Career Center

2023-2024 Fisher Center Predoctoral Fellowship
Hobart William Smith Colleges

Location: Geneva, NY
Open Date: Mar 15, 2023

Description
In keeping with the Fisher Center's mission of supporting research and dialogue about gender and justice through curricular, programmatic, and scholarly projects, the Fisher Center Steering Committee announces a call for applications for our 2023-2024 Pre-doctoral Fellowship. We seek dissertation scholars and advanced candidates for the MFA whose work critically engages the terms of our research theme for the year, 'Chain: Linkages, Dependencies, Connections.' We are especially interested in candidates who would contribute to the diversity of the HWS campus.

Pre-doctoral Fellowship:

The Fisher Center Pre-doctoral Fellowship offers an opportunity to gain experience teaching in a private liberal arts college while completing thesis work. It carries a stipend of $35,000. Fellows teach one course per semester related to their research and the theme, attend Fisher Center lectures and meetings, make a public presentation, and assist with administration of Fisher Center programming. The pre-doctoral fellow participates in the Faculty Fellows Research Group. This group of interdisciplinary scholars meets twice a month to discuss their research as related to the year's theme.

We invite proposals that think about what chains and chaining represent as an object, a metaphor, a term, a system, a poetics, a category of analysis, in our current moment and beyond. Endowed to further the study of gender and justice in the liberal arts, the Fisher Center welcomes applications from researchers in the humanities, arts, sciences, social sciences, languages, and performing arts that demonstrate commitment to interdisciplinary discussion and collective inquiry.

Theme: Chain: Linkages, Dependencies, Connections

For its 2023-24 theme, the Fisher Center invites proposals that consider the issue of chains in their many manifestations and as part of various political, artistic, literary, philosophical, and scientific projects.

The pandemic years forced us to grapple with the issue of interdependency, where supply chains became interrupted or broken beyond repair. Chains, as in supply chains or food chains, signify logistics, supply and demand, linkages and systems, domestic and global economies. But haven't we also discovered that there are relations of dependency or tethering that go beyond logistics and stretch deep into our collective psyches via affect, street politics, art, and spontaneous expression? Don't viral transmission chains connect and divide us as effectively as supply and demand? Chains signify connections across boundaries; yet they can also keep bodies captive, confined.

Chains may evoke processes-chain reactions, cascading effects ranging from climate change to nuclear reactions. They embody epistolary processes including digital media that purports to link us to a wider world, but perhaps also desensitize us to that world or to ourselves. What does it mean to be interconnected, to lose, to grieve, or to regain that connection? And what is liberation if not breaking the chains?

Chains perhaps manifest most clearly in relations of circulations - of data, money, bodies, and goods. In recent years, chains figured most prominently in blockchain technology, containing a promise of decentralized monetary systems, untethered from state boundaries, governmental control, taxation, and the rule of law. As such, blockchain technology feeds off dreams of liberation from societies of control while enabling new forms of value capture, profiteering, and tether-free capital accumulation. Paradoxically, blockchain technology, while appearing immaterial, is profoundly material, ecologically damaging; while promising to unchain us from the old tethers, it remains bound to its environment in the crudest of ways. A crypto-currency mining plant on the shores of Seneca Lake just miles outside of Hobart & William Smith Colleges sheds hot water produced daily by mining operations into the lake, thus damaging the lake's ecosystem via a process called thermopollution. Chains thus expose the continued, inescapable dependency/parasitism of digital upon the material, financial upon the ecological, global upon the local.


Qualifications
Pre-doctoral candidates nearing completion of the dissertation and MFA candidates who have completed their coursework and are beginning work on their thesis are encouraged to apply.

Application

The Fisher Center Steering Committee will evaluate applications with regard to the quality of the research proposal, the proposals likelihood of success, the relevance of the proposal to the theme, and the 'fit' with other proposals. We will prioritize creating an interdisciplinary research group.

Applications for 2023-2024 are due by April 20th. Applications should be submitted via Interfolio. Each application should include:

1. Name, field, contact information, copy of current c.v.

2. A project description (not to exceed two pages). Include a description of background and preparatory work; a description of the proposed research (scope, method, timeline); and a description of the proposed outcome (dissertation, article, chapter, workshop, presentation, exhibition, performance, etc.).

3. An account of the relation of the project to the theme, 'Chain: Linkages, Dependencies, Connections.'

4. Proposals for two undergraduate courses (one for each semester) related to the theme.

5. Two recommendations.

6. A statement describing how you create an inclusive classroom.

Please contact Professor Alla Ivanchikova (ivanchikova@hws.edu) with any questions.


Application Instructions
To apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/122620.

The Fisher Center Steering Committee will evaluate applications with regard to the quality of the research proposal, the proposals likelihood of success, the relevance of the proposal to the theme, and the 'fit' with other proposals. We will prioritize creating an interdisciplinary research group. Applications for 2023-2024 are due by April 20th.

If you have a question or need help on uploading your application materials, please contact Interfolio's support team at help@interfolio.com or call 1-877-997-8807 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. through 6 p.m., EST, Monday through Friday.


Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to providing a non-discriminatory and harassment-free educational, living and working environment for all members of the HWS community, including students, faculty, staff, volunteers, and visitors. HWS prohibits discrimination and harassment in their programs and activities on the basis of age, color, disability, domestic violence victim status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected under the law. Discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual harassment, sexual violence, sexual assault, and other forms of sexual misconduct including stalking and intimate partner violence, and gender-based harassment that does not involve conduct of a sexual nature.







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