Positions Available
Art History (Tenure track, Assistant Professor), Department of Art and Design at Central Michigan University
Full-time tenure-track position in Art History. Established in 1892, Central Michigan University has an enrollment of 27,000 students, including approximately 20,000 students on the university's main campus. Classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a doctoral research university, CMU is recognized for strong undergraduate education and a range of focused graduate and research programs. The Department of Art and Design is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Position will begin on August 20, 2012. For department details visit http://www.art.cmich.edu.
Required qualifications: Terminal degree in Art History (ABD acceptable). Generalist with an ability to teach Greek, Roman, Medieval, Byzantine, and Western Art Survey. Teaching experience at the College or University level.
Desired Qualifications: An ability to teach one or more of the following: Methodology, Aesthetics, Arts of Non-European Tradition, Gender and Art.
Responsibilities: Teach three courses per semester; conduct independent studies with students; serve on departmental, college and university committees; advise students in Art History, and help maintain area budget.
Deadline: Review of applications will begin on January 02, 2012, and continue until filled.
Application Procedure:
Please submit an application at http://www.jobs.cmich.edu.
Required files to upload--
· Letter of Intent
· Curriculum Vitae
· Names of three current references with phone number/email address
· Copy of Graduate Transcript
· Statement of Teaching Philosophy
· Example Syllabi
· Student Evaluations
Application must be made on-line at http://www.jobs.cmich.edu. Applications via email or post not accepted.
For information, please call the CMU Department of Art and Design: 989-774-3025.
"CMU, an AA/EO institution, strongly and actively strives to increase diversity within its community (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo)"
Other Announcements
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
The applications for the 2012-2013 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.
Boren Scholars and Fellows represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African Languages Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further their study of Akan/Twi, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu. For a complete list of languages, visit our website.
Undergraduate students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic year’s study abroad and graduate students up to $30,000 for language study and international research. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year.
National Application Deadlines
Boren Fellowship: January 31, 2012
Boren Scholarship: February 9, 2012*
*Many institutions have an earlier on-campus deadline. Visit our website for information about your campus deadline and Boren campus representative.
For more information about the Boren Awards, to register for one of our upcoming webinars, and to access the on-line application, please visit www.borenawards.org. You can also contact the Boren Awards staff at boren@iie.org or 1-800-618-NSEP with questions.
Request for Proposals: Scott R. Jacobs Fund. The purpose of the fund is to support Studies on Alexander the Great in North America. Subjects of the proposals must concentrate on Alexander, his context (Macedonia or the Fourth Century B.C.E) or his legacy in the Ancient World. Grants will be made to support research, research travel, as well as travel for the presentation of papers at recognized scholarly conferences or occasionally whole sessions at recognized scholarly conferences. Proposals should be sent to winthrop.adams@utah.edu
Qualifications: Applications will be taken from doctoral students and junior faculty, with exceptions made based on the quality of the proposal, fund requests and overall number of qualified applicants.
Applications: Applications will be reviewed twice, annually, and are due April 1st or November 1st. Applications must include a Curriculum Vitae, Proposal with bibliography, and a Budget for the requested funds. Only applications that are complete by the due dates will be considered. A particular project will be considered only once by the Committee, and candidates may make only one application in any given year.
Applications will be distributed to the Committee members electronically. Committee members will deliberate and rate the applications on their own and communicate decisions to one another by e-mail. All decisions will be by simple majority. In the event of a tie, the proposal shall not be funded. All decisions made by the Committee will be final. The Committee is not required to explain or justify its decision to candidates.
Grants: The grants will vary in size depending on the project proposal and need. However, consideration of all grants is made on the basis of quality.
Announcements: The call for proposals will be made in the Association of Ancient Historians Newsletter and on the AAH announcement e-mail list. Notification of the grants themselves will be made to the applicants no later than April 15th or November 15th, depending on the cycle in which the proposals were made. Announcement of the recipients will be made in the AAH Newsletter and on the AAH electronic announcements.
