University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Bio-Humanities, 2016-18
Institution Type: | College / University |
Location: | Illinois, United States |
Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks to hire two Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in Bio-Humanities for two-year appointments to begin Fall 2016.
Bio-Humanities is an emerging field distinguished by its critical and creative appropriation of findings in the biological sciences for the purpose of reimagining and reconfiguring our sense of human being and of the meaning and significance of human undertakings.
The Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in Bio-Humanities will spend their two-year terms in residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will take part in all activities of the IPRH-Mellon Bio-Humanities Research Group. Fellows will participate in a seminar aimed at developing methodologies for bio-humanities research, will have the opportunity to audit courses in the life sciences at Illinois, and will work with the research group to develop bio-humanities undergraduate courses. Each fellow will be required to teach one of the courses developed in the second year of the fellowship term.
The search is open to scholars in all humanities disciplines, including the humanities-inflected social sciences, whose research and teaching interests lie in the area of Bio-Humanities.
The fellowship carries a $55,000 annual stipend, a $5,000 research account, a moving allowance, and a comprehensive benefits package. To be eligible, applicants should have received their Ph.D. in a humanities discipline between January 1, 2013, and no later than July 31, 2016. Only untenured scholars who have not held the title of “assistant professor” are eligible (visiting assistant professors are eligible); lecturers with indefinite appointments that renew (rather than terminate after a fixed term) are ineligible. PhDs are the only terminal degree accepted. Scholars who cannot legitimately anticipate the conferral of their degrees by July 31, 2016, should not apply.
Application Deadline: November 6, 2015
Detailed eligibility requirements and application guidelines can be found at http://www.iprh.illinois.edu.
Applications must be submitted through the online application system. No paper or e-mailed applications (or letters of support) will be accepted. The submission period opens September 1, 2015. Please do not contact IPRH about the status of an application; we are unable to answer questions about individual applications.
Contact: |
Nancy Castro, Associate Director |
Website: | http://www.iprh.illinois.edu |
Primary Category: | Humanities |
Secondary Categories: | None |
Posting Date: | 07/23/2015 |
Closing Date | 11/01/2015 |