Visiting Research Scholar - Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University

[Laura M. Ahearn]

(Apologies for cross-listing)

Please see the Princeton research scholar announcement below -- the 
position would be perfect for junior linguistic anthropologists or 
linguistic ethnographers from around the world.

Laura

  
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Laura M. Ahearn
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
131 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
http://www.anthro.rutgers.edu/fac/department-undergrad-a-grad-faculty/laura-ahearn

Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340563

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Visiting Research Scholar - Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton 
University

Princeton University is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Fung 
Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and 
Regional Studies (PIIRS). Each year the Program will select six scholars 
from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for an academic 
year and to engage in research and discussion around a common theme. 
Fellowships are to be awarded to scholars employed outside the United 
States who are expected to return to their positions, and who have 
demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual 
intellectual promise but who are still early in their careers.

During the academic year 2013/14, the theme for the Fung Global Fellows 
Program will be "Languages and Authority." The Fellows and the 
accompanying seminar program will focus on how languages interact with 
political, social, economic, and cultural authority. Languages can be 
powerful tools for expressing and asserting authority. Yet they also 
constitute forms of authority in and of themselves (such as in the 
standardization and uniformity that they impose). Languages as forms of 
authority are also contested, and language communities have often formed 
a basis for resisting authority. Possible topics for this cycle of the 
fellows program include the ways in which languages and language use 
interact with globalization, empire, decolonization, nation-state 
formation, nationalism, language policy, language ideology, social 
stratification, migration, commerce and trade, social and religious 
movements, and the sociology of knowledge production.

NOTES:     6 openings. Employer will assist with relocation costs.
Additional Salary Information: Within the limits of its resources, it is 
the intent of the program to provide a salary that equals the normal 
salary paid to a fellow at his or her home institution. In cases where 
the fellow's base salary scale is significantly below the norm, salaries 
may be adjusted upward to compensate.
The following information is provided by the employer in accordance with 
AAA policy. AAA is not responsible for verifying the accuracy of these 
statements. They are not part of the actual position description 
submitted for publication by the employer.

This employer does prohibit discrimination based on sexual 
orientation/preference.

This employer does prohibit discrimination based on gender 
identity/expression.

This employer offers health insurance benefits to eligible same and 
opposite-sex domestic partners.

This employer does not appear on the AAUP list of censured institutions.


Applications are due on November 1, 2012. We encourage applications from 
both social scientists and humanists concerning any region of the world 
or time period. To be eligible, applicants must have received their 
Ph.D. (or equivalent) no earlier than September 1, 2003. Fellowships 
will be awarded on the strength of a candidate's proposed research 
project, the relationship of the project to the Program's theme, the 
candidate's scholarly record, and the candidate's ability to contribute 
to the intellectual life of the Program. For more information on 
eligibility requirements and the application process itself, see the 
Program's website at http://www.princeton.edu/funggfp/

Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with 
applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations.


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Laura M. Ahearn
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
131 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
http://www.anthro.rutgers.edu/fac/department-undergrad-a-grad-faculty/laura-ahearn

Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340563