Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Postodoctoral Fellowship Program
The HRC awards up to three postdoctoral fellowships for two-year appointments. The Fellowships are designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching. Fellows teach two courses per academic year, and are expected to make significant progress in their research.
Applicants are eligible to apply from all humanities disciplines including, but not limited to, history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, religious studies, art history and the arts. Proposals employing humanistic approaches are welcome from the social sciences, natural sciences, music, architecture, and engineering.
2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellows
Call for 2008-2010 Postdoctoral Fellows (download complete description and cover sheet)
Deadline: December 10, 2007
The HRC seeks applications for postdoctoral fellowships beginning July 1, 2008. Fellows will receive a stipend of $40,000 per year, plus benefits, as well as an allowance for research and relocation.
The fellows will play an active role in the intellectual life of the center. Applicants are asked to describe how their research project would contribute to the intellectual focus of one or more of the HRC's faculty workshops, or to interdisciplinary humanities initiatives (such as the Americas Colloquium or the Medical Humanities communities).
Eligible applicants have received a Ph.D. in 2005 or later, or will receive the degree before July 1, 2008. Fellowship recipients cannot have accepted or currently hold a tenure-track position.
Selection Process
Each proposal is evaluated by members of an interdisciplinary committee comprised of the HRC Faculty Advisory Panel, and a representative member of the Dean of Humanities Planning Committee.
Criteria for Selection
- The applicant's potential to contribute to the intellectual community at Rice and in the HRC.
- The promise of the research project, including prospects for publication or significant advances in tangible research outcomes.
- The research project's potential interest to scholars in different fields of the humanities.
- The potential appeal of the proposed course to a broad audience.
Submit the following materials by hard copy
- Cover sheet.
- Letter of interest.
- Curriculum Vitae.
- A brief proposal for a one-semester undergraduate course.
- In language appropriate for a multi-disciplinary panel of non-specialist readers, a 1000-word statement of current research as well as a proposed course of research during the fellowship period, with a one page bibliography. Please double-space and use 12-point type.
- A 250-word statement of potential contribution of applicant's research to one or more of the HRC's workshops or other interdisciplinary programs in the School of Humanities.
Request hard copy submission
Three letters of recommendation, solicited by the applicant and sent directly to the HRC. Recomendation letters must be received by the application deadline. Consideration of letters received after that date cannot be guaranteed. The center will not accept faxed or emailed letters or recommendation.
2006-2008 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
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Pei Koay, B.A. The New School for Social Research; M.A. (1995) University of Toronto; Ph.D. (2003) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her dissertation, (Re)presenting Human Population Database Projects: Virtually Designing and Siting Biomedical Ventures, examined certain impacts of web-based genetic and genomic representations of health especially regarding identity-making. Pei's current research interests include issues of globalization of science, representations of science and technology, race and science, and feminist and postcolonial approaches to studying science and society. In the fall Pei will teach a course on global science in the department of philosophy. (Contact Info: p2koay@rice.edu, x4226 MS-620) |
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José Pastrano, B.A. University of California, Irvine; M.A. (2001), Ph.D. (2006) University of California, Santa Barbara. Pastrano's dissertation, Industrial Agriculture in the Peripheral South: State, Race, and the Making of a Migrant Working Class in Texas, 1887-1930, focuses on the importance of Mexican immigrant labor in the development of a commercial farming economy in Texas. While at Rice, José's research will examine the politics of a seasonal workforce. José will teach a course on the history of Mexican Americans in the department of history. (Contact Info: jgp1@rice.edu, x5456 MS-620) |
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Laura Isabel Serna, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; MTS (1997) , Ph.D. (2006) Harvard University. In her dissertation titled We're Going Yankee: American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917-1935, Serna considers the social function ascribed to the consumption of American films in |
Former Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
2004-2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Thomas H. Chivens (Ph.D. 2004 North Carolina University at Chapel Hill, anthropology)
Dr. Zoe Knox (Ph.D. 2002 Monash University)
Please click here for information on their research and teaching at Rice University.
2002-2004 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Michael Decker (Ph.D. 2001 Oxford University, modern history)
Dr. Nancy Deffebach (Ph.D. 2000 UT-Austin, art history)
Please click here for information on their research and teaching at Rice University.
