ANDREW W. MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
2010-2012
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Call for Applications
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 3
two-year postdoctoral fellowships for recent Ph.D. 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 (htti://
www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits/gradben.pdf. ).
Application Information
* Applicants must be scholars who are not yet tenured and who are no
more than 5 years past receiving their PhD.
* Fellows must hold a PhD in a humanities discipline or in the
humanistic social sciences. Applicants who do not yet hold a PhD but
expect to have it by September, 2010 will be asked to provide a letter
from their home institution corroborating the degree award schedule.
* Application dossiers must include:
* Application Form http://www.ls.wisc.edu/irh/mellon.doc
* Proposal of up to 2,000 words that incorporates an explanation
of completed research (including dissertation); work in progress;
research that will be conducted as a Mellon Fellow, including its
relation to the Mellon theme; professional goals and plans for
publication, possible undergraduate courses to be taught; and other
relevant information. Include how you believe you would benefit from
being at UW-Madison, including the faculty associations you would like
to develop.
* 25-page writing sample
* Curriculum vitae
* Three letters of reference sent directly to UW-Madison
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Send all materials electronically to: [log in to unmask]
* Deadline for applications: April 9, 2010
* Questions: Associate Dean Magdalena Hauner,
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