DePaul 2020 Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

Dates: February 18th and 19th, 2022.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, University of Illinois Chicago (https://www.liatbenmoshe.com)

We invite submissions for presentations at the DePaul University philosophy graduate student conference titled “Perspectives on Carcerality, Surveillance, Policing, and Abolition.” As Michel Foucault diagnosed, the analysis of technologies of control has become central in understanding and criticizing power and its operations. Among these technologies of power, we can find carcerality, policing, surveillance, punishment, and others. We understand the concept of carcerality, as the logic that exists before, during, and after contact with criminal justice systems, and that both shapes and justifies institutions of imprisonment. Moreover, we understand policing and surveillance broadly as practices that ensure and maintain carcerality in all of its forms and enforce it through multiple forms of punishment. This conference aims to explore critical approaches to these technologies as well as the practices of subversion that allow us to both imagine and create a post-carceral society. These practices include but are not limited to so-called sousveillance, insurrection, and abolition. We welcome proposals for 15-20 minute conference presentations from a broad range of academic approaches (in philosophy and beyond) and practical perspectives (from art to activism) to establish intersectional, inclusive, and interdisciplinary dialogues.

Possible Topics
- Carceral spaces, ethics, societies, humanitarianism, aesthetics, education, practices, etc.
- Biopower and Necropower in carcerality, policing, and surveillance
- Insurrection and uprising
- Corruption and accountability
- Criminal justice systems
- Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to questions of carcerality, policing, surveillance, abolition, and insurrection
- The police, policing, legal coercion
- Race, carcerality, policing, criminality
- Disability, mental illness, and incarceration
- Sex work and decriminalization of sex work
- Retributive and restorative justice
- Trans rights and activism
- Grace, forgiveness, revenge and other theological approaches and questions
- Pardoning and perjury
- Feminist questions of justice and care
- Community responses to injustice
- International ethics
- Redistributive, restorative, transitional, and alternative justice

- Panopticism and digital surveillance
- The architecture of carceral spaces


Location and Modality
The conference will take place on February 18th and 19th, 2022 at the DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus in Chicago, IL. We plan to hold the conference in a double in person and hybrid modality using Zoom. We encourage submissions for either of the formats. A reception will be offered on Saturday, February 19th after the conference for in-person attendees. Accommodations with DePaul graduate students will be provided according to availability.

Submission Guidelines
Please submit abstracts of maximum 250-words for single papers and 500-words for panel proposal prepared for blind review and as .docx or .pdf files to DePaulGradCon2022@gmail.com. Please include your name and institutional affiliation (if any) in the email.

Deadline for Submissions: November 28th, 2021
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 9th, 2021

Please send any questions to DePaulGradCon2022@gmail.com. Thank you for your submissions!

ICRW Accepting Applications for Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award

We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Mariam K. Chamberlain Award, honoring the legacy of a visionary leader whose contributions to the feminist and social justice movements are evident across the world. The $10,000 award ($8,500 for the student and $1,500 to the student’s advisor) will be given to a doctoral student who is the first in her or his family to pursue a Ph.D. The graduate student’s dissertation must be related to ICRW’s mission to advance gender equity, social inclusion and shared prosperity worldwide and fall within ICRW’s main thematic focus areas. The student must be enrolled at an accredited institution based in the U.S. and pursing a Ph.D. The deadline to apply is Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 11:59pm ET, and we hope to notify the recipient in late November.

 

Additional information, FAQs, and a link to the application form can be found at https://www.icrw.org/news/icrw-accepting-applications-for-2021-2022-mariam-k-chamberlain-award/

 

We would be grateful if you could share information about the award with your network. If you have any questions, please reply to this email address (awards@icrw.org).

Re-Thinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support, and Accountability

This virtual workshop is designed to start a new type of discussion about mentoring by describing the common problems that pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty members experience and why traditional mentoring programs fail to meet those needs. We propose an alternative framework for mentoring that focuses on needs assessment and shifts the idea of mentoring from a relationship between two faculty members towards building a broad network of support, community and accountability. The virtual workshop concludes with a presentation of best practices in mentoring pre-tenure, under-represented and mid-career faculty. 

