Job Description: The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia invites scholars whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora to apply for a two-year post-doctoral research and teaching fellowship, beginning August 25, 2011 and ending August 24, 2013. This residential fellowship is a two year appointment and carries an annual salary of $45,000 plus benefits.
Deadlines
Applications and application materials must be received by December 1, 2010 for consideration.
Fellowship appointment begins: August 25, 2011
Eligibility
The competition for the Woodson Institute fellowship is open to qualified candidates without restriction as to citizenship or current residence. Former employees of the University of Virginia may not apply against a deadline which falls within the twelve months immediately following the termination of their University of Virginia employment. Applicants for the post-doctoral fellowship must have been awarded their Ph.D. by the time of application or furnish proof that it will be received prior to June 30, 2010. Post-doctoral applicants must have been awarded their Ph.D. no earlier than 2002.
Please note: Individuals may not apply for the Woodson predoctoral and post-doctoral fellowships at the same time.
Conditions
The post-doctoral fellow must be in residence at the University of Virginia for the duration of the award period, and must agree to teach one course per year in the African-American and African Studies program to be offered in the Fall or the Spring. Woodson fellows are expected to participate in the series of workshops (about twice monthly) and to make at least one formal presentation of their work to the University community.
How to apply
Complete details regarding the 2011-2013 fellowship competition application process will be posted in mid-summer.
Review Procedure
All applications and supporting documents will be reviewed by a committee constituted of Woodson Institute Faculty and Affiliates according to the following research and teaching missions of the Institute:
1) We value research that is at the cutting edge of the fields of African American Studies, African Studies, and Afro-Caribbean Studies, and in those disciplines within the humanities and social sciences traditionally attuned to these fields.
2) Although candidates may be positioned critically in traditional disciplines, their work must be rigorously interdisciplinary without diminishing intellectual depth.
3) Such work should advance received scholarship in the fields of African American, African, and Afro-Caribbean Studies – its key theories, methods, themes, and problems.
3) We especially seek work that elucidates the trans-continental experiences and discourses related to the social, historical, and cultural construction of people of African descent through both traditional and recent approaches — Pan-Africanism, Afrocentrism, Trans-Atlantic Studies, African Diaspora Studies, critical race theory, and cultural studies.
4) We seek work that advances theories on the construction of race, and race in relation to other social identities – class, gender, sexuality, nationality, disability – as well as that which focuses on refining methods of interdisciplinary scholarship on race.
5) We encourage research in these fields that engage the professions — law, medicine, social work, public policy, education, architecture and planning — in innovative ways.
6) We will favor candidates whose research can be readily adapted for the creation of courses and pedagogies directly pertinent to the Institute’s curriculum in African American and Diasporic studies.
Proposals will be judged on the basis of the following criteria:
* The significance of the proposed work
* The qualifications of the applicant
* Familiarity with existing relevant research literature
* The research design of the project
* The promise of completion within the award period
* Preference will be given to applicants whose field research is already substantially completed.
Notification
Applicants will be notified by mail of the committee’s decision in early March 2011.
Further Scholarship Information
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/postdoc.html
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