[Jobs] Mellon/ACLS Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies

[Leora Lawton]

This position at UC Davis may interest list members...

The theme for the project's first year is "Human Rights, Citizenship,
Racialized Belonging"

For the job ad, please see https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00773
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The UC Davis Graduate Group in Cultural Studies is pleased to announce a
two-year Visiting Assistant Professorship for 2016-2018 in Comparative
Border Studies supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
the American Council of Learned Societies. Applicants should be specialists
in research on one or more border zones, especially those of the Americas,
Asia and the Middle East. We are interested in promoting comparative and
transnational research so these perspectives are preferred, but not
required. The specific field is open, but an interdisciplinary orientation
in the humanities and/or arts is preferred.

Our new three-year Mellon Research Initiative in Comparative Border Studies
focuses on the making, unmaking, crossing, and fortification of
borders—national, regional, colonial--and aims to rethink notions of border
crossing as well as containment within different regional studies contexts
as a result of transregional, comparative dialogue (see
http://borderstudies.ucdavis.edu/).

The initiative is organized around three major themes: 1) human rights,
citizenship and racialized belonging; 2) mobility, militarization and
containment; 3) protest cultures and transnational solidarities. Research
interest in one or more of these areas is preferred. We will consider
junior scholars including recent PhDs (awarded between 2013-2016) and ABDs
(the degree must be completed by July 1, 2016).

The Mellon/ACLS Visiting Assistant Professor will participate in the
activities of the Mellon Research Initiative in Comparative Border Studies.
Duties include teaching three courses per year (graduate as well as
undergraduate) related to border studies, and serving as co-organizer of
conferences, colloquia, and other events as well as participating in
dialogues involving faculty and graduate students. Ability to teach
graduate seminars in the field of Cultural Studies is a plus. The
appointment will be housed in an appropriate department or program in the
Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, in accordance with the
background of the successful applicant.

The Mellon/ACLS Visiting Assistant Professor will receive an annual stipend
of $57,600, plus health benefits, research funding, and relocation funds.

To apply, please send a letter of interest, CV, and contact information for
three (3) references (we do NOT accept letters via Interfolio) through the
online application system. For full consideration applications must be
received by January 15, 2016. The position is open until filled.

The University of California is an equal opportunity employer with a strong
institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty
and staff.


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Leora Lawton PhD
Executive Director
Berkeley Population Center
350K Barrows Hall
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(m) 510-928-7572
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