[AMS-announce] FWPS: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, UCLA

[Announcements for the AMS]

"Cultures in Transnational Perspective"

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA

Call for Applications

Deadline: February 1, 2009 

The division of humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, will appoint two Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows for a 1-year tenure (with the possibility of a 1-year renewal) beginning in the fall of 2009. Fellows must have earned their doctoral degree no earlier than January 2003 and no later than June 2009. The Mellon Fellowship provides a stipend of $50,000 a year, standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of $1,500, plus a small research budget of $2,000.  All Fellows will be housed in relevant home departments for which they teach two courses.  Designed to explore the emerging field of Transnational Studies, the aim of the Mellon Program at UCLA is to broaden the study of minority cultures from its national focus to global and comparative perspectives. We seek innovative scholarship that explores minority cultures as major components of world culture and history, generated by immigrant and minority writers, artists, filmmakers, playwrights, an
 d mus
icians residing in metropolitan centers across the world and thereby reshaping the canons of literature, art, and music in their respective countries.  To download the fellowship application, please click on the following link: http://www2.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2 

Completed application forms should be emailed to mellon at humnet.ucla.edu.  Only electronic applications will be accepted.  In addition, please submit three letters of recommendation by email to mellon at humnet.ucla.edu or by mail to Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships, UCLA, 212 Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095.  All application materials are due by February 1, 2009.  The program is co-chaired by Professors Françoise Lionnet (French and Francophone Studies; Comparative Literature) and Shu-mei Shih (Asian Languages and Cultures; Comparative Literature). For more information, please contact Laura Clennon via e-mail at clennon at humnet.ucla.edu.