GWSS Departmental Newsletter 4/27/18

"The Rock" + "The Pebble" Update

(Congrats to Lauren Hashian and Dwayne Johnson on the birth of their baby, Tiana Gia)   . 

Events

1. Civic Engagement Workshop for the Asian Pacific Islander community in Minnesota
2. LATIS Workshops
3. Symposium on "Political Ontology for the Present"
4. Last Chance for Canvas Help for Summer Courses 
5. "Gender Violence in Dance: Where are we now?"

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities 

1. New Digital Publishing Initiative Funding Request Now Open
2. Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
3. Lecturer in Gender & Women's Studies 
4. Women's Studies Adjunct Assistant Professor
5. Visiting Assistant Professor for Asian American Studies
6. Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies-Dublin

Miscellaneous

1. Research Briefs
2. Change.org Petition to Raise Student Worker Wages

                                                                                              

Events

1. Civic Engagement Workshop for the Asian Pacific Islander community in Minnesota
   Saturday, April 28 10am to 4pm
   SEIU Office, 345 Randolph Ave, St Paul, MN 55102
   
   This workshop is specially designed for Asian Americans in Minnesota and it’s the first time such a one-day workshop is being organized - so I sincerely hope you can attend. There will be trainers and speakers from across the country. A great opportunity to learn about Asian American history in the US labor movement; interactive trainings on lobbying, advocacy and holding politicians accountable through civic engagement; panel discussion with local activist and elected officials. This training will help build our capacity to step up and ignite the power to ensure that all our voices are heard and in who becomes the next Governor of Minnesota. Together, we have the power to build a better future for our families and our community. Childcare available. Breakfast/ Lunch provided and a short reception at the end. 
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   See attachment for details. ​
   
   For other questions, call the Member Action Center: 651-294-8100
   
   Organized by: Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), Asian American Pacific Islanders Caucus & Asian American Organizing Project
   
2. LATIS Workshops
   
   LATIS offers a workshop series free to all faculty and graduate students on wide array of topics. The next workshop is Introduction to SQL and Research Databases, in which participants will learn about choices in database technology that support data at scale; the building blocks of schema design; how to write SQL queries to retrieve, delete, insert, and update data in a database; and how to connect their database to a R or Python script. Register online for the workshop on Friday, April 27, 2018, 9:30 A.M.-12:00 P.M., 131A Bruininks Hall.
3. Symposium on "Political Ontology for the Present"
   
   Theoretical Humanities Collective presents Political Ontology for the Present. For full program information and information regarding the Theoretical Humanities Collective visit theoreticalhumanitiescollective.com. Friday, April 27th and Saturday, April 28th in the Crosby Seminar Room in Northrop Auditorium.
4. Last Chance for Canvas Help for Summer Courses
   There are still a few spaces available for any faculty or instructors who need help migrating content from Moodle to Canvas for summer 2018 courses. The deadline to request assistance is May 1, and it only takes a few minutes to make the request. The deadline for fall 2018 courses is June 1.  Complete the form: z.umn.edu/migrateCLAcourse
    
   For more information about migration, online resources, and workshops, seecanvas.cla.umn.edu. Questions? Email Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at cla-tel@umn.edu
5. "Gender Violence in Dance: Where are we now?"
   "My name is Tori, and my peer Kendall and I are organizing a panel discussion on May 7th centered around critical dance curation, called "Gender Violence in Dance: Where are we now?." After watching the performance of a Nacho Duato work, Violoncello, by Hubbard Street Dance at Northrop in January, we were enraged by the blatant misogyny and objectification of the woman in the duet. We sent letters to the head of curation at Northrop, and through these conversations we have organized this public discussion, which will be in the Ellie and Tom Crosby Seminar Room at Northrop from 3:30-5:00 on Monday, May 7. Here is a link to the event on Northrop's website: http://www.northrop.umn.edu/events/gender-violence-dance-where-are-we-now "

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities 

1. New Digital Publishing Initiative Funding Request Now Open
   The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota has launched a Digital Publishing in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences initiative, which provides subventions for open digital monographic publishing. Minnesota is also one of twelve universities participating in the AAU/ARL/AAUP Open Access Monograph Initiative. The purpose of these initiatives is to foster new forms of scholarly publishing and new models of sustainability for university presses. Applications are due on May 15, 2018 to clafclty@umn.edu. For information on eligibility, how to apply, and available funding, visit the digital publishing page on the Neighborhood.
2. Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
   click here for more info
3. Lecturer in Gender & Women's Studies 
   click here for more info
4. Women's Studies Adjunct Assistant Professor 
   click here for more info
5. Visiting Assistant Professor for Asian American Studies
   
   The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor for a one-year appointment to begin in Fall 2018.
   

