*Postdoc Position: Animal Studies *
We invite scholars from a variety of fields to the Human-Animal Studies group
at the
Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Our current
disciplinary
backgrounds are in Sociology, Art history, Philosophy, Cultural Geography,
Cultural
studies, Pedagogy and Evolutionary biology. (See
http://www.genna.gender.uu.se/Animals/
and our respective homepages)
The position is a five-month (with the possibility of an extension up to a
maximum 11
months) residential postdoctoral fellowship to scholars engaged in the
question of
animals/human-animal relations and gender/intersectionality studies.
We are particularly interested in projects that have a gender/intersectional
critical
perspective on animals/human-animal relations. Proposals should be
interdisciplinary and
aim at connecting to animal studies, feminist theory, approaches to
sustainability and
resilience, sexuality studies, and/or critical race and postcolonial theories.
Topics
might include sustainability, climate change and bio-diversity, biotechnology
and
experimentation, eco-policy and social justice, globalization and
industrialization,
sexuality and corporeality, food production, racialization, biotechnology and
transgenics, gendered predation and reproduction, or xeno-transplantation
and gene
pharming, medicine and health.
The fellowship is situated within the research programme /GenNa:
Nature/Culture and
Transgressive Encounters/ (funded by the Swedish Research Council 2007-
2011) which aims
at creating meetings between social, cultural and natural science perspectives
with the
focus set on gender and science. The postdoctoral fellow is welcome to
collaborate with
Centre for Gender Research scholars, GENNA research groups
(Body/Embodiment Group,
Physics Group, Education Group), and allied fields at Uppsala University. Hence
applicants envisioning long-term projects, organizing international
conferences, and/or
establishing international collaborations are of special interest.
The fellowship starts August 20, 2009, includes salary (health insurance),
office space,
and clerical support. Applicants should be no more than five years past the
PhD, and
should have the PhD in hand by August 2009. Send C.V., 3-5-page project
proposal, writing
sample (two publications), and 1-2 letters of recommendation. Questions may
be posed to
Professor Margaretha Fahlgren, [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or PhD and research
coordinator Tora Holmberg,
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your application to:
Registrator, Ref no. UFV-PA 2009/711, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05
Uppsala, Sweden
or fax 018-471 20 00.
The closing date for applications is 15 May 2009.
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