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Publication Date - 12/3/1999

50. Rutgers University/Institute for Research on Women - Rockefeller Resident Fellowships in the Humanities

The Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey announces a competition for at least two residential fellowships for the 2000-2001 academic year. The Institute invites applications from scholars conducting innovative interdisciplinary work addressing the intersectionality of gender, race, and ethnicity in relation to modern and postmodern structurations of the local and the global.

The IRW invites applications from scholars in any field who are open to interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as from scholars in specifically interdisciplinary fields such as Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Area Studies. As visiting scholars of the Institute for Research on Women, Fellows will receive private office space, access to hardwired computer and Internet facilities, library and other faculty privileges, and modest secretarial support. They will participate in the range of IRW activities, which include a weekly faculty-graduate student seminar (at one meeting of which Fellows will present their work), public lectures, colloquia, discussion groups and conferences. Fellows receive stipends and health insurance and are expected to be in residence at the IRW for the duration of their award, to participate in the intellectual life of the Institute for Research on Women and Rutgers' women's studies community, and to write a brief report on their fellowship activities and accomplishments for possible inclusion in the IRW's Research Bulletin.

Applicants must hold a doctoral degree, possess an equivalent terminal degree, or demonstrate a substantial record of scholarly achievement. Fellowships may not support dissertation work and the terminal degree must be in hand at the beginning of the residency period. Applications are due JANUARY 10, 2000.