22.3621, Jobs: Lang Acq; Various Langs: Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University

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Date: 15-Sep-2011
From: Administrator, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships [hssdean at andrew.cmu.edu]
Subject: Language Acquisition; Various Languages: Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
 

	
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:40:18
From: Administrator, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships [hssdean at andrew.cmu.edu]
Subject: Language Acquisition; Various Languages: Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

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University or Organization: Carnegie Mellon University 
Department: Modern Languages
Job Location: Pennsylvania, USA 
Web Address: http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/ml/
Job Rank: Post Doc  

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish


Description:

Carnegie Mellon University, with the generous support of the Andrew W. 
Mellon Foundation, is pleased to accept applications for two A.W. Mellon 
Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities for the 2012-2014 academic 
years. These fellowships are designed to foster the academic careers of 
scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them 
to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and 
members of one of Carnegie Mellon's four humanities departments (English, 
History, Modern Languages, and Philosophy) in which they will be housed.

The Department of Modern Languages is particularly interested in candidates 
whose research focuses on an area of Second Language Acquisition (e.g. 
literacy development, social or cognitive dimensions of second language 
learning, contexts of second language learning, cultural dimensions of 
language acquisition, technology-enhanced learning, language assessment) 
and has native or near-native proficiency in one or more of the areas of 
language and cultural studies offered in the Department (Arabic, Chinese, 
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish).

Terms of Appointment:
Fellows will teach two courses in their home department(s) in each year of 
their residency. They will have the opportunity to teach in their existing areas 
of expertise to prepare themselves for a competitive academic job market. 
Fellows will be encouraged to take part in the many cross-departmental 
colloquia, conferences, or seminars though the university's Humanities 
Center, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the undergraduate Humanities 
Scholars Program.

A 2012-2014 Fellow will receive an annual stipend of $50,000 plus benefits, 
an annual research allowance of $2,500, and, for the first year of the 
appointment, three summer months salary.
 
Application and Selection Process:
Applicants for the 2012-2014 fellowships must have completed a Ph.D. no 
earlier than January 1, 2010. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but 
expect to by June 30, 2012 should supply a letter from their home institution 
corroborating such a schedule.

Applications for the 2012-2014 fellowships must be received in the 
Administrator's office by November 15, 2011. Incomplete dossiers will not be 
reviewed. Candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, personal statement 
(of no longer than 2000 words) outlining their complete research (including 
dissertation), work in progress, professional goals and plans for publication, 
proposed major field(s) of teaching, and the Carnegie Mellon department in 
which you would want to be based, and three letters of reference. (Note: 
reference letters may be sent with the candidate's application materials in 
sealed signed envelopes or directly by the referees.)

Fellowship applications and departmental requests to house a fellow will be 
evaluated by Carnegie Mellon's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Advisory 
Committee, in consultation with the Dean and Associate Dean of the Dietrich 
College of Humanities & Social Sciences. Strong fellowship applications will 
be circulated to relevant departments.

Should you have questions, please direct them to the contact email address 
below.

All application materials and other correspondence should be addressed to 
the application address below.


Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 
Mailing Address for Applications: 
	Administrator, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 
	Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences 
	Office of the Dean, Carnegie Mellon University 
	Baker Hall 154 5000 Forbes Avenue 
	Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
	USA  
Contact Information:
	Administrator, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 
	Email: hssdean at andrew.cmu.edu 






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