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   Area of specialization is open and all are encouraged to apply, with special consideration given to applicants with expertise in gender and sexuality studies, transnationalism or diaspora studies, or popular culture.
   

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   Materials should be electronically submitted via UC Recruit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01236
   
   
   Inquiries may be directed to erin K. Ninh, Search Committee Chair, ninh@ucsb.edu.
   
   
   The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor for a one-­‐year appointment to begin in Fall 2018.  
   Area of specialization is open and all are encouraged to apply, with special consideration given to applicants with expertise in gender and sexuality studies, transnationalism or diaspora studies, or popular culture.
   A full year appointment carries a teaching load of 4 one-­‐quarter courses. Expectations for the position include strong undergraduate teaching and mentoring; an active profile in research and professional activities; and departmental service and interaction with faculty at UC Santa Barbara. Applicants must at minimum have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. except the dissertation (ABD) at the time of application and have an expected degree conferral date of July 1, 2018, or earlier in Asian American Studies or related fields. Applicants should have at least one year of experience developing and teaching their own courses at the university or college level by the time of appointment. Ph.D. must be in hand on or before July 1, 2018. Scholars are eligible with or without current faculty positions.  
   For primary consideration, complete all application requirements on or before April 30, 2018. The position is open until filled. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, a statement of research, three relevant course syllabi, and teaching evaluations from three most recent courses. Applicants will also be asked to request three letters of reference as part of the application process.  
   Materials should be electronically submitted via UC Recruit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01236
   
   
   Inquiries may be directed to erin K. Ninh, Search Committee Chair, ninh@ucsb.edu.  
   The Department seeks candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service.  
   The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
6. Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies-Dublin
   Click here for more information

Miscellaneous

1. Research Briefs
   

   Research Briefs

   Research Briefs are used to help amplify published research from U of M System faculty. Our hope is to widely share how they are tackling the world’s biggest challenges and the issues important to Minnesota.
   Research Briefs - with all the same elements of a news release - are a short and concise 350-500 word summary of research that has been published in a journal and linked online. The Research Brief is written by faculty with the goal of making their work understandable to a lay audience.
   Similar to news releases, the News Service distributes Research Briefs to targeted local, state and national media, posts them to the News & Events website and shares on social media.
   An online form is now available to easily guide researchers when summarizing their published work. The form has limited space to keep the briefs short and concise.
   Research Briefs have resulted in several media interviews and stories, including this recent StarTribune article on the Medical School’s opioid vaccine research.
   You can find previous Research Briefs here.
   Please feel free to share the online form with your faculty and, as always, please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
   612-625-8431
   brobidea@umn.edu
2. Change.org Petition to Raise Student Worker Wages 
   Undergrad United's fist campaign is to support the increase of student worker minimum wages to $15. The City of Minneapolis recently raised the wage to $15, but the University will unfortunately be exempt from this increase. Here you can find more information on the campaign.
   Click here to sign the petition
   
      

GWSS Departmental Newsletter 4/23/18

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Update
 

Events

1. Lavender Celebration
2. Graduate Queer & Trans Studies Colloquium-Annakay Wright Presenting
3. QueerX Series: Men, Masks, & Toxic Masculinities
4. Drag Story Time
5. Intimacy: Life, Loss, Access, and Movement Workshop
6. Silent March
7. Kitchen Table: Dinner and Discussion with Queen Quet, Francis Bettelyoun, Jose Luis Villaseñor, and Darceia Houston (Lorena helped organize this)
8. Political Ontology for the Present: A Symposium at the University of Minnesota
9. "Do You Want to Build a Lecture?" Writing Lectures form Arguments, Images, and Material Culture
10. "From Nomos of the Earth to Gaia: Land as a category in postcolonial and Anthropocene histories"
11. GWSS Undergraduate Research Symposium 

Call for Papers/Applications

1. CFP Legacies of the Enlightenment Inaugural Workshop

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities

1. Fullbright Information Session 
2. Dream Fund
3. Scholarship and Fellowships on American Women's Suffrage soon to be announced
4. African American Studies Visiting Assistant Professor Position
5. Steven J. Schochet Endowment Call for Proposals: Course Development and Enhancement Grant
6. Lecturers in Women's Studies

