the humanities as well as their relationship to the natural and social sciences and the several professions. Its program is designed to strengthen the intellectual and academic qualifications of the fellows: first, by affording them time and resources to develop independent scholarship within a broadening educational and professional context; second by involving them in interdisciplinary programs of general education and in innovative courses of their own design; and third, by associating them individually and collectively with some of the finest teaching scholars in the University. The society is comprised of the fellows, the faculty members of the governing board, and other faculty invited by the fellows. The Society holds weekly meetings to advance the intellectual and educational purposes common to the membership.

Fellowship Duties
Research on the project that is the focus of the application, teaching duties in the Core Curriculum, attendance at Society of Fellows lectures and events, and Core Curriculum training meetings, active participation in the intellectual life of the Society.

Types of Fellowships

Mellon Fellowships
Fellows are appointed for one year at a rank equivalent to that of lecturer. The appointment is ordinarily renewed for a second year. As Mellon Fellows, successful candidates teach one section in Columbia's famous core course: Contemporary Civilization, Literature, Music, or Art Humanities, Asian Civilizations or Humanities. In their second year, Mellon fellows may teach an additional one-semester course on a topic of their choice.

Stipend
The stipend for 2004-2005 is $42,000 plus full fringe benefits. Each fellow is eligible for an additional $3000 in research aid.

Application
Application form may be obtained from, and competed applications returned to:

The Director, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Heyman Center, Mail Code 5700
Columbia University
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 854-4631
Fax: (212) 662-7289
E-mail: sof-fellows@columbia.edu
Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows (applications available online)

Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts

DUE DATE: October 8, 2003 (postmark)

The Princeton Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences (see website for list of disciplines). Hosted jointly by the Humanities Council and academic departments, postdoctoral Fellows pursue their research and teach half time. In addition, they have informal as well as structured opportunities to interact with students, faculty, senior fellows and each other. Fellows must reside in Princeton during the academic year. The stipend for 2004-2005 is approximately $58,000. Graduate alumni of Princeton are not eligible.

The postdoctoral fellowship is awarded for three years. It carries with it an appointment as lecturer and, like all lectureships, is subject to annual review. In each of the first two years, Fellows typically teach two courses, one in their host department and the other in Humanistic Studies or other fields in this area. In the third year, Fellows teach only one course while remaining in residence in Princeton.

Selection is based on scholarly excellence, range and quality of teaching experience, and potential contributions to an interdisciplinary community. Candidates must have received their PhD degree between Jan 1, 2001 and October 8, 2003. [EXCEPTION: those candidates who will not meet the Oct 8, 2003 deadline but are certain to have fulfilled all conditions for the PhD degree by June 1, 2004, may apply for a postdoctoral Fellowship with the support of a letter of nomination from their departmental chair. This letter is required in addition to the letters of recommendation provided by three referees. The letter of nomination need not contain an evaluation, but should simply state that the candidate will satisfy all requirements for the PhD by June 1, 2004. See website for details.]

Candidates are asked to forward the following dossier of materials postmarked by October 15, 2002 to the address given below:

1. Application Form
2. CV
3. Dissertation Abstract
4. Chapter of the dissertation and/or one published article
5. Research proposal for the fellowship term (no more than 3 double-spaced pages)
6. Description of teaching experience and interests (2-3 pages) This may include courses already taught, proposals for new courses and a general description of the candidate's teaching interests
7. Three (3) confidential letters of recommendation. Please note that letters of recommendation sent separately must also be postmarked by October 8, 2003. Candidates should include with their application a list of the names of their referees.

Faxed or e-mailed applications cannot be considered. Applications should be mailed to the following address:

Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Joseph Henry House
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-4717
Fax: (609) 258-2783
E-mail: fellows@princeton.edu
Web site: http://www.princeton.edu/~sf

It is the candidate's responsibility to ensure that all materials, including the letters of recommendation and nomination are submitted by the October 8 deadline. Only complete applications will be considered.

Candidates selected for interview will be informed by February 1, 2004. The Society will reimburse the cost of travel and lodging associated with the interview. Names of fellowship winners will be posted on the website in April 2004

Michigan Society of Fellows2004-2007 Postdoctoral Fellowships

DUE DATE: October 3, 2003 (postmark) There is a $30 application fee.

The Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. The most distinctive aspect of the Society is a multidisciplinary emphasis which gives the Fellows an opportunity to interact across disciplines and to expand their horizons and knowledge. While their own scholarship is enriched, the Fellows also enrich the University of Michigan through teaching during their residency and bringing new insights to other faculty members. Each year the Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the arts and humanities, the professional schools. The newly appointed Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as Senior Fellows. The Chair of the Society is James Boyd White, L. Hart Wright Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who are at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional or artistic degree between June 1, 2001, and September 1, 2004. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors in appropriate departments at the University of Michigan and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence during the academic years of the fellowship, to teach for the equivalent of one academic year, to participate in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote time to their independent research. The annual stipend will be $44,458.

Please see our online application materials on our website, or send requests for application materials to:

James Bryant Conant Post-doctoral Fellowships

DUE DATE: January 16, 2004 (receipt)

Applications are accepted from non-tenured recent PhDs who are teaching or planning to teach at the university level in North America. Topics should be in the fields of European history, politics, economics, society, or culture, and preference will be given to projects that involve Germany. The Fellowship provides $40,000 over a twelve-month period (September 2004-August 2005) and is residential at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Health Insurance and a $1500 research travel fund are available. A publishable monograph is expected upon completion. Fellowship recipients must be officially post-doctoral by July 1, 2004. Up to two fellowships will be awarded for 2004-05. More information and dowloadable applications will be available at http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/ after October 10, 2003.

Contact:
Abby Collins
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA  02138
Phone:  (617) 495-4303 x221
Fax: (617) 495-8509
E-mail: cesgrant@fas.harvard.edu or acollins@fas.harvard.edu
Web site: http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/grants/conant.html

Notification will be in mid-February.

Cornell University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2004-05

DUE DATE: January 3, 2004 (postmark)

Three or four postdoctoral teaching-research fellowships, each awarded for the one-year period beginning July 1, 2004, offer stipends of $35,000.  While in residence at Cornell, postdoctoral fellows hold department affiliation, and have limited teaching duties and the opportunity for scholarly work.

Areas of Specialization
Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowships are available in five areas of specialization. For the 2004/2005 academic year, the areas of specialization are:

• Asian Studies -- The Department seeks candidates in the following fields:
  1. Islamic Culture in Asia (Candidates should be engaged in research on Islamic cultures of East and/or Southeast Asia. Preference given to candidates working in one or more of the following areas: local language literatures and performance, legal culture, and modernist hermeneutics.), or
  2. Asian and Comparative Literature (Candidates must work on the topics that help articulate the issues of gender and race with multi-ethnic and/or trans-national cultures in East and/or Southeast Asia in one or more of the following areas: visual studies, colonialism, the history of literacy, and globalization. Preference is given to candidates with a strong linguistic background in classical or modern local languages who conduct research with a view to creating new area studies incentives.)
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies -- The program will welcome proposals reflecting diverse methodological approaches with respect to the intersections of gender and/or sexuality with each other and/or with race, class, ethnicity, and/or religion in the following regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East.
• History of Art -- The Department seeks candidates specializing in the fields of contemporary art and critical theory with emphasis on African American, Asian, or Islamic art history and visual culture.
• Philosophy -- Applicants in any area of philosophy are encouraged to apply, including, but not only, those who work in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, feminism, and history of philosophy.
• Science and Technology Studies -- The Department seeks candidates specializing in the social aspects of science and technology. A Ph.D. is required in science & technology studies or a closely-related field, such as the history, sociology, or anthropology of science.

Eligibility
You must have received the Ph.D. degree after September 1998. Applicants who will receive the Ph.D. degree by June 30, 2004 are eligible to apply. Such applicants must include a letter of confirmation (see below). Fellowships are limited to citizens of the United States, Canada, or those with permanent U.S. residency cards.

Application Procedure
To apply, please return the application form, and specify the discipline and area of specialization for which you wish to be considered. The following materials should be postmarked on or before January 3, 2004:

• printable application form
• curriculum vitae
• detailed statement of current research interests (1,000-3,000 words) that clearly outlines the research you will undertake during the term of the fellowship
• copies of one or two papers or scholarly publications (no more than twenty pages of a thesis)*
• two- to four-page statement of teaching interests and two course proposals (subject area, brief syllabus, proposed methods)
• three letters of recommendation (recommendations may be those included in your placement dossier)

Application Deadline and Notification of Awards
All application materials (including letters of recommendation) must be postmarked on or before January 3, 2004.** Faxed applications will not be accepted. Only fully completed formal applications will be considered. It is your responsibility to ensure that all documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters of recommendation to the Society for the Humanities by the closing date.

Send all materials to:

Program Administrator Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cornell University Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House 27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
Phone: 607-255-9274
E-mail: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
Web site: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/html/

Awards will be announced in February 2004.

