2013-2015 Program
The Society for the Humanities will sponsor three postdoctoral teaching-research fellowships in the humanities, each awarded for the two-year period beginning July 2013. Each fellowship offers a stipend of $45,000/year. While in residence at Cornell, Mellon Fellows hold department affiliations and joint appointments with the Society for the Humanities, have limited teaching duties, and the opportunity for scholarly work. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in three areas of specialization.

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Department of Classics: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ancient Material Culture

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Classics seeks applicants with active interests in, and new approaches to, integrating texts and material culture in their research and teaching for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the academic years 2013-2015.  We particularly welcome applications from candidates with skills in epigraphy, papyrology, or the archaeology of texts or marking systems.  The appointee will be expected to play an active role in the research life of the department and related fields, as well as collaborating with a wide range of scholars at the Cornell Society for the Humanities.  Applicants should thus explain how their research draws on multiple methods or sets of evidence and thus how it will contribute to the wider fields of ancient studies and the humanities at Cornell.  The appointee will teach two courses each year, on topics designed to foster a multidisciplinary approach:  an introductory (‘2000 level’) undergraduate course, such as “Text as object in the ancient world”, and an advanced (‘4000 level’) course also open to graduate students, on a subject related to their research.

Eligibility Requirements

The fellowship is open to citizens of any nationality with a PhD awarded after September 2007 and on or before June 30th 2013. (Candidates who do not yet have a PhD should include a letter from their department stating that the degree will be conferred by June 30th 2013.)

Application Procedures

Applicants should submit the following materials for consideration by November 2, 2012:

a curriculum vitae

a detailed statement of research interests and teaching methods

a writing sample of 20-30 pages

detailed proposals for the two courses mentioned above

three letters of recommendation

Applications should be sent to:

Megan Dirks
Program Administrator
Society for the Humanities
Cornell University
27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853

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Department of Comparative Literature: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Media Studies

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Comparative Literature seeks a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow whose main area of expertise is in Comparative Media Studies.  We are particularly interested in candidates who attend creatively to the intersection of old and new media and who work across languages in a transnational and comparative framework. Possible areas of emphasis include: emerging modes of textuality and reading, theory, screen arts, sound, digital and analogue inter-faces, the electronic arts and public memory, the history of the book, network theory, critical game studies, biomedia, virtuality and embodiment, inter-activity and the haptic, and the boundary between the human and the machine.
The successful candidate will teach one upper-level and one general-interest undergraduate course suited to his/her expertise each year.

Eligibility Requirements
Applicants for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2013/14-2014/15 academic years must have received the Ph.D. degree after September 2007. Mellon Fellowships are no longer restricted to citizens of the US and Canada: international applicants are welcome to apply.  Applicants who will have received the Ph.D. degree by June 30, 2013, are eligible to apply. Applicants who do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application must include a letter from the committee chair or department stating that the Ph.D. degree will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins.

Application Procedures:
Applicants should submit the following materials for consideration by January 7, 2013:

a cover letter

a curriculum vitae

a detailed statement of research interests

a writing sample

proposals for the courses the Mellon Fellow will teach while in residence at Cornell University

three letters of recommendation

Applications should be sent to:
Megan Dirks
Program Administrator
Society for the Humanities
Cornell University
27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853

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Department of Music: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Music Theory

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University’s Department of Music invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship starting on July 1, 2013, from scholars whose main area of expertise is in post-tonal music theory. We are particularly interested in candidates who demonstrate a creative engagement with compositional and analytical approaches to art music from the mid-20th century to the present.

The ideal candidate will have a research interest in emerging analytical models of late 20th-century and 21st-century music. He or she also will be able to frame the condition of “post-tonality” within the contexts of music history, area studies, and cultural theory. In this respect, desirable specialties include theories of sound, music technologies and media, music cognition, and expertise in other repertoires or practices that might be considered “post-tonal” in a broader sense.

The successful candidate will teach one upper-level and one general-interest undergraduate course each year. The upper-level courses should address historical and emergent post-tonal repertoires and analytical models, which may include set-class theory, contour theory, transformational theory, spectralist theory, interval theory, and rhythmic theory; the general-interest courses should introduce post-tonal music and address the intersections between post-tonal theory and cultural theory.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2013/14-2014/15 academic years must have received the Ph.D. degree after September 2007. Mellon Fellowships are no longer restricted to citizens of the US and Canada: international applicants are welcome to apply.  Applicants who will have received the Ph.D. degree by June 30, 2013, are eligible to apply. Applicants who do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application must include a letter from the committee chair or department stating that the Ph.D. degree will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins.

Application Procedures:

Applicants should submit the following materials for consideration by February 4, 2013:

a curriculum vitae

a detailed statement of research interests

a teaching philosophy statement

a writing sample

proposals for the courses the Mellon Fellow will teach while in residence at Cornell

three letters of recommendation

Applications should be sent to:

Megan Dirks
Program Administrator
Society for the Humanities
Cornell University
27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853

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