Virtual Workshop Registration Form

 

Zoom Meeting Information

Topic: Virtual Workshop: University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Re-Thinking Mentoring
Time: Oct 13, 2021, 02:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83948591887?pwd=dWtYdzVKeCtHZWxUZGlnN0Fod1Budz09

Meeting ID: 839 4859 1887
Passcode: 088784

NTT Position in Transnational Feminisms - Drew University

Drew University seeks applications for a non-tenure track faculty position, beginning Fall 2022, in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program with a specialization in transnational feminisms and a disciplinary location in the social sciences preferred.  A focus on gender and health or a regional focus in Africa or Latin/South America particularly desirable.

Responsibilities:

• 3/3 teaching load. Courses will include: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies; Transnational Feminisms; as well as a choice of interdisciplinary women’s and gender studies courses or disciplinary courses.
• Participation in program activities such as lectures, student discussions, panels;
• Mentoring of majors and minors in the WGST program

 Required Education and Experience:

• PhD required at time of appointment
• Record of teaching excellence with experience in some of the relevant courses

Application:

To apply, submit the following materials.

• Cover letter
• CV
• Three letters of recommendation (recommenders should send letters to: wgst@drew.edu)
• Teaching portfolio (evaluations, teaching statement)

Please apply by October 10, 2021.  Application review will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

To apply, go to:  https://drew-university.oasisrecruit.com/job/276671/non-tenure-track-faculty-position-wgst-transnational-feminism

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science - Providence College

 Providence College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position—a joint appointment in Political Science and Women's & Gender Studies--at the assistant professor level to begin in August, 2022. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Political Science and/or Women’s and Gender Studies, embody an intersectional approach to teaching and research, and provide evidence of teaching excellence and scholarly promise. The ideal candidate will teach and have research interests that embody the intersectional lens of race, class, and gender.  

  

Annual teaching responsibilities include some combination of the following: teaching one or more of the WGS core courses (introductory and capstone courses), as well as cross-listed courses in feminist political theory, gender, and politics, and an additional course in gender in law, public policy, or political participation in the United States. The ability to teach qualitative, quantitative, and/or feminist research methods is advantageous. The course load at Providence College is three courses per semester 

  

Candidates should demonstrate a commitment to engaged learning and address how they will contribute to building a community that is attentive to gender, race, and class diversity among our students. As the student body at Providence College grows increasingly diverse, we have a strong preference for candidates who demonstrate a deep commitment to and proven ability in supporting the success of students from historically marginalized economic, racial, ethnic, social, and cultural groups.  

  

Applicants should apply online at the College’s career site, which can be found at https://careers.providence.edu and submit a cover letter, curriculum vita, teaching statement/philosophy and evidence of teaching effectiveness, graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation. For additional information, please contact Dr. Abigail Brooks (abrooks1@providence.edu) or Dr. Joe Cammarano (jpcammar@providence.edu). In order to receive full consideration, applicants must submit their materials by October 31.    

  

Providence College is a Roman Catholic four-year liberal arts institution conducted under the auspices of the Dominican Friars and seeks candidates who can affirm and contribute to its Mission. We believe that cultural and intellectual pluralism is essential to the excellence of our academic program and strive to foster an academic culture and campus community that attracts and supports the development of a stellar and diverse faculty reflecting the global environment in which we live and work. As such, a pillar of Providence College’s Strategic Plan for Diversity is to “aggressively recruit, support and retain diverse faculty.” To review the strategic plan, please https://strategic-plan.providence.edu/. An Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity employer, the College especially encourages the applications of women and persons of color. 

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management and Women’s and Gender Studies - Providence College

 The Department of Health Policy and Management and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program seek to fill a jointly appointed tenure-track faculty position to begin in August 2022. We are seeking applicants who contribute a gendered, intersectional approach to research and/or practice expertise in the areas of violence, health equity, health justice, mental health, and/or health communications. Strong preference will be given to candidates whose research and teaching interests center the AAPI community or the Asian diaspora.  

