““Fresh” may connote pure, but it has come at a high price for many humans, animals, and ecosystems. Its history shows, ultimately, that freshness is anything but natural.” — ACLS Fellows Focus on Research: Susanne E. Freidberg F'09, F'03 on the History of Freshness. http://www.acls.org/news/8-9-11/
(Source: acls.org)
ACLS Board Chair Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, is the Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Humanities at the University of Rochester this week. He is participating in workshops and group discussions with the campus community, and will give a public talk titled “Islam and the West” this afternoon.
(Source: rochester.edu)
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Founded in 1981, CAORC is a not-for-profit federation of 22 independent American overseas research centers that promote advanced scholarly research, particularly in the humanities and allied social sciences, with focus on the conservation and recording of cultural heritage and the understanding and interpretation of modern societies. More than 470 universities, colleges, libraries, and museums hold almost 1,200 memberships in the centers, ensuring that the centers are the focal point for the evolving needs of academic, professional, and policy-making communities in the U.S. and the host countries. In addition to providing and supporting fellowships in each of the 24 countries where CAORC member centers operate, CAORC and the centers sponsor and coordinate multi-center, multinational, and regional research and collaborative projects with diverse academic themes.
Download position description: Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) – Global Projects Manager
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the organization directly.
ACLS Learned Society News. The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts. Follow on Twitter: @collegeart #CAA2012
(Source: conference.collegeart.org)
ACLS Fellows in the News. ACLS congratulates 2011 New Faculty Fellows Alexander Bonus (Music), Cavan Concannon (Religion and Classical Studies), Tomas Matza (Cultural Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies), Michael P. Ryan (German Studies and the Program in Literature), Alexander Schulman (Political Science), and Shannon Withycombe (History) of Duke University. The group has been named one of the inaugural Emerging Humanities Networks of the Mellon Foundation-funded Humanities Writ Large initiative. Their project invites student participation in designing the course “Humanities on Demand: Narratives Gone Viral.” http://www.acls.org/news/2-21-2012/
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This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
UNIVERSITY DESCRIPTION
Carnegie Mellon University is a global research university with more than 11,000 students, 75,000 active alumni and more than 4,000 faculty and staff. Recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and leadership in education, Carnegie Mellon is consistently a top-ranked university.
UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
The University Athletic Association, a national NCAA Division III athletic conference founded in the summer of 1986, is a bold statement of what college athletics can and should be. UAA members share the belief that it is highly desirable and possible for a group of committed institutions to conduct a broad-based program of intercollegiate athletics for both men and women; that it is beneficial to compete with like academic institutions spread over geographically expansive areas; and that it is possible to seek excellence in athletics while maintaining a perspective which holds the student-athlete and the academic mission of the institution as the center of focus. Members of the UAA believe that academic and athletic excellence is not mutually exclusive. The eight members of the UAA are Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Chicago, Emory University, New York University, the University of Rochester and Washington University in St. Louis. All members are private, research universities situated in major metropolitan areas.
Download position description: Carnegie Mellon University – Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Carnegie Mellon University directly.
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Consumers Union is a not-for-profit organization founded in New York in 1936 with the mission to work for a fair, just and safe marketplace for all consumers. Consumers Union is the advocacy division of Consumer Reports, with offices in New York, Washington, DC, Texas, and California. Consumers Union’s West Coast Office was founded in San Francisco in 1975. For 75 years, Consumers Union’s constituency has been solely the consumer. It buys and tests products and services, just as consumers would buy and use them. It informs consumers about the best and worst in the marketplace through its flagship magazine, Consumer Reports, its other publications, and its website at www.ConsumerReports.org. Its advocacy division protects consumers by giving a voice to their concerns in federal and state legislatures and regulatory agencies. When circumstances, laws, or common practice are unfavorable to consumers, it works to shift the balance of power in their favor. It exposes abuses and works to change the marketplace through policy research and published reports, lobbying, grassroots and media campaigns, social networking, engaging its nearly one million consumer activists, and collaboration with other groups in the fight to advance pro-consumer goals. Independence is a cornerstone of the trust that consumers have placed in Consumers Union over many decades. Free of ads and free of commercial ties, Consumer Reports and its advocacy arm, Consumers Union, is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization that exists only for consumers.
