===================== HES POSTING ===================== 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: [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]