FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Global Women's Studies Sponsorship Program > >The Five College Women's Studies Research Center announces its new Ford >Foundation-sponsored program in Global Women's Studies. This multi-year >initiative will allow 3 international researchers to spend a semester in >residence at the Center each year pursuing their own research, >participating in faculty seminars with women's studies and area studies >colleagues from the Five Colleges, and forging connections with the >large feminist community in Western Massachusetts. Each Ford Associate >will also be expected to teach or co-teach (in English) an undergraduate >women's studies course at one of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, >Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts, >Amherst) during her semester at the Center. > >For Spring 2001, when the teaching component of the program will be based >at the Women's and Gender Studies Department of Amherst College, we are >seeking up to three researchers working on gender and transnationalism. >Areas of specialization might include: immigration, refugees and diasporic >communities; nationalism, citizenship and human rights; civil society and >social movements at the local and global levels; new forms of consumption >and communication; poverty, inequality and welfare; cultural and artistic >expression and resistance, or the regulation of sexual activities and >identities. Scholars working on any and all regions of the world are >welcome to apply, and they need not be studying their own region of origin. > Please send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a concise >description of the project you wish to pursue (up to 4 pages), two letters >of recommendation and a one-paragraph description of a women's and gender >studies course you are prepared to teach. Stipend is $12,000, plus $3,000 >travel/housing allowance. Applications should be sent to Five College >Women's Studies >Research Center/Ford Program, Mount Holyoke College, Dickinson House, 50 >College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075-6406 ; (413) 538-2275; FAX >413-538-2082; email: fcwsrc@ wscenter.hampshire.edu; website: >http://wscenter.hampshire.edu <http://wscenter.hampshire.edu> . Review of >applications will begin on May 1, 2000. We encourage women, minorities, and >disabled -persons to apply. > >Five Colleges, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