Download position description: Consumers Union – Policy Analyst
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Consumers Union directly.
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
CLIR is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. It seeks to: 1) foster new approaches to the management of digital and nondigital information resources so that they will be available in the future; 2) expand leadership capacity in the information professions; and 3) analyze changes in the information landscape and help practitioners prepare for them.
CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), working with leading liberal arts colleges and universities, have launched a broad-based, collaborative publishing experiment that is scalable, widely adoptable, low-cost, and readily accessible by scholarly authors and readers. The project, called Anvil Academic Publishing, is a new digital academic publishing platform designed to address both the current crisis in academic publishing and the opportunities presented by digital technology, particularly the emergence of portable electronic reading/writing devices. The publishing platform is fully digital, with titles published on the Web and as apps on portable devices.
Download position description: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact CLIR directly.
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The Forum on Education Abroad is a nonprofit global membership association of over 600 U.S. and foreign colleges and universities, study abroad provider organizations and agencies that sponsor education abroad programs that account for over 90% of the U.S. students participating in study abroad. Recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization (SDO) for education abroad, the Forum is the only organization whose exclusive purpose is to represent and serve the field of education abroad. The Forum sets the standards and guidelines for education abroad, and through its conferences, workshops, events, publications, resources, and research and data collection efforts, advances the field and supports its member institutions. Its annual conference attracts 1,500 people from around the world and is the largest and most important education abroad gathering. The Forum’s Quality Improvement Program, akin to an accreditation process, is recognized as the definitive means by which education abroad programs are judged. The Forum is hosted by Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which provides complete office and infrastructure support to the Forum.
Download position description: Forum on Education Abroad – Associate Director
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the Forum on Education Abroad directly.
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting better understanding and cooperation between North America and Europe on transatlantic and global issues.
Download position description: German Marshall Fund of the United States – Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the German Marshall Fund directly.
ACLS Fellows in the News: The University of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies has awarded the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Eric Nelson for his book The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (Harvard University Press).
The jury commended Nelson’s book, stating:
“An electrifying, bold analysis, Eric Nelson’s ‘The Hebrew Republic’ is a transformative work in political and intellectual history that makes a significant contribution to European studies. Nelson argues persuasively that a European engagement with Jewish political thought was central to the development of modern notions of republican government, the redistribution of wealth, and religious tolerance. Using rabbinical commentaries and examining republican thought, Nelson’s careful scholarship offers a wealth of new and counter-intuitive insights. This is a watershed in presenting the history of political thought and is a very important book with which scholars will engage and argue for decades to come.”
(Source: newsinfo.nd.edu)
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. It stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. It investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. It challenges governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. It enlists the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.
HRW operates in approximately 40 countries and its rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For more than 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.
Download position description: Human Rights Watch – Human Rights Researcher/Advocate
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Human Rights Watch directly.
ACLS Fellows in the News: Amy-Jill Levine F'92 speaks at the 17th Seeds of Faith interfaith conference this weekend. http://bit.ly/wgaESa
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation’s 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL’s Legislative Management program provides research, technical assistance, project management, publications and training services regarding the organization, operation and management of state legislatures, issues related to elections, campaigns, ethics, and the skills necessary for legislators and staff to effectively execute their legislative roles and responsibilities. NCSL’s Trust for Representative Democracy is a public outreach and education program designed to improve public understanding of state legislatures and Congress and to address the problems of public distrust and cynicism toward government.
Download position description: National Conference of State Legislatures – Legislative Studies Specialist
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact NCSL directly.