Miscellaneous 

1. Imagine PhD + Versatile PhD New Websites for Grad Students
2. Social Media Privacy
3. Travel Letters for Faculty and Staff
4. Student needs help/input for research paper

                                                                                                               

Events

1. Lavender Celebration
   
   Friday, May 4, 2018  |  6pm-8pm | Mississippi Room CMU
   Every year we honor the accomplishments of our LGBTQIA+ graduates and celebrate the achievements of our queer staff, faculty members, students and community members. We celebrate past successes and new chapters with an award ceremony, entertainment, a keynote speaker(s), and (of course) CAKE!
   
   RSVP by April 23rd at z.umn.edu/lavcel
2. Graduate Queer & Trans Studies Colloquium - Annakay Wright Presenting
   
3. QueerX Series: Men, Masks, & Toxic Masculinities 
   click here for Facebook event page
4. Drag Story Time
   click here for Facebook event page
5. Intimacy: Life, Loss, Access, and Movement Workshop
   
   https://www.dyfit.org/kendrick/
   
   Intimacy: Life, Loss, Access, and Movement
   
   
   Saturday, April 28, 2018
   
   
   3:00 PM  5:30 PM
   People's Movement Center (map)
   
   
   A Workshop with Kendrick Wronski / Presented by Don’t You Feel It Too?
   
   
   FREE, plus suggested donation. Sign up HERE. Attendance is limited to 20.
   
   
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   From quiet and relative stillness, Kendrick leads a touching, humorous, and magnifying experience, reflecting life and spirit. This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in movement, connection, and change.
   
   
   "I will be leading this workshop from bed. This is where most of my life is now lived. Exploring ways to stay connected, engaged, and active from this position feels like my current spiritual assignment. Before I got sick I considered time in bed to be about recovery. Now, I consider time in bed to be LIFE itself! I know the fear of facing a life like this is great, but let's do it anyway! We will experience new facets of the non-binary. We will move together facing the complexity of truth within the work of love."
   
   
   About Kendrick: I am a visual artist, former kindergarten teacher, lifelong lesbian feminist, a parent, a person with growing cognitive and mobility losses, and I have practiced three decades of Vipassana meditation. I have been a DYFIT Cohort member since 2016. This Cohort is my first personal experience with a group which sincerely wishes to learn from the experience of difference and loss arising from ten years of life with chronic illness.
   
   
   (The workshop format will include Kendrick's pre-recorded video facilitation and instructions, as well as recording of the participants for Kendrick to view and respond to through email following the workshop. You may request not to be recorded.)
   
   
   The two free public practice sessions leading up to this workshop, on 4/24 and 4/26, will take place right outside the People's Movement Center. Join us!
6. Silent March
   My name is Jana Gierden, I am a PHD student in the Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch. Together with the Rename Coffman project group as part of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Minnesota Student Association, I worked this semester on organizing a silent march across campus after last semester’s exhibition “A Campus Divided“ at the Elmer Anderson Library uncovered the history of racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Communism of this University. The march will take place Wednesday, on the 25th of April at 2:30 pm. 
   
   Based on the exhibition “A Campus Divided“ that took place in the fall 2017 at the Elmer Anderson Library, we are organizing a SILENT MARCH across campus. With this SILENT MARCH, we want to draw attention to the history of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Communism on this campus and its still present legacy. Coffman Union is named after the former president of the University, Lotus Coffman (president of the U from 1920-1938), who demanded racial segregation on this campus and pursued politics that were explicitly anti-Semitic. Nicholson Hall got its name from Edward E. Nicholson, Dean of Student Affairs from 1917 - 1941. Nicholson spied on students and provided the FBI with lists of names of student activists. Middlebrook Hall is named for William Middlebrook, Vice President of the University of Minnesota from 1925 - 1959. He highly supported segregated housing on campus, denying African Americans access to the dormitories. We want to insist that the names of these buildings – after the discoveries that have been made and have been shown at the exhibition – can’t stay as they are now. The University of Minnesota has to create an environment that is inclusive for everyone – this is only possible by renaming Middlebrook Hall, Nicholson Hall and Coffman Union. Our march shall address the history of this University, its relations to racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Communism and at the same time create a forum for ongoing discussion. WHEN: the 25th of April, 2018 at 2:30 WHERE: We will start at Middlebrook Hall, walk over to Shevlin Hall, Nicholson Hall and end at Coffman Union. The march itself shall be held in silence in order to remember all the people that have been silenced by this university, but in front of the buildings mentioned above, we will read from important documents written by Nicholson, Coffman, and Middlebook and contrast them with poetry. At this time of challenging political crisis all around the world, it is more important than ever to stand together and to support each other to create an environment where everybody feels safe and welcome. PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US to send out a message to the University administration to rename the buildings to make this University a more inclusive space. For more information on the history of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Communism at this University, please visit: http://acampusdivided.umn.edu
7. Kitchen Table: Dinner and Discussion with Queen Quet, Francis Bettelyoun, Jose Luis Villaseñor, and Darceia Houston (Lorena helped organize this)
   Free!
   The event its about food and healing with curated dinner and
   discussion with these amazing folks. Hope you can make it.
   
