NSF Dissertation Grant Deadlines

SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE DDRIG)

Full Proposal Target Date:  January 15, 2012

Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics

January 15, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  February 1, 2012

Science, Technology, and Society

February 1, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 9, 2012
Biological Anthropology

Program Guidelines: NSF 11-547

The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake ...
More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&org=SBE

USMEX Dissertation Fellowship Applications

Call for Applications 2012-2013 The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for dissertation fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Center's Visiting Fellows Program is the largest residential fellowship program in the United States for research on Mexico. Each year the program brings together scholars from the social sciences, history, and related fields. Visiting Fellows are expected to be PhD candidates who are ABD and have completed a substantial portion of their dissertations. Postdoctoral and Visiting Professors please click here for more information. We in particular encourage University of California graduate students to apply to the program. The majority of the fellowship awards are for residential periods between 4 and 9 months in duration. Fellowships generally start at the beginning of the academic year and are not given over the summer months (July-September). Stipends are determined by UC general policies and funding availability. Priority will be given to proposals on social policy, public health, governance, discrimination and poverty and local development; although, the Center will consider supporting research in other more general studies. For a current list of visiting fellows and their research projects click here. Awards have been given in the past supporting research on contemporary Mexico, Mexican history, and U.S.-Mexican relations. Comparative studies with a substantial Mexico component are also encouraged. PLEASE NOTE:   Applications will ONLY be accepted via the Center's Online application website. Please click here to begin the application process. Visiting Scholars Program applicants will need to upload the following supporting documents AS A PDF FILE: A. A complete and up-to-date curriculum vitae. B. An abstract of proposed research project (250-word maximum). C. A research proposal (3000 word maximum) OR a dissertation chapter/job paper if you are applying for the Post Doctoral fellowship. D. One copy each of no more than 3 of your publications or unpublished papers that relate directly to the proposed research project. Letters of recommendation (up to three) can be uploaded on the Center's online application site. The deadline for receipt of all application materials, including letters of reference, is Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 4pm (PST). For additional information, please contact: Greg Mallinger Events/ Programs Coordinator Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego Tel: (858) 822-1696, Fax: (858) 534-6447 E-mail: gmallinger@ucsd.edu

For more information, visit usmex.ucsd.edu.

Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0510 La Jolla, CA 92093-0510

2012 UC Human Rights Fellowship

The Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies (IICAS) is pleased to announce the 5^th annual student competition for human rights fellowships.  Successful applicants for the 2012 UC Human Rights Fellowship will receive $4,500 for summer internships with a human rights organization of his or her choice.

Information and application instructions may be found at the IICAS home page or at the following website: http://iicas.ucsd.edu/research-grants/student/human-rights-fellowship/index.html

Applications are due no later than 3pm Monday, March 5^th, 2012.  

Volunteer to Participate in Discussion Workshops on Climate Change Communication

Greetings and Happy New Year!

The AMS Committee on Improving Climate Change Communication (CICCC), which is part of the Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise, is now recruiting volunteers to participate in a pair of discussion workshops to be held during the upcoming AMS Annual Meeting.

The workshops are scheduled for Sunday, 22 January, 1:00pm-4:00pm CST and Monday, 23 January, 1:30pm-4:30pm CST. The focus of each workshop is climate change communication in relation to the CICCC Charter and Mission to… 

“Facilitate communication among members of the weather, water, and climate community so as to foster greater understanding about strongly held but divergent views on climate change. This will be accomplished through various forums, including face-to-face meetings, for open and respectful dialogue of these diverging views.”

If you are interested in participating, please reply to this message (or send a separate e-mail to CICCC@ametsoc.org) no later than 12 January indicating your preferred workshop session. Participants will be selected based on a first-come/first-serve basis given space limitations, and the selection process will be completed by the CICCC Co-Chairs.

The selection of volunteers will be made so as to gather from across the spectrum of views on climate change. We are seeking those who will creatively, actively, and constructively contribute to the dialogue and process of the workshops.

The format of the workshops will follow a “conflict resolution” model that has proven to be successful in stimulating productive discussion at a similar workshop at the AMS Broadcast Conference.  The workshop will be facilitated by George Mason University, which has previously collaborated with the AMS.

We thank you very much for your time and consideration and look forward to hearing from you very soon,

Ray Ban, Andrea Bleistein, and Paul Croft

CICCC Co-Chairs

Roy Porter Prize

The prize of £500 is honour of the Roy Porter, the distinguished historian of medicine, and is open to all students.  The winning entry may be published in Social History of Medicine.  For a list of past winners, please click here: http://www.sshm.org/content/past-roy-porter-prize-winners

The deadline is: 1 February 2012.

SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE

2011 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION.

Rules and Entry Form

The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2011 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition.

1.         Prize: One prize will be awarded for the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine in this competition. The winner will be awarded £500.00. The winning entry may also be published in the journal, Social History of Medicine, subject to the usual editorial procedures, including double blind refereeing.

