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Fellowships &
Postdocs
updated July 1, 2008 by Chris Kortright
New National Endowment for the Humanities Funds
[added: July 1, 2008]
The Division of Public Programs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities funds humanities projects that are intended for broad public audiences at museums, libraries, historic sites and other historical and cultural organizations.
Planning and implementation grant applications from America's Historical and Cultural Organizations may be submitted at two annual deadlines: August 27, 2008 and January 21, 2009. New application guidelines are now posted on the NEH Web site (www.neh.gov). Grants support interpretive exhibitions, reading or film discussion series, historic site interpretation, lecture series and symposia, and digital projects. NEH especially encourages projects that offer multiple formats and make creative use of new technology to deliver humanities content.
Applications will also be accepted at both deadlines for Interpreting America's Historic Places grants, which promote public understanding of American history through interpretation of significant American places.
Program officers in the Division of Public Programs are available to assist you, whether it is to discuss projects or to read a draft of a proposal. You may wish to call the NEH Division of Public Programs (202-606-8267) or contact a program officer directly. Below are the names and contact information for the Division's program officers:
Bonnie Gould, 202-606-8307, bgould@neh.gov
Clay Lewis, 202-606-8288, clewis@neh.gov
David Martz, 202-606-8297, dmartz@neh.gov
John Meredith, 202-606-8218, jmeredith@neh.gov
Karen Miles, 202-606-8308, kmiles@neh.gov
Karen Mittelman, 202-606-8631, kmittelman@neh.gov
Kathleen Mulvaney, 202-606-8270, kmulvaney@neh.gov
Michael Shirley, 202-606-8293, mshirley@neh.gov
David Weinstein, 202-606-8308, dweinstein@neh.gov
http://www.neh.gov
Abe Fellowship
[added: July 1, 2008]
Deadline: September 1
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announce the annual Abe Fellowship competition. The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The Abe Fellowship Program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.
The Abe Fellowship Research AgendaApplicants are invited to submit proposals for research in the social sciences and related fields relevant to any one or combination of the following three themes:
1) Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches to Security and Diplomacy. Topic areas include transnational terrorism, internal ethnic and religious strife, infectious diseases, food safety, climate change, and non-proliferation, as well as the role of cultural initiatives in peace building.
2) Global and Regional Economic Issues. Topic areas include regional and bilateral trade arrangements, globalization and the mitigation of its adverse consequences, sustainable urbanization, and environmental degradation.
3) Role of Civil Society. Topic areas include demographic change, immigration, the role of NPOs and NGOs as champions of the public interest, social enterprise, and corporate social responsibility.
Research projects should be policy relevant, contemporary, and comparative or transnational.
Terms of the fellowship are flexible and are designed to meet the needs of Japanese and American researchers at different stages in their careers. The program provides Abe Fellows with a minimum of 3 and maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24 month period. Part-time residence abroad in the United States or Japan is required.
Eligibility
This competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan as well as to nationals of other countries who can demonstrate strong and serious long-term affiliations with research communities in Japan or the United States.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field, or equivalent professional experience. Applications from researchers in professions other than academia are encouraged.
Contact Details
For further information and to apply, go to http://fellowships.ssrc.org/abe
Contact SSRC staff at abe@ssrc.org
Postdoc University of Southern California School of Preventive Medicine
[added: July 1, 2008]
The University of Southern California School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Health Behavior, seeks candidates for two- to three- year research fellowships funded by the National Cancer Institute. Fellows have an opportunity to work on ongoing research projects as well as to work on projects of their own design. Research includes: etiology of cancer; prevention of tobacco and other substance abuse; translation of basic research from multiple disciplines into new, synergistic applications in tobacco and drug abuse prevention; mass media and community approaches to health promotion; prevention research into childhood obesity; promotion of physical activity and healthy eating behaviors; measurement and assessment of health-related behavior and behavioral issues in epidemiology; and neurogenetics of obesity and/or tobacco and alcohol abuse.
Depending on area of expertise, fellows may be engaged in integrative research bridging two or more disciplines and departments, e.g., epidemiology and geography, or social psychology and physiology. Candidates should have a strong background in cognitive science, social psychology, anthropology, sociology, health behavior research, or in other disciplines with strong potential for innovative applications in prevention. Qualified individuals must have completed a PhD, MD or equivalent, and must be a US citizen or have permanent resident status. Annual salary is based upon year doctorate received. Health insurance, tuition, and conference travel provided.
USC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
Send curriculum vitae and statement of interest to:
Marny Barovich USC/IPR 1000 S. Fremont Ave., Box 8 Alhambra, CA 91803 barovich@usc.edu
Qualified individuals must have completed a PhD, MD or equivalent, and must be a US citizen or have permanent resident status.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships
[added: June 10, 2008]
Deadline: postmarked October 1, 2008
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards approximately 50 fully funded fellowships each year. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists and
writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment, who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. Applicants must have received their doctorate or appropriate terminal degree by December 2007 in the area of the proposed project. Radcliffe welcomes proposals from small groups of scholars who have research interests or projects in common. Please check the Web site for more information.
