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Postdoctoral teaching-research fellowships in the humanities, each awarded for the one-year period beginning July 2008, offer stipends of $45,000. While in residence at Cornell, postdoctoral fellows hold department affiliation and have limited teaching duties and the opportunity for scholarly work. Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowships are available in four areas of specialization.

Under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cornell University's continuing program provides postdoctoral fellowships for nontenured scholars and teachers in the humanities. The program is designed to encourage the academic growth of promising humanists with recent Ph.D. degrees.

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Areas of Specialization for 2008/2009 Appointments

Asian Studies
The Department of Asian Studies seeks candidates specializing in the archaeology of East and/or Southeast Asia with research focused on the early historical period. Preference will be given to applicants with considerable field or related experience in Asia and those able to engage archaeological studies with other disciplines and with debates and agendas related to national and international politics, and to those with a vision of the past untrammeled by modern national boundaries. The ability to teach a broad survey of Asian archaeology and a seminar on a more specific topic defined by site(s) or theme(s) will be appreciated.

History of Art and Visual Studies
The History of Art Department seeks candidates whose approach to a discipline within art history or visual studies emphasizes the theory and/or methods of gender and sexuality studies. Area of specialization is open, with some particular interest in Renaissance, northern Renaissance and/or Baroque art. We expect that the successful candidate will work with the department’s emphasis on questions of diversity and global approaches to art history, and that he or she will engage with colleagues whose areas of specialization include the fields of African American, African, Asian, Latin American, indigenous, and Islamic art history and visual studies.

Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy welcomes applications from candidates in any area of philosophical research.

Romance Studies
The Department of Romance Studies seeks candidates in any area of literary or cultural studies in any of the Romance languages.

You must have received the Ph.D. degree after September 2002. Applicants who will receive the Ph.D. degree by June 30, 2008 are eligible to apply. Such applicants must include a letter of confirmation (see below). Fellowships are limited to citizens of the United States, Canada, or those with permanent U.S. residency cards. (Status as a U.S. permanent resident must be confirmed at the time of application.)

To apply, please return this form, and specify the discipline for which you wish to be considered. The following materials should be postmarked on or before October 1, 2007:

1. A curriculum vitae.
2. A detailed statement of current research interests (1,000-3,000 words) that clearly outlines the research you will undertake during the term of the fellowship.
3. One writing sample (no longer than 35 pages).*
4. A two- to four-page statement of teaching interests and two course proposals (subject area, brief syllabus, proposed methods) for seminars limited to fifteen graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Each seminar will meet once a week for two hours throughout a fourteen week semester.
5. Three letters of recommendation (recommendations may be those included in your placement dossier).

If you do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application, a letter of confirmation must be received from your committee chair or department stating that you will have the Ph.D. degree before the term of the fellowship begins on July 1, 2008.

All application materials (including letters of recommendation) must be postmarked on or before October 1, 2007. Faxed applications will not be accepted. Only fully completed formal applications will be considered. It is your responsibility to ensure that all documentation is complete and that referees submit their letters of recommendation to the Society for the Humanities by the closing date. Send all materials to:

Program Administrator
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House
27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
Telephone: 607-255-9274
E-mail: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu

Awards will be announced in December 2007.

*If you wish to have your application materials returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

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Asian Studies
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If you are applying in more than one area of specialization, please submit additional copies of all of your application materials.

Please return this form with your application.

Under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cornell University's continuing program provides postdoctoral fellowships for nontenured scholars and teachers in the humanities. The program is designed to encourage the academic growth of promising humanists with recent Ph.D. degrees.

Please return this form with your application.