Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program 2010 At USA
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program Provides Selected Colleges As Partial Support At USA In 2010
Study Subject: Asian Studies
Employer:ASIA Network
Level: Postdoctoral
Fellowship Description:
ASIANetwork will provide $30,000 to each of the selected colleges as partial support for the hiring of the teaching fellow and $1,000 to support the fellow’s mentor/coordinator. The host college will follow its own search and employment procedures within the context of program guidelines provided by ASIANetwork. During the year of participation in the Program, the host college will designate a faculty mentor to work with the teaching fellow and will arrange various professional development opportunities. ASIANetwork will provide each teaching fellow with a travel allowance to attend the ASIANetwork annual conference. The teaching fellow will teach a half-time course load, attend departmental and college faculty meetings, keep office hours, mentor students, and continue to pursue research and/or other scholarly projects. With allowances for the academicdiscipline, area of regional specialty, and the needs of the host college, the teaching fellow should be encouraged to teach comparatively about Asia.Eligibility:
Only U.S. ASIANetwork member colleges and universities are eligible. Please visit our membership benefits page for information on how to join ASIANetwork. Colleges must be members of ASIANetwork for one year prior to making application for a grant. Applicants for the 2011-12 program must have joined ASIANetwork prior to January 1, 2010. Previous recipients of an ASIANetwork – Luce Teaching Fellow grant are not eligible
Program Objectives:
1. Advance the primary mission of ASIANetwork to support teaching about Asia at our member colleges by bringing recent recipients of doctoral or terminal graduate degrees with Asian specializations to member campuses to enrich Asian Studies programs through teaching and interacting with students, collaborating with faculty, enhancing the curriculum, and participating in the intellectual and cultural life of the host college.
2. Mentor young Asianists as liberal arts college faculty members by immersing them in the teaching life of a host college. ASIANetwork faculty members are distinguished by their commitment to teaching. The Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Program will allow them to share their passion for teaching with a younger generation of scholars. The postdoctoral fellowship offers the teaching fellows an opportunity to gain valuable teaching experience that will strengthen their career options.
Selection Criteria:
Among many criteria, the Selection Committee will pay special attention to the applicant college’s programs and needs in Asian Studies, opportunities for the teaching fellow, and potential for building on the fellow’s contribution to curriculum development in subsequent years. For institutions that have previously received grants from ASIANetwork, the implementation and reporting of the prior grant(s) will be considered.
Host College Responsibilities:
The Teaching Fellow is hired and compensated by the host college through partial funding provided by the ASIANetwork – Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Program
• Set up a search process following host college procedures and Program guidelines and expectations
o The host college is encouraged to define the position broadly in order to reach out to a large pool of potential candidates; for instance, a position in ethnomusicology with any Asian expertise or a position in Japanese Studies without a disciplinary designation is preferable to an historian of Japan or a sociologist of China.
o The application deadline should be no earlier than Feb. 15, 2011, and should include a statement indicating that applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For instance, “Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2011, and continue until the position is filled.”
o Possible places to advertise include:
? Chronicle of Higher Education
? Association for Asian Studies
? H-Net (web)
? Higheredjobs.com (web)
? Insidehighered.com (web)
? Professional organizations in the discipline
? Individual mailings to research universities and college alumni
o ASIANetwork also plans to advertise the 4 positions in a variety of ways. Some ads will be generic without reference to the specific positions; others will include a brief description of each of the 4 positions. These ads will direct potential applicants to a page on the AN website that will include the position description of each of the 4 positions along with links to the individual campus’s position posting and contact person.
Last Date To Apply:November 1 2010
Source:http://www.asianetwork.org/programs/luce/teaching_fellows_2011/program.pdf
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