Funding Opportunities
Teacher/Advisor of the Year Awards
The criteria for awards and eligibility, as well as a description of the application process and nomination forms, are available at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/forms/index.html. Please inform your faculty of this competition and these guidelines. Please note that the competition now comprises three categories: Undergraduate Teaching Award, Professional Adviser Award (Academic Advising), and Faculty Advising/Mentor Award (Departments, Centers, and Programs). This year CLAS teachers and advisers will receive a total of 8 awards. All college-level winners will receive a $2,000 award, and three of these recipients will be eligible to compete for an additional $4,000 award in the university-level competition. The CLAS deadline for nominations is November 18, 2016. Nominees must notify Arlene Williams of their intention to apply by December 2, 2016, and final portfolios will be due on January 3, 2017. This will allow sufficient time for review, selection, and submission of nominations to the University-level competition in January. All materials, including nomination forms, should be submitted to Arlene Williams at arlenew@ufl.edu.
Please note that winners of teaching or advising awards in the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 competitions are not eligible this year. I ask that you and your faculty encourage students to submit nominations for these awards. Note that undergraduate coordinators can often be helpful in this effort. If you have any further questions about the competition, please call me at 392-2264.
Fellowship Opportunity for Junior Faculty
Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, which is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. This pre-tenure award program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities. Junior faculty entering their third year are eligible to apply for this Fellowship, which includes a sabbatical grant, a research/travel/publication stipend, and participation in an annual retreat. The Fellow’s institution is expected to supplement the award as explained in the attached program documents. The Fellowship application deadline is October 28, 2016. Our Fellows are outstanding scholars who have done important creative and intellectual work during their Fellowships and beyond. In just 15 years, close to 200 Fellows have attained tenure and made significant contributions to the academy. You can find more detailed information at http://woodrow.org/fellowships/mellon/career-enhancement/.
Please post or circulate this attached flyer and application to eligible faculty. All materials may be duplicated. Thank you for sharing this excellent opportunity with any third-year tenure-track faculty you know. If you have any questions, please contact me (609) 945-7879 (truelove@woodrow.org) or Program Associate Ina Noble (609) 945-7876 (noble@woodrow.org).
Dr. Rayna Truelove
Mellon Program Officer
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Upcoming events
Center for African Studies Distinguished Lecture in African Archaeology
On Friday September 23rd Dr. Peter Mitchell, professor of archaeology at the University of Oxford, England will present the Center for African Studies’ Distinguished Lecture in African Archaeology on Climate change and archaeology in Late Pleistocene southern Africa: implications for people then and now. 3:30 pm, 404 Grinter Hall. Reception to Follow.
The Department of History, together with other generous cosponsors on campus, is sponsoring a year-long speaker series entitled “Empire, Religion, and Ethnicity in Europe and Beyond.” The series features the recent and cutting-edge research of four historians who deal with the politics of ethnic and religious identity, inter-communal relations, and the making and crossing of borders in the 19th-20th centuries. As they present their analyses of historic contestations over defining the “nation” and its relationship to its internal and external others (Muslims and Jews) in a variety of different European settings, the speakers will also reflect on the ongoing salience of these questions and challenges in contemporary Europe. (series poster attached) Please note that the first speaker, Dr. Dominique Reill, will be at UF next week, Thursday 9/22-Friday 9/23. In addition to her evening talk on her book, Dr. Reill will give a lunch-time seminar on her ongoing research project on citizenship in post-World War I Fiume. If you plan on attending the seminar, please RSVP to me so that I have a head count for lunch and so that you can get a copy of her paper in advance. (speaker postcard attached) We hope to see you at some of these upcoming events! Michelle Campos, Assoc Professor, Department of History
COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ASIAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC INTERACTIONS
September 30 and October 1, 2016; All events will be held in Dauer 215
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s “Humanities Fund”, The Marston-Milbauer Professorship, the Dept of English, and the African American Studies Program. For questions please contact aamoko@ufl.edu or malini@ufl.edu
Presentations:
Friday, September 30
9- 10.30am: Gaurav Desai, professor of English, University of Michigan, “Gandhi as Allegory.”
This paper addresses Mahatma Gandhi’s time in South Africa, race relations and the possibility of trans-oceanic connections:
11am—12.30pm: Lisa Lowe, “Archives, Ports, Museums.”
Based in part on her recent book, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke 2015), this paper examines the relationships among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, in particular, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism.
