Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Job & Internship Opportunities in Eastern Europe










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Processing Archivist, History Associates Incorporated

History Associates has an immediate need for two experienced Processing Archivists to join our extensive and growing National Park Service team.  One position is located at our main office in Rockville, MD and the other is in Arkansas at the Buffalo River State Park.

The Processing Archivists will implement previously developed processing plans.

Education Requirements: Master's degree in library science, history, or related discipline with a concentration in archival studies or archival courses, seminars, internships, or practica.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45419

 


Provost and Vice President, Academic, Redeemer University College

 

Building on the blessings of Redeemer’s past thirty years, the Provost and Vice President Academic will assist the President in implementing a bold vision of Redeemer’s mission as a Christian institution of learning excellence that engages our community and culture and equips students for serving Christ in today’s world.  To enable this support the next Provost and Vice President, Academic will have the appropriate combination of vibrant Christian faith, Biblical worldview, compelling vision for holistic Christian higher education, inspiring leadership and interpersonal skills, administrative and management expertise, and strategic thinking.

 

More information about the position, including a complete Opportunity Profile can be found at www.Redeemer.ca/vpacadsearch. Nominations for the position should address the candidate’s suitability in relation to the selection criteria detailed in the Opportunity Profile. Applications for the position should include a letter of interest and curriculum vitae.

 


 


Director; School of Literature, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics; University of Illinois-Chicago

 

The University of Illinois at Chicago seeks an admin¬istrator/scholar who can provide energetic and visionary leadership to serve as Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics. The School is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the director reports to the dean of the College. The School

(http://www.uic.edu/las/lcsl/) serves as the administrative body over the following

departments: Classics and Mediterranean Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Studies, Hispanic and Italian Studies, Linguistics/TESOL, and Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures.

This School also houses several undergraduate minor programs, including Moving Image Arts, International Studies, and Jewish Studies, as well as the Language and Culture Learning Center.

The School is staffed by approximately 40 tenure- line faculty members, and a similar number of lecturers. It serves nearly 6,000 students annually through its Basic Language Program and has approximately 700 majors and minors as well as

130 graduate students. The Directorship is a nine- month, full-time position involving administration, teaching, and continuing scholarship. The director serves as the chief executive officer of the School and centrally oversees all personnel, curricular, financial, and administrative functions of the departments within it. Additionally, the director is charged with fostering interdisciplinary research and teaching among the units of the School in literary, cultural, and linguistics theories and practices, and instruction in those areas as well as in the many languages covered.

 


 


Energy Efficiency Manager,

Habitat for Humanity International

Bratislava, Slovakia

 

The Energy Efficiency Manager reports to the ECA Program Director to help create the area strategy for work in the energy efficiency (EE) sector; manages the EE projects in the region, collaborates closely with the ECA Program Development Managers in the EE countries and Global Program to implement and lead forward further regional EE work.

 


 


Program Assistant, Bard Smolny and AUCA Programs, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

 

Bard College's Institute for International Liberal Education is seeking a Program Assistant to assist with the Bard Smolny and AUCA programs.

The Program Assistant for Bard-American University of Central Asia Study Abroad Program and the Bard Smolny Study Abroad Program reports to the Associate Director of Bard’s Institute for International Liberal Education (IILE), and supports the International Program Coordinator on a day to day basis to help insure program excellence. Responsibilities include: student application processing and visa support, billing and transcript management, travel arrangements, general student support services work, and any other tasks as assigned. Occasional evening and weekend work required. 

 

jobregistry.nafsa.org/jobs#/Detail/4938024

 


Programme Officer (Russia), International Human Rights Programme London, England

 

Oak Foundation (www.oakfnd.org) commits its resources to address issues of global social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.

The International Human Rights Programme is seeking to appoint a Programme Officer to support its activities in Russia (75%) and other parts of the world (25%). The programme currently has over

120 active grants operating worldwide and a portfolio of around 12 grants in Russia. An outline of the program’s priorities can be found on the website.

 


 


Russian Current Affairs Officers, US Embassy London in Berkshire

 

An office of the US Embassy London based in Berkshire is looking to recruit full time officers specializing in Russian current affairs.

Duties will include coverage of media developments and breaking news, production of translations and multimedia, web content management, research, and written analysis.

Please apply via the button below by

COB 15 October 2012.

 


 


Assistant Director, West European Studies


Manages the administrative operations of West European Studies and the European Union Center. Administers grant activities and manage budgets. Plans and supervises the execution of outreach events and functions as the lead on grant- and center-based outreach events. Collaborates and partners with other centers and researchers within the IU system to advance outreach activities. Searches for grant and other funding possibilities and develops grant proposals in collaboration with the director. Oversees student recruitment, career services, and internship strategies for WEST/REEI/IAAU consortium. Oversees degree and curriculum development for consortium. 

https://jobs.iu.edu/joblisting/index.cfm?jlnum=7153&search=2

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Fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, “Subjectivities and Identities in Eurasia”

 

Deadline: January 8, 2013


The Davis Center is pleased to announce the theme  for its 2013-2014 Fellows Program. The Fellows Program brings together scholars at early and later stages in their careers to consider a common theme spanning the social sciences and humanities. The program is coordinated by faculty from across Harvard University whose research interests include aspects of the selected theme.

In 2013-2014, the Fellows Program will be coordinated by Professors Terry Martin (History) and Stephanie Sandler (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

 

The theme for 2013-2014 is “Subjectivities and Identities in Eurasia.” Imagining a personal, ethnic, religious, sexual, or national identity may be no simple matter in any culture, but for the people of Russia and Eurasia this always has been a fraught process. The very question of subjectivity has been self-consciously scrutinized and as readily rejected as embraced.

 

The Davis Center invites scholars whose work considers subjectivities and identities, their formation and structure, their emphases on uniqueness and on replication.  In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will participate in a regular interdisciplinary seminar series with sponsoring faculty and advanced graduate students. Papers will be presented by the Fellows, Harvard faculty, and invited outside speakers. For more detailed information on the Fellows Program, and opportunities to apply for regional, postdoctoral, and senior fellowships, please visit the Davis Center web site, http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu.

 


Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow, “Informal Life Politics in the Remaking of Northeast Asia:

From Cold War to Post-Cold War,”

Australian National University

 

Applications are invited from suitably qualified scholars for a Postdoctoral Fellowship / Research Fellowship (Level A/B) to work with Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s ARC Laureate Fellowship “Informal Life Politics in the Remaking of Northeast Asia: From Cold War to Post-Cold War”.

 

This is a two year fixed-term position. The applicant should have a PhD in a relevant discipline and a record of academic publications on North Korea.

S/he will pursue both independent and team-based research consistent with the project, which focuses on “informal life politics”: local level grassroots movements in which individuals or groups act to protect their health or livelihood from threats seen as emanating from economic and environmental change, state action or the failures of state policy.

The appointee will identify and research relevant case studies from North Korea, and collaborate with other project members in cross-border analysis of informal life politics in the Northeast Asian region as a whole. S/he will work under the supervision of the Laureate Fellow, and also assist in project management, in supporting the work of other members of the research team and in supervising and mentoring postgraduate students.

 

With other project team members s/he will communicate ideas and findings generated by the project to a wider audience though high quality publications and through project conferences and workshops.

 


 


Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program, Marquette University

 

Marquette University invites applications for the Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program.

Mitchem Fellowships seek to help increase the presence of currently underrepresented racial and cultural groups in the US profesoriate by supporting advanced doctoral candidates during completion of the dissertation. The fellowships provide one year of support for doctoral candidates who are well into the writing stage of their dissertation work, are US citizens, and are currently enrolled in US universities.

 

In addition to library, office and clerical support privileges, Mitchem Fellows receive a $35,000 stipend plus fringe benefits, research and travel monies for the 2013-14 academic year.

 

Essential Functions: Fellows are to be in residence at Marquette University for the academic year, August 19, 2013 to May 18, 2014, during which they teach one (1) course in their area of specialization, interact with faculty and undergraduate students, give a public presentation, and devote their primary energies to the completion of their dissertations. During their residence, Mitchem Fellows will participate in a formal mentoring program, each fellow collaborating with a senior faculty mentor who is appointed by the Dean in her or her discipline.

 


 


Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, University of Toronto

 

The Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto seeks 3 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows for a two-year appointment 2013-2015 with research relevant to the 2013-14 theme:

Translation and the Multiplicity of Languages.

 

What are the implications of knowing more than one language? From mythic reflections on the Tower of Babel through contemporary philosophical reflections on the question of translation, the multiplicity of languages has been an ongoing focus of inquiry. How is translation possible, both in the specific sense of translating speech or texts, but also in the larger sense of bringing meaning from one system to another, including from speech to writing?

How do we conceive of languages of music, as well as song; icons and symbols as well as scripts? How best can we interpret the exchanges between languages in a world of multilingual interactions?

In the ancient Near East, for example, a number of written bilingual texts sometimes reflect a local language and lingua franca, other times reflect a political orientation and appeasement or defiance.

Translation between cultures and languages produce unintended results, often creating new originals. Amidst these multiple languages, what is the impact of the untranslatable?

 

Fellowships begin 1 July 2013. 

Eligibility: Ph.D. awarded between 1 July 2010 and

30 May 2013.

 


1 December 2012

 


 


Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Humanistic Sciences, University of Wisconsin- Madison

 

The University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for its postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, it will provide 3 two-year postdoctoral fellowships for recent PhD recipients starting on August 26, 2013.

Fellows will be affiliated with a department in the College of Letters and Science, as well as the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities. They will teach one undergraduate course per semester in one of the humanities or humanistic social science departments in the College of Letters & Science.

 

The theme for 2013-2015 applicants is

DEMOCRACY. We invite scholars to reflect upon democracy as a focus of historical, philosophical, literary, cultural, or aesthetic analysis. We seek projects that consider democracy from within the humanities and that understand democracy as concept, practice, or mode with bearing on politics, law, and society, as well as literature, language, and the arts. Democracy—whether conceived as the legitimation of power or its exercise, as “the reign of the limitless desire of individuals in modern mass society” or the opening of politics and society to a plurality of voices—is at once contested and coveted. Democracy is implicated in nationalism and cosmopolitanism, war and peace, justice and reconciliation, and freedom and enslavement, that is, who is included in or left out of the social contract and civic life.

 


 


Wayne Vucinich Visiting Scholar Fellowship, CREEES, Stanford University

 

The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at Stanford University invites applications for the Wayne Vucinich Visiting Scholar Fellowship.

This is a twelve-week residential fellowship to be offered in Spring 2013. The fellowship award funds international travel, health insurance, and visa support, in addition to a $10,000 stipend for living expenses. The fellow will have access to university libraries and archives and will have use of a shared work space at the Center. He or she will be expected to be in residence throughout the fellowship period (March-June 2013) and to participate actively in the scholarly activities of the Center.

 

Preference will be given to scholars who have completed the PhD (or equivalent) in the past five years and who are residents of countries that fall under the direct purview of the Center: Russia, East Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (including Afghanistan). The fellowship is open to scholars working on the region in any discipline.

 

Please submit a letter of application, a CV, a writing sample, two letters of recommendation, and a short proposal for a public lecture and/or workshop(s) for Stanford graduate students to Robert Wessling (rwess@stanford.edu), CREEES Associate Director, by November 1, 2012. For more information about the Center, please consult our website,  http://creees.stanford.edu/.

 


Alfa Fellow, Cultural Vistas – Alfa Fellowship Program

 

The Alfa Fellowship Program is a high-level professional development exchange program placing up to 15 American and British citizens per year in work assignments at leading organizations in Russia in the fields of business, economics, journalism, law, and public policy.

Key goals of the Alfa Fellowship Program are expanding networks of American, British and Russian professionals, developing greater intercultural understanding, and advancing U.S.-Russian and U.K.-Russian relations.

 

The program includes language training, seminar series, and extended professional experience.

Fellows receive travel, free housing, a monthly stipend, and insurance. Russian language proficiency is preferred though not required at the time of application.

 

jobregistry.nafsa.org/jobs#/Detail/4938042

 

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