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The INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR U.S. STUDIES, a Rockefeller Foundation
Humanities Residency Site from 1997 to 1999, is now accepting applications
from scholars. Five fellows will be selected to participate in our third
year of the program, the spring of 1999. The fellowships are open
specifically to non-U.S. scholars. If you are eligible (see details of
eligibility below), please consider applying this year. If you are a U.S.
scholar or a foreign scholar already living and working in the U.S.,
please help us locate outstanding candidates for this new program by
forwarding this message to colleagues overseas.
Thank you.
Laura Dowd
Program Assistant
Fellowships
The International Forum for U.S. Studies (IFUSS) is a Rockefeller
Humanities Residency Site for Fellowships during 1997-1999. The program
seeks to promote humanities scholarship by non-U.S. scholars working on
social and cultural issues shaping or affecting the United States. As
conceptualized by faculty members from the University of Iowa Center for
International and Comparative Studies and the American Studies Program,
the Forum acknowledges the lively growth of intellectual communities
around the world that study the U.S. The goal of the Forum is to promote
greater contact with those scholars, and knowledge of that work, within
the U.S. intellectual community. In so doing, the Forum takes
contemporary U.S. discussions of cultural diversity, a new world order,
and multiculturalism one step further by promoting scholarship on the U.S.
done by scholars working out of different national histories, intellectual
institutions, and often scholarly traditions. The fellowships are
specifically for non-U.S. scholars, based outside the U.S. Applicants
must hold a Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree in their field at the time
of application.
The Program
As its overarching theme, the Forum will focus on selective claims to
difference(s) and sameness(es) and the values, effects, and material
consequences attached to each. Specific themes for the three-year period
will include (1) the public production of "American" culture (through
institutions, practices, cultural policies, and events), (2) American
"sameness-es" (both shared aspects and presumptions of sameness that are
made, claimed, denied, or unnamed), and (3) critical discourses on
American "exceptionalisms" as seen both from within and without.
Five non-U.S. scholars outside the U.S. will be selected each year for
concurrent 3 month residencies each spring semester (February 1 through
April 30). All fellows are expected to be in residence for the duration
of their award. Projects may extend a scholar's current work by adding a
comparative dimension that focuses on the U.S., or they may support the
completion of a substantial piece of research or writing on the U.S.
Fellows will participate in a faculty seminar every other week at which
they and their U.S.-based colleagues will present and discuss works in
progress. In addition, fellows will participate in public forums designed
to bring Americanists and international studies scholars together.
Fellows also have the option of teaching a course during summer session.
In 1999, the third year of the program, all members of the International
Advisory Committee, all University of Iowa participants in the three
faculty seminars and all fifteen past and present fellows will be brought
together for a working conference, with attendance open to observers, on
internationalizing study of the U.S.
Eligibility
Applications will be accepted from non-U.S. scholars living outside of the
U.S. Preference will be given to those scholars who do not hold an
advanced degree from a U.S. institution. While applications from
Americanists are welcomed, individuals whose work in the humanities has
not previously focused on the U.S. are also encouraged to apply. In
attempting to generate new paradigms for research, we recognize that the
development of a different kind of international scholarship on the U.S.,
one which truly de-centers U.S. scholarship while challenging it with new
formulations, new questions, and new critiques, may come from outside of
the framework already employed by many Americanists.
The Fellows are expected to hold a Ph.D. degree or other terminal degree
in a field relevant to the Forum. We encourage applications from
outstanding scholars at all career stages.
Specifics of the Awards
Fellows will receive a $10,000 stipend for the three month period they are
in residence at the Forum. Round trip airfare to Iowa City and health
coverage will also be provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. The
University of Iowa will provide complimentary on-campus housing for the
fellows. Fellows are expected to remain in residence for the duration of
their awards and to take part in the life of the Forum - that is, to
participate in a faculty seminar every other week at which they and their
U.S.-based colleagues will present and discuss works in progress and to
participate in public forums designed to bring Americanists and
international studies scholars together. Awards will be announced no
later than May 15.
Facilities
Fellows will have offices at the University of Iowa's International
Center. They will have access to secretarial assistance and computer
networking capabilities. Each visiting fellow will be assigned two
contact "hosts" who will help him or her meet scholars with related
research interests and other scholars or professionals from his/her home
country or region who are in residence here. The fellows will also be
invited to participate as they wish in ongoing departmental colloquia in
American Studies, in programs sponsored by International Programs, and
through other departments such as English, Comparative Literature, Art,
Rhetoric, History and Anthropology, that match their interests. Further,
they will have easy and direct access to the collections and facilities of
the University of Iowa Library system. Thus, the fellows will enjoy
facilities and resources supporting their individual work and ample
occasions for engagement in scholarly dialogue.
For Spring 1999, the deadline is February 15, 1998.
The Co-Directors of the Forum are Virginia Dominguez and Jane Desmond.
The International Advisory Board members are Robert C. Allen, J. Dudley
Andrew, Ien Ang, Arjun Appadurai, Cathy Davidson, Emory Elliot, Catherine
Hall, Richard P. Horwitz, Linda Kerber, Janice A Radway, Alcida Rita
Ramos, Marianna Torgovnick, Geoffrey White.
If you have further questions or would like to request an application,
please write to: International Forum for U.S. Studies, 226 International
Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1802, USA or contact
the Forum by phone: (319) 335-2476, fax: (319) 335-0280, or e-mail:
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