2.         Eligible Candidates:  Students: undergraduate or postgraduate, part-time or full-time.

·       All candidates must be members of the Society for the Social History of Medicine on the date of submission. A membership form is available on the SSHM’s website http://www.sshm.org. Alternatively, please contact the Membership Secretary of the SSHM. (The membership requirement may be waived for residents of developing countries as listed on the OUP website.  Please contact the Membership Secretary.)

·       The essay competition is only for students registered as of the deadline for submission of entries and for those students whose postgraduate degree (e.g. Masters, PhD, DPhil) ‘date of completion’ occurred in 2011.

·       Candidates who are uncertain as to whether they are eligible to enter the competition should contact the Secretary before preparing their entry.

3          Essays must be:

·       Unpublished and not submitted to any other competition at the same time

·       Written in English

·       Anonymous (Authors must identify themselves only on a detachable cover sheet)

·       5,000-8,000 words in length (including footnotes).

·       In conformity with the bibliographic conventions of Social History of Medicine, available at http://www.sshm.org.

NOTE: The same essay cannot be submitted more than once, and entries from previous years will not be accepted.

4          Assessment Panel: The panel chaired by the Chair of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, consists of the Society's Representative on the Editorial Board, one of the Editors of Social History of Medicine, and another member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, with the assistance of other members of the editorial board.

5          To enter:  Please send an electronic version of the essay and a short CV to the SSHM Membership Secretary, Dr Catherine Cox, as email attachments (email address: Catherine.cox@ucd.ie). Please send a hard copy of the completed form (see below) via mail to Dr Catherine Cox, School of History and Archives, John Henry Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. The deadline for mailing entries is 1 February 2012.  All entries must be emailed on or before the deadline date.

Please Note: The announcement of prizewinners will be made at the SSHM AGM held during the Society’s Annual Conference.

NOTES     -       The Editors of Social History of Medicine reserve the right to consider any of the entries for publication, subject to normal refereeing procedures.

-   Members of the Executive Committee of the SSHM or the Editorial Board of Social History of Medicine may not enter either competition, even if otherwise eligible.

-   The prize will not be awarded if the Assessment Panel considers that none of the essays reaches an acceptable standard.

-   Membership Secretary: Dr Catherine Cox, School of History and Archives, John Henry Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Constructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order CFP: 1/15/12

Constructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Graduate Program in

Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine

April 5-6, 2012

Irvine, California

“When I ask, ‘What is worlding?’ I’m asking what the material,

semiotic, world-making practices at stake are for whom.

Who-what-lives-dies-how in this worlding? What imaginaries and flesh

are conjoined in these particular acts of worlding?”

- Donna Haraway, Wellek Library Lectures, 5/2/11

Worlding, in Haraway’s model, is an overlapping and intersecting of

both tangible and intangible practices which decide who or what

exists, how, when, where, and why - in short, how worlds are

established, maintained, ordered, and deconstructed. Taking into

account the introduction of various technological, philosophical, and

political developments into our contemporary cultural discourse, the

2012 Visual Studies Graduate Conference at UC Irvine will ask what it

means to make a world, sense a world, exist in a world, or destroy a

world.

The conference will explore constructed worlds in all their visual

manifestations and encourages submissions that deal with the idea of a

world that is not preexisting and fixed, but constructed, or in the

process of creation. This idea of a world is exceedingly supple and

open to numerous complex interpretations. A world can be both tactile

and virtual, exterior and interior. It can be ancient, contemporary

and everything in between. Technology, language, physical migration,

global economics, political discourses, and a litany of other

phenomena contain the power to not only construct new worlds, but also

to redefine and destroy existing worlds. With these ideas in mind, we

seek papers that highlight not only the generation of worlds, but also

their delineation within society. We welcome papers that discuss how

ideology implements and transforms the process of world making or

world breaking, provoking new methods of communication and cultural

interaction.

We hope to receive submissions from across the humanities, arts,

social sciences, and natural and technological sciences which engage

issues of vision, visibility, and visuality, including (but not

limited to) gender and sexuality studies, critical theory, ethnic and

cultural studies, history, anthropology, sociology, environmental

studies, literature and language studies, information and technology

studies, philosophy, political science, classics, art history, and

film and media studies.

Potential topics include:

● The construction and experience of built environments: leisure

worlds such as theme parks, themed attractions,

World’s Fairs and expositions, tourist destinations, malls,

Spectropoli, and virtual worlds

● Distinctions and definitions of urban, suburban, and rural

territories; nature and recreation preserves

● Creating order out of chaos: authority, regulation, and discipline

in the construction of worlds, colonization, nation-building, the rise

of the state, and biopolitics and necropolitics

● The world in binaries: public/private, representation/reality,

utopia/dystopia, creation/destruction, global/local,

universal/particular

● World making as art/art as world making: design practices, museum

exhibitions, and cooperative collaborations

which engage in world making

● Worlds constructed around social categories: ethnicity, cultural

practice, socioeconomic standing, religion, political orientation,

gender, and sexual orientation and practice

● Phenomenological aspects of world making

● Time and space: the evolution of worlds over time, and the

establishment and revision of boundaries

● Rendering worlds: geospatial categorizations, urban planning,

ancient and modern cartography, GIS, digital or

virtual globes, scientific imaging, space, ocean and earth-based photography

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2012. Please email your

200-250 word abstract to: makingworlds2012@gmail.com.