War and Society: The social and cultural impact of War from ancient times to the present day
March 29th-31st 2012 at the University of Calgary, Canada
The study of warfare is often restricted to the sphere of military history and rarely allowed to transcend the artificial boundaries of historical study, namely those limited by geography and periodization. Throughout the ages war has had the greatest impact, not on the political elite who declare wars but on those who fight and die and their families and friends. This conference aims to address the impact of war on the societies, cultures and individuals.
Subtopics of particular interest are:
Women in war; the social stigma of retreat or cowardice; war and agriculture; the impact of scorched earth policy on populations; the depopulation of villages; war’s effect on birth or marriage rates because of the loss of male citizens; prisoners of war; camp-followers and non-military personnel; displacement of populations; arms production; social security systems for war widows and orphans; the effect of training on a soldier’s mindset and actions (before, during and after combat); the social position of soldiers; peacetime relations between soldiers and civilians; wartime relations between civilians and occupying armies.
The conference is aimed equally at postgraduate students, researchers in the early stages of their careers and established academics. There are no specific geographical or temporal parameters regarding the subject matter of papers, and scholars of medieval and modern warfare are encouraged to submit proposals. We would also encourage the proposal of panels of three papers.
Proposals/abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent to:
Graham Wrightson (gcwright@ucalgary.ca) or Waldemar Heckel (heckelw@ucalgary.ca)
The deadline for submission of proposals is February 15th, 2012.
An NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "Roman Comedy in Performance," will be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from June 24th through July 20th, 2012. Co-directed by Professors Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Timothy J. Moore (University of Texas at Austin), the NEH Summer Institute will give NEH Summer Scholars (twenty-two university or college faculty members and three graduate students) the opportunity to learn about the performance practice and social significance of Roman Comedy from leading experts in the field and to practice scholarship through performance, producing their own performances of scenes from the plays of Plautus and Terence. The NEH Summer Scholars for this Institute will include non-classicists as well as classicists. Applications are due by March 1, 2012. For more information, consult http://nehsummer2012romancomedy.web.unc.edu/ or write to either co-director: sjames@email.unc.edu or timmoore@mail.utexas.edu.
8-Week Intensive Greek and Latin Summer School
June 25th – August 16th 2012
For the 13th year running, the Department of Classics at UCC offers an intensive 8-week summer school for beginners with parallel courses in Latin and Ancient Greek. The courses are primarily aimed at postgraduate students in diverse disciplines who need to acquire a knowledge of either of the languages for further study and research, and at teachers whose schools would like to reintroduce Latin and Greek into their curriculum. Undergraduate students are more than welcome to apply as well.
The basic grammar will be covered in the first 6 weeks and a further 2 weeks will be spent reading original texts.
For further information and an application form see our website:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/summerschool/
or contact the Director of the Summer School: Ms. Vicky Janssens, Department of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland, tel.: +353 21 4903618/2359, fax: +353 21 4903277, email: v.janssens@ucc.ie
Linguistic preparation is crucial for success in many fields of graduate study. Students must command the languages of their primary sources in order to pursue valid research. But the opportunity to establish the competence in Ancient Greek or Latin needed for graduate work in Classics or related fields doesn’t always open up early enough within undergraduate programs. The Department of Classical Studies of Loyola University Chicago now offers a Post-Baccalaureate program so that students who have completed bachelor’s degrees may build the proficiency their further careers demand. Coursework at the post-baccalaureate level also introduces some of the scholarship of Classical texts in which graduate study engages. Post-Baccalaureate students become able to clarify their professional goals while they sharpen their technical skills and become better qualified to advance on the path they choose.
Loyola’s Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program in Classical Studies is shaped in terms of competence attained, rather than a fixed period of study. The Certificate will be awarded to students who successfully complete two semesters totaling 18 “target” credit-hours at the 300-level in both Classical languages with a GPA of 3.0 in the program. “Target” study in these two semesters should include at least 6 credit-hours in 300-level ancient Greek author-courses and at least 6 credit-hours in 300-level Latin author-courses. We recognize some students will have attained intermediate or advanced competence in both languages before their post-baccalaureate study and will need only two semesters of target-level work; some may have had the opportunity to become proficient in one Classical language but have weaker preparation in the other; some may need to begin their study of both languages and will need additional coursework to complete the Certificate. Our program will meet you where you are in your own career of study, and work with you to bring your skills and knowledge up to the next stage.
