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IRWaG Graduate Fellows
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender seeks applications for two 2008/09 graduate fellowships. IRWaG Graduate Fellowships are limited to students who have completed or are about to complete the IRWaG graduate certificate. Graduate fellows will be expected to participate actively in IRWaG activities and to do a maximum of 60 hours of work per semester: they will coordinate the organizing committee of the IRWaG Graduate Colloquium (described below), and assist the director, the graduate director and the undergraduate director with some research and administrative tasks related to the program. In addition, they will serve as graduate liaisons on the IRWaG executive committee and will thus be required to attend executive committee meetings (about two per semester). Stipends will be $3000/semester.Selection will be based on academic distinction in feminist and departmental scholarly work, and a proven commitment to IRWaG and its activities. Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae and a short writing sample to Alice Kessler-Harris, the IRWaG graduate director, by April 15, 2008. Ask one of your professors to write a brief letter of support. Fellows will be announced during the first week of the semester.
The IRWaG Graduate Colloquium
The Colloquium will meet monthly on a weekday evening, or for Friday breakfast, to be determined. It will be administered by an organizing committee, coordinated by the IRWaG Graduate Fellows. The committee will determine meeting topics in consultation with participants and the Director of Graduate Studies. Meetings could focus on readings of graduate student work-in-progress and recent published scholarship in the field, discussion of current research by faculty members, and workshops on professional issues such as preparing work for conferences and for publication, drafting dissertation prospectuses, and applying for academic jobs.
The coordinators will have significant input into deciding the content of the meetings, in consultation with colloquium participants and the Director of Graduate Studies.
The colloquium coordinators will be expected to book a meeting place for all events (usually the IRWaG seminar room), maintain a regularly updated email list, notify participants of upcoming events, copy and distribute precirculated readings to participants (in electronic and paper form), purchase light refreshments for each meeting, and write short summaries of each meeting as well as a brief article summing up the year's events for the IRWaG newsletter, Feminist News.
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