2.00- 3.30pm: Bill Mullen, Professor of American Studies, Purdue University, “Gaza is Burning: James Baldwin, the Arab and Afro-Palestine Solidarity.”
Engaging with the work of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this talk is an historical assessment of the African-American response to Palestine that includes a discussion of the role of Palestine in the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Saturday, October 1, 9am- 11am: Graduate Students Panel:
1. Amrita Bandopadhyay, PhD, English, University of Florida, “Glamorous Jamaica: Jamaican-Chinese Women and Nationalist Aesthetics.”
2. Yeonhaun Kang, PhD, English, University of Florida, “Black Rural Modernity and the Global Ecofeminism in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.”
3. Kedon Willis, PhD English, University of Florida, “Constructing “Mr. Chin”: The Daily Gleaner’s Role in the Imagining of Chineseness and the 1918 Anti-Chinese Riots.”
Notes on Invited Speakers:
Professor Lisa Lowe is distinguished professor of English and the Director of the Humanities Center at Tufts University. A leading scholar of Postcolonial and Asian American studies, she is author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. (1996), The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital with David Lloyd (1997), and The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015). She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, and the American Council of Learned Societies
Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue. His books include Afro-Orientalism (2004) a study of interethnic anti-racist alliance between Asian and African Americans, and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics 1935-1946 (1999). He has edited five other books in collaboration with Sherry Lee Linkon, James Smethurst and Fred Ho. He has been a Fulbright lecturer at Wuhan University in the People’s Republic of China. He is faculty adviser to Students for Justice in Palestine at Purdue.
Gaurav Desai is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He is author Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (2001) and Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India and the Afrasian Imagination (2013); Professor Desai is also editor of Teaching the African Novel (MLA, 2009) and co-editor with Supriya Nair of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (2005). He is the recipient of a National Humanities fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation award, and an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship.
Additional Items of Interest
American Council of Learned Societies
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Amount: $95,000, plus funds for research costs and related scholarly activities of up to $7,500 and for relocation up to $3,000
Deadline: September 28, 2016, by 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time
The Burkhardt program offers two sets of opportunities for recently tenured humanists. The first set of Burkhardt Fellowships support an academic year (nine months) of residence at any one of the 13 participating residential research centers, and are open to faculty at any degree-granting academic institution in the United States. An additional set of Burkhardt Fellowships are designated specifically for liberal arts college faculty, and support an academic year of residence at a wider range of locations including campus humanities centers and university academic departments to be proposed by the applicant. (Liberal arts college faculty may apply for either of the Burkhardt awards and should select the fellowship opportunity that will best serve their project.) More information is on the website.
Assistant Professor Position Yale University
The Yale University Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies intends to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in the field of gender and sexuality in the global South. The appointment begins July 1, 2017. We are interested in transnational research in such fields as critical development studies, environment and social justice, migration, indigeneity, human rights, science and technology studies, visual cultures, and performance studies. Scholars in the social and human sciences, humanities, law, environmental studies, as well as those trained in interdisciplinary fields are encouraged to apply.
Ph.D. or equivalent degree at time of hire is expected. A letter of application describing your research, teaching interests, engagement with women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, a CV, a two-page dissertation abstract, chapter-length writing sample, and three letters of reference required. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2016. To ensure full consideration, please submit all materials by September 30, 2016. Application materials may be submitted beginning August 7, 2016. Prepare your application materials now by logging in to Interfolio, or if you don’t have an account, create one now. For questions concerning this search, please contact the Yale Program for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at wgss@yale.edu. Do not submit applications, or application materials to this email address. Please submit your application via INTERFOLIO. Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.
University of Notre Dame: College of Arts & Letters: Anthropology
Associate or Full Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology
Location: Notre Dame, IN
The Anthropology Department at the University of Notre Dame seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist at the senior level (associate or full professor). The start date for this position is August 1, 2017. Qualified candidates will have a demonstrated capacity for innovative and collaborative leadership; university-level administrative experience; and a substantial record of research, publications, and active scholarship. Integrative and interdisciplinary research and a demonstrated ability to obtain external and internal funding are highly desired. Candidates should show evidence of intellectual leadership and the ability to have an impact on the field of anthropology at Notre Dame and in the broader scholarly community. Notre Dame Anthropology has a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate education. We seek a faculty member committed to working within our undergraduate program, which has a strong history of student research and theses. Our PhD program is growing rapidly and we seek faculty who will actively mentor PhD students and contribute to the direction of our integrative approach to graduate training. We seek a scholar whose expertise complements that of the current faculty. Geographic region is open though we seek someone whose regional and topical focus adds to the existing strengths of our department. Serious candidates should conceptualize explicitly how they would distinctively complement and/or add to our department’s strengths and contribute to our intellectual community. QUALIFICATIONS: Must be an associate or full professor to apply. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS–Please upload a full CV, a letter of application (outlining research interests and plans, as well as teaching philosophy), and the names and contact information (including e-mail) for three referees. This institution is using Interfolio’s ByCommittee to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge. Apply by October 15 @ https://apply.interfolio.com/35834. Vania Smith-Oka, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Graduate Studies Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Fellow, Eck Institute for Global Health.