* If you wish to have your application materials returned, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
** Please note that our offices will be closed between December 19, 2003 and January 4, 2004 for the winter break.

Application information will not be available after December 19, 2003.

Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowships

DUE DATE: October 21, 2003 (postmark)

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell expects to appoint six to ten Fellows for the 2004-2005 academic year. Each Fellow will receive $35,000 for the year. Fellows spend most of their time at Cornell in research and writing but are encouraged to offer an informal seminar related to their research. Society Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. The fellowships are held for ONE YEAR. Fellows are invited to conduct a seminar during one semester. The choice of topic and the mode and level of instruction are at the pleasure of the Fellow, but the seminars are generally informal, related to the Fellow's research, and open to graduate students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members. Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the content and the method of their courses.

Eligibility
Fellows should be working on topics related to the year's theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines. Applicants must have completed the Ph.D. degree by the time of their application. They must have one or more years of college teaching experience, which may include teaching as a graduate student.

2004-05 FOCAL THEME: TRANSLATION
While interest in the "task of the translator" may be taken to indicate a mode of self-consciousness specific to our times, it has also situated "translation" at the center of a widening scope of inquiry. Whether seen as a matter of linguistics, of style and aesthetics, of conceptual art and performance, or of cultural contact and politics, "translation" both enables and complicates our notions of languages and cultures and their relations to one another. With the "turn to translation" of many late twentieth-century studies of culture, the figure of the translator has itself emerged as a focus of attention. How have the problem of translation and the very figure of the translator been addressed in different periods and cultures? How has translation been linked to linguistic equivalents as well as to displacement or linguistic incommensurability and excess? How have processes of translation -- the translation from oral to written, the compilation of dictionaries, the invention of grammars, and adaptations of drama to opera, novel to film, or "historically informed" performance to a "modern" setting -- functioned, for example, in processes of "civilization" and colonization? Can tradition be seen as a mode of translation? How may translation be related to processes of cultural transmission and inscription, or to anxieties about memory and the archive? What possibilities are opened by the bilingualism of the colonial subject in the face of a dominant language or discourse? How has translation been connected with the body in performance art, or with the experience of diaspora in new global media? To what extent and in what ways might the notion of translation apply to the problems of cross-cultural comparison and value judgment? Does "translation" assist in understanding attempts to transfer cultural values or even political systems (for example, democracy) from one society to another? The foregoing questions are intended as suggestive rather than exhaustive. The Society for the Humanities invites applications from scholars who are interested in participating in critical dialogue concerning the topic of translation from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. (See the website for further elaboration.)

Application Procedures
Candidates should inform the Society of their intention to apply by printing and returning the application form immediately. The following application materials must be postmarked on or before October 21, 2003:

• printable application form
• curriculum vitae
• copies of two or three papers or scholarly publications that are no more than twenty pages long each. Do not submit books. Applicants who wish their materials returned should enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
• one-page abstract in addition to a detailed statement of the research project the applicant would like to pursue during the term of the fellowship (1,000-3,000 words)
• brief (two-page) proposal for a seminar related to the applicant's research. Seminars meet two hours per week for one semester (fourteen weeks) and enrollment is limited to fifteen graduate and qualified undergraduate students.
• three letters of recommendation from senior colleagues, to whom candidates should send their research proposal and teaching proposal. A letter of recommendation should include an evaluation of the candidates proposed research and teaching statements. Please ask referees to send their letters directly to the Society. Letters must be postmarked on or before October 21, 2003.

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House, 27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY  14853-1101
Phone: (607) 255-9274
E-mail: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
Web site: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/html/

The University of Chicago Society of Fellows

General Education Teaching Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

DUE DATE: November 17, 2003 (receipt)

The University of Chicago Society of Fellows is now accepting applications for four-year postdoctoral teaching appointments as Harper and Schmidt Fellows who hold the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor. The Fellows are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the general education program.

Core courses in the Humanities typically deal with fundamental issues and texts in history, philosophy, and literature. Currently, the Humanities Core is organized into six year-long courses: Readings in World Literature; Human Being and Citizen; Greek Thought and Literature; Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities; Media Aesthetics; Reading Cultures.

Core courses in the Social Sciences explore, on the basis of significant works, the fundamental concepts and the different modes of inquiry that have defined the social sciences in the modern period. Currently, the Core is organized into five yearlong courses: Self, Culture and Society; Mind; Classics of Social and Political Thought; Power, Identity, and Resistance; and Democracy and Social Sciences.

