[Bourse post-doctorale] Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities

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      Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Torontoooo

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce new Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships designed to provide financial and intellectual support for outstanding scholars at the beginning of their professional careers. Up to three Fellows in the Humanities will be selected each year for a two-year fellowship in the new JHI. Fellows will be selected on the basis of accomplishment appropriate to their stage in their career, the promise of excellence and the relevance of their research to the annual theme.
The JHI interprets "Humanities" as a broad category, including political theory, interpretative social science, music and the arts.

The theme for 20112012 is "Location/Dislocation."

The experience of dislocation prompts insight into how people and ideas inhabit space, and what happens as they move. Many experiences of uprooting and exile are unwelcome; arrivals in new locations often generate violence and intolerance. The arts and books, languages and stories of the old country often remain vital for immigrants, creating diasporic cultures of memory and need; at times the hybridity created in a new place is not a simple amalgam or a peaceful overwriting. Cities are the common site of exile and new creations, and in their architecture and overlapping communities of trade, worship, and education, cities provide an archival record of the disruptive encounters that result from dislocation. The task of humanities research is to engage these complex practices of memory, importation, colonization, and assimilation.
The Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to provide financial and intellectual support for outstanding scholars at the beginning of their professional careers. The Fellows will pursue their individual research in the context of the JHI. They will have offices at the JHI and will participate in weekly seminars and other activities in the circle of fellows. In addition, each postdoctoral fellow will be affiliated with a Department and will teach one course in each Fall and Winter term of their two-year Fellowship. We are especially interested in candidates who have an interest in and capacity for interdisciplinary work of a high quality. The Fellowship provides an annual $50,000 Canadian stipend.

Eligibility : Eligible applicants must have successfully defended their Ph.D. after 1 July 2008 and prior to 1 May 2011. Applications who will successfully defend their Ph.D. degree by 1 May 2011 are eligible and any award will be conditional on a successful defense. Such applicants must also include a letter of confirmation from their supervisor and the Chair of their Department. Degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from the University of Toronto are not eligible. Fellowships are open to citizens of Canada, the United States of America, and other nations. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

All applications must be made online at http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca by 1 December 2010.  Submission guidelines and the application form are available on the website.

Contact : Robert Gibbs, Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute (416) 978-7415 or by email humanities@utoronto.ca
Website : http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca
Primary Category : Humanities
Secondary Categories : None
Posting Date : 10/01/2010
Closing Date : 11/30/2010

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