[UK] Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Humanities, Cornell University

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for our 2008-2009 postdoctoral fellowship competition. Applicants should be working on topics related to the year’s focal theme, “Water, A Critical Concept for the Humanities.” Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines.

Timeline: The deadline for applications is October 1, 2007. The fellowships are held for one academic year.

Eligibility: Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties.

Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with two Senior Scholars in Residence.

  • Fall 2008: Verena Andermatt Conley, author of Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought, Master of Kirkland House and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
  • Spring 2009: Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh.

Each Society Fellow will receive a stipend of $45,000. Applicants living outside North America are eligible for an additional $2000 to assist with travel costs.

Fellows spend most of their time at Cornell in research and writing but are invited to offer one seminar related to their research. The choice of topic and the mode and level of instruction are at the pleasure of the Fellow, but the seminars are generally informal, related to the Fellow’s research, and open to graduate students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members. Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the content and the method of their courses.

Society for the Humanities
Cornell University
A.D. White House, 27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-9274
Fax: 607-255-1422
Email: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
Visit the website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/

Category: Postdoctoral, United Kingdom

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