   Kitchen Table: Dinner and Discussion with Queen Quet, Francis
   Bettelyoun, Jose Luis Villaseñor and  Darceia  Houston
   
   Thursday, April 26th
   5:30 pm
   RSVP required. Please go to z.umn.edu/QueenQuetdinner to register your
   attendance.
   
   People’s Movement Center
   736 E 41st St
   Minneapolis, MN 55407
   
   The RSVP link here:
   https://cla.umn.edu/research-creative-work/faculty-research-creative-work/winton-chair-liberal-arts/cornerstone-events
8. Political Ontology for the Present: A Symposium at the University of Minnesota 
   click here for more info
9. "Do You Want to Build a Lecture?" Writing Lectures from Arguments, Images, and Material Culture
   

    A Teaching the Global Premodern Workshop with  Melissa Hampton (History) and Jennifer Awes-Freeman (Art History)

   
   

   Thursday, April 26, 2:30-3:30

   1210 Heller Hall, West Bank

10. "From Nomos of the Earth to Gaia: Land as a category in postcolonial and Anthropocene histories"
    

    4.26.18 ~ 3:30pm ~ Best Buy Theatre, Northrop Hall 

    Thursday, April 26th, Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (History, University of Chicago) will be delivering our concluding lecture, "From  Nomos of the Earth to Gaia: Land as a category in postcolonial and Anthropocene histories." 

    
    

    This is a free, open, and public event

11. GWSS Undergraduate Research Symposium
    

Call for Papers/Applications

1. CFP Legacies of the Enlightenment Inaugural Workshop
   We are now accepting proposals from graduate students who wish to participate in the inaugural Legacies of the Enlightenment Workshop, to be held on the campus of Michigan State University from October 5-7, 2018. Your research does not have to focus solely on the period of the Enlightenment, but it should address in some form how the Enlightenment continues to exert an influence on our social, political, cultural, and ideological landscape into the present. We are pleased to offer some financial assistance for travel to accepted participants. 
   Topic of our workshop:
   At least since the last century, philosophers and the public have turned to the Enlightenment, as a way of navigating moments of social and political crisis. For example, in the wake of the terror attacks committed at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris in January 2015, French citizens turned to the philosophers of the Enlightenment, and most importantly to Voltaire, to foreground a collective commitment to ideals of reason and tolerance. After the attacks, copies of Voltaire’s 1763 Treatise On Tolerance were virtually flying off the shelves of libraries and bookstores. According to French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, in this time of upheaval, Voltaire represented to the French a stronger, and more reliable support and companion than twentieth-century philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre . Yet, the period of the Enlightenment caused or even justified violence and the denial of difference, by propagating ideologies linked to colonialism, imperialism, and oppression that continue to haunt us today.
   In order to better examine the legacies of the Enlightenment, we are organizing a graduate student-faculty workshop, which will examine how and why we continue to practice and embody the legacies of the Enlightenment. Graduate students will present and receive feedback on works in progress from faculty working in a variety of disciplines both nationally and internationally. 
   Some possible topics include (but are not limited to):
   
   •    The evolution of social and political relations (different forms of violence and discrimination, abuse of power, slavery, corruption, etc.)
   