 

Teaching responsibilities would include introductory courses in and cross-lists between Health Policy and Management, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Asian Studies. There can also be opportunities to cross-list courses with Black Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, American Studies, Social Work, and Psychology as appropriate. Qualified applicants would show commitment to student-centered, interactive pedagogy and publicly engaged scholarship, as well as effective mentoring of our increasingly diverse student body.  

 

A completed doctorate or other terminal degree is required for this tenure-track appointment. 

 

Candidates who have graduate training in Women's and Gender Studies, Asian or Asian American Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Health Communications, Community Health, Mental Health, Immigration and Refugee Health, Geography, Demography, Sociology, Public Health, Public Policy, Economics, or related fields appropriate to a joint appointment in Health Policy and Management and Women’s and Gender Studies are strongly encouraged to apply. 

 

As the student body at Providence College grows increasingly diverse, we have a strong preference for candidates who demonstrate a deep commitment to and proven ability in supporting the success of students from historically marginalized economic, social, and cultural groups. Applicants should apply online at the College’s career site at https://careers.providence.edu and submit a cover letter, curriculum vita, a diversity statement documenting past and/or prospective future contributions to the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion, a teaching statement/philosophy and evidence of teaching effectiveness, a separate one-page statement outlining a vision for teaching WGS 101 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation.  

 

For additional information, please contact Dr. Abigail Brooks, Program Director, Women’s and Gender Studies, at abrooks1@providence.edu, or Dr. Deborah Levine, Department Chair, Health Policy and Management, at dlevine2@providence.edu. A review of applications will begin on November 1, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled.  A completed doctoral or other terminal degree is required for this tenure-track appointment.   

  

Providence College is a Roman Catholic four-year liberal arts institution conducted under the auspices of the Dominican Friars and seeks candidates who can affirm and contribute to its Mission. We believe that cultural and intellectual pluralism is essential to the excellence of our academic program, and strive to foster an academic culture and campus community that attracts and supports the development of a stellar and diverse faculty reflecting the global environment in which we live and work. As such, a pillar of Providence College’s Strategic Plan for Diversity is to “aggressively recruit, support and retain diverse faculty.” To review the strategic plan, please visit https://strategic-plan.providence.edu/. An Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity employer, the College especially encourages the applications of women and persons of color.  

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies (Social Scientific Approaches) - NorthwesternUniversity

Application Deadline: November 29, 2021

The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications for two two-year postdoctoral fellowships in Sexuality Studies, to run from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. Applications are welcome from scholars who study sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed). Each Fellow’s appointment will be a joint one: in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and in another department relevant to the Fellow’s research interests. We are particularly interested in candidates who could affiliate with one of the following participating departments: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Communication Studies, History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, or Sociology. That is, the Fellow must have relevant expertise in both Sexuality Studies and one of these other disciplines, and must be prepared to teach courses that reflect that combined expertise. Fellows will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty mentor and will teach two undergraduate courses (typically one seminar and one lecture course) over the course of each year. Northwestern is on the quarter system by which the Fellows’ two courses will be distributed across three academic quarters. Fellows will also be expected to be active participants in SPAN’s community of faculty and graduate students and, as applicable, in their affiliated department by attending talks and events, and by giving a public talk once each year. Finally, they will assist in the organization of on-campus educational activities such as the annual SPAN workshop. We currently anticipate that the Fellows will be expected to be in residence for each of the academic years of their appointment. It is also anticipated that all teaching will be conducted in person.

All application materials other than letters of recommendation must be received by 11:59 pm on November 29, 2021. The initial letter of recommendation is due no later than December 6, 2021. Given that your reference will not receive submission instructions until you submit your completed application, we urge you to submit your application well before the deadline.

Important additional information including salary, qualifications, FAQs, and submission instructions can be found on our website at: http://www.sexualities.northwestern.edu/funding-opportunities/postdoc-applications/.

