Watson Institute Visiting Fellow
The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University seeks several recent PhDs for three year residential visiting fellowships, beginning July 1, 2010. The mission of the Watson Institute is to pursue interdisciplinary research on pressing global issues and to foster more direct engagements between scholarship and policy and public debates. The latest publication about recent developments and current research trajectories can be found in the Watson Institute's Fall newsletter (PDF).
Successful candidates will pursue their own research and also contribute to the development of collective and collaborative research at the Institute. They will teach one course per semester, chosen in consultation with the Institute’s director, and advise students.
Salary: $55,000 (12 month) plus individual health and dental coverage.
The committee will begin reviewing applications on February 15, 2010.
Brown University is an AA/EEO employer and especially welcomes applications from women and minority candidates.
Informal inquiries should be directed to Deborah_Healey@brown.edu.
AT&T New Media Research Assistantships
Are you a Brown faculty member who incorporates audio and/or video in your research? Do you have a need for an undergraduate research assistant?
Thanks to a generous grant from the AT&T Foundation, the Watson Institute for International Studies invites proposals for seed grants of $3,000 to Brown faculty to support summer undergraduate research assistantships to work on new media components of research on global issues.
These research assistantships should be focused on expanding the traditional conception of scholarly outputs to embrace new media products such as online audio and video. The undergraduate research assistants will be expected to have a combination of research and new media skills that can make a significant contribution to faculty research related to contemporary global problems.
Ideally this research assistantship should enable the production of a tangible new media deliverable (e.g. podcast series, documentary film).The application deadline is March 15, 2010.
Please send a short proposal (no more than 2 pages) that describes the nature of the research, the specific role of new media in this research, and what a Brown undergraduate will be doing to support the research.Please also indicate if you have already identified a student to work with you or if you would like assistance in identifying a student.
Proposals and questions should be sent to Miranda Fasulo at Miranda_Fasulo@brown.edu.