Another helpful
job posting from H-Net, this one for a postdoctoral position in the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism:
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2016-2017 Academic Year
Application Deadline: February 15, 2016
The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
(DCC) invites applications for a one-year DCC Postdoctoral Fellow in any
discipline whose research is pertinent to the Program’s 2016-2017
theme, “Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race.”
Although the privileges and protections provided by the state are
never entirely secure, there are those whose gender, sexual, and racial
positioning give them an especially precarious hold on both the legal
and symbolic rights of citizenship. In its 2016-17 theme year,
“Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race,” Penn DCC examines the
struggles of vulnerable groups to gain or maintain their status as full
citizens, recognizing at the same time that the edge they inhabit can be
a cutting edge. In the U.S., women and men of color confront police
violence, high rates of incarceration, and attempts to roll back voting
rights, while women of all backgrounds contend with the persistence of
sexual violence, labor exploitation, and family disintegration. And
while 2015 saw great strides in LGBTQ rights with the achievement of
marriage equality and growing public awareness of trans women and men,
there is ongoing resistance to these developments. Globally, anti-gay
legislation and violence, state repression, ethnic conflict, and human
trafficking for sex and forced labor have all affected the meaning,
status and enactment of citizenship, as well as the strategies
individuals and communities have publicly mobilized for the recognition
of their personhood.
The DCC program welcomes applicants engaged in empirical or normative
scholarship, focused comparatively or on particular nations, regions,
or communities, that explores these questions and seeks to assess the
complex impact of the radically evolving media landscape on democratic
politics, as well as on the closely related issues of citizenship and
constitutional government.
The Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism program is an
interdisciplinary initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which
includes a faculty seminar series and annual conference on themes chosen
by the Program’s Faculty Advisory Council; a graduate workshop series;
and undergraduate research grants. The DCC Postdoctoral Fellow is
expected to participate in the faculty seminar series, teach an
Undergraduate Seminar on a related topic, and join monthly meetings to
discuss the progress of undergraduates receiving research grants. The
Fellow also has the opportunity to pursue the Fellow’s research and
study and participate generally in the intellectual life of the Penn
community. Stipend is $53,800, plus health insurance.
More information is available
here.
