Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

The Women’s and Gender Studies Department, in collaboration with the
Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University, is pleased to
announce a two-year postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. The selected fellow will receive a stipend of $50,000
each year as well as an annual research allocation of $2,000 and Rutgers
University health benefits.  The fellow will pursue research and teach three
courses in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department during the two-year
term of her/his appointment.  The fellow also will participate in seminars
and other activities organized by the IRW.

The Women's and Gender Studies Department:
http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/ has particular interest in scholars of
Asian-American Feminist Studies; Feminist Science Studies; New Media, Arts
and Technology; Religion, Sexuality, and Gender; and Gendered Violence but
welcomes applications from all scholars who feel that their work would
benefit from affiliation with our department and with the IRW.

The IRW’s seminar, organized around an annual theme, brings together faculty
and advanced graduate students to discuss works-in-progress from a range of
disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Annual topics for 2011-14 will
be the following: (De) generations: Reimagining Intellectual Communities
(2011-2012), Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities (2012-2013) and
The Cosmetic and the Polemics of Fashioning the Self (2013-2014). 

The IRW also hosts a Distinguished Lecture Series, which invites well-known
scholars working on women, gender, and sexuality to come to Rutgers to share
their research with our faculty and students throughout the year, and offers
professional workshops and mentoring opportunities, such as the Negotiating
Basics Workshop. For more information on these programs, please see:
http://irw.rutgers.edu/MellonFellowsattheIRW.html.

The broad interdisciplinary nature of both the Women’s and Gender Studies
Department and the IRW will allow the selected fellow to become fully
integrated into the life of the university. Rutgers is an institution with a
deep commitment to scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality.  Both the
Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the IRW are part of the Institute
for Women’s Leadership (IWL), a consortium of eight different Rutgers units
focused on women and gender, constituting the most extensive collection of
resources on these issues at a university in the United States. Rutgers,
therefore, is a unique and stimulating environment in which to situate
feminist research.

Candidates should submit their applications, consisting of a CV, a 2500-word
description of their research and its significance, and 3 letters of
recommendation, electronically at:
https://secure.sas.rutgers.edu/apps/facsearch/ (search for listing under
“Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship” for each participating department). 
Applications must be received by January 17, 2011. Candidates must have
received the Ph.D. after August 31, 2006; applicants must have finished all
requirements for the Ph.D. by June 1, 2011. 

Rutgers University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The
institution values diversity in its faculty, staff, and students and
especially encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities.

Questions? E-mail Leslie Fishbein, Chair, Women's and Gender Studies
Department: [log in to unmask] or Sarah Tobias, Associate Director,
Institute for Research on Women: [log in to unmask]

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Sarah Tobias Ph.D. 
Associate Director
Institute for Research on Women
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
160 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 932-9072 x. 616 
Fax: (732) 932-0861
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