   •    Theories of climate, as well as the relation between the natural world, the human, and society
   
   •    The nature of matter and objects
   
   •    The structures of authority and institutions
   
   •    The questioning of accepted notions of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and citizenship
   •        Political upheavals and natural catastrophes
   
   •        How diverging notions of embodiment are crucial for understanding the origins and the continued presence of racism and sexism
   
   •        What are the limitations of Enlightenment thought from non-Western epistemologies
   
   •    How taxonomic practices influence relationships among humans, as well as between humans and other forms of life
   
   Format of the workshop
   We invite graduate students specifically to participate in this workshop in order to feature their research in a welcoming, friendly, and collegial environment.  We aim to generate constructive feedback on graduate student research, with the goal of enabling student participants to develop or finish a dissertation or book chapter, and/or to revise an article for submission.
   The panels of our workshop are related to five categories that are featured on our website http://enlightenmentlegacies.org/:
   materialisms, disciplines, upheaval, in-between, climate. 
   We have assembled a team of faculty participants who include leading scholars in the disciplines of cultural and literary studies, philosophy, feminist theory, history and historiography, and other fields. They will be presenting an overview of their research in a roundtable format. This presentation will be followed by a Q and A session, and then by a graduate workshop. Each student will speak for about 5-7 minutes, focusing on the main points/questions/struggles of their research (an article they want to publish, a dissertation/book chapter they want to start or complete), followed by a hands-on workshop and feedback. Students will submit to their groups an essay of about 5 to 8 pages (double-spaced) that outlines the main elements of their research. Each presenter will receive individualized feedback. We aim to facilitate an inclusive, generative discussion of the legacies of the Enlightenment today.
   Please send a 300-400 word abstract, including contact info, to legaciesoftheenlightenment@gmail.com under the header “Graduate Workshop Proposal.” In your proposal, please list, in order of relevance, each of the 5 groups (materialisms, disciplines, upheaval, in-between, climate) that your paper is suited for. If you are requesting travel funding, please also include separately aa budget, indicating any other sources of funding available to you.

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities

1. Fullbright Information Session
   The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce three Fulbright Information Sessions for graduate students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2019-20 academic year. Excellent opportunities are available to over 140 countries. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The UofM campus application deadline is Wednesday, August 29, 2018.
   They may reserve a place at one of the three sessions by clicking on the links below. Sessions are limited to 30 participants.
   
   • Thursday, May 10, 201810:00 am - 11:30 am
     101 Walter Library
   • Tuesday, May 22, 20189:30 am - 11:00 am
     101 Walter Library
   • Wednesday, May 23, 20182:30 pm - 4:00 pm
     101 Walter Library
   NOTE: The University of Minnesota Graduate School has an exchange program with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), whereby one UofM graduate student who receives a Fulbright Scholarship and wishes to study at NTNU will receive additional funding from NTNU.
   
   More information about the fellowship can be found here: Fulbright Scholars Program.
2. Dream Fund
   
   The Dream Fund is available for UMN students on any system campus and who are undocumented, under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or face a gap in immigration statue that affects their work authorization.
   
   Eligible students may apply for a grant to help with educational expenses, unexpected medical bills, or other extenuating circumstances like DACA renewal fees. Read eligibility details and how to apply . 
   If you would like materials (sample emails, web posts, flyers, etc.) to share with students you believe might have a need now or in the future, please email Holly Ziemer at hziemer@umn.edu.
3. Scholarship and Fellowships on American Women's Suffrage soon to be announced
   
   MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT TO RADCLIFFE’S SCHLESINGER LIBRARY WILL CATALYZE NEW SCHOLARSHIP ON AMERICAN WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE STILL-UNREALIZED PROMISE OF FEMALE CITIZENSHIP
   
   
   Cambridge, MA—April 17, 2018. The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has received a grant of $870,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support fellowships and public programming centered on the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment at the Schlesinger Library and the broader Radcliffe Institute.
   
   
   The Library’s ambitious Long 19th Amendment Project will investigate the past, present, and future of women’s voting and the broader reconstruction of American citizenship in the post–Civil War era.
   
   
   “Today, when American girls lead at every educational level and American women have advanced significantly in politics and public life, it’s easy to forget the radicalism of the 19th Amendment,” notes Jane Kamensky, the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger and a professor of history at Harvard.
   
   
   The 19th Amendment stated, simply: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” Enfranchising millions of women, the ratification of the amendment punctuated one of the most significant, long-lasting, and wide-ranging social movements in US history. Making the individual, rather than the household, the basic political unit of American society, it marked a significant departure from the political philosophy of the founding era.
   