The stipend amount is $70,000. Fellows receive office space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University. During the fellowship year, which extends from early September 2009 through June 30, 2010, residence in the Boston area is required as is participation in the Institute community. Fellows are expected to present their work-in-progress and to attend other fellows’ events.
For more information, visit www.radcliffe.edu.
Call or email for an application:
Radcliffe Application Office
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
ph: 617-496-1324
fax: 617-495-8136
fellowships@radcliffe.edu
Lemelson Center fellowships
[added: June 10, 2008]
Deadline: January 15, 2009
The Lemelson Center is pleased to announce three new fellows selected for 2008. Andrew Bozanic (Ph.D. Candidate, Hagley Program, University of Delaware) examines the interplay between makers and users in the social construction of the acoustic guitar in the 20th century, from innovative production techniques and designs to inventive new playing styles. Shane Landrum (Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University) will explore the punch card tabulation equipment designed by inventor Herman Hollerith and his major competitor James Powers in the late 19th century for his dissertation, which focuses on the development of American birth registration systems. Damon Yarnell’s (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) research looks at an often-overlooked aspect of mass production at the Ford Motor Company in the early 20th century-the role of purchasing agents in the company’s system of procurement, quality control, inventory, shipping, and
materials handling.
The next deadline for fellowship proposals is January 15, 2009. The Lemelson Center also accepts proposals for its Travel to Collections Award program throughout the year. For more information about research
opportunities at the Lemelson Center, please visit
http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/default_research.aspx.
Society for the Humanities Fellowships, Cornell University
[added: June 10, 2008]
Deadline: October 1, 2008
The Society for the Humanities expects to appoint six to eight Fellows whose research is related to our focal theme for 2009-10, “Networks/Mobilities.” Each Fellow will receive $45,000 for the year. Selected Fellows will collaborate with two Senior Scholars in Residence.
Fall 2009
Keller Easterling, Associate Professor of Architecture, Yale University. Easterling is the author of Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005); Organization Space: Landscapes,
Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 2001); a laser disk history of suburbia, Call it Home (with Richard Prelinger; Voyager, 1991); American Town Plans (Princeton Architectural Press, 1993), a web installation,
Wildcards: A Game of Orgman and a forthcoming book on global infrastructures, Extrastatecraft.
Spring 2010
Brian Massumi, Professor of Communications, University of Montreal. Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002); A User’s Guide to Capitalism
and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992); First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Kenneth Dean; Autonomedia, 1993); and editor of A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2002) and The Politics of Everyday Fear (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
Call for Fellowship Applications
The Society for the Humanities invites scholars to reflect upon the theme of “Networks/Mobilities” in order to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows of peoples, materials, images, and ideas across physical and virtual boundaries. Relations of mobility and immobility, insofar as they are being reconfigured by broad-ranging new technologies of surveillance, detention, and legal/administrative regulation, are also germane to the theme. The Society encourages applicants to investigate the cultural, social, philosophical, and methodological implications of the theme.
In addition to raising wide-ranging historical inquiries and broad conceptual and epistemological issues, applicants might ask whether the commonplace tropes of diaspora, hybridity, and migration suffice for understanding contemporary globalization and shifting patterns of social and cultural influences through travel, trade, and migration of peoples, goods, and ideas–overland and across water and air. While the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the South Pacific have been focal sites for analysis of movements over several centuries, critical practices and enhanced communications provide additional networks of diverse and activated mobilities, from an emergent understanding of Islamic civilization to a broader recognition of comparative Latin American and Asian cultures and their relation to the West.
Of equal interest is the role of digital culture in relation to migrations, networking, and global cosmopolitanisms. Just as ancient and early modern technologies of writing have been compounded by modernist technologies of vision and sound, from the phonograph to the cinema, recent online networks have extended the range of cultural mobilities, and with them the cast and reach of experience. To what extent might these new mobilities constitute emergent modes of embodiment?
Scholars are encouraged to investigate transformations of concepts, theories and practices across historical periods, disciplinary boundaries, and social contexts. How might we consider the migration of ideas from the humanities and arts to the information and biological sciences and vice-versa, or the mobilization of academic theories and conceptual networks by activist practices inside and outside of the academy. Such migrations, mobilities and networks need not be actual but could also be virtual in the mobilizations of ideas and artistic practices.
Fellowships
Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. The fellowships are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow will receive $45,000. Applicants living outside North America are eligible for an additional $2000 to assist with travel costs
Fellows spend most of their time at Cornell in research and writing but are invited to offer one seminar related to their research. 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.
