Institute for Research in the Humanities and Center for the Humanities
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deadline: April 9, 2010
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, it will provide three, two-year postdoctoral fellowships for recent PhD recipients starting on August 23, 2010. Fellows will be affiliated with a department in the College of Letters and Science, as well as the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities. They will also teach one undergraduate course per semester in one of the humanities or humanistic social science departments in the College of Letters & Science.
The UW-Madison Mellon Postdoctoral Program builds upon interdisciplinary initiatives well established on campus to explore the question “What is human?,” to examine transnational circulations of culture and power throughout history on a global landscape, and to forge new ways of thinking about the digital revolution. Each year of the Mellon Postdoctoral Program will focus on a theme related to these initiatives; applicants should explain how their project relates to this theme. The theme for the 2010 applicants is World Citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome projects on the cultural aesthetic, philosophical, visual, linguistic, geohistorical, environmental, political, and/or religious dimensions of world citizenship that reflect the ways that human beings have shaped, been affected by, and made sense of the conjunctures, contact zones, linkages, and dislocations at different points in history across the planet. We welcome work in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences on any historical periods or regions of the world, as well as work that challenges disciplinary boundaries and builds bridges with the sciences, social sciences, and the arts. We especially welcome work that deals with transcontinental and transnational contacts shaped by world systems, human and cultural mobilities, colonialism, enslavements, decolonization, and multiple forms of agency. Applicants should explain how their project relates to this theme.
The stipend for Mellon postdoctoral fellows is $52,000 per academic year, with a $2,000 per year research allowance, $3,000 per year travel allowance, and a $2,500 computer allowance for the first year. Fellows are eligible for health insurance. Click here for complete information on the program, and here for the application cover sheet.
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