Overview
The University of Chicago Society of Fellows will begin accepting applications on August 23, 2010 for four-year postdoctoral teaching appointments as Harper and Schmidt Fellows who hold the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor.
The Fellows are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the general education (Core) program. Candidates should demonstrate excellence in their original scholarship as well as in teaching.
Applicants may submit applications to be considered in one of the two program areas:
•Core courses in the Humanities
•Core courses in the Social Sciences/History of European Civilization Core Sequence
The Fellowships are open to scholars in all disciplines and areas of specialization who will have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. degree no later than August 31, 2011. In most years, Fellows teach two courses (usually of identical preparation) for each of three quarters. Each Fellow also has the opportunity to design an independent course and each is eligible for one quarter of research sabbatical in the third year of residence.
Benefits
The annual salary for 2011-2012 will be $56,500.The effective date for these teaching appointments will be September 1, 2011.
Online applications must be completed by November 1, 2010. Letters of recommendation must be submitted online or received in a dossier by November 11, 2010.
If you are sending a dossier, you may have it sent via email as a single PDF to fellows@lists.uchicago.edu.
Online Application
Deadline: November 1, 2010
As part of your online application, you will need to provide the contact information for three references. Note: You will also have the option to submit a dossier with letters of recommendation instead of having individuals submit references online.
To complete your application, you'll need to upload the following supporting documents:
•A curriculum vitae
•A description of the most recent major research project, not to exceed 2000 words.
•A teaching statement, not to exceed 750 words, describing your methods and goals in teaching a text in a general education course. Applicants should write about a text of their own choosing. Examples in the Humanities include Plato's Symposium, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's Tempest, Wolff's A Room of One's Own, or Wright's Native Son. For the Social Sciences, examples include Weber's Protestant Ethic, Marx's 18th Brumaire, Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's The Prince, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, a selection from The Federalist Papers, or essays from Geertz's Interpretation of Cultures.
NOTE: Your three online recommendations or your dossier must also be received no later than November 11, 2010.
If you have any questions, please contact us via email at fellows@lists.uchicago.edu
Source: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
The University of Chicago Society of Fellows will begin accepting applications on August 23, 2010 for four-year postdoctoral teaching appointments as Harper and Schmidt Fellows who hold the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor.
The Fellows are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the general education (Core) program. Candidates should demonstrate excellence in their original scholarship as well as in teaching.
Applicants may submit applications to be considered in one of the two program areas:
•Core courses in the Humanities
•Core courses in the Social Sciences/History of European Civilization Core Sequence
The Fellowships are open to scholars in all disciplines and areas of specialization who will have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. degree no later than August 31, 2011. In most years, Fellows teach two courses (usually of identical preparation) for each of three quarters. Each Fellow also has the opportunity to design an independent course and each is eligible for one quarter of research sabbatical in the third year of residence.
Benefits
The annual salary for 2011-2012 will be $56,500.The effective date for these teaching appointments will be September 1, 2011.
Online applications must be completed by November 1, 2010. Letters of recommendation must be submitted online or received in a dossier by November 11, 2010.
If you are sending a dossier, you may have it sent via email as a single PDF to fellows@lists.uchicago.edu.
Online Application
Deadline: November 1, 2010
As part of your online application, you will need to provide the contact information for three references. Note: You will also have the option to submit a dossier with letters of recommendation instead of having individuals submit references online.
To complete your application, you'll need to upload the following supporting documents:
•A curriculum vitae
•A description of the most recent major research project, not to exceed 2000 words.
•A teaching statement, not to exceed 750 words, describing your methods and goals in teaching a text in a general education course. Applicants should write about a text of their own choosing. Examples in the Humanities include Plato's Symposium, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's Tempest, Wolff's A Room of One's Own, or Wright's Native Son. For the Social Sciences, examples include Weber's Protestant Ethic, Marx's 18th Brumaire, Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's The Prince, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, a selection from The Federalist Papers, or essays from Geertz's Interpretation of Cultures.
NOTE: Your three online recommendations or your dossier must also be received no later than November 11, 2010.
If you have any questions, please contact us via email at fellows@lists.uchicago.edu
Source: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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