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Robert E. Keiter 1957 Postdoctoral Fellow (EXPIRED)

APA departmental services program Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College

Job category Postdoc or similar / Fixed term
AOS Open
AOC Open
Workload Full time
Vacancies 1
Organization's reference number Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Location Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Job description

The Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College seeks a scholar for a two-year, half-time teaching appointment as a Robert E. Keiter 1957 Postdoctoral Fellow/visiting assistant professor.  In colloquy with other fellows and the Amherst faculty, the Keiter Fellow will explore the theme of “Conservation.”  Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply.  The college is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff.  Our student body is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.  We invite applications from scholars whose research takes up some aspect of our theme (described in more detail below) from a humanistic perspective. 

We live in the Anthropocene, an epoch whose predominant narrative is one of decline and fall—of transformation, deterioration, and loss. Our theme invites inquiry into how humans have responded to that narrative. We associate the idea of conservation with care, repair, and stewardship both of nature and of culture. To conserve is to place oneself in relation to the past—perhaps an imagined past – that one values and believes ought to remain and persist into the future.   In rehabilitating wetlands and restoring great works of art, reanimating lost languages and moral traditions, creating archives and preserving work born digital, conservation generates a set of values, techniques, and orientations to temporality and change.  We invite applicants from scholars whose research takes up some aspect of our theme from a humanistic perspective. 

Amherst College’s Robert E. Keiter 1957 Fund for Postdoctoral Fellows supports exceptionally promising young scholars for two years of half-time teaching (one course each semester) in an appropriate host department and half-time research at the college.  In the first year of the appointment (2016-17), the Keiter Fellow will have an office in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and will be expected to participate in workshops and conferences organized to explore our theme.  This appointment includes an annual salary of $58,000 and, in addition, a yearly $2,500 allowance for professional travel and research support and additional support for moving expenses.  The Robert E. Keiter 1957 Postdoctoral Fellowship is open only to recent Ph.D.s who have not already held a regular faculty appointment. A candidate must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by July 1, 2016.   

Candidates should submit electronically to http://apply.interfolio.com/33282 a cover letter that addresses the connection between the candidate’s scholarship and the center’s theme, a CV, a research statement, a writing sample, and three confidential letters of recommendation addressed to Professor Martha M. Umphrey, Director, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College.  Review of applications will begin on January 1, 2016, and continue until the position is filled. Applications received by this date will be assured of full consideration. 

How to apply
Application type Online
Web address to apply http://apply.interfolio.com/33282
Hard deadline January 1, 2016, 6:59pm EST
Contact
Web address for more information https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/cen...
Contact name Elizabeth Kolenda
Contact email
Contact phone 413-542-5870
Bookkeeping
Time created December 4, 2015, 8:42am UTC
Scheduled expiry date January 1, 2016, 6:59pm EST
Expired on January 2, 2016, 6:59pm EST
Last updated March 2, 2016, 3:00pm UTC
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