CLA: Department of American Studies

Current grad students Sarah Atwood-Hoffman and Katy Mohrman have been awarded the Department's 2013 Mulford Q. Sibley Graduate Fellowship for Summer Research.

Current grad student Kong Pha has been awarded the Department's Josie
Fowler Peace and Justice Prize for 2013-2014.

Current grad students Matt Boynton and Mingwei Huang have been awarded
the Department's Audrey Christensen Award for 2013-2014.

Current grad students Aaron Eddens and Kasey Keeler have been
awarded the CLA Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP)
fellowship for summer 2013.

Congratulations to the 2013-14 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) recipients Myrl Beam, Susie Hatmaker, Karla Padrón, and Eli Vitulli.

The Center for Jewish Studies presents "Writing Jewish Women's Lives in Central Europe: Theoretical and Methodological Challenge" by Andrea Petö. This colloquium will be held Thursday, May 16th at 12:00pm in 135 Nicholson Hall.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces its first annual award for an outstanding dissertation in the field of immigration and ethnic history. To be considered, dissertations must focus on some aspect of North American immigration and/or ethnicity, be successfully defended between September 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013. All submissions must be accompanied by a letter of support from the dissertation director. The award carries a cash gift of $1,500. Submissions deadline: November 15th, 2013.

The Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture (RAP Lab) at the University of Colorado, Boulder seeks applications for a two-year post doc Research Associate beginning in August 2013. They welcome applications from all Humanities and Social Science disciplines with particular interest in candidates from Music, as well as fields at the intersection of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Applicants must be in hand by July 1st, 2013 or received within the past three years. The successful candidate shall receive a salary of $50,000 per year, plus standard employee benefits and a $2,000 per year research budget.

The Department of African American & African Studies is co-sponsoring Question Bridge: Black Males Exhibition and The Question Bridge: Black Males Blueprint Roundtable at Juxtaposition Arts. The Exhibition runs from May 15th - June 10th on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10am-5pm. The Blueprint Roundtable will be May 17th from 6pm - 8pm.

The Women's Studies department at MCTC is looking for someone to teach two sections of WOST 2211, Women's Responses to Violence, in the Fall. Although this isn't guaranteed, they will very likely also have teaching opportunities in the Spring.Applicants need a minimum of 16 graduate credits in Women's Studies and experience in anti-violence arena is preferred.