Administrative questions not addressed on the webpage should be directed to Cassilyn Ostrander at sexualities@northwestern.edu. Substantive questions not addressed on the webpage may be sent to the Co-Directors of SPAN, Héctor Carrillo (hector@northwestern.edu) and Gregory Ward (gw@northwestern.edu). For more information about Programs and Departments at Northwestern, visit: https://offices.northwestern.edu/browse/A/academic.

DISCO Network Mellon Fellowship - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Digital Studies Institute

The DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network Mellon Fellowship will address vital topics such as racial and gender inequality, histories of exclusion, disability justice and techno-ableism, and digital racial politics within the academy and beyond. In collaboration with the Mellon Foundation, this position is part of a seven-person fellowship cluster hiring effort across a consortium of five universities.

DUE OCTOBER 18TH

The full-time rate (FTR) is $75,000/12 months with benefits (plus $5,000/year allocation for research expense reimbursement). Please note that different universities have different fellowship terms, offering either a 1-year fellowship or 2-year fellowship term. The start and end dates of the fellowships vary and are dependent on the individual university's academic year calendar. 
The following universities are currently accepting fellowship applications:
 
1.The Humanities and Technoscience (HAT) Lab Fellowship at Purdue University (1-year fellowship):
For the 2022-2023 academic year, we seek a postdoctoral fellow who will contribute to DISCO and the HAT lab by identifying and developing curricular and research opportunities that bridge and connect the humanities, the arts, engineering, and social sciences. The fellow is expected to build a research agenda based on their individualized scholarly work. As the HAT lab will focus on a studio-based curricular and research model, we are interested in a fellow whose research broadly engages design and material culture. We seek a fellow whose expertise connects with one or more of the following subject areas: American Studies, Design Studies, Material Culture Studies, or Science and Technology Studies with a focus on communities of difference (race, gender, sexuality). 
Fellow’s Activities: 
Attend DISCO bi-weekly network meetings.
Develop an individualized research program.
Create scholarly programming that supports the research agenda of the HAT lab.
Contribute to curricular and writing projects, including a cross-institutional, collaboratively-designed curricula.
Organize a series of meetings with local stakeholders, academic units, and peers to identify appropriate partners for project-based learning opportunities.
Annually teach or co-teach a variable-credit course related to the HAT lab research agenda.  This course may be offered remotely. 
Serve on relevant HAT lab and DISCO committees.
 
2. The Black Communication and Technology Lab (BCaT) Lab Fellowship at the University of Maryland (1-year fellowship):
For the 2022-2023 academic year, we seek a postdoctoral fellow who will contribute to DISCO, the BCaT lab, and the department of Communication at the University of Maryland by helping to build a cohort approach to recruitment, training, and mentoring that ushers students from undergraduate programs to research in race and technology. As the BCaT lab will develop a pipeline program model that introduces undergraduates to digital research through workshops and coursework, helps students navigate graduate research, and creates a mentoring network for students to navigate Black Digital Studies within the humanities, we are interested in a fellow who can contribute to the building of a prototype for recruiting and sustaining a new generation of scholars in Digital Studies. We seek a fellow with expertise and a terminal degree in the field of Communication or a related field with a focus on race, African American history/culture, Black diasporic history/culture, Black Digital Humanities, and/or Black Studies. 
Fellow’s Activities:
Attend DISCO bi-weekly network meetings.
Develop an individualized research program.
Create scholarly programming that supports the research agenda of the BCaT lab.
Develop one course/year (undergrad or grad) to be shared with partner institutions.
Work with the director to develop undergraduate mentoring/writing sessions. 
Help design workshops for public high school programs in Digital Studies.
Present research at one colloquium per year.
Attend 1-2 workshops per semester for graduate students/early career scholars. 
 
