Pembroke Center Accepting applications for 2013/14 Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline- December 7, 2012

Countries/Region- All Countries

Pembroke Center is pleased to announce Postdoctoral Fellowships for International Students in fields of socialism and post-Socialism. Fellows are required to participate weekly in the Pembroke Seminar, teach one undergraduate course, and pursue individual research.

The year 2014 will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and socialism’s collapse in Europe. Historians, anthropologists, political scientists, literary and gender scholars all see the socialist era through different theoretical and methodological lenses, but all share a temporal framework that defines their questions and methods: before and after 1989. Social scientists will help the seminar develop topics on socialist transitions, public health, gender relations, distribution patterns, and ethnic identity.

The stipend is $50,000, plus a supplement for health insurance is provided to the applicant.

Eligibility-

Participation of humanities scholars from history, science studies, literature, music, film and the creative arts on issues such as historical memory, communism and science, commemorations of socialism, and nostalgia are encouraged to particiopate. For the Pembroke Center’s international post-doctoral fellowship competition, scholars interested in socialism and post-socialism in different parts of the world and in feminist theory and Marxist theory are also encouraged to apply.
Candidates are selected on the basis of their scholarly potential and the relevance of their work to the research theme. Recipients must have a PhD and may not hold a tenured position. Fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral scholars who received their PhD degrees from institutions other than Brown University.

Complete applications must include-