Fwd: [nativestudies-l] Fellowship: AIS dissertation writing fellowship at Yale, 2013-14

[Claire Bowern]

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Subject: [nativestudies-l] Fellowship: AIS dissertation writing fellowship
at Yale, 2013-14
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 *American Indian Studies Dissertation Writing
Fellowship<http://erm.yale.edu/fellowships-opportunity>
*

*Yale University *

*2013-2014*

** **

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Howard
R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and
Borders<http://www.yale.edu/lamarcenter/>and the Ethnicity,
Race, and Migration Program <http://erm.yale.edu/> invite applications for
the 2013 *Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American
Indian and Indigenous Studies*. 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. ****

** **

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.  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.  This survey,
presented to Congress in 1928, helped to set in motion many of the
subsequent reforms of the Indian New Deal.****

** **

The Fellowship will support a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for
the academic year, beginning August 1, 2013 and ending July 31, 2014.  Graduate
students working towards careers in higher education who have completed all
doctoral requirements but the dissertation are invited to apply.  The
expectation is that the dissertation will be completed during the
fellowship year.  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.****

 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:
http://aisresources.commons.yale.edu/****

** **

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. ****

** **
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.
Applications<http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2437>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 *application deadline is March 22,
2013*. For further information write to:
RoeCloud.Fellowship at yale.edu<https://www.mail.yale.edu/services/go.php?url=mailto%3ARoeCloud.Fellowship%40yale.edu>
.


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