Early Research Initiative Summer 2025 Awards and Dissertation Fellowship deadline November 19, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil Early Research Initiative (ERI) Summer 2025 Awards Applications are now available for the following pre-dissertation fellowships: ERI Archival Research Awards in American Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies – Application Deadline: January 28, 2025 Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Awards in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Application Deadline: February 4, 2025 Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Awards in the Sciences – Application Deadline: February 6,… Read More
Apply by Dec 1 | Futures Initiative Grants November 19, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil The Futures Initiative is pleased to offer three separate grant competitions. Please see the details below for the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Competition (for projects at the intersections of the humanities, arts, science, and technology), the Paul S. Notari Research Grants in Environmental Studies, and the Equity and Social Justice Grant, open… Read More
Nov 19 | On Performance, Poetics, and Authoritarianism November 12, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil Tuesday, Nov 19, 4pm-6pm Room 9207 Join us as Christine Bacareza Balance presents ongoing research and writing from her book project, Making Sense of Martial Law. In it, she studies what the diverse and contradictory poetics of Philippine martial law (1972-1986) perform and reveal about authoritarianism and cultural memory, as illustrated by both U.S.- and… Read More
Nov 20 | Elva Mulchrone’s Before…AFTER, Hearth Exhibition November 11, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil Read More
Apply by Nov 14 | Assistant Professor in American Consumer Culture and Cultural Production, Department of American Studies, UNC at Chapel HIll November 11, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil The Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor specializing in the history and politics of the production and consumption of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Areas of interest might include the music, fashion, media, or technology industries, with… Read More
Job vacancy: Assistant Professor in Race and Medicine, Department of Black Studies November 11, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil Apply now: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02853/apply View this position online: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02853 POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Assistant Professor of Black Studies Salary range: The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and/or step at the time of appointment. See https://ap.ucsb.edu/compensation.and.benefits/ucsb.salary.scales/1.pdf for the salary ranges. Off-scale salaries and other components of pay, i.e. a salary that… Read More
Apply by Nov 15 | Call For Applications – HASTAC Scholars 2025-2026 Cohort November 11, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil Join a New Generation of Innovative Scholars – Apply for the 2025-2026 HASTAC Scholars Program! HASTAC Scholars Applications Are Open! Apply by November 15, 2024. HASTAC Scholars brings together dynamic graduate and undergraduate students pushing boundaries in the arts, humanities, sciences, and technology. The HASTAC Scholars initiative constitutes an inventive, student-centric community comprising both graduate… Read More
Nov 11 | Maya Wind in Conversation with Tarek Ismail November 6, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil Please join us for a conversation with Maya Wind (UC Riverside) and Tarek Ismail (CUNY Law) about Wind’s urgent new book: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso 2024). Monday, November 11, 2024, 6-8pm The Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center Organized by The Committee for Globalization and Social Change and CUNY Faculty and Staff… Read More
Due Nov 8 | 20th-Century US Foundations: Fellowship Opportunity & Spring 2025 Course Offering November 6, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil 20th-Century US Foundations: Fellowship Opportunity & Spring 2025 Course Offering The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the CUNY Graduate Center is offering up to eight $1,250 fellowships for participants in a spring 2025 course on 20th-Century American Foundations developed in collaboration with the doctoral program in history and the Rockefeller Archive Center [RAC]. The… Read More
Nov 4 | The Future of Research October 31, 2024 | Rukshana Jalil As part of the tenth-year anniversary of the Futures Initiative, this panel celebrates two exciting new publications and the brilliant scholars who produced this scholarship: FI Faculty Fellow Professor Amber Musser, whose book Between Shadow and Noise, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley praises as work that “will reshape current conversations in Black studies, feminist studies, art criticism,… Read More