   
   Yet for all its radicalism, the 19th Amendment had profound limitations. The year 1920 was hardly one of singular triumph for women of color, including those who had worked for generations to advance citizenship rights. For decades, most African American women remained disenfranchised by Jim Crow legislation at the state level. Nor could many Native American women or immigrant women of Asian descent initially exercise the franchise. The citizenship rights of those living in the growing number of US overseas territories were likewise limited. But universal suffrage was never the goal of all suffragists, some of whose tactics pitted the interests of white women against those of black men. Nor has that ideal been achieved since. In fact, numerous recent trends run in the opposite direction, which is one of many reasons that the core questions animating movements for and against women’s suffrage remain relevant.
   We continue to live with the downstream political consequences of the 19th Amendment, often in unpredictable forms. Since the 1980s, a clear if fluctuating “gender gap” has separated male and female voting patterns. Over the last ten presidential elections, women have consistently voted for Democratic presidential candidates at higher rates than men. The 2012 election created a 20-point gap: President Obama won women by 12 points and lost men by eight. Yet 2016 brought the largest voting gender gap in the half-century history of exit polls: a gender gap of 24 percent. The racial gap within the women’s vote has been even more striking. “Black women continue to drive the ‘gender gap’ in American history and politics,” notes Leah Wright Rigueur, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “And yet, their narratives, along with those of other women of color, continue to be under-analyzed. It’s vital that we explore the relationship between women and the vote, particularly at the intersection of race and gender.” That is what the Schlesinger’s Long 19th Amendment Project means to do.
   The Project’s activities will unfold over the next four years, bracketing the women’s suffrage centennial. Its components include yearlong Mellon-Schlesinger Fellowships within the Radcliffe Institute’s renowned fellowship program, summer grants for scholarly researchers and secondary school teachers, collections-intensive undergraduate courses, scholarly and public programs, and exhibitions. The Project will also create an open-access digital portal to facilitate interdisciplinary, transnational scholarship and innovative teaching on newly digitized Schlesinger Library collections along with historical databases tracking voting patterns.
   
   
   Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in Harvard’s Department of History, says that this grant will advance the Institute’s efforts to expand opportunity for women and deepen understanding about their history. Cohen explains, “Whereas Radcliffe College—the predecessor of today’s Institute—sought inclusion for women through access to education, today we work to ensure that the full spectrum of American women’s experiences is included in the historical record. Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library is an ideal incubator for research that will bring greater complexity to how we view the struggle for women’s suffrage and political empowerment more broadly. Building on the Mellon Foundation’s grant, Radcliffe will invest additional resources to expand fellowship opportunities and public programming around the unfinished business of American women’s full political participation.”
   
   
   Among the new opportunities made possible is the first Mellon-Schlesinger Fellowship at the Institute in 2018–2019, which Radcliffe will announce later this month. “The 19th Amendment capped a long movement in which coalitions of activists attempted, in the words of the Constitution, to form a more perfect union,” notes Susan Ware, the Schlesinger Library’s honorary Suffrage Centennial Historian. “Their achievement in 1920 fell short of that goal, which is all the more reason that the upcoming centennial is ripe for intervention in a broad civic conversation.”
   
   
   With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Schlesinger Library means to substantially advance both scholarly and popular understanding of a crucial problem in American public life: that the promise of female citizenship is still unrealized.
   
   
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   ABOUT THE ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH SCHLESINGER LIBRARY
   The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study documents the lives of women of the past and present for the future and furthers the Radcliffe Institute’s commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. With the finest collection of resources for research on the history of women in America, [can be read as a dangler] the Library has especially strong holdings in women’s rights and feminism, health and sexuality, work and family life, culinary history and etiquette, and education and the professions.
   
   
   ABOUT THE RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
   The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is a unique space within Harvard—a school dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across all disciplines. Each year, the Institute hosts 50 leading scholars, scientists, and artists from around the world in its renowned residential fellowship program. Radcliffe fosters innovative research collaborations and offers hundreds of public lectures, exhibitions, performances, conferences, and other events annually. The Institute is home to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, the nation’s foremost archive on the history of women, gender, and sexuality. For more information about the people and programs of the Radcliffe Institute, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
4. African American Studies Visiting Assistant Professor Position
   
