Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:02:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "IRW, Rutgers" <irw-AT-rci.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Rockefeller Fellowships:  Gender, Race, Ethnicity


        For the second time in our twenty year history, the Institute for
Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
will be a host site for the Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowships in
the Humanities.

        The project to be housed at the IRW, "Gender-Race-Ethnicity:
Rearticulating the Local and the Global," focuses on the intersectionality
of gender, race, and ethnicity in relation to modern and postmodern
structurations of the local and the global.  The project will bring
together relevant areas of study that have not yet sufficiently been put
into conversation with one another, for example:  the study of gender,
race and ethnicity in the Americas, particularly by African American and
Latina feminist scholars; third-world feminism and transnational studies
of women of color; feminist area studies; diaspora and postcolonial
studies; postmodern and poststructuralist feminist theorizations of the
interrelations of the particular and the universal; political and economic
analyses and theorizations of local/global configurations.

        In addition to pursuing their own research relevant to the
project's theme, Fellows will participate in the range of IRW activities,
including the weekly faculty-graduate student seminar, public lectures,
colloquia, discussion groups and conferences.

        The IRW invites applications from scholars in any field who are
open to interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as from scholars in
specifically interdisciplinary fields such as Women's Studies, Ethnic
Studies, and Area Studies.  As visiting scholars of the IRW, Fellows will
receive private office space, access to hardwired computer and Internet
facilities, library and other faculty privileges, and secretarial support.
The terms of the Rockefeller award allow for academic year (September -
mid May) salaries of $33,000 plus health insurance.

        Additional information about the project and the complete
application procedure are available from the IRW's web page
(irw.rutgers.edu/programs/rock.html) or by request. Application deadline
is January 9, 1999.          


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