Funded Fellowship - Davis Center at Harvard

[Davis Center Fellowship Program]

The Davis Center is pleased to announce a new Fellows Program for 2011-2012.
The Fellows Program will bring together scholars at early and later stages
in their careers to consider a common theme spanning the social sciences and
humanities.  The Program will be coordinated by faculty from across Harvard
University whose research interests include aspects of the selected theme.
In 2011-2012, the Fellows Program will be coordinated by Professors Terry
Martin (History), William Mills Todd III (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
and Rawi Abdelal (Harvard Business School).

 

The theme for 2011-2012 is "Informing Eurasia: Informational Approaches to
Eurasian Cultures, Politics and Societies." Eurasian studies currently has
no sub-field of "Information Studies," but historians, literary critics, and
social scientists working on Eurasia have recently produced novel work on
surveillance, the social construction of collective identities,
autobiographical and documentary self-fashioning, horizontal and vertical
communication (rumors, petitions, denunciation), political policing,
censorship and Aesopian strategies, the construction of economic and
political data, and the impact of such information on political and economic
decision-making. The Davis Center invites scholars working on, or interested
in pursuing, such informational approaches to Eurasia to apply to our
Fellows program.

 

In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will participate in a
bi-weekly interdisciplinary seminar series that will explore informational
approaches to Eurasian studies. Papers will be presented by the visiting
Fellows, Harvard faculty, and invited outside speakers. For more detailed
information on the fellows program, and opportunities to apply for
postdoctoral and senior fellowships, visit the Davis Center web site
<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/ or
consult the text below. Additionally, the Davis Center will be hosting an
online question and answer session on December 15 from 12-2 p.m. Details
will be posted on the Davis Center website by the middle of November.

 

Note that scholars whose work does not address the selected theme are
encouraged to apply for fellowships at the Davis Center, and that their
applications will receive full consideration.

 

Please forward this message to any colleagues or advanced graduate students
who may be interested. 

 

 

 

 

 


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------