The Duke University Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellowship Program is seeking proposals for the 2012-13 academic year, made possible by a generous grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation. This funding will allow faculty members from Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs) and / or Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to participate in a comprehensive effort to redefine the role of the humanities in undergraduate education. Duke is committed to reasserting the importance of the humanities by connecting humanistic inquiry broadly across domains of knowledge and linking it to an active, integrative model of education. These Fellowships are meant to mesh individual research projects with larger collaborative ventures already ongoing at Duke. The Fellows may be tied to innovative intellectual projects that involve undergraduates and that are conceptualized within or across humanities and interpretive social sciences departments; with interdisciplinary centers or institutes or interdisciplinary working groups; with Emerging Humanities Networks, or with Humanities Labs (Haiti Lab, BorderWork(s), and GreaterThanGames). Each Fellow must be committed to the goal of connecting humanists and the humanities to new neighbors and adjacencies, sometimes outside of traditional disciplines, in ways that make the humanities a central part of new knowledge projects.

For complete program details and application information, visit humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/visiting-fellows/visiting-faculty-fellows-2012-13-call-for-proposals. For more information contact Laura Eastwood at humanities-writ-large@duke.edu

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The School of Criticism and Theory was founded in 1976 by a group of leading scholars and critical theorists in the conviction that an understanding of theory is fundamental to humanistic studies. Today, in an unparalleled summer campus experience, the SCT offers professors and advanced graduate students of literature and related social sciences a chance to work with preeminent figures in critical thought—exploring the relationships among literature, history, art, anthropology and the law; examining the role of ideological and cultural movements; and reassessing theoretical approaches that have emerged over the last fifty years. Cornell also offers participants the resources of one of the great research libraries in the United States.

In an intense six-week course of study, faculty members and graduate students from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, explore recent developments in critical theory. Participants work with the SCT’s core faculty of distinguished scholars and theorists in one of four six-week seminars. Each faculty member offers, in addition, a public lecture and a colloquium (based on an original paper) which are attended by the entire group. The program also includes mini-seminars taught by scholars who visit for shorter periods. Finally, throughout the six weeks, distinguished theorists visit the SCT as lecturers.

The application deadline is February 1, and admissions decisions are announced in March. All applications must be submitted online. The online application may be accessed at the site listed below beginning on December 1, 2011. For complete application and program information, visit http://sct.arts.cornell.edu/, or contact: Mary Ahl at mea4@cornell.edu.

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The Anthropology Department at UC Davis will appoint an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Fellow will be involved in the scholarly activities of the Sawyer Seminar, “Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues About the Reconstitution of Worlds” that will unfold during that academic year. The seminar has as its goal to convene an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to discuss the innovative possibilities, for scholarship and politics, that might emerge at the crossroads of two major processes– indigenous social movements and the conceptual production generated by ethnographic studies of science and technology. While taking place in radically different social contexts and geographical regions, currently these two processes offer seemingly coincidental conceptual-political proposals: they interrogate the nature-culture divide in a manner that, if addressed and made public, could have far reaching implications as they question a number of correlated divides: mind‐body, subject‐object, representer‐represented, historical-ahistorical, among others. While these concepts continue to carry historical and political import, the epistemic critique leveled jointly by indigenous and scholarly claims also renders them insufficient to grasp events that (as we can acknowledge after such critique) occur outside the purview of the divide between nature and culture that organizes hegemonic knowledge.

The fellow will help organize and participate in seminar events (including workshops, public lectures and reading groups) and design and teach a one quarter-long/ten weeks introductory undergraduate course on the topic. The appointment will be from August 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. Stipend is $50,000. Candidates must have earned the doctoral degree no earlier than January 2009 and no later than July 2012.

We welcome applicants from anthropology, geography, cultural studies, environmental studies, history, critical law, literature, philosophy, sociology, science and technology studies, and various interdisciplinary combinations. We seek creativity and encourage applications by scholars working on the themes of conceptual relevance to the seminar. A focus on indigeneity is preferred but not exclusive. Topics may include: politics and state/non-state formations, cultures of history, law and property, political ecologies/economies/ontologies, death and life, new materialisms, embodiment and nature-culture assemblages. There is no citizenship requirement or restriction for this fellowship. Non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply.

Application Materials: Letters of application and supporting material should include the following: 1) A two-page cover letter stating your interest in the Postdoctoral Fellowship providing details on your current research and how it would benefit from and contribute to the Sawyer Seminar; 2) A curriculum vitae; 3) Two letters of reference; 4) One writing sample (30 pages maximum). 5) A brief course proposal for a one-semester course that would introduce undergraduate students to the topic. Please double-space and use 12-point type.

The deadline is February 5, 2012. Applications will only be accepted online at: http://anthro.facultysearch.ucdavis.edu. Referees should post their letters directly—same web page. The University of California is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Address administrative questions to Grace de Guzman, phone: 530-754-4936; fax: 530-752-8885; email: gdeguzman@ucdavis.edu. UC Davis is an AA/EO employer and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has generously provided Tufts University with funding to bring two postdoctoral fellows to campus each year to pursue new research projects in the Humanities. Two fellows will be appointed in fall 2012. The stipend for fellows will be $46,500 plus benefits, and a research allowance of $5,000 per year.

For 2012-13, we will only be accepting applications in the following fields:

Anthropology
Art/Art History
Drama and Dance
History
Philosophy
Romance Languages

Fellows will be housed for two years at the Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) and affiliated with the department or interdisciplinary program most germane to their field of research. Fellows will teach one course in the spring semester of their first year and two in the second year of their residency through their home department or program.

It is expected that fellows will take part in the intellectual life of campus, working with faculty and students, attending symposia and events, and contributing to meetings and discussions presented by the Center for the Humanities. Applicants whose research will benefit from the research environment and faculty at Tufts are especially encouraged to apply.

The application deadline will be Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. At this time, applications cannot be submitted electronically. All application materials will be competitively evaluated by the Mellon Postdoctoral Committee. Applicants for the fellowships must have received their PhD within the past five years. There is no requirement that the fellows be US citizens.

For further information, guidelines, and to download application materials, please visit ase.tufts.edu/mellonpostdoc. Please contact Khalilah Imani Tyre by email at Humanities@tufts.edu or by phone at 617-627-3342 for any other questions.

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