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Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:03 PM<br>Subject: [nativestudies-l] Fellowship: AIS dissertation writing fellowship at Yale, 2013-14<br>To: <a href="mailto:nativestudies-l@mailman.yale.edu">nativestudies-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><a href="http://erm.yale.edu/fellowships-opportunity" target="_blank">American
Indian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship</a><u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b>Yale University <u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b>2013-2014<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">The Yale Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences in
conjunction with the <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lamarcenter/" target="_blank">Howard
R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and
Borders</a> and the <a href="http://erm.yale.edu/" target="_blank">Ethnicity,
Race, and Migration Program</a> invite applications for
the 2013 <b>Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in
American Indian and
Indigenous Studies</b>. The Roe Cloud Fellowship is intended to
develop American
Indian Studies at Yale and by extension throughout the academy by
facilitating
the completion of the doctorate by scholars working on pressing
issues related
to the American Indian experience. Scholars working on topics in
Indigenous
Studies that relate to the study of North American Indians are
also encouraged
to apply. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">The Henry Roe Cloud
Fellowship honors the legacy of Henry Roe Cloud, a member of the
Winnebago
Nation of Nebraska and graduate of Yale College, 1910.<span> </span>A tireless critic of federal
Indian
assimilation programs and a proponent of increased educational
opportunities
for American Indians, Roe Cloud transformed American Indian higher
education
through his leadership of the Society of American Indians, his
founding of the
American Indian Institute, and as co-author of “The Problem of
Indian
Administration,” commonly known as “The Meriam Report,” an
extensive survey
made at the request of Secretary of the Interior that detailed the
appalling
failures of federal Indian policy in the early twentieth century.<span> </span>This survey, presented to
Congress in 1928,
helped to set in motion many of the subsequent reforms of the
Indian New Deal.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">The Fellowship will support a graduate
scholar in any
doctoral field for the academic year, beginning August 1, 2013 and
ending July
31, 2014.<span> </span>Graduate
students working
towards careers in higher education who have completed all
doctoral
requirements but the dissertation are invited to apply.<span> </span>The expectation is that the
dissertation will
be completed during the fellowship year.<span>
</span>The criteria for selection will be based solely on an
assessment of the
quality of the candidate’s work and the project’s overall
significance for the
study of American Indian and Indigenous Studies.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">The Roe Cloud Fellowship will provide
support
comparable to that for Yale University graduate students,
including an annual
stipend of $27,300, full access to Yale facilities and services,
and health
care coverage. The fellow will work in close affiliation with the
Ethnicity,
Race, and Migration Postdoctoral Program and have access to Yale’s
exceptional
research libraries. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
in addition
to its premier collection of Western Americana, also holds the
papers of many
important American Indian writers, including Joseph Bruchac,
Leslie Marmon
Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch, as well as those of
important policy
makers such as Felix Cohen and Richard Henry Pratt. Manuscripts
and Archives at
Sterling Memorial Library holds the papers of John Collier and
Henry Roe Cloud,
while the Lewis Walpole Library hosts the Yale Indian Papers
Project, which
provides comprehensive primary sources written for, by, and about
New England
Indians. For an overview of American Indian studies resources at
Yale, please
visit the internet portal: <a href="http://aisresources.commons.yale.edu/" target="_blank">http://aisresources.commons.yale.edu/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">The Roe Cloud Fellow will also have the
opportunity
to participate in the activities of the Howard R. Lamar Center for
the Study of
Frontiers and Borders, the Native American Cultural Center, the
Ethnicity,
Race, and Migration Program, and the Yale Group for the Study of
Native America
(YGSNA), which was formed in 2003 to bring together the
intellectual community
at Yale working in the area of Native American Studies. Yale
student, staff,
and faculty members are also increasingly active in regional and
national
Indian Studies networks. Additionally, the state and
federally-recognized
Indian Nations of Connecticut maintain museums, archives, and
research centers,
and host community events that draw regional, national, as well as
international visitors. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<span>Each fellow will be mentored by a
professor drawn from
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and will be responsible for
making a formal
presentation of the project during the academic year, an event
open to all
interested members of the campus community. <a href="http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2437" target="_blank">Applications</a>
must include a c.v.,
the dissertation prospectus, a writing sample of approximately 25
pages drawn
from the dissertation, a cover letter describing plans to complete
the
dissertation during the fellowship period, as well as three
letters of
recommendation, including one from the candidate’s dissertation
advisor. The <b>application
deadline is March 22, 2013</b>. For further information write
to: <a href="https://www.mail.yale.edu/services/go.php?url=mailto%3ARoeCloud.Fellowship%40yale.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">RoeCloud.Fellowship@yale.edu</span></a>.<br>
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