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2012 – 2015 Fellowship Competition

Application Postmark dead­line: September 30, 2011

The Princeton Society of Fellows, an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary group of schol­ars in the human­i­ties, social sci­ences, and selected nat­ural sci­ences, invites appli­ca­tions for the 2012 – 2015 Fellowship competition.

Four three-year Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded this year. The stipend for aca­d­e­mic year 2012 – 13 will be approx­i­mately $76,000. Fellows are pro­vided with a shared office, a per­sonal com­puter, a research account of $5000 a year, and access to uni­ver­sity grants, ben­e­fits and other resources.

Fellows are expected to reside in or near Princeton dur­ing the aca­d­e­mic year in order that they can attend weekly sem­i­nars and par­tic­i­pate fully in the intel­lec­tual life of the Society.

All can­di­dates will be informed of the sta­tus of their appli­ca­tion by the end of January 2012. Interviews will take place in early February. The Society will reim­burse the cost of travel and lodg­ing asso­ci­ated with the inter­view. Names of fel­low­ship win­ners will be posted on the Society of Fellows’ web­site in July 2012.

Fellowship in East Asian Studies (EAS)

This fel­low­ship is spon­sored by the Princeton Program in East Asian Studies and the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Together with other fac­ulty in East Asian Studies, the post­doc­toral fel­low teaches half-time for the first two years in the core Humanities-EAS course, which is spon­sored jointly by the Humanities Council and East Asian Studies Department. In the third year, the fel­low teaches one course only, either in the East Asian Studies Department or in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary pro­gram. The EAS Fellow is expected to pur­sue research that will make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to the field of East Asian Studies in one or more dis­ci­plines in the humanities.

Eligibility

PhD degree require­ments. Please note the Society’s dates of degree eli­gi­bil­ity. These are firm dates with no exceptions.

• a) Candidates already hold­ing the PhD degree at time of appli­ca­tion: You must have received your degree between January 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011. The receipt of the PhD is deter­mined by the date on which you ful­filled all require­ments for the degree at your insti­tu­tion, includ­ing the defense and fil­ing of the dissertation.
• b) Candidates who are ABD (all but dis­ser­ta­tion) at time of appli­ca­tion: If you will not meet the September 30, 2011, dead­line for receipt of PhD but are expected to have ful­filled all con­di­tions for the degree, includ­ing defense and fil­ing of dis­ser­ta­tion, by June 15, 2012, you may still apply for a post­doc­toral fel­low­ship pro­vided you have com­pleted a sub­stan­tial por­tion of the dis­ser­ta­tion (approx­i­mately half). We ask that you include in your dossier a let­ter con­firm­ing your “progress to degree” from either your Department Chair or your Director of Graduate Studies (see details below).

Please note that can­di­dates awarded a fel­low­ship will be asked to pro­vide a doc­u­ment from either the Registrar or Dean of their Graduate School by June 15, 2012, to con­firm com­ple­tion of all require­ments for the PhD.

Recipients of doc­tor­ates in Education (EdD or PhD degrees), doc­tor­ates of Jurisprudence, and hold­ers of PhD degrees from Princeton University are not eli­gi­ble to apply.

If you have already applied to the Society of Fellows, you may not apply a sec­ond time. We there­fore rec­om­mend that can­di­dates wait until they have com­pleted a sub­stan­tial por­tion of the dis­ser­ta­tion (approx­i­mately half) before applying.

Fellowships will be awarded to can­di­dates at the begin­ning of their aca­d­e­mic career. Candidates must have already demon­strated out­stand­ing schol­arly achieve­ment and excel­lence in teach­ing. Their work should also show evi­dence of unusual promise. The Society has a par­tic­u­lar inter­est in fos­ter­ing inno­v­a­tive inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approaches in the human­i­ties and social sciences.

US cit­i­zens and non-citizens, regard­less of race, national ori­gin, reli­gion, sex, sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion, age, mar­i­tal sta­tus, or dis­abil­ity, are eli­gi­ble to apply.

Fellows must reside in or near Princeton dur­ing the aca­d­e­mic year of their fel­low­ship term in order that they can attend weekly sem­i­nars and other events on campus.