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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:28:47 -0500
From: "Alma Gottlieb (by way of Alison D. Goebel)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Post-doctoral Fellowships for 2005-06

1.  Education and African Modernities: African Studies in
Global Perspective
Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2005-06  at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Center for African Studies in conjunction with the College
of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
is offering two post-doctoral fellowships for 2005-2006 on the
theme of “Education and African Modernities.”  The fellowships
are part of a three-year Rockefeller Foundation Humanities
Institute that allows fellows the opportunity to explore,
through interdisciplinary inquiries, the role of higher
education, broadly defined, in and on Africa. Specifically,
the institute focuses on education as a site of knowledge
production and dissemination, of socialization,
stratification, and struggle. Each year the institute is
organized around a broad theme and supports two post-doctoral
fellowships (ten months in duration).

The 2005-2006 institute will focus on the development and
constitution of African Studies as a scholarly field of
interdisciplinary inquiry. In the last few years, African
Studies has begun to attract serious critical investigation.
Several monographs have appeared (Guyer, 1995; Martin and
West, 1999; Zeleza, 1997, 2003), which offer competing
histories of African studies as a field, probe its racialized
social hierarchies and explores its relationships to the
shifting projects of the state and to the major humanities and
social science disciplines. Some believe African studies, like
all area studies, is in crisis because of the emergence of
global and international studies. Others see redemption in the
resurgence of Afrocentric values in African American and other
African Diasporic communities. As rich, varied and informative
as these studies may be, however, most of them are preoccupied
with developments in the United States, and to a much smaller
extent, Western Europe. They tell us little about the state of
African studies in Africa and the complex and often
contradictory relations between African studies scholars and
programs on the continent and those located outside – whether
in North America, Europe or Asia. This year’s program
encourages applications that propose comparative analyses of
the development of African studies in different parts of
Africa and the world and that deepen our understanding of
African Studies in its global dimensions.

The stipend for this ten-month fellowship will be within the
range of $37,500-$40,000, based on qualifications.  All
fellows will be based in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.  Some
support for relocation expenses, housing and benefits is also
available.

Qualifications: Applications are welcome from the humanities,
education, and social sciences fields.  Applicants must have a
Ph.D. or its equivalent for full consideration.  Regional,
comparative and interdisciplinary interests are especially
welcome.  In addition to their individual research and
writing, the fellows will be asked to participate in academic
forums, including: seminars, colloquia, symposia, and focused
discussion groups.  There are no regular teaching duties
associated with these fellowships.  Applicants need not be
U.S. citizens, and international applications are welcome.
For further information about the program, see the overview of
the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships at www.rockfound.org/
or the announcement on the Center for African Studies website:
 www.afrst.uiuc.edu/postdoc/

Deadline for receipt of application:  January 5, 2005
Notification by:    March 15, 2005

Application Procedures: Send the following materials
(electronic applications welcome with the exception of letters
of recommendation):
- A copy of the applicant’s c.v.
- A ten-page proposal (double-spaced) detailing the project to
be conducted while in residency
- A writing sample (a book chapter or article)
- Three letters of recommendation (hard copy only)

Submit to:
Center for African Studies
Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowships
210 ISB, 910 S. Fifth Street
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61820
U.S.A.

Tel:  217-333-6335
Fax:  217-244-2429
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.afrst.uiuc.edu


2.  The Center for Comparative Literature and Society at
Columbia University, with a grant from the Ford Foundation,
will appoint one post-doctoral fellow for the year 2004-05.

The fellow must have received the Ph.D. between January 1,
1999 and July 1, 2005.  The main purpose of the Center is to
rethink comparative literary and cultural studies in their
relation to area studies and the historically oriented social
sciences.  Applications from a wide variety of the humanities
and social science disciplines are encouraged.  The fellow
will join a community of scholars from the humanities, social
sciences, architecture, and law affiliated with the Center. In
the spring semester, the fellow will teach one course for the
Center, if possible in a team with a Columbia faculty member.
 Application guidelines are available at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccls/

Deadline: October 15


3. Visiting Scholars Program (Cambridge, MA): Post-Doctoral
and Junior Faculty Fellowships, 2005-2006

Postmark Deadline:  October 15, 2004
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences invites applications
for research projects related to its major program areas:
Humanities and Culture, Social Policy and American
Institutions, Education, and Science
and Global Security (see program descriptions at
http://www.amacad.org or
http://mail.acls.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=3Dhttp://www.amacad.org/).
 The American Academy is marking its 225th anniversary,  and
proposals will be especially welcome on topics that examine
the impact
of scientific and technological advances over the past two
centuries on,  for example, international relations, security,
the environment, judicial decisions, business, and the
humanities and the arts.

Visiting Scholars will participate in conferences, seminars,
and events  at the Academy, while advancing their independent
research.
Terms of Award:  $35,000 stipend for post-doctoral scholars;
up to $50,000 for junior faculty.
For details, contact:  The Visiting Scholars Program, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts  02138-1996.
Telephone:  (617) 576-5014; FAX:  (617) 576-5050; e-mail:
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .

Application information is available on the Academy's website at:
http://www.amacad.org
http://mail.acls.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=3Dhttp://www.amacad.org/

-- 
Alma Gottlieb
President, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Visit the Society on the web at: http://www.smcm.edu/sha/

Professor
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
109 Davenport Hall
Urbana, IL  61801
Tel. (private line): 217-244-3515
Tel. (dept. sec'y): 217-333-3616
Office fax: 217-244-3490
Home fax: 217-367-7638
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/gottlieb/

Alison D. Goebel
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ass't to the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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