Faculty in the Department hold Ph.D.s in Classical Studies from top-ranked North American and British universities. Their research specialties include Greek and Roman literature, history, religion, and archaeology; papyrology; textual criticism; feminist approaches to the Classics; and literary theory. Individual students’ curriculums will be determined in collaboration with the Department’s Post-Baccalaureate Program Director. To learn more, please visit our web-pages at www.luc.edu/classicalstudies. Inquiries can be directed to Dr. Greg Dobrov, the Post-Baccalaureate Program Director (gdobrov@luc.edu).
Candidates for the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Classical Studies should have:
Bachelor’s degree in hand at the time of matriculation in the program and, normally, a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0
They should submit in their applications:
a well-thought-out statement of purpose explaining how the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate fits in their projected career of study
list of courses taken at the undergraduate level in Classical Studies or related fields, forming a basis for their projected career of study
two letters of recommendation from instructors in Classical Studies or related fields who have worked with them
in the case of candidates for whom English is not a first language, TOEFL results
On-line applications can be submitted at www.luc.edu/gpem; inquiries GradApp@luc.edu.
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites essays on topics related to any and all aspects of human values, including aesthetic, moral, political, economic, scientific, or religious values. We welcome essays on a wide variety of topics. Additionally, we are interested in submissions related to plans for two special issues: one on themes related to debt, indebtedness, or more generally, financial difficulties; and another focused on the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of World War I. For these issues, as more generally, we welcome work from a variety of disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary approaches, including the arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, and religion, among others. To submit an essay, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/soundings. Questions may be directed to soundings@admin.fsu.edu.
Report of the Committee on Ancient History (APA)
By Georgia Tsouvala
The Committee on Ancient History (CoAH) continues its busy year. The Committee co-sponsored a panel, “What Became of Lily Ross Taylor? Women and Ancient History in North America, at the APA in San Antonio with the Women’s Classical Caucus. Celia Schultz and Michele Salzman organized a well-rounded panel of great speakers: Nathan Rosenstein, Elizabeth Carney, Sara Forsdyke, and Ellen Bauerle. The panel was very well attended and the papers sparked lively discussion. There was consensus that acquiring better data on women and ancient history in terms of graduation, promotion, tenure, and publication rates would be very useful. Ancient history statistics can be difficult to obtain because training may be in history or classics and jobs may be in either as well. The question of who should the acquisition of date and how it should be done remains to be answered. The papers are now posted on the APA website (http://apaclassics.org/index.php/education/).
In addition, the Committee is working with Sam Huskey, the new web designer for the APA, to update the CoAH’s page on the APA website. Stay tuned!
Furthermore, in an effort to strengthen the presence of ancient history within the APA, the Committee plans to contact the APA Program Committee to address the subfields that are representative of ancient history on the abstracts submission form. The goal is to increase the categories that are included under ancient history and to recognize the diversity of subfields that exist under “Greek history” and “Roman History”, as well as such subfields as the study of women in history and literature.
The panel “Law in the Undergraduate Curriculum” for APA 2012 organized by Celia Schultz and Serena Connolly has been accepted by the APA Program Committee. The organizers have lined up another excellent group of speakers and the panel will be dedicated to the late Ernst Badian. Tentative topic for the panel at APA 2013 is epigraphy and history.
The Committee is continuing discussions about the best ways it can serve the profession. There have been renewed talks with the APA, AAH, and, currently, we are pursuing talks with the AHA in an effort to address the fact that some ancient historians feel marginalized.
As the CoAH continues to make ancient history and ancient historians more visible within the APA and the AHA, it needs your help and your ideas. Please consider suggesting a panel that relates to history and education or to history and the profession to the Committee as well as volunteering to be considered for nomination to the CoAH at some point in your career. You may contact the chair or you may self-nominate by filling out this form http://www.apaclassics.org/images/uploads/documents/2011OffCommSurvey.pdf. Junior scholars are welcome and encouraged to volunteer.