Townsend Dissertation Fellowships

The Townsend Fellowships program supports the research of graduate students at UC Berkeley.  Fellows meet in weekly discussions together with tenured faculty, a Librarian Fellow, a Museum Fellow, and several Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows.  These discussions allow for interdisciplinary peer review of work in progress in an informal setting.

Eligibility: Townsend Dissertation Fellowships are awarded to graduate students writing PhD dissertations whose research projects significantly involve humanistic material or problems that have a significant bearing on humanities.  The competition is open to graduate students who are advanced to candidacy, or who will be advanced to candidacy by June 2012.

Award: $18,000 stipend.

Application Deadline: November 13, 2012

For further information http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/funding/

Microsoft Research, Social Media Collective Postdoc Opening

The Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for a social media postdoctoral researcher (start date: 1 July, 2013). This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar whose work draws on anthropology, communication, media studies, sociology, and/or science and technology studies to bring empirical and critical perspectives to complex socio-technical issues.

Postdoc researchers receive a competitive salary and benefits package, and are eligible for relocation expenses. Postdoc researchers are hired for a two-year term appointment following the academic calendar, starting in July 2013. 

Application deadline: November 19, 2012

For further information http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/fulltime/postdoc.aspx

The Leonard Davis Institute Post-Doctoral Grants

2013-2014

Post-Doctoral Grants
of up to 80,000 NIS

The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations offers up to two post-doctoral grants to Israeli and overseas applicants in the area of International Studies.

The elected candidate will be eligible to office space, full access to the Hebrew University's libraries, and the Institute's facilities. Fellowship recipients are required to spend at least nine months at the Leonard Davis Institute over the course of the academic year for which they receive the grant. During this period the post-doctoral fellows are expected to be actively involved in the Institute's academic and public activities, including the organization of lectures and symposia, and to submit an article for publication on their area of research.

Award: $20,000

Deadline Submission: November 25, 2012

For further information http://davis.huji.ac.il/en/?cmd=research

The Smith Foundation World Politics and Statescraft Fellowship

The Smith Richardson Foundation is pleased to announce a new annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.

The fellowship's objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training.  In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.

The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each.

 The Foundation must receive all World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship proposals by 12:00 midnight, EST, October 17, 2012. 

Link:  http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php

American Research Insitute in Turkey 2013-2014

The American Research Institute in Turkey will offer ARIT Fellowships for research in Turkey for the academic year 2013-2014.  Grants for tenures up to one year will be considered; some preference, however, is given to projects of shorter duration.  ARIT operates hostel, research, and study facilities for researchers in Turkey at its branch centers in Istanbul and Ankara.

Eligibility Requirements:  Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern times in Turkey, in any field of humanities and social sciences, are eligible to apply.  Student applicants must have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation by June 2013, and before beginning any ARIT-sponsored research.  Non-US applicants who currently reside in the US or Canada are expected to maintain an affiliation with an educational institution in the US or Canada.  Scholars who have completed their formal training also may apply for ARIT Fellowships sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (described in separate announcement). 

Application deadline is November 1, 2012.
Application link http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/ARITFellowships.html

For further information email leinwand@sas.upenn.edu

Distinguished Visiting Appointment at The Center for African American at Princeton UniversityThe Center for African American Studies at Princeton University invites nominations or self-nominations for faculty members from research universities or liberal arts colleges, and from independent scholars for a Visiting Appointment for the 2013-2014

The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University invites nominations or self-nominations for faculty members from research universities or liberal arts colleges, and from independent scholars for a Visiting Appointment for the 2013-2014 academic year. This visiting appointment was established to enable the Center to invite one scholar each year whose research and teaching explicitly examine issues of race in innovative interdisciplinary ways. Candidates in any field may apply. The Visitor may be appointed for one semester or for the entire academic year and will, with the approval of the Dean of the Faculty, teach one undergraduate lecture course, and will participate in faculty-graduate seminars and other activities of the Center for African American Studies. The Distinguished Visitor will receive a salary of up to one-half of his or her academic year salary (not to exceed a maximum salary set each fall) for the appointment period, which extends from September 1 to July 1; independent scholars with no sabbatical support will receive a salary not to exceed the maximum set each fall.

For full consideration, materials must be received by November 10, 2012

For more information: http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/positions/

You may apply online at: http://jobs.princeton.edu.

Postdoctoral Fellowships at The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University

The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University invites applications from pre-tenure scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates in all disciplines for two postdoctoral or more senior research positions. These positions will be awarded for the academic year 2013-2014 to emerging scholars who will devote their ten-month residency at Princeton to writing about race in the national or global contexts and, with the approval of the Dean of the Faculty, to teaching one semester-long undergraduate course.

Postdoctoral scholars will also participate with Center faculty members and affiliated graduate students in a seminar devoted to the discussion of work in progress. In addition, they will be invited to participate in other programs, including seminars, colloquia, and public lectures and will enjoy access to Firestone Library and to a wide range of activities throughout the University. Applicants should have received the doctorate within the past five years and cannot be in the process of writing a dissertation. The term for these positions extends from September 1, 2013 until July 1, 2014; a competitive salary will be provided.

Applicants must submit all of the following information by November 10, 2012

Link:  http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/positions/