Final presentation length is 20 minutes. Conference presentations will

also be part of a special online issue of Octopus Journal

(www.theoctopusjournal.org).

IICAS European Studies Speaker Series: Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Professor of Modern European Intellectual History, Department of Philosophy

Université de Picardie Jules Verne at Amiens

"Is Collective Memory a

Figment of the Imagination?"

Monday, January 9, 2012

3:00-4:30 PM

Galbraith Conference Room, H&SS 4025

Register<http://iicas.ucsd.edu/speaker-series/registration.html>

Jeffrey Barash has published extensively on the problem of historical

meaning in relation to memory, myth, personal experience, and political

identity in studies of Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, and

Ernst Cassirer. His lecture is taken from a chapter of a new book in

progress, "Collective Memory and the Historical Past."  The lecture

concerns the reality of the remembered past and the role of imagination in

creating symbols and myths within the scope of the public realm.

View Barash's webpage<http://sites.google.com/site/jeffreyandrewbarash/Home>.

Read Barash's recent article, At the Threshold of

Memory<http://iicas.ucsd.edu/_files/papers/european-studies/Barash_Threshold_of_Memory_META.pdf>.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in SCIENCE STUDIES, open to HISTORIANS OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE, OR TECHNOLOGY

The Science in Human Culture Program (SHC) at Northwestern University invites applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships in the contextual study of science, technology, or medicine, to run September 2012 - August 2014. Two Fellows will be selected. Applications are welcome from scholars who study science, technology, or medicine from a variety of historical, philosophical, sociological, anthropological, or literary perspectives. Each Fellow will be affiliated with both the SHC program and an appropriate disciplinary department (History, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, etc.). Fellows will pursue a program of independent scholarship and teach two one-quarter undergraduate courses each year: a seminar and a lecture course. They will also help organize and run the SHC visiting lecturer series. Applicants must complete all the requirements for the Ph.D. before September 1, 2012 or have received their degree within the last five years. The annual stipend is $46,000, plus $3,100 per year to fund research and conference travel. In order to ensure full consideration, all application materials must be received by January 15, 2012.

Applicants should send the following materials in electronic form only, in PDF format by email attachment to shc-program@northwestern.edu, with the subject heading of "Postdoc Application":

1) a cover letter that briefly situates your work in relation to the field and identifies the proposed departmental affiliation (please provide complete contact information);
2) a full curriculum vitae;
3) a two-page summary of your dissertation;
4) a two-page research plan for the fellowship period (this may include, but should extend beyond, revisions to the dissertation);
5) titles and short descriptions of at least two undergraduate courses that you could teach;
6) a writing sample consisting of either a dissertation chapter or article (in English, maximum 50 pages); and
7) a graduate school transcript from your doctoral-degree-granting institution.

In addition, please arrange for three letters of recommendation, on institutional letterhead, to be sent either as email attachments (subject heading: "Postdoc application letter of reference"), or by mail to Science in Human Culture Program, 20 University Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2245. One letter should be from the dissertation Chair, and at least one should comment on teaching qualifications. If the Ph.D. has not yet been obtained, the letter from the Chair should indicate what remains to be completed and should discuss the completion schedule.  AA/EOE: Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged.

Applicants will be informed by email when their applications are complete. Administrative questions should be addressed to Natasha Dennison at shc-program@northwestern.edu. Substantive questions may be addressed to Steven Epstein, program director, at s-epstein@northwestern.edu.

Job at UC Irvine: History of Knowledge

University of California, Irvine
Department of History

History of Knowledge 1400-1800
 The University of California, Irvine, seeks to fill a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank in the history of knowledge during the period from ca. 1400 to 1800, with a preference for eighteenth-century Europe.  However, those working on other areas of the world, excluding the Americas, will be seriously considered.  The candidate‚s area of expertise could include: the history of science, history of medicine, systems of knowledge and classification, magic and alchemy, scientific investigation and exploration, the Enlightenment in a global context, political economy, circuits of knowledge, religious thought, or secularism.  The ability to contribute to the department‚s curriculum in World History is desirable.

Please submit a letter of application, c.v., article or chapter-length writing sample, and three letters of recommendation.  Applications submitted on-line athttps://recruit.ap.uci.edu by November 30, 2011, will be guaranteed consideration.
 UCI is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women and minorities. UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is dedicated to work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Award for gender equity. Applicants who have questions about the on line application process should contact Marc Kanda, Department Manager at mhkanda@uci.edu or (949) 824-6522.

University of California, Irvine
Department of History
History of Knowledge Search Committee
200 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275

Closing Date: November 30, 2011

2012 Switzer Fellowships

The Fellowship provides a one-year $15,000 cash award for graduate study as well as networking and leadership support to awardees. Switzer Fellows are highly talented professionals who have the ability, determination and integrity to effect positive change as environmental leaders in the 21st century.  This year's fellowship application deadline is January 15, 2012.

For more information: http://www.switzernetwork.org/grant-programs/fellowship-program