   The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a one-year African American Studies Visiting Assistant Professor Position: April 27, 2018
   UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution of approximately 29,000 students and more than 3,000 faculty and staff that is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a research university with high research activity. UNLV offers a broad range of respected academic programs and is on a path to join the top tier of national public research universities. The university is committed to recruiting and retaining top students and faculty, educating the region's diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada that includes the launch of a new UNLV School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. For more information, visit us online at: http://www.unlv.edu.
   COMMITMENT to DIVERSITY
   The successful candidate will demonstrate support for diversity, equity and inclusiveness as well as participate in maintaining a respectful, positive work environment. Our department extends this commitment to diversity and equity in employment and especially welcomes applications from women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual or gender identity, and others who contribute to diversification.
   ROLE of the POSITION
   The Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies to start in August 2018. This position has a 4/4 teaching load.
   We are particularly interested in candidates who possess expertise in intersectional or interdisciplinary social scientific approaches to one or more of the following areas: black feminist theory, queer studies, educational inequality, African American history, the African diaspora, or African Americans in the US West. The successful candidate will have a PhD in Africana Studies, African American Studies or in a related social science or education field.
   The Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies is a spirited academic unit that houses Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Transnational Studies that provide students with the critical tools to be able to utilize a mode of inquiry (interdisciplinarity) that is generally not available from traditional academic disciplines. The ability of students to cross-disciplinary boundaries and negotiate epistemological differences is a critical one in the new millennium. Students can earn degrees (major) in the following areas: Multidisciplinary and Social Science Studies; Gender & Sexuality Studies; African American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Asian Studies. They can minor in: Gender & Sexuality, African American, Latin American, Asian, Latina/o, American Indian & Indigenous, or Gerontology Studies.
   QUALIFICATIONS
   This position requires a PhD in Africana Studies or in a related social science or humanities field from a regionally accredited college or university by start date August 1, 2018.
   SALARY RANGE
   Salary competitive with those at similarly situated institutions, starting at $45,000. Position is contingent on funding.
   APPLICATION DETAILS
   Submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume/CV listing qualifications and experience, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references who may be contacted. Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience, with specific reference to each of the minimum and preferred qualifications because this is the information on which the initial review of materials will be based.
   Although this position will remain open until filled, review of candidates' materials will begin immediately. Materials should be addressed to Javon Johnson, Program Director, and are to be submitted via online to millicent.fila@unlv.edu.   
5. Steven J. Schochet Endowment Call for Proposals: Development and Enhancement Grant
   
   Call for Proposals: Course Development and Enhancement Grant Steven J. Schochet Endowment
   Summer 2018
   

   The Steven J. Schochet Endowment invites proposals for the creation of new courses in queer, trans, gender, and sexuality studies, or for significant enhancement of existing courses in these fields.

   
   

   Eligibility: Graduate students enrolled during the 2018-2019 academic years are eligible to apply for funds, under supervision of faculty. Proposed courses must be a) sustainable, b) integrated into departmental curriculum and c) not replicate existing courses in other University of Minnesota departments
   
   Graduate students are encouraged to apply, but need to identify a faculty mentor who could see the course through the Electronic Course Authorization System (ECAS). The faculty mentor should be able to implement the proposed course. However, departments are strongly encouraged to provide graduate student applicants with the opportunity to implement the proposed course. The proposer’s Department Chair must endorse the proposal.
   
   Awards: Two (2) awards of $2,500 will be granted as salary for the proposer(s).
   
   Proposal: Proposals should explicitly address how this course fits within the departmental curriculum and its sustainability within the department. Proposals should not exceed 1,200 words and should include:
   1. Proposed Course Title
   2. Course description (150 words)
   3. Course credits
   4. Course Designator (if existing) or level
   5. Years/terms most frequently offered
   6. Delivery mode (online, classroom)
   7. Narrative description of how this course engages queer and sexuality studies; how the course fits within existing curriculum; a list of provisional readings and a sample assignment; and explication of course sustainability.
   8. If enhancing an existing course, provide the rationale for doing so
   
   In addition to the proposal, please submit the proposer’s CV, indication of teaching experience, and an application form signed by the faculty mentor and Department Chair.
   
   Applications due May 10, 2018. ​Send all application materials to E. Ornelas at ornelas@umn.edu. All applicants will be notified of decisions by May 31, 2018.
   
   Evaluation: Grant awardee is expected to begin appropriate measures to obtain ECAS approval for new courses and provide a 1-page report of course development progress to the Schochet Endowment Advisory Committee by October 1, 2018.
   
   See email sent April 23rd with PDF for Application Form
6. Lecturers in Women's Studies 
   
   

   DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES

   April 18, 2018

   JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Lecturers in Women’s Studies

   The Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland invites applications for

   two one-year, renewable lecturer positions to begin Fall 2018. The Department of Women’s

   Studies (http://wmst.umd.edu/) is an intellectually rich community of scholars and students. It is

   one of the oldest and most prestigious departments in the country, with a longstanding

   commitment to intersectional feminist epistemologies and social justice.