Qualifications
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 received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2008. The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching experience which may include teaching as a graduate student.
To Apply
Consult the Society for the Humanities web site: www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/ The application materials must be postmarked on or before October 1, 2008. Faxed applications will not be accepted. Awards will be announced by the end of December 2008.
For further information: <www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/>
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
[added: June 10, 2008]
Deadline (Postmark): October 15, 2008
Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are available for the 2009-2010 academic year from the Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania for untenured junior scholars who are no more than eight years out of their doctorate.
The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. The Forum has set CONNECTIONS as the topic for the 2009-2010 academic year. Research proposals on this topic are invited from a variety of theoretical perspectives in all areas of humanistic study except educational curriculum-building and the performing arts. Candidates from all humanistic disciplines are eligible, as well as those in allied areas such as Anthropology and History of Science.
Fellows teach one undergraduate course each of two terms in addition to conducting research. Stipend: $46,500, plus health insurance. The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet
eligibility criteria.
Full fellowship guidelines, topic description, and downloadable application are available online only: http://www.phf.upenn.edu
RFP Social Science Research Council - FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES
[added: June 1, 2008]
Deadline: October 3, 2008
The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is pleased to announce a call to faculty for interdisciplinary research field proposals for the 2009 Dissertation
Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) program. Established in 2006, the DPDF combines financial support and workshop experience for early-stage graduate students engaged in predissertation research and developing their dissertation proposals. The DPDF program is designed to intervene at a critical moment in the career development of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences by aiding their transition from students to researchers. It provides complementary interdisciplinary perspectives to students across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.** Faculty applicants must be tenured at different
doctoral degree-granting programs at US universities and apply in teams of two. DPDF Research Directors lead groups of 12 graduate student fellows in two four-day workshops** Research directors receive a stipend of $10,000 each. More information about the program may be found at: http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.
Research Fields
A research field refers to subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains with common intellectual questions and styles of research. Research fields can be topical in focus, transnational in scope, or comparative.
They can be organized around sources, or grounded in geographical regions. The Council is especially interested in innovative fields of study that may not yet be adequately supported in academic departments.
The 2008 research fields were: Animal Studies, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Muslim Modernities, Science and Technology Policy, Urban Visual Studies. For 2009, the Council especially seeks
fields touching on environmental issues, religion, and visual culture. Full descriptions of the 2007 and 2008 research fields are available on the program Web Site: http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.
Research Directors
The DPDF Faculty Committee will select five research fields, each proposed by two faculty research directors with different institutional affiliations and, as relevant, different disciplinary specializations. With the assistance of SSRC program staff, research directors run the spring and fall workshops that bracket the predissertation research of the students. Research directors should be tenured, experienced supervisors of dissertation research. Each faculty member will receive a stipend of $10,000; students will receive up to
$5,000 for summer predissertation research.
Application Requirements and Deadline
The DPDF program invites faculty to submit joint proposals for research fields for the 2009 fellowship program. The application is available through the SSRC?s application portal, http://applications.ssrc.org/.
Proposals should describe the relevance of the research field, the kind of graduate students who might be recruited, and the kinds of activities that would be entailed in each of the two workshops, along with a short
bibliography and curricula vitae of the two research directors. Applications must be submitted via the application portal by October 3rd, 2008.
Contact Details
Please direct any questions to program staff at dpdf@ssrc.org
Post Doctoral Fellowship: Ethics of Complex Population-Level Intervention Research International Collaboration on Complex Interventions
[added: May 21, 2008]
Through a grant awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research we are pleased to announce the creation of a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship in the Ethics of Complex Population-Level Intervention Research.
We take our definition of population health intervention research from the Population Health Intervention
Research Initiative for Canada (PHIRIC) as: The use of scientific methods to produce knowledge about policy and practice interventions that operate both within and outside the health sector and have the potential to impact health at the population level. The CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health adds a particular emphasis to how "at the population-level" is interpreted: Interventions which change the distribution of the risk, i.e. those that address the underlying risk conditions.
Many preventive intervention research studies are based in settings and directed at clusters of people in schools, communities or worksites. They operate over periods of two to five years. Our interest is in the ethical issues that arise in the conduct of such research. Issues of consent are the ones most usually raised. However, our interest is in the unexplored issues associated with real time accountability – being able to recognise and adjust the intervention to suit the context and participants without sacrificing the integrity of the research. In particular, we hope to develop mechanisms for investigators to recognise and deal with evidence of harmful side effects. We anticipate that the research associated with this position would include a qualitative investigation among investigators and participants of past and present intervention studies. An intended outcome of the fellowship would be recommendations for ethical guidelines for such studies, and the identification of new avenues for ethical inquiry.