3. The Digital Accessible Futures (Digital AF) Lab Fellowship at the University of Michigan (2-year fellowship):
For the 2022-2024 academic years, we seek a postdoctoral fellow who specializes in the areas of disability justice, critical access studies, and digital studies. Candidates specializing in critiques of techno-ableism and techno-normativity, histories of digital access as they relate to disabled users, digital networks of care post and pre-COVID-19, data regimes and the resurgence of crip wisdom, intersectional approaches to disability and technology that include sexuality, race, class, and other aspects of identity are especially welcome. This is an interdisciplinary position and candidates may have earned Ph.D.’s in a variety of disciplines.
Fellow’s Activities: 
Attend DISCO bi-weekly network meetings.
Develop an individualized research program.
Create scholarly programming that supports the research agenda of the DISCO Network, including collaboration on remote access charettes.
Contribute to curricular and writing projects, including a cross-institutional, collaboratively-designed curricula.
Organize a series of meetings with local stakeholders, academic units, and peers to identify appropriate partners for network building and resource mapping.
Annually teach or co-teach a variable-credit course related to the U-M Initiative in Disability Studies (UMInDS).
Serve on relevant DISCO and U-M disability-related committees.
 
4. The DISCO Network Fellowship at the University of Michigan (2-year fellowship):
For the 2022-2024 academic years, we seek a postdoctoral fellow who specializes in the areas of digital culture and technology with a special focus on race, ethnic studies, gender studies, disability, nationality, etc. Candidates with experience network building, doing policy work, engaging in activist networks, or other forms of outreach and organizing are encouraged to apply.  Duties will include developing the DISCO Network’s national and international intellectual community, resource mapping, convening stakeholders and scholars working on digital equity across a range of contexts, programming events and regular meetings to coalesce the network’s activities, and envisioning more equitable digital futures. This is an interdisciplinary position and candidates may have earned Ph.D.’s in a variety of disciplines.
Fellow’s Activities: 
Attend DISCO bi-weekly network meetings.
Develop an individualized research program.
Create scholarly programming that supports the research agenda of the DISCO Network.
Contribute to curricular and writing projects, including a cross-institutional, collaboratively-designed curricula.
Organize a series of meetings with local stakeholders, academic units, and peers to identify appropriate partners for network building and resource mapping.
Serve on relevant DISCO committees.
 
5. DISCO Curriculum Development Fellowship at the University of Michigan (2-year fellowship):
For the 2022-2024 academic years, we seek a postdoctoral fellow who specializes in the areas of race and digital culture with a special emphasis on platform or infrastructure studies, game studies, anti-racist social movements, artificial intelligence and racial misrecognition, and other emergent racio-social formations. Candidates specializing in Black or indigenous digital studies are especially encouraged to apply. Duties will include building the DISCO Network’s intellectual community, collaborating on a new anti-racist curriculum for undergraduate students inside and beyond the liberal arts, teaching one course per semester in that curriculum, and/or producing new research for a public audience informed by critical race theory and technology studies.  Evidence of teaching excellence and innovation required. This is an interdisciplinary position and candidates may have earned Ph.D.’s in a variety of disciplines.
Fellow’s Activities: 
Attend DISCO bi-weekly network meetings.
Develop an individualized research program.
Create scholarly programming that supports the research agenda of the DISCO Network.
Contribute to curricular and writing projects, including a cross-institutional, collaboratively-designed curricula.
Organize a series of meetings with local stakeholders, academic units, and peers to identify appropriate partners for project-based learning opportunities.
Annually teach or co-teach a variable-credit course related to the research agenda. 
Serve on relevant DISCO committees.

Qualifications
Ph.D. completed in a related discipline by Sept. 1, 2022.
Application Instructions
Applications received before Oct. 18, 2021 will be guaranteed consideration, but they will continue to be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled.
Please submit the following documents to 

INTERFOLIO:

1) A cover letter addressing the relationship of your academic work and research interests to fields specified in the fellowship description;
2) Current CV;
3) Writing sample (1-20 pages);
4) Statement of research (1-2 pages);
5) Teaching Portfolio detailing teaching statement and evidence of teaching experience and effectiveness (1-2 pages);
6) Three letters of recommendation;
7) A list specifying which fellowship positions you would like to be considered for if applying to more than one fellowship position.