A stipend of £25,730 for the academic year is payable (pro rata if appointment is for only part of the academic year) The University invites applications for the John G Winant Visiting Professorship of American Government. The Professor will be expected to contribute to teaching and lecturing in the field of American Government, and will contribute to the intellectual activity of the Rothermere American Institute (www.rai.ox.ac.uk). Teaching will normally take the form of seminars, directed primarily but not necessarily exclusively to graduate students, in the Rothermere American Institute itself. The Visiting Professor will be intellectually eminent in American government. Candidates will have an academic background (e.g. PhD and research experience) in American Government, political science, or similar related field of study. The tenure of the Visiting Professor will be up to one academic year (1 October 2016 to 6 July 2017). He or she normally will be expected to give […]

Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne Salary: £28,982 to £30,738 per annum, with progression to £37,768 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Contract / Temporary Closing Date: 26 September 2016 Following our success in REF2014 Newcastle University are making unprecedented strategic investment in our research capacity through a series of research fellowship positions. This post is supported by Newcastle University’s Research Excellence Academy (REA), which embodies the University’s commitment to foster an environment in which academic excellence and ground-breaking research can thrive. Posts are offered in the research institutes Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice (NICAP), Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI) and Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal (NISR). We wish to appoint to appoint an outstanding postdoctoral researcher for a three-year research fellowship hosted by the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI). The successful candidate will pursue a personal research project, contribute to the work of NUHRI more generally, and enhance the profile of humanities […]

The College Art Association and Terra Foundation for American Art Announce Opening of 2017 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant The College Art Association (CAA) and Terra Foundation for American Art invite applications for the 2017 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. The grant provides financial support for the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts on the history of American art from circa 1500 to 1980 in the current-day geographic United States. The deadline for applications is September 15, 2016. “Now in its sixth year, this international grant program helps to ensure that the field of American art history includes a wide range of culturally and geographically diverse voices,” stated Terra Foundation Publication Program Director Francesca Rose. “For example, Angela Harutyunyan’s Armenian translation of Erika Doss’s book Twentieth-Century American Art increases awareness of the historical art of the United States by making important scholarship available to a broader audience […]