Diablo Valley College in Contra Costa County, California is seeking to add to its pool of adjunct faculty who can teach Cultural Anthropology.

Minimum Qualifications include: Master’s in Anthropology or Archaeology, OR Bachelor’s in either Anthropology or Archaeology AND Master’s degree in Sociology, Biological Sciences, Forensic Sciences, genetics or paleontology, OR the equivalent. (If you do not possess the listed degree, you must upload the equivalency form provided in the online application.)

Deadline to apply is on December 31, 2019. Please click the link below for more information.

Research position with financial support to off-set the cost of graduate school as you hone your research and work toward a career in academia.

The Humane Studies Fellowship is a renewable, non-residency fellowship with compensation up to $15,000 per year for current or future students enrolled in full-time PhD programs. Intended for students interested in developing, teaching, and applying classical liberal ideas and the principles of a free society, this program supports research and teaching in both the social sciences and the humanities.

Application Opens: August 1, 2019
Applications Close: December 1, 2019

Summer Fellowships Announced: January 15, 2020
Fall Fellowships Announced: March 2, 2020

Fellows are free to use the funds to further their research as they see fit, including summer course buyouts, purchasing data sets, funding research travel, and more. Once you become a Fellow, IHS becomes a partner and a champion for your academic career. The Humane Studies Fellowship connects you with a community of other scholars dedicated to advancing the classical liberal tradition through civil discourse and research. Fellowship recipients may also receive opportunities for individual academic advising, mentoring, networking programs, and other career-advancing resources.

Research interests from previous Humane Studies Fellows have included but are not limited to:

• The legal development of privacy and property rights in 18th-century England
• The role of patient autonomy in bioethics
• Impediments to economic growth in developing countries
• The relationship between U.S. presidential politics, fiscal policies, and economic performance

Information about the Institute for Humane Studies: The Institute for Humane Studies partners with professors to promote the teaching and research of liberty and to advance higher education’s core purpose of intellectual discovery and human progress. Our vision is to ensure higher education becomes a place where classical liberal ideas are regularly taught, discussed, challenged, and developed, and where free speech, intellectual diversity, and open inquiry flourish.

The Inequality in America Initiative seeks applications from recent doctoral degree recipients interested in joining a multidisciplinary network of Harvard researchers working to address the manifold challenges of inequality. This program is intended to seed new research directions, facilitate collaboration across disciplines, and develop new leaders in the study of inequality who can publish at the highest level, reach the widest audience, and impact policy.

The fellowship is a two-year postdoctoral training program, with an optional third year conditional on program director approval and independent funding. The award includes $67,000/year plus fringe; office space; a $17,500 research account; up to $3,000 (incl. taxes) for relocation; and up to $3,000 for a manuscript workshop. Deadline to apply is on November 15, 2019.

The program director will pair each fellow with two Harvard faculty mentors (one from outside the fellow’s primary discipline), participating in one or more of five research clusters:

• • Mobility and Migration
• • Science, Technology, Education, and Health
• • Work, Family, and Opportunity
• • Governance, Citizenship, and Social Justice
• • America Inequality, Globally

Applicants to the fall 2020 program must have received a doctorate or equivalent terminal degree in April 2017 or later; applicants without a terminal degree must demonstrate that they will receive one by August 2020.

See more at https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/postdoctoral-program

Research position with financial support to off-set the cost of graduate school as you hone your research and work toward a career in academia.

The Humane Studies Fellowship is a renewable, non-residency fellowship with compensation up to $15,000 per year for current or future students enrolled in full-time PhD programs. Intended for students interested in developing, teaching, and applying classical liberal ideas and the principles of a free society, this program supports research and teaching in both the social sciences and the humanities.

Application Opens: August 1, 2019
Applications Close: December 1, 2019

Summer Fellowships Announced: January 15, 2020
Fall Fellowships Announced: March 2, 2020

Fellows are free to use the funds to further their research as they see fit, including summer course buyouts, purchasing data sets, funding research travel, and more. Once you become a Fellow, IHS becomes a partner and a champion for your academic career. The Humane Studies Fellowship connects you with a community of other scholars dedicated to advancing the classical liberal tradition through civil discourse and research. Fellowship recipients may also receive opportunities for individual academic advising, mentoring, networking programs, and other career-advancing resources.

Research interests from previous Humane Studies Fellows have included but are not limited to:

• The legal development of privacy and property rights in 18th-century England
• The role of patient autonomy in bioethics
• Impediments to economic growth in developing countries
• The relationship between U.S. presidential politics, fiscal policies, and economic performance

Please click the link below for more information.

Call for papers from the Taylor & Francis Group on the housing affordability crisis in the advanced economies: drivers, implications, and solutions.

Offers of proposed papers should be emailed to Vincent Reina at vreina@upenn.edu by November 20, 2019.  They should include the institutional affiliation and contact details of the author(s); a title and an abstract of no more than 500 words.

The guest editors will then notify authors about which abstracts have been selected by December 1, 2019.  Authors of all of the accepted abstracts will be expected to submit their full papers for guest editor review by February 1, 2020.  The guest editors will provide comments and then revised papers will be submitted to the journal’s standard peer-review procedures by April 1, 2020. These papers will go through a traditional double-blind peer-review process.  Due to the urgency of this topic, and the proposed review timeline, there will be no flexibility on deadlines.

Please this visit this website and the link below for more information.

The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites incoming and returning graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels to a meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Washington. The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. On Thursday, October 10, 3-5PM in the Communications Building Room 204, stop by to learn more about our fellowships, events, and research clusters, and to talk about shared interests with colleagues beyond your department. Refreshments served.

All new and returning graduate students are welcome. Please feel free to share this invitation. To help us estimate attendance, please RSVP at simpsoncenter.org…

Questions? Contact Rachel Arteaga, Simpson Center Assistant Director, at rarteaga@uw.edu.

More information at simpsoncenter.org….

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Social Justice in Campus-Community Partnerships

A Public Scholarship Roundtable Series

What is public scholarship? What does it generate? Who does it address? Why is it important today?

This roundtable series seeks to deepen and enlarge cross-disciplinary conversations about scholarship as a public practice oriented toward social justice. Speakers discuss their diverse experiences facilitating campus-community dialogues and collaborations that promote effective, creative, and just problem-solving for social change.

All roundtables take place 3:30-5:00 pm in Communications 126

 Friday, October 11: What Does Public Scholarship Produce? Artifacts/Evidence
Monica De La Torre (Transborder Studies, Arizona State University)// Tracy Lai (History, Seattle
Central College)// Megan Ybarra (Geography, University of Washington)

 Friday, October 18: Who is the “Public” in Public Scholarship? Publics/Audiences

Sara Gonzalez (Anthropology, University of Washington)// Nicole Robert (Public Programs Manager, Museum of History and Industry)// Reese Tanimua (Managing Director, Northwest Folklife; Chair, Seattle Music Commission)

Friday, October 25: Why does Public Scholarship Matter? Claims/Stories
LaNesha DeBardelaben (Executive Director, Northwest African American Museum)//

Ralina Joseph (Communication and Center for Communication, Difference, & Equity, University
of Washington)// Angelica Macklin (Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies, University of
Washington) // Quetzal Flores (Director, Arts & Culture, East LA Community Corporation)

Curated and moderated by Michelle Habell-Pallán, Director of the Certificate in Public Scholarship (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) with Sonnet Retman (American Ethnic Studies).

Sponsored by the Certificate in Public Scholarship (CPS) and the Center for Communication, Difference & Equity (CCDE).

Questions? Contact cpsadmin@uw.edu