Each academic year the Center appoints six CUNY faculty fellows and six CUNY doctoral student fellows from throughout CUNY. Fellows are drawn from doctoral programs in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Faculty fellows receive a two course release for the year of their fellowship (to be distributed across the fall and spring semesters at the discretion of their department), and Graduate fellows receive a stipend of $10,000. ONLY full-time CUNY faculty are eligible for faculty fellowships, and ONLY Level III CUNY doctoral students are eligible for Graduate Fellowships. You can read detailed abstracts of our current fellows’ research here. For information on becoming a visiting scholar at the center, please refer to the link on the left side of the page.
Uprisings: In History, In Process, In the Future
The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.
For 2012-2013, the Center for Place, Culture and Politics invites proposals that address both the broad parameters of uprising and specific analyses of its significance in the politics of space and culture. The transformations in North Africa, for instance, can be read as both vital testimony to the power of people’s resistance to authoritarian regimes and an indication of long-standing questions about state formation in decolonization. OWS, by contrast, focuses on the logic of resistance and the extent to which networked solidarism can augment or reinvent struggles against inequity. The historical valence of uprising will be encouraged, in relation to or outside these contemporary examples. In addition, knowledge from a base in activism will be discussed in relation to specific problems in theory this may raise.
Given our support of interdisciplinarity, contributions from a variety of specializations will be welcomed. In a time of intense uprising our graduate/faculty seminar this year wants to foster a critical discussion about the meaning of “uprising” in our research and in the world of which it is a part. What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?
The Center will appoint six faculty fellows and six graduate student fellows. Fellows will be drawn from throughout the social sciences, humanities and sciences at CUNY. Faculty fellows will receive two course releases for the year of their fellowship, and Graduate fellows will receive a stipend of $10,000. All full-time CUNY faculty are eligible for the fellowship. Only Level III GSUC students are eligible for Graduate fellowships. Non-CUNY students are not eligible for the fellowship, but may apply with their own funding to be visiting scholars. Fellows are expected to attend the weekly seminars, distinguished lectures and Center conferences, and to present their research at one of the weekly seminars. The Center seminar meets on Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and it is a condition of the fellowship that fellows leave this time free in their 2011-12 teaching schedules. Distinguished lectures will generally be held on Tuesdays at 6pm followed by a reception, and prospective fellows should also keep this time slot free.
The deadline for applications is February 7, 2012.
Doctoral Students must apply using the Graduate Center Provost’s Office Dissertation Fellowships and Awards Application. The link to the Doctoral Student application process can be found here: Doctoral Student Application Form. Please adhere to the guidelines detailed by the Provost’s Office.
Faculty Fellow applications are comprised of four parts:
* Completed Faculty Fellow Application Form. This should include the signature of the program Executive Officer for faculty with GSUC appointments, or of Department Chairs for non-GSUC appointments.
* 150 word abstract
* Project description (maximum 1500 words)
* A current short CV (maximum 5 pages)
PLEASE NOTE:
Only Faculty fellowship applicants should send their complete application (in PDF format, including the signed application form) to pcp@gc.cuny.edu.
Doctoral students must submit their application through the Provost’s Office as detailed above.
Inquiries should be directed to pcp@gc.cuny.edu
