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Call for Applicants: Mellon Assistant Professor in Residence at UCLA
The Mellon-funded interdisciplinary program Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Residence for a 2-year term beginning in the fall of 2010. The successful candidate must have earned a doctoral degree no earlier than January 2004 and no later than June 2010. He/she will have competence in at least one western (Catalan, French, Italian, Latin, etc.) and one eastern (Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish) Mediterranean language, although other combinations of areas of expertise will be considered. The program’s focal point has extended from 900 to 1700, but we especially encourage applications on topics in the period from year 1000 to 1500. Its ultimate objective has been to help transform the way in which the humanities are taught at UCLA, by using the methodology of the Mediterranean (instead of in the Mediterranean) and by emphasizing transdisciplinarity beyond the traditional national, cultural, geographic and disciplinary categories that have dominated scholarly discourses regarding the development of society, culture, human relations and institutions in Europe, Africa and the Near East. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/mediterranean.html
The Mellon Assistant Professor in Residence position carries a salary of $53,000 a year, standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of $1,500, plus a research budget of $2,000. The Assistant Professor will be housed in Comparative Literature and, if appropriate, in another relevant home department for which he/she will teach two courses per academic year. The Assistant Professor is required to be in residence and to participate in the Mellon Mediterranean Studies Seminar, the scholarly activities of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, as well as the on-going intellectual life of his/her home department(s).
Applicants should send a cover letter, a description (no more than 1500 words) of the scholarly project relevant to the program, a CV, a writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and three letters of recommendation by March 15, 2010 to:
Professor Zrinka Stahuljak
c/o Comparative Literature
Mellon Mediterranean Studies Search Committee
361 Humanities Building
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7233
USA
UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
The Mellon Assistant Professor in Residence position carries a salary of $53,000 a year, standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of $1,500, plus a research budget of $2,000. The Assistant Professor will be housed in Comparative Literature and, if appropriate, in another relevant home department for which he/she will teach two courses per academic year. The Assistant Professor is required to be in residence and to participate in the Mellon Mediterranean Studies Seminar, the scholarly activities of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, as well as the on-going intellectual life of his/her home department(s).
Applicants should send a cover letter, a description (no more than 1500 words) of the scholarly project relevant to the program, a CV, a writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and three letters of recommendation by March 15, 2010 to:
Professor Zrinka Stahuljak
c/o Comparative Literature
Mellon Mediterranean Studies Search Committee
361 Humanities Building
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7233
USA
UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.