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Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies

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The UC Davis Graduate Group in Cultural Studies is pleased to announce a two-year Visiting Assistant Professorship for 2016-2018 in Comparative Border Studies supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Applicants should be specialists in research on one or more border zones, especially those of the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. We are interested in promoting comparative and transnational research so these perspectives are preferred, but not required. The specific field is open, but an interdisciplinary orientation in the humanities and/or arts is preferred.

Our new three-year Mellon Research Initiative in Comparative Border Studies focuses on the making, unmaking, crossing, and fortification of borders—national, regional, colonial--and aims to rethink notions of border crossing as well as containment within different regional studies contexts as a result of transregional, comparative dialogue (see http://borderstudies.ucdavis.edu/).

The initiative is organized around three major themes: 1) human rights, citizenship and racialized belonging; 2) mobility, militarization and containment; 3) protest cultures and transnational solidarities. Research interest in one or more of these areas is preferred. We will consider junior scholars including recent PhDs (awarded between 2013-2016) and ABDs (the degree must be completed by July 1, 2016).

The Mellon/ACLS Visiting Assistant Professor will participate in the activities of the Mellon Research Initiative in Comparative Border Studies. Duties include teaching three courses per year (graduate as well as undergraduate) related to border studies, and serving as co-organizer of conferences, colloquia, and other events as well as participating in dialogues involving faculty and graduate students. Ability to teach graduate seminars in the field of Cultural Studies is a plus. The appointment will be housed in an appropriate department or program in the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, in accordance with the background of the successful applicant.

The Mellon/ACLS Visiting Assistant Professor will receive an annual stipend of $57,600, plus health benefits, research funding, and relocation funds.

To apply, please send a letter of interest, CV, and contact information for three (3) references (we do NOT accept letters via Interfolio) through the online application system. For full consideration applications must be received by January 15, 2016. The position is open until filled.

The University of California is an equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff.

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