2015
13th Cadbury Fellowship Scheme 2016: Bodies of Text: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa
The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham invites applications for the 2016 Cadbury Fellowship Scheme, which focuses on ‘Bodies of Text: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa’.
Three or more visiting fellows from Africa will be appointed to participate in a ten-week schedule of seminars, discussion groups, and other activities. One aim of the scheme is to assist new scholars to develop a research paper and bring it to publication, and the programme will culminate in an international conference to be held at the University of Birmingham on 30 June and 1 July 2016 at which the visiting fellows will present their papers alongside an international cast of both established and younger participants.
HOW TO APPLY FOR THIS CADBURY FELLOWSHIP
Fellowships will cover return air-fare, and accommodation and living costs for a period of ten weeks. If you would like to be considered for the 2016 scheme, please: send your application by email to ALL THREE recipients:
Dr PF de Moraes Farias (paulofarias@blueyonder.co.uk)
Dr Insa Nolte (i.nolte@bham.ac.uk)
Dr David Kerr (d.kerr@bham.ac.uk)
In your email, please let us know how you learned about this programme and confirm that you can get away for ten weeks from 2 May to 8 July 2016. Attached to your email should be two documents:
A research project description in English of not more than 1,000 words on the theme, showing what research you have already done and what you would work on during the fellowship.
A short CV (not more than 3 pages) and the names of two referees.
2015
ACLS African Humanities Program competition 2015-16
ACLS African Humanities Program competition
in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, 2015-16
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for:
• Dissertation-completion fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
• Early-career postdoctoral fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa
Stipends are $10,000 for dissertation-completion Fellows and $17,000 for postdoctoral Fellows, plus an additional $1,000 per Fellow for books and media at both award levels. Fellowships release recipients from teaching and other duties for an academic year to permit full-time research and writing. (They may be used to “buy time.”) Recipients of both kinds of fellowship are also eligible for further support in the form of a residency at a participating research center in Africa for a sustained period of writing. Approximately forty fellowships will be awarded annually in all five countries combined. Awards will be decided by an international committee of distinguished scholars in the humanities.
For further details visit: https://www.acls.org/programs/ahp/, or http://www.facebook.com/ACLS.AH
Application Deadline: 2 November 2015
2015
Associate/Full Professor, Islam in African Societies, Northwestern University,Evanston [IL], USA
Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies invites applications for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in the study of Islam in African societies. The appointment will be contingent upon a successful tenure review by the University. The appointment will be made in a home department in the humanities and social sciences within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and will be associated with the interdisciplinary Program of African Studies. Candidates should have an active research agenda involving the role of Islam in African societies, a record of excellence in teaching, and the ability to engage across disciplines and provide leadership for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2015 and continue until the position is filled.
2015
2015
Global Christianity – re-launched academic journal
Recently re-launched, Global Christianity is an academic journal for the multidisciplinary study of Christianity in its various local and global expressions. The journal views global Christianity as a set of interrelated phenomena which can be studied from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. The primary interest of the journal is in the intersections between different forms of Christianity and various local contexts: religions, cultures, political systems and societies. As a multidisciplinary journal, with an editorial board constituted by scholars from a variety of disciplines, Global Christianity is dedicated to advancing academic co-operation and intellectual exchange across academic disciplines and research traditions. Hence, we welcome scholarly contributions of high academic quality from a broad variety of fields including but not limited to anthropology, development studies, history, migration studies, peace and conflict studies, religious studies, sociology, and theology.
Global Christianity is the continuation of Swedish Missiological Themes, published since 1913. The journal is published quarterly and observes a double-blind peer-review process.
Interested authors can submit their contributions to the Editor, Aron Engberg (aron.engberg@teol.lu.se), or contact him for more information.
