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University of Maryland–Phillips Collection Fellowship in Visual Culture

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Posted by: The Phillips Collection
Deadline: Fri, February 15th, 2019

The Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland invite applications for two postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2019-20. These fellowships will allow the recipients to work with The Phillips’s exceptional collection of modern and contemporary art and the University of Maryland’s leadership programs in art-historical scholarship, socio-cultural aspects of art and representations, interdisciplinary experimentation, and virtual technologies.

 

The University of Maryland–Phillips Collection Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art History will support research and teaching on topics in American, European, or non-western art of all media from 1780 to the present.
  The University of Maryland–Phillips Collection Fellowship in Visual Culture will support research and teaching on issues of visual technologies, visual culture, museum studies, interpreting art in different social/cultural contexts including issues related to gender, race, and/or ethnicity. The fellowship is inclusive of research on politics of disenfranchised people or groups of people and ways in which power and powerlessness are constructed in visual representations. Anthropologists (with a focus on visual anthropology and/or material culture studies) are encouraged to apply.

 

During the academic year 2019-20, both fellows are expected to be in residence in Washington, DC, at the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection.

Each fellow is expected to teach one undergraduate or graduate course at the Center or at the University of Maryland, to present at least one public lecture, and to participate in other programs and discussions with scholars, critics, museum staff, and students at the museum and the university.

The appointments will carry the appropriate departmental affiliations with the University of Maryland and with The Phillips Collection. Fellows will receive a stipend of $ 52,000 plus standard UMD benefits, as well as various university and museum privileges, including access to libraries, equipment, support staff, curators, students and faculty.

The fellowships are open to untenured scholars who have received their PhDs within the past five years. Applicants must have successfully defended the dissertation and received the doctoral degree by June 2019.

 

APPLICATION

The next fellowship opportunity is academic year 2019-2020, in partnership with the University of Maryland. Deadline for receipt of the applications is February 15, 2019.

 

A complete application consists of the following:

- A curriculum vitae

- 1–2 written examples of scholarship (e.g. publications, manuscripts)

- A cover letter that outlines the applicant’s interest in and fit with the University of Maryland-Phillips Collection fellowship, describes the applicant’s research goals and potential course topics, and lists potential faculty mentors at the University of Maryland and/or The Phillips Collection.

- A 1500-word proposal for a research project for the fellowship year. As examples, this project might include transforming the applicant’s dissertation into a series of journal articles, a book, or an equivalent peer-reviewed (print or digital) publication, or an initial study that might catalyze the next stages of his/her program of research. The proposal should indicate how the applicant’s project and future program of research will be enhanced by collaborations and connections at the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection.

- Name, title, affiliation, and contact information for three references. Applicants should arrange to have references send their letters directly to the same e-mail address by the application deadline.

 

All application materials must be sent as a single PDF document to fellowships@phillipscollection.org. 

 

Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2019.

 

The Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland are Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action Employers.

 

https://www.phillipscollection.org/learn/center-for-art-and-knowledge/postdoctoral-fellowships

Posted on Tue, December 4th, 2018
Expires on Fri, February 15th, 2019

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