Tenure-track faculty position in Muslims in America
The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the study of Muslims/Islam in America to begin fall semester 2017 (08/28/2017). We seek intellectually ambitious candidates with interdisciplinary aptitude, poised to become leaders in the field. A Ph.D. in Religious Studies or other related field including anthropology is required by the start date, August 28, 2017. Possible areas of specialization include, but are not limited to,
- History of Muslims/Islam in North America
- Religious experience or expression of Muslims in North America
- Social/political experience of the Muslim diaspora in North America
- Gender, race, class, identity issues related to Muslim experience in North America
Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate a strong foundation in the academic study of religion and their specific research area, ability to work across disciplinary boundaries, and evidence or potential for a strong research profile and excellence in teaching. Applications must be submitted online at http://humanresources.umn.edu/jobs . Click the Apply button and search for Job Opening ID #312745. Submit (1) a cover letter describing your interest in the position, your research interests, and your qualifications and experience, and (2) your curriculum vitae. A writing sample (3) of not more than 40 pages must be attached as an additional document through your “My Activities” page. Three letters of reference in pdf form should be sent separately by their authors to the search committee chair at rels@umn.edu. Candidates who make the initial cut will be asked for a philosophy of teaching statement, sample syllabi, and/or course evaluations. Application deadline: October 17, 2016 Preliminary interviews at AAR/SBL in San Antonio, November 19-21. Inquiries should be directed to search committee chair, Jeanne Kilde, jkilde@umn.edu http://religiousstudies.umn.edu/ The University of Minnesota provides equal access to and opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. http://diversity.umn.edu
Tenure-Track Position, Emory University, Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position to begin August 2017. We seek a scholar who specializes in the study of race, social inequality, and/or social justice. We welcome applications from candidates whose work is explicit in its use of social theory and rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative research methods. We also welcome applications from scholars who in their research and teaching will offer unique and compelling perspectives on diversity. The successful candidate will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses related to the individual’s specializations as well as more general introductory courses in Anthropology. Consistent with Emory’s mission of engaged scholarship and excellence in liberal arts education, we seek a scholar with a documented record of innovative field research, demonstrated strength in teaching, and a PhD in hand by the time of appointment. A complete application will include a letter of intent that includes a research and teaching statement, CV, a writing sample consisting of an article, thesis chapter, or book chapter, and names of three referees. Initial consideration of applications will begin immediately and applications will be accepted through November 14, 2016. To apply for this position, please visit apply.interfolio.com/37447 and submit your materials free of charge through Interfolio. Emory University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Disability/Veteran employer. The Department of Anthropology, Emory College, and Emory University are all strongly committed to recruiting female and minority candidates. Women, minorities, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
The Irish Fieldschool of Prehistoric Archaeology
My name is Dr Ros Ó Maoldúin and I am the excavation director of an archaeological fieldschool in Ireland – The Irish Fieldschool of Prehistoric Archaeology. I would be very grateful if you would circulate the attached poster among your Irish Studies students and colleagues, and/or hang a copy of it on your departmental noticeboard.
If there is a more appropriate person in your department that I ought to be writing to, or if you would prefer a hard (paper) copy of our poster, please let me know.
Best wishes from Ireland!
Ros
Dr Ros Ó Maoldúin BSc MIAI
Call for papers
The Archaeological Review from Cambridge, an international, postgraduate run academic journal, is seeking submissions for Volume 32.1 “In sickness and in health: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of disease and deformity in past populations”. This volume aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue between scholars who use artefactual, textual and skeletal evidence in the study of disease in past populations. Please see the attached poster for further information. We are particularly keen to encourage submissions from masters and doctoral students. The new deadline for abstract submission is 30 September 2016.