The Animals and Society Institute and Wesleyan Animal Studies invites applications for the sixth annual summer fellowship program for scholars pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies.
This interdisciplinary program enables 6-8 fellows to pursue research in residence at Wesleyan University at the College of the Environment. Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut is a selective private, coeducational, non-sectarian school of liberal arts and sciences known for the excellence of its academic and co-curricular programs. Wesleyan’s College of the Environment was created in 2009 with a belief in the resilience of the human spirit and a desire to engage students and scholars in discussions about environmental issues and their social and political impact.
The fellowship is hosted by Wesleyan faculty Lori Gruen and Kari Weil. Gruen is Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Environmental Studies, and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan, and author of Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011). Weil is a University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan, and author of Thinking Animals: An Introduction (Columbia, 2012).
The fellowship is designed to support recipients’ individual research through mentorship, guest lectures, and scholarly exchange among fellows and opportunities to contribute to the intellectual life of the host institution. All fellows must be in continuous residence for the duration of the program, May 29 – July 6.
The fellowships are open to scholars from any discipline investigating a topic related to human-animal relationships. Selected topics from previous years’ programs include:
Analyzing one County’s Attempt to go “No Kill”
Animal Ethics in Cold War Literary Culture
Animal Experimentation and Animal Welfare in Twentieth Century Anglo-American Science
Animal Research in Theory and Practice
Animals and Colonialism
Cloning Extinct Species of Mammals
Ethics and Politics in Environmental Discourse in India
Gender Relations in Cattle Ranching
Genetically Engineered Pigs
Human Animal Relationships at the Duke Lemur Center
Inter-species Identity and Alterity in a Video Game
Legal Personhood, Animal Advocacy, and Human-Animal Relationships
Literary Representations of Dogs
Media Representations of the 2007 Pet Food Recall
Science and Policies Affecting Elephants in Captivity
The Animal Rights Movements in France and the United States
The Human-Animal Relationship for Veterinary Students
Victorian Quaker Women’s Contributions to Feminist-Animal Ethics
Xenotransplantation and Black Market Organs
Application deadline: November 30, 2011
Amount of Award
Scholars selected to participate in the fellowship program will be awarded a stipend of $3,000 to help cover travel costs, housing, living expenses, books and other research expenses. The fellowship does not pay for housing; fellows will be responsible for finding, and paying for, their own housing.
Eligibility
Applicants must (1) possess a Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W. or equivalent, or be a doctoral student at the dissertation stage; (2) have a commitment to advancing research in Human-Animal Studies; (3) be actively engaged, during the fellowship program, in a research project that culminates in a journal article, book, or other scholarly presentation; (4), be far enough along in the project that it will truly benefit from a concentrated period of work conducted on the Wesleyan campus; and (5) submit a follow-up report six months after the fellowship’s completion. Applications are encouraged from the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences, as long as a part of the project is explicitly dealing with the human-animal relationship in one form or another.
Application
Applicants should email electronic copies of the following items to fellowshipapplication@animalsandsociety.org:
Cover sheet with the applicant’s name, mailing address to be used for future correspondence, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, present rank and institution name, date Ph.D. or J.D. or M.S.W. received or expected, citizenship status, title of project, history of fellowships and grants received during the past five years.
One paragraph abstract
Project proposal of up to three pages (single-spaced) that describes the project and indicates work completed on the project to date. As the description will be considered by a panel of scholars from a variety of disciplines, it should be written for non-specialists.
Project proposal should include clear details about how far the applicant is along in the project, and what part of the project the applicant expects to accomplish during the course of the fellowship
Your proposal should also include answers to some of these questions: does your work have policy implications and if so, what are they? Does your work inform your teaching or how might it be integrated into coursework? How does your work contribute to the field of human-animal studies generally and to the animal question in your own field?
Curriculum vitae of up to three pages.
Two letters of recommendation (pdfs of original letters recommended)
Applicants are responsible for contacting referees and supplying them with a description of the project.
Selection Process
The selection committee includes members from a range of disciplines connected to Human-Animal Studies.
Applications are evaluated on the basis of how their completed project will contribute to Human-Animal Studies, the qualifications of the applicant to complete the research, and how well the applicant’s project complements the other projects. Fellows should expect a diversity of approaches, projects, and commitments to animal welfare when at the fellowship.
Applicants will be notified by e-mail and letter January 2012.
The fellowship program is directed by Ken Shapiro, Executive Director of Animals and Society Institute, Margo DeMello, Program Director, Human Animal Studies Program, and Wesleyan professors Lori Gruen, and Kari Weil.
Please address all correspondence to us at the following address:
Committee on Fellowships
Animals & Society Institute
403 McCauley StreetWashington Grove MD 20880
fellowshipapplication@animalsandsociety.org
(301) 963-4751
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/
Margo DeMello
Program Director, Human-Animal Studies
Animals and Society Institute
2512 Carpenter Rd, Suite 202A
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
(734) 677-9240
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/
www.facebook.com/AnimalsandSocietyInstitute
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