A Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: A Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Location: Missouri
Deadline: 2003-12-01
Description: Washington University announces the fourth year of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences.

Beginning in September 2001, and lasting for five years, the Fellowship Program brings to Washington University new and recent Ph.D.s who wish to strengthen their own advanced training and to participate in the university's ongoing interdisciplinary programs and seminars.

The Postdoctor al Fellows will receive two-year appointments with stipends; for the 2004-05 academic year the annual stipend will be $38,350. Fellows will outline a plan for their own continuing research in association with a senior faculty member at Washington University. Over the course of their two-year appointment, Fellows will teach three undergraduate courses in their home discipline and collaborate each spring semester in leading a seminar in the theory and methods of interdisciplinary research.

There is no application form, but further information on Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry is available at the address below and on the Web at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~szwicker/Mellon_Postdoctoral_Program.html.
Applicants should submit a cover letter, a description of their research program (no more than three single-spaced pages), a brief proposal for the seminar in theory and methods, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation.

All materials should be submitted in paper copy. Submit materials by December 1, 2003, to Steven Zwicker, Department of English Washington University Campus Box 1122 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 314-935-5190 szwicker@artsci.wustl.edu Washington University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Employment eligibility verification requested upon hire.