The fellowship is ideally suited to individuals with significant training in public and population health (PPH) who are also interested in philosophical questions about methods, evidence, inference, and ethics. Superior PPH candidates will have undertaken coursework or independent research in these philosophical areas. The fellowship is also open to individuals whose primary training is in philosophy (especially ethics), but only where there is also a demonstrable interest and some training in public and population health sciences (especially epidemiology and biostatistics). The successful candidate will be expected to cross-train in both ethics and public and population health sciences, so as to be able to communicate effectively and constructively across disciplines.
The postdoctoral fellowship is nested within the International Collaboration on Complex Interventions (ICCI) in association with a Centre for Research Development in population health award to Dr Penny Hawe at the
Population Health Intervention Research Centre at the University of Calgary (www.ucalgary.ca/PHIRC). The
fellowship will be co supervised by Dr Hawe at the University of Calgary, and Dr Jason Scott Robert at Arizona State University. It will involve periods of time at both sites, to be negotiated. Contact with other ICCI members, as collaborators, key informants and/or consultants as the research design takes place is also anticipated. The successful applicant will be employed through the University of Calgary and must be a Canadian citizen or resident.
The successful applicant will be expected to apply for a post doctoral award to the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) and / or CIHR. Mentoring agreements are used within ICCI to encourage communication, productivity and a supportive climate for trainee development. Successful outcomes of the two year fellowship would include:
• peer reviewed papers
• success in attracting an AHFMR (or similar) award
• development of a supportive network of contacts and potential collaborators
• ideas and plans for further work in the field
• evidence of increased capacity (e.g., research productivity, demonstration of leadership potential) to better dispose the candidate to compete successfully for a faculty position in the field
Applications should be sent to Lindsay Bradshaw, bradshaw@ucalgary.ca. Please include an application letter, CV, names of 3 referees, information about relevant courses taken in graduate and post-graduate training and grades obtained in these courses. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Starting date is negotiable. For further information contact Dr Penny Hawe at phawe@ucalgary.ca and Dr. Jason Scott Robert at: Jason.Robert@asu.edu.
Post Doctoral Fellowship: Change Processes in Complex Interventions Population Health Intervention Research Centre
[added: May 21, 2008]
Through a grant awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research we are pleased to announce the creation of a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship on theories of how things change in complex interventions in population health. We take our definition of population health intervention research from the Population Health Intervention Research Initiative for Canada (PHIRIC) as the use of scientific methods to produce knowledge about policy and practice interventions that operate both within and outside the health sector and have the potential to impact health at the population level.
The CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health adds a particular emphasis to how "at the population-level" is interpreted: interventions which change the distribution of the risk, i.e. those that address the underlying risk conditions.
Many preventive intervention research studies are based in settings and directed at clusters of people in schools, communities or worksites. Behavioural change theories have dominated the field - that is, theories about how individuals change their behaviour. Our interest is in change processes at higher level of analysis, such as changes in networks, organisations, communities and social systems. Weak or null effects are common in population health interventions. This post doc is about the extent to which under developed theory, or theory inappropriate to the scale of the change processes attempted might account for weak
effects of the past. Stronger effects might come from better theorised interventions.
The main opportunity for fieldwork will be within a project investigating whole school change processes where we are using qualitative methods and social network analysis. The fellowship is ideally suited to individuals with significant training in public and population health who have background in community psychology, sociology, health promotion, communication, anthropology, adult learning, workplace learning, or organisational science. Competence and track record in qualitative methods would be an advantage. Interest in complexity science would be an advantage. Training in social network analysis will be provided if desired. Further training opportunities will be negotiated with the successful candidate.
The postdoctoral fellowship is nested within the International Collaboration on Complex Interventions (ICCI) in association with a Centre for Research Development in population health award to the Population Health Intervention Research Centre at the University of Calgary (www.ucalgary.ca/PHIRC). The fellowship will be supervised by Dr Penny Hawe at the University of Calgary, director of the Centre. Contact with other ICCI members, as collaborators, key informants and/or consultants as the research design takes place is anticipated.
The successful applicant will be employed through the University of Calgary and must be a Canadian citizen or resident.
The successful applicant will be expected to apply for a post doctoral award to the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) and / or CIHR.
Mentoring agreements are used within ICCI to encourage communication, productivity and a supportive climate for trainee development. Successful outcomes of the two year fellowship would include:
• peer reviewed papers
• success in attracting an AHFMR (or similar) award
• development of a supportive network of contacts and potential collaborators
• ideas and plans for further work in the field
• evidence of increased capacity (e.g., research productivity, demonstration of leadership potential) to better dispose the candidate to compete successfully for a faculty position in the field
Applications should be made to Lindsay Bradshaw, bradshaw@ucalgary.ca. Please include an application letter, CV, names of 3 referees, information about relevant courses taken in graduate and post-graduate training and grades obtained in these courses. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Starting date is negotiable.
For further information contact Dr Penny Hawe at phawe@ucalgary.ca
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