Deadline Alerts
- Faculty: CLAS Travel Application Request – Wednesday, August 31st before 4pm. Applications should be given to Pat.
- Graduate Students: CLAS Travel Application Request – Wednesday, August 31st before 4pm. Applications should be given to Nita.
- Graduate Students: Spring Assistantship Applications – September 8th before 4pm. Applications should be given to Nita.
Department Information
Department Standing Committees 2016-2017
Undergraduate Education Committee for 2016-2017
Susan Gillespie (1st year)
Jeff Johnson (1st year)
John Krigbaum (ex-officio)
Maria Stoilkova (2nd year)
Alyson Young (1st year)
Graduate Education Committee for 2016-2017
James Davidson (ex-officio)
Jeff Johnson (1st year)
Connie Mulligan (1st year)
Ken Sassaman (1st year)
Alyson Young (1st year)
Funding Opportunities
CLAS Dissertation Fellowship Program
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites students pursuing the Ph.D. to apply for dissertation fellowships for the spring or summer terms of 2017. We expect up to twelve fellowships to be available, and they will provide students with a stipend of $7,000 per term plus a waiver of tuition fees. Departments may supplement the dissertation fellowship if they wish, but the intent of the awards is to free students from the demands of a teaching assistantship so that they can complete their dissertations. This year there will be a separate category of small awards. These will be selected from among those who apply but do not receive the full awards and whose dissertation project can be completed with a small award. The small awards will not include a waiver of tuition fees.
In order to be eligible to hold a fellowship, students must have already been admitted to candidacy before January 1, 2017. Applicants should submit proposals to their department.
The proposals should include:
1. Cover sheet
2. A 1 to 2 page description (single spaced) of the dissertation project and the work to be conducted with this award. (Fellowships can also be used to fund travel to archives.)
3. Two letters of endorsement from the faculty, with one being from the chair of the dissertation committee
One copy of the proposal must be submitted to Juanita Bagnall in the Department of Anthropology by 4:00 p.m. on September 29, 2016.
The proposals will be ranked by the Department and forwarded to CLAS by their deadline.
A CLAS faculty committee will review the proposals and awards will be announced by November 17, 2016.
Elizabeth Eddy Fellowship Program
If you are applying for the CLAS Dissertation Fellowship and your research includes applied anthropology, you can be considered for the departmental Elizabeth Eddy Fellowship ($7,000 for either the spring 2017 semester OR summer 2017 semester).
If your work is applied, and you want to be considered for the Eddy award, please provide a statement of not more than one page (double-spaced) outlining how your research is applied with your CLAS Dissertation Fellowship proposal package.
Graduate School Dissertation Completion Awards
Finally, please don’t forget that the application process is now open for Graduate School Dissertation Completion awards also.
While the Graduate School deadline is October 21st, because you need both Department Chair and Dean signature on your application package, the Department deadline is October 14th at 4:00 p.m. The completed application package should be submitted to Juanita Bagnall, who will then secure Department Chair and Dean signature before delivering the package to the Graduate School.
Please note that current department policy prohibits you from holding more than one of these awards.
Upcoming events
- Q&A Session on the assistantship selection process, August 31st at 3:00 p.m. in 1208 TUR.
- The Proctor Program’s 2nd annual Pops 4 SPOHP fundraiser: Thursday, September 1st at First Magnitude Brewery. We would like to invite all of our supporters and partners out to celebrate for a good cause with our staff and students. This year we have been able to enable online ticket purchases which can be accessed through the website below: http://www.cvent.com/d/zvq04q. If you can make it bring a friend! We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday night.
- TCD Fall 2016 Annual Orientation / Gathering
Additional Items of Interest
- Donations to the Department: If you’ve recently presented a poster at a conference and are willing to donate it to the Department, please drop it off at the main office. We are looking for some posters to display to highlight our department’s research.
- AAA Article: What exactly are Anthropology MAs doing with their Anthropology?
- Call for Applications: Cultural Diplomacy in the Commonwealth 2016 (London; October 12th – 14th, 2016) http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/index.php?en_iscd-2016_uk-home
Job Ad
The Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, invites applications for an assistant professor or early associate professor appointment to begin in September 2017. We are interested in scholars whose research addresses politics and processes of racialization and ethnic formation in North America from an anthropological perspective. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to: new approaches to and theories about diversity; democratic participation and the politics of care; media and expressive culture; political economy and inequality; environmental racism and health disparities; policing, surveillance, and incarceration; civil rights and related social movements; and intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Depth of ethnographic knowledge and the ability to address questions of theoretical and comparative significance will be crucial. Applications are due September 15, 2016.
Please send copies of: (1) a cover letter; (2) a CV; (3) a statement of current and future research plans; (4) a statement of teaching philosophy and experience; (5) a sample of scholarly writing; (6) evidence of teaching excellence; and (7) the names and addresses of three references to umich.anthro.chair@umich.edu Please make sure the names of each attached file starts with your name (Last Name, First Name). Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer