Overview
Haverford College is pleased to have the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in establishing an endowed fellowship program designed to nurture the professional potential of an emerging generation of young humanists. As a liberal arts college dedicated to the complementary pursuits of excellent teaching and advanced scholarship, Haverford has a profound stake in ensuring continuity in the tradition of scholar-teachers. We likewise believe that an institution such as ours, with its opportunities for faculty development through intimate interdisciplinary exchange and innovative pedagogy, provides an ideal setting for cultivating the creative energies of young scholars. At the same time, Haverford has much to gain from the steady infusion of fresh intellectual and pedagogical perspectives brought by the Fellows from their recent university training and experience.
Haverford's program for Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows is organized to provide five key instruments of professional advancement: meaningful teaching (Fellows teach one course per term, with the expectation that they will supplement the curriculum with innovative course designs); collaborative intellectual exploration (through participation during the first year in the year-long Humanities Center Faculty Seminar); interaction with the broader world of scholarship and public life (focused in the Fellowship's second year through the staging of a symposium connected to the Fellow's teaching and research interests); mentoring (through association with host departments and programs, as well as the Faculty Seminar); and the time and resources for scholarly endeavor (a reduced teaching load, support for research, and funds for travel to professional conferences).
2011 Hurford Humanities Center Mellon Post-Doc Search Charge
The John B. Hurford Humanities Center of Haverford College is accepting applications for a two-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to begin Fall 2011.
We seek scholars interested in the intersecting histories of technology, political economy, creativity, and power in the past and present. Area of specialization is open, but might include history, music, theatre, film, media and communications, anthropology, history of art, literature, sociology, philosophy, law, political science, religion, and cultural studies. Scholars with historical and interdisciplinary concerns are encouraged to apply.
In the first year the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will play a central role in a seminar entitled "Changing Technologies of Power in the Entrepreneurial Age" led by Jesse Weaver Shipley in Anthropology. The Seminar examines the social, cultural, and historical contexts of media and mediation. As digital technologies and electronic media shape the ways that states, corporations, and international organizations make new demands of citizens, workers, and consumers, people creatively use electronic equipment for their own purposes. Large institutions struggle to harness new technologies and channel the flows of money, bodies, and ideas through their corridors, while artists, hackers, and dissident entrepreneurs re-imagine digital media to elude and compete with top-down organizations and invoke alternative forms of collectivity. But counter-cultural movements in the age of dispersed digital circulation cannot easily be understood using older theories of resistance or opposition politics. This seminar links interests in technology and the built environment, historical transformations of political technologies, rights, justice, and space, and philosophies of the aesthetic mediation of gender and race.
During each of the four semesters of his or her time at Haverford College, the Fellow will teach one course at the intermediate or advanced level. Applicants should submit two brief course proposals related to their area of interest, one for a broad-based introductory course, the other for a more specialized or advanced course. In the second year, the Fellow will organize and present a spring symposium funded by the Humanities Center.
How to Apply
Candidates who have received the Ph.D. in 2006 at the earliest, or who have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. by the application deadline of January 31, 2011 are eligible. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, two course proposals and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to:
Emily Carey Cronin
Associate Director
John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center
Haverford College
Haverford PA 19041
610-896-1336
ecronin@haverford.edu
http://www.haverford.edu/HHC/mellon_post-doctoral_program/index.php
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
Haverford College is pleased to have the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in establishing an endowed fellowship program designed to nurture the professional potential of an emerging generation of young humanists. As a liberal arts college dedicated to the complementary pursuits of excellent teaching and advanced scholarship, Haverford has a profound stake in ensuring continuity in the tradition of scholar-teachers. We likewise believe that an institution such as ours, with its opportunities for faculty development through intimate interdisciplinary exchange and innovative pedagogy, provides an ideal setting for cultivating the creative energies of young scholars. At the same time, Haverford has much to gain from the steady infusion of fresh intellectual and pedagogical perspectives brought by the Fellows from their recent university training and experience.
Haverford's program for Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows is organized to provide five key instruments of professional advancement: meaningful teaching (Fellows teach one course per term, with the expectation that they will supplement the curriculum with innovative course designs); collaborative intellectual exploration (through participation during the first year in the year-long Humanities Center Faculty Seminar); interaction with the broader world of scholarship and public life (focused in the Fellowship's second year through the staging of a symposium connected to the Fellow's teaching and research interests); mentoring (through association with host departments and programs, as well as the Faculty Seminar); and the time and resources for scholarly endeavor (a reduced teaching load, support for research, and funds for travel to professional conferences).
2011 Hurford Humanities Center Mellon Post-Doc Search Charge
The John B. Hurford Humanities Center of Haverford College is accepting applications for a two-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to begin Fall 2011.
We seek scholars interested in the intersecting histories of technology, political economy, creativity, and power in the past and present. Area of specialization is open, but might include history, music, theatre, film, media and communications, anthropology, history of art, literature, sociology, philosophy, law, political science, religion, and cultural studies. Scholars with historical and interdisciplinary concerns are encouraged to apply.
In the first year the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will play a central role in a seminar entitled "Changing Technologies of Power in the Entrepreneurial Age" led by Jesse Weaver Shipley in Anthropology. The Seminar examines the social, cultural, and historical contexts of media and mediation. As digital technologies and electronic media shape the ways that states, corporations, and international organizations make new demands of citizens, workers, and consumers, people creatively use electronic equipment for their own purposes. Large institutions struggle to harness new technologies and channel the flows of money, bodies, and ideas through their corridors, while artists, hackers, and dissident entrepreneurs re-imagine digital media to elude and compete with top-down organizations and invoke alternative forms of collectivity. But counter-cultural movements in the age of dispersed digital circulation cannot easily be understood using older theories of resistance or opposition politics. This seminar links interests in technology and the built environment, historical transformations of political technologies, rights, justice, and space, and philosophies of the aesthetic mediation of gender and race.
During each of the four semesters of his or her time at Haverford College, the Fellow will teach one course at the intermediate or advanced level. Applicants should submit two brief course proposals related to their area of interest, one for a broad-based introductory course, the other for a more specialized or advanced course. In the second year, the Fellow will organize and present a spring symposium funded by the Humanities Center.
How to Apply
Candidates who have received the Ph.D. in 2006 at the earliest, or who have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. by the application deadline of January 31, 2011 are eligible. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, two course proposals and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to:
Emily Carey Cronin
Associate Director
John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center
Haverford College
Haverford PA 19041
610-896-1336
ecronin@haverford.edu
http://www.haverford.edu/HHC/mellon_post-doctoral_program/index.php
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
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