Some Fellows also teach in the History of Western Civilization Core sequence. Western Civilization is taught on the basis of intensive readings of significant primary source documents.

The Fellowships are open to scholars in all disciplines and areas of specialization who will have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. degree no later than May 31, 2004. In most years, Fellows teach two seminars (usually of identical preparation) for each of three quarters. Each Fellow also has the opportunity to design an independent course and each is eligible for one quarter of research sabbatical in their third year of residence. The annual salary for 2004-2005 will be $41,600.

Applicants should submit:
After filling out the electronic application form, you will need to send the following print materials:

1. a paper copy of your electronic application form
2. a curriculum vitae
3. three letters of recommendation
4. a writing sample, preferably some portion of the doctoral dissertation, not to exceed 50 pages in length
5. a two-page teaching statement describing your methods and goals in teaching a text in a general education course. Applicants should select a text of their own choosing. For humanities, examples might be Plato’s Apology or Symposium, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s Tempest, Wolff’s A Room of One’s Own, or Wright’s Native Son. For social sciences, examples might be Weber’s Protestant Ethic, Marx’s 18th Brumaire, a selection from The Federalist Papers, or essays from Geertz’s Interpretation of Cultures, Plato’s Republic, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
6. a self-addressed, stamped post card that will be mailed back to indicate that all materials for the application have been received.

Applications must be received by November 17, 2003. Please send your application materials to:

The University of Chicago Society of Fellows Search
5811 S. Ellis (Cobb Mailroom)
Chicago, IL 60637
Web site: http://college.uchicago.edu/harperschmidt/

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Humanities at Work Initiative(Non-Academic Career Alternatives)

DUE DATE: Sept 19, 2003

The foundation is working on many fronts to expand career opportunities for PhD graduates both inside and outside the academy. Programs include:

• Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Careers -- developing career opportunities for doctoral graduates in the humanities with a wide range of employers (Program matches recent PhDs with positions outside the academy -- whole application process etc. See the website)
• Woodrow Wilson Practicum Grants -- offering stipends to support internships for graduate students
• Woodrow Wilson National Mentoring Program -- providing a forum for advice about successfully managing career transitions.

Employers in the Postdoctoral Careers Program: The Advisory Board Company, The Conference Board, Princeton Consultants, Strategic Marketing Corporation, National parks Service, Library of Congress, History Associates, Inc., Merck, Phillips Exeter Academy, Bristol-Myers Squibb, LifeMinders.com, McKinsey Corp, FDC Reports, National Analysts, TIAA-CREF, A.T. Kearney, Historic House Trust of New York City, The Motley Fool.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars [CIES]/Fulbright Scholar Program

DUE DATE: Annual deadline is August 1

800 grants annually to 140 countries for college and university faculty, as well as for professionals and independent scholars who are US citizens, to lecture and conduct research in countries around the world. There are 3 grant categories: Research, Lecturing, & Lecturing/Research combined.

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program

DUE DATE: October 25, 2003

• are employed by institutions of higher education,
• have been engaged in teaching relevant to his or her foreign language or area studies specialization for the two years immediately preceding the date of the award
• propose research relevant to his or her modern foreign language or area studies specialization, which is NOT dissertation research for a doctoral degree,
• possess sufficient foreign language skills to carry out the research project.

MacArthur Foundation’s Program on Global Security and Sustainability

DUE DATE: February 2, 2004

Competition Scope
The guidelines for this competition reflect specific themes that complement the grantmaking strategies of the MacArthur Foundation’s Program on Global Security and Sustainability. For each of the annual Research and Writing Grants competitions conducted in 2002, 2003, and 2004, the Foundation will only accept proposals relating to one of the following themes:

• Migration and Refugees
  Migration has always been an important factor of human existence. Migration (both cross-border and internal) takes on a new urgency in the face of intensified global economic processes, hyper-urbanization, the exploitation of forests and coastal ecosystems, problems associated with the economic, social, and political incorporation of migrants and refugees into receiving societies, and the post-Cold War reconfiguration of geopolitical forces. The massive numbers of refugees resulting from civil wars, insurgencies, and regional conflicts present new and complex challenges to global security, particularly at a time when mechanisms of supranational governance and norms of justifiable intervention are changing. The Foundation welcomes proposals for topics related to the causes and consequences of migration, and policy responses to migrants and refugees, particularly as these impact issues of conservation and sustainable development, reproductive health and human rights, and governance and security. Proposals that examine these issues from a cross-disciplinary perspective are especially welcome.
• Technological Change and Global Security and Sustainability
  Technological change emerges within specific political, economic, social, and ideological contexts, and in turn reshapes the institutions of governance, the economy, and society on both national and international levels. The last decade has been characterized by the rapid development of new technologies across a wide range of fields. Access to new technologies is distributed very unevenly within and among nations. Developing nations often lack access not only to leading edge technologies, but also to older technologies. Overcoming problems of access to technology is important for economic and social development, but can also raise proliferation concerns, particularly with respect to dual-use technologies or obsolete but militarily significant technologies. The cumulative impact of technological advances and the uneven distribution of technological capabilities present significant opportunities and challenges to the tasks of ensuring global security and ecologically s ustainable development. The Foundation welcomes proposals that examine how public policy either shapes or responds to technological change—and proposals on related social and economic issues—with a particular emphasis on policy-making institutions, treaty regimes, or non-governmental organizations operating on a transnational or international scale.

For each of the above themes, proposals that deal with exclusively United States-based topics will not be considered, unless the topic has significant international dimensions.

Grants for Research and Writing support creative work in many academic disciplines and professions, as well as projects conducted outside of traditional disciplinary and professional approaches. Grants may be used by scholars in university and organizational settings or by independent researchers working outside of institutional contexts.

Eligibility
The competition is open to individuals and two-person teams. In addition, an institution may apply for support of projects to be undertaken by an individual or two-person team. Applicants of any age or citizenship may apply. Women, minorities, non-U.S. citizens, and younger scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.

Grants may NOT be used for research or writing of the doctoral dissertation. Also ineligible for consideration are projects that include requests to hold workshops or conferences; to produce textbooks, manuals, films, works of photojournalism, or works of fiction; to edit volumes; or to develop curricular materials. Projects that include development of an Internet site will be considered for funding only if the Internet site is in addition to a substantial written product intended for hard-copy publication. Studies that are predominantly technical or clinical in nature will not be eligible for funding.

Grant Terms
Research and Writing grants are awarded for periods of eighteen months or less and may be made directly to researchers, universities, or research or policy institutes. Applicants may request up to $75,000 for individual projects, and may request up to $100,000 for two-person collaborations. Grant amounts are based on the proposed budget and subsequent discussion with successful applicants. While a Research and Writing grant may be held concurrently with another research award, all grants and other sources of support for the project, including pre-publication advances and sabbatical salaries, must be accurately reported at the time of accepting the Foundation award. There is an advantage in submitting proposals for projects that have not already received substantial funding from other sources. Grant recipients may conduct their research independently or in an appropriate institutional setting, such as a university or research institute.

Research and Writing Grants
Program on Global Security and Sustainability
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
140 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1100
Chicago, Illinois 60603 USA
Phone: (312) 726-8000 or (312) 368-9441
Web site: http://www.macfound.org/programs/gss/research_writing.htm (Full instructions are on the WebSite)

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
School of Social Science, Visiting Member Awards

DUE DATE: November 15, 2003 (postmark)

The School of Social Science each year invites as Members some fifteen to eighteen scholars from a large applicant pool. The group is interdisciplinary and international. A completed doctoral or equivalent is required of all applicants; memberships are awarded at junior and senior levels. Visiting Members are expected to pursue their own research, but the School organizes a seminar on the year’s focus and a weekly lunch at which Members as well as invited guests present their on-going work. The School is not wedded to any particular intellectual or disciplinary approach. it welcomes applications from economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with an historical and humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature, and linguistics.

For information and application materials, write to:

National Humanities Center, Triangle Park, NC

DUE DATE: October 15, 2003 (postmark)

Areas of Special Interest
Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. The following designated awards, however, are available for the academic year 2004-05: a fellowship in art history or visual culture; a fellowship for French history or culture; three fellowships for scholars in any humanistic field whose research concerns religion; three fellowships for scholarship concerning nature, environmental history, or ecological concerns.

ACLS Fellowship Office
228 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017-3398
E-mail: grants@acls.org.

Please state clearly that you wish to apply for the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowships.

Stipends
Fellowships up to $50,000 are individually determined, the amount depending upon the needs of the Fellow and the Center's ability to meet them. Each Fellow also has access to a research fund of $2500. The Center provides travel expenses for Fellows and their dependents to and from North Carolina.