   This is a full-time, nine-month, non-tenure-track position. The Department seeks candidates with

   doctorates (or equivalents) in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, or related

   fields who have the demonstrated ability to teach women’s and gender studies courses at both the

   introductory and advanced undergraduate levels. The candidates will teach both introductory and

   upper-division undergraduate courses, as well as support curriculum development and

   innovation. Preference will be given to candidates whose teaching can contribute to the

   department’s undergraduate degree programs in LGBT studies and black women's studies and

   who can offer courses on bodies and embodiment. We are also interested in candidates with

   experience developing and teaching online courses.

   Teaching load is six courses per year (three per term), with additional non-classroom

   instructional, pedagogical, and student mentoring duties equivalent to one additional course per

   term. At the time employment begins candidates will need to show eligibility for employment in

   the U.S. The salary range will be between $50,000 and $57,000 and will be commensurate with

   qualifications. The position carries State employee benefit eligibility.

   Candidates should submit the following:

   1) a letter of application, describing candidates’ pedagogical approaches and their inclusive

   pedagogy

   2) curriculum vitae

   3) course syllabi for a 200-level course on bodies and embodiment and either a 200-level

   introduction to LGBT Studies or a 200-level introduction to Black Women’s Studies

   4) a complete set of official teaching evaluations for up to three courses

   5) three confidential letters of recommendation (along with names and contact information

   for recommenders)

   6) ABD applicants should provide evidence that the PhD will be conferred by August 1,

   2018.

    2101 Woods Hall

   College Park, MD 20742

   301.405.6877 TEL 301.314.9190 FAX

   301.405.6877 TEL 301.314.9190 FAX

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   Materials should be sent to wmst@umd.edu, attention of: Dr. Carol Stabile, Chair, 2101U

   Woods Hall, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

   20782. Please include “Lecturer Application” in the subject line. Review of applications will

   begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled.

   DIVERSITY STATEMENT

   The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer,

   complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination

   and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The

   University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not

   discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental

   disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed,

   marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the

   First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and

   admissions.

   ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

   Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship institution in the

   University System of Maryland. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from

   Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of

   power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and

   agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and nonprofit

   organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students

   enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full

   engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.

Miscellaneous

1. Imagine PhD + Versatile PhD New Websites for Grad Students
   
   The U of M supports two websites designed to help graduate students match their skills and aptitudes to an array of career pathways. Imagine PhD is a new site for career exploration and planning for the humanities and social sciences. The U of M is a founding member of the consortium supporting this effort. Versatile PhD is an online community that helps students and graduates explore non-academic and non-faculty careers for PhDs in humanities, social science and STEM.
2. Social Media Privacy
   The news about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica has increased interest in social media privacy. But the Department of Homeland Security already announced it is collecting social media data from all immigrants entering the United States. U.S. citizens who are in contact online with an immigrant or visa applicant could have their data monitored and stored as well.
   
   Last March, the State Department issued a request for comments to proposed rules seeking five years of social media information, including platforms used, account identifiers and handles, for both immigrant and nonimmigrant visa applicants.Electronic Frontier Foundation has a detailed explanation of the expansion sought by the State Department. 
   
   Read our update along with links for protecting your social media privacy, including electronic data when traveling.
3. Travel Letters for Faculty and Staff
   If you are concerned that your country of birth, citizenship or U.S. immigration status might cause difficulties re-entering the United States, we can work with you and your department to write a travel letter affirming your role at the University of Minnesota. Contact us at immigration@umn.edu. International students should contact ISSS for travel-related questions.
4. Student needs help/input for research paper
   here is the email sent from a student needed input for their research paper. If you can help their email is bweer001@umn.edu
   "Dear All,
   
   My name is Haneen Bweerat, I am an exchange student from Israel majoring in education.
   

   I am doing a research paper about the LGBT community in the Middle east in comparison to the LGBT community in the U.S. I am also trying to answer the question "Why Muslim Americans are more accepting of LGBT members than Arab Muslims?" (As recent studies have shown that the majority of Muslim Americans agree with the statement "Homosexuality should be respected").

   I searched for information about the LGBT community in the Middle East but the statistics are not reliable for many reasons.

   If you have anything that might help me finish the research proposal I would be very grateful.
   Have a great day,
   Haneen"