Graduate Internships at the Getty

Due Dec. 15.
Find more information at
(http://www.getty.edu/grants/education/grad_interns.html).

Graduate Internships at the Getty support full-time positions for students who intend to pursue careers in fields related to the visual arts. Programs and departments throughout the Getty provide training and work experience in areas such as curatorial, education, conservation, research, information management, public programs, and grant making.

The Smith Rischardson Foundation Foreign Policy Dissertation Grant

Due Oct. 31.
Find more information at
(http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php).

The Smith Richardson Foundation is pleased to announce a new annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.The fellowship's objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training.

NEH and HEFCE Joint Information Systems Committee Grants

Due Nov. 29
Find more information at
(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/JISC.html).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) of the United Kingdom acting through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom are working together to offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. Collaboration between U.S. and English institutions is a key requirementfor this grant category. Each application must be sponsored by both an eligible U.S. and English institution.

9th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University is pleased to announce the award of its 9th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship to Lois Parkinson Zamora, Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of Houston, for her book The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