Support
Fellowships at the Center are supported by the Center's endowment, private foundation grants, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Deadline and Application Procedures
Applicants submit the Center's forms supported by a curriculum vitae, a 1000-word project proposal, and three letters of recommendation. Application instructions and forms are available from the Web site. To have hard copies of the application material mailed to you, write to:

Fellowship Program
National Humanities Center
Post Office Box 12256
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2256
E-mail: nhc@ga.unc.edu
Web site: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/appltoc.htm
Web site: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/fellshipapinfo.htm

American Council of Learned Societies
ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships for Junior Faculty
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships
ACLS/New York Public Library Residential Fellowships

DUE DATE: October 1, 2003

Maximum award: $50,000 for Full Professor and equivalent; $40,000 for Associate Professor and equivalent; $30,000 for Assistant Professor and equivalent.

Tenure: six to twelve consecutive months devoted to full-time research, to be initiated between July 1, 2004 and February 1, 2005.

Decisions will be announced in mid-March 2004.

Eligibility
The ACLS Fellowship Program welcomes applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history, languages and literatures, law, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political philosophy). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.

The Fellowships require:

• a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to October 1, 2003. (An established scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify. Scholars enrolled for any degree at the time of application are not eligible.)
• U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status as of application deadline.
• a lapse of at least 3 years since the last "supported research leave" and July 1, 2004, including any such leave to be initiated during 2003-2003. Therefore, to be eligible, an individual's most recent supported research leave must have concluded prior to July 1, 2001. (Supported research leave is defined as the equivalent of one semester or more of time free from teaching or other employment to pursue scholarly research or writing supported by sabbatical pay or other institutional funding, major—at least $20,000— fellowships and grants, or a combination of these.) This definition does not include financial support received for graduate study or work on the dissertation.

The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement and may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay to reach that goal. The Fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank: up to $30,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $50,000 for Full Professor and career equivalent. ACLS will determine the level based on the candidate's rank or career status as of the application deadline. Approximately 20 fellowships will be available at each level.

Institutions and individuals contribute to the ACLS Fellowship Program and its endowment, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Council's college and university Associates, and former Fellows and individual friends of the ACLS.

ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships for Junior Faculty
In response to increasingly rigorous expectations for tenure, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided funding for 22 additional fellowships to Assistant Professors or the equivalent who will have at least two years' teaching experience by July 1, 2004. Applicants to the ACLS Fellowship Program who meet this criterion, and who satisfy all the requirements and provisions of that program, will be automatically considered for these awards.

ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships
In order to encourage humanistic research in area studies, special funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the ACLS has been set aside for approximately 10 ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships to be designated among the successful applicants to the central ACLS Fellowship competition. Scholars pursuing research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Near and Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, East Europe, and the former Soviet Union will be eligible for these special fellowships.

Application must be made to the ACLS Fellowship Program and all requirements and provisions of that program must be met, with the exceptions that an International and Area Studies Fellow must be either a US citizen or a permanent resident who has lived in the US continuously for at least 3 years by the application deadline, and must submit a final report to both NEH and ACLS. Designation of the ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellows will be made by the ACLS.

ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships
The ACLS and the New York Public Library offer a collaborative program to provide up to 5 residential fellowships at the Library's new Center for Scholars and Writers. The Center provides opportunities for up to 15 Fellows to explore and use the collections of the NYPL Humanities and Social Sciences Library. The Center also serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among Fellows, invited guests, the wider academic and cultural communities, and the interested public. It provides individual office space and common areas in the Library building for its Fellows. Fellows are required to be in continuous residence from September 9, 2004 through May 2, 2005, and to participate in Center activities. These may include daily lunches, readings, lectures, colloquia, symposia and conferences. Each Fellow will also be required to offer a public presentation—a paper, a lecture—of publishable quality. More information about the Library and its online catalogs are available on The New York Public Library Website.

The maximum stipend for the NYPL residential fellowships will be $50,000. Application for an ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowship has the same eligibility requirements, application form, and schedule as the ACLS Fellowship Program. These Residential Fellowships are aimed at scholars whose projects will be enhanced by access to the collections of the NYPL Humanities and Social Sciences Library; applicants will be asked to identify the specific resources to be used and benefits to be gained.

PLEASE NOTE: Because this is a collaborative fellowship, applicants for the ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowships must also apply to the Center for Scholars and Writers, with a different application form. An application form for the ACLS/NYPL collaborative Fellowships must be requested directly from the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Center for Scholars and Writers
The New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018-2788
E-mail: csw@nypl.org

For the NYPL competition, the application form, required attachments, and letters of recommendation must be received by the Center for Scholars and Writers by October 4, 2002.

It is possible that an application for an ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowship may have any one of the following outcomes: 1) a fellowship awarded solely by the NYPL Center for Scholars and Writers, 2) an ACLS Fellowship awarded solely by the ACLS, or 3) a Joint NYPL/ACLS Residential Fellowship awarded by both organizations together.

For additional information about ACLS fellowships, see:
Web site: http://www.acls.org/felguide.htm

2004-2005 National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

DUE DATE: November 20, 2003 (receipt). Letters of recommendation must also be received by this date.

National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in the US and abroad on matters relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms

Qualifications

• Applicants must have their PhD -- conferred between Jan 1, 1998 and December 31, 2003.
• Applications for all disciplines are encouraged, provided that they describe research relevant to education.
• Application must be made by the individual applying for the Fellowship; group applications will not be accepted.
• Applications will be judged on the applicant's past research record, the promise of early work, and the quality of the project described in the application.
• Employees of the Spencer Foundation or the NAE are not eligible to apply.
• Concurrent funding for the proposed project is not permitted.

Fellowship Awards

• Fellows will receive $50,000 for one academic year of research, of $25,000 for each of two contiguous years, working half time.
• Fellows must begin during the 2003-04 academic year
• Fellows will be included in professional development retreats with other fellows and Academy members
• Up to 30 Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded in 2004
• Selection will be made by a committee composed of members of the NAE
• Awardees will be notified in May 2004

University of Pennsylvania Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships

DUE DATE: October 15, 2003

Five Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for 2004-05 from the Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania for untenured scholars who received or will receive the PhD between December 1994 and December 2002. Research proposals on the topic of “Belief” are invited from a variety of theoretical perspectives in all areas of humanistic study except educational curriculum building and the performing arts. Fellows teach one course each of two terms and receive a $37,000 stipend plus health insurance. The deadline is October 15, 2003. For full guidelines, discussion of the topic and application, contact:

Jennifer Conway, Associate Director
Phone: (215) 898-8220
E-mail: humanities@sas.upenn.edu
Web site: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/mellonf.htm

Wesleyan University Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships, Center for the Americas

DUE DATE: December 8, 2003

Wesleyan University invites applications for two fellowships for 2004-2005.

1. Native American Studies. We seek a scholar whose research focuses on religious, cultural, and/or aesthetic practices and formations among indigenous peoples in twentieth-century North America.
2. Latin American Studies. We seek a cultural anthropologist or historian whose research examines the migration of peoples, ideas, and/or cultural productions in the broader Caribbean, including Central America, northern Brazil, and the southern coast of the United States.

Director, Center for the Americas
255 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California San Diego

DUE DATE: January 14, 2004

CCIS will offer a limited number of Visiting Research Fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for the 2004-05 academic year. These awards are to support advanced research and writing on any aspect of international migration and refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, history, law, and comparative literature. CCIS fellowships must be held in residence at UCSD. They cannot be used to support fieldwork or other primary data collection. Visiting Research Fellows will have the opportunity to present their research at CCIS research seminars and writer's and academic professionalization workshops.

Predoctoral applicants are expected to finish writing their dissertations during their fellowship. Recent postdoctoral applicants can request support to turn a dissertation into a publishable manuscript or to prepare shorter publications based on the dissertation project. More senior scholars can propose any major research or writing project. The duration of the fellowship is usually for 9-10 months, although shorter stays will also be allowed. No summer-only fellowships will be awarded. For the 2004-2005 academic year, stipends for predoctoral fellows will be $2,250 per month. For recent postdoctoral fellows (Ph.D. received within the last 6 years), the stipend level will be between $3,000-4,000 per month, depending on seniority. Stipends for more senior scholars are negotiable. CCIS fellowships may be supplemented with compensation from other fellowships, research grants, sabbatical leaves, or other sources.

Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the CCIS website at www.ccis-ucsd.org. All application materials must be submitted no later than January 15, 2004 for fellowships to be held during the 2004-05 academic year. Candidates will be evaluated by a committee of CCIS faculty research associates and academic staff members. Decisions will be announced by February 15, 2004.

Scholars whose work deals with Mexican migration to the United States can apply jointly to CCIS and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from their website at www.usmex.ucsd.edu).

Individuals with their own extramural funding may apply to become CCIS "Guest Scholars." The application form is the same as for a Visiting Research Fellowship.

Questions may be addressed to:

Gaku Tsuda
Phone: (858) 822-0526
E-mail: ttsuda@weber.ucsd.edu

Carmen Rodriguez
Program & Fellowship Officer
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive 0510
La Jolla, Calif. 92093-0510
Phone: (858) 822-4447
Fax: (858) 822-4432
E-mail: carodriguez@ucsd.edu
Web site: http://www.ccis-ucsd.org
Web site: http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/Programs/fellowships.htm

University of California - San Diego
The Center for U.S. Mexican Studies
2002-03 Visiting Research Fellowships

DUE DATE: January 1, 2002

The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies invites applications for visiting research fellowships at the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels to be held during the 2002-03 academic year. Researchers of any nationality are eligible. Awards support the write-up stage of research on any aspect of contemporary Mexico (except literature and the arts), Mexican history, and U.S.-Mexican relations. Comparative studies with a substantial Mexico component are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to research examining Mexico’s democratic transition and the challenges of democratic governance; tensions between social equity and economic liberalization in Mexico; environmental policy and sustainable development in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region; new forms of North American integration (of money, knowledge, labor markets, communities, systems of justice, etc.) in the electronic age; judicial reform, public security, and the administration of justice in Mexico; and Mexican migration to the United States. Scholars whose work deals with migration can apply jointly to the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. Application forms and guidelines are available online.

For further information, contact:

Graciela Platero
Phone: (858) 534-6066
Fax: (858) 534-6447
E-mail: gplatero@ucsd.edu
Web site: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, http://www.usmex.ucsd.edu
Web site: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, http://www.ccis-ucsd.org.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Vera Institute of Justice
Postdoctoral Fellowship on Race, Crime, and Justice

DUE DATE: was January 10, 2002

The Vera Institute of Justice is seeking applicants for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Vera Institute of Justice Postdoctoral Fellowship on Race, Crime, and Justice. The fellowship encourages new scholars of diverse backgrounds to work and publish in this important field. For more information and a downloadable application, please see http://www.vera.org. Brochures and applications will be available by September 1.

Contact:
Suzanne Mueller, Administrative Director, Research
Vera Institute of Justice
233 Broadway, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10279
E-mail: smueller@vera.org
Web site: http://www.vera.org

The Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowships in the Humanities
and the Study of Culture 2004-2005

DUE DATE: Deadlines vary by institution.

In 2004–2005, Rockefeller Resident Fellowships in the Humanities and the Study of Culture will be offered at host institutions that were selected for their potential to promote new work in the humanities. Host institutions include academic departments, interdisciplinary programs, museums, research libraries and community cultural centers that select scholars to receive Rockefeller Fellowships. They encourage interaction between the visiting fellows and their own scholarly communities, and make libraries, special collections and other facilities available in specialized areas of research. For 2004–2005, individuals can apply for resident fellowships at the 23 host institutions listed below. These were the sites in 2003-04. Check the website for the current list.

Ethnic Identities and Transformations: The Meaning and Experience of Ethnicity in the 21st Century; Center for Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, Bryn Mawr College

Becoming and Belonging: The Alchemy of Identity in the Multiethnic Metropolis; Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities and the American Communities Program, California State University, Los Angeles

Diasporal Unities in the Circum-Caribbean (and Beyond), Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago

Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

Globalization and Muslim Societies, Area Studies Collections and the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress

Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique, National Council for Research on Women and Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Tribal Histories and a Plural World: Toward a New Paradigm, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Newberry Library

Rockefeller Fellowships in Black Performing Arts, Stanford Humanities Center and Committee on Black Performing Arts, Stanford University

Durable Inequalities in Latin America: Histories, Societies, Cultures, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Stony Brook University

Shared Inheritances: Comparative Studies in Creativity and Performance, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Program for the Study of Globalization, Culture and Social Transformation, Centro de Investigaciones Postdoctorales (CIPOST), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Central de Venezuela

The Cultural Dimensions of the Mexican Transition: Migration, Identity, Gender and Violence; Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM),Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Sex, Race and Globalization, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, University of Arizona

Global Migration, Social Change and Cultural Transformation, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside

The Dynamics of Chicana/o Cultural Literacy, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Other Globalizations: Histories, Trans-Regionalisms and Cultural Formations, Center for Cultural Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz

Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific Office for Women’s Research, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Education and African Modernities Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Civic Professionalism and Global Regionalism: Justice, Sustainability and the “Scaling Up” of Community Participation, Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky

Reimagining Civil Society in an Era of Globalization: The American South in Applied Humanistic Perspectives
University Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Program, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame

Race, Rights and Resources in the Americas Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Critical Asian Studies: Forum on Trauma, History and Asia, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Web site: http://www.rockfound.org (then type “Fellowships” in the search box on the right)

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