| Postdoctoral Fellowship
The UNC-CH Center for the Study of the American South invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the history, culture, or society of the American South, to begin July 1, 2008. The award will support an outstanding junior scholar in the revision of a book-length manuscript for publication in a field related to the South, broadly construed to include the states of the former Confederacy and adjoining areas. We especially welcome proposals that will utilize the special collections of the UNC-CH Library or other research collections of the Triangle area, and explicitly engage issues of southern regional identity or distinctiveness.
Support: The fellowship provides a salary of $40,000, plus health insurance and $3,000 in research and travel funds. The fellow may arrange to teach no more than one course at UNC during the fellowship term.
Requirements: Applicants must have received the Ph.D. prior to the beginning of the fellowship year and no more than four years before the year begins. Scholars who have received tenure, published a previous scholarly book, or signed a book publication contract (except with UNC Press) are not eligible.
Publication: Acceptance commits the Fellow to submit her or his revised manuscript to UNC Press and to grant the Press the right of first refusal. Consideration will follow the established peer-review procedures of the Press.
Applications: Applications are due January 18, 2008, and consist of three copies of the following:
- a cover sheet (click here to access cover sheet)
- curriculum vitae
- three letters of recommendation
- a three- to five-page description of the project, including plans for revision of the existing manuscript
- a writing sample from the project of no more than thirty pages.
Following selection, each Fellow must submit a hard copy of the existing manuscript.
Send applications to:
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southern Studies
The Center for the Study of the American South
Love House and Hutchins Forum
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
410 E. Franklin Street, CB# 9127
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
If you have additional questions, call (919) 962-5665.
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