Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota

Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Center for Austrian Studies 2011-2012

The Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission) and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota are pleased to request applications for a visiting professorship for an Austrian scholar at the University of Minnesota for the academic year 2011-2012. The Fulbright Visiting Professor for 2011-2012 will be affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies, an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research facility for Austrian, Habsburg, and Central European studies established in 1977 as a bicentennial gift of the people and government of Austria to the United States, and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.

This collaboration is based on a memorandum of understanding concluded by the Austrian Fulbright Commission and the College of Liberal Arts in 2001 and renewed in 2010. This visiting professorship was conceived to rotate among departments in the College of Liberal Arts affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies.

DESCRIPTION

The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (http://gwss.umn.edu/) invites applications from scholars whose work is central to the Department’s mission. The Department’s mission encompasses the advancement of “innovative research, scholarship, creative work and teaching on women, gender, sexuality and minority studies across disciplines and across cultural, geographic, and social differences to contribute to new understandings towards social change.” In addition, the Department aims to “create an environment where theory and practice interact.”

The Department houses a diversity of scholars from a variety of disciplines (geography, philosophy, history, women and gender studies, and the humanities) and would welcome applications from any field in the social sciences or humanities.

The Fulbright Visiting Professor will teach one advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course during the semester in residence of fall 2011 or spring 2012. The Fulbright Visiting Professor will be expected to advise students seeking expertise in the visitor’s field of specialization and to deliver one public lecture under the auspices of the Center for Austrian Studies and the Department of GWSS. This appointment will provide the Fulbright Visiting Professor with ample opportunities for research.

BENEFITS

This is a jointly sponsored four-month grant. The Austrian Fulbright Commission will provide grantees with a maintenance grant of $10,000, a health and accident insurance policy with a maximum coverage of $100,000, and a lump-sum travel grant of € 800. From the University of Minnesota, the grantee will receive a letter of appointment, a gross salary of $8,000 and a University subsidy for housing of $4,000 (gross) as well as assistance in identifying housing. The University of Minnesota will place customary facilities for visiting faculty (office access, telephone, e-mail, internet) at the disposal of grantees.

ELIGIBILITY

Austrian citizens are eligible to apply. Applications from qualified junior as well as senior faculty from all accredited universities and post-secondary institutions are welcome. All applicants should hold a
doctorate and, ideally, at least five years experience teaching at the university/post-secondary level.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND DEADLINE

If you are interested in applying, please fill out and submit the Fulbright Visiting Scholars application (including 3 letters of recommendation) online at: https://apply.embark.com/student/fulbright/scholars/

The deadline for applications is October 30, 2010.

Instructions on how to fill in the application can be found here (pdf).

Please note that this is the general online application for Fulbright Visiting Scholars - and fill out these sections for your Minnesota Visiting Professor application accordingly:

24. Preferred Host Institutions
412071 - University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Step 3 Documents:
No English proficiency test or TOEFL is needed.

Step 4 References:
Preferably recommenders may be registered online by candidates when filling out the application. They will be sent an email and can upload their letter of reference directly to the online system. If this is not possible, letters of recommendation may be sent hard-copy directly to the Fulbright Commission attached to this form filled out by the recommender.

SELECTION

All applications will be treated confidentially. The representatives of the Austrian Fulbright Commission and the University of Minnesota will review and rank the applications, and finalists will be notified concerning the status of their applications in Jaunary 2010..

If you have further questions about the Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota for 2011-2012 or the application submission and selection process, please contact:

Mag. Alexandra Enzi
Austrian Program Officer
Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission)
quartier21/MQ
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
(01) 236 7878 14
AEnzi@fulbright.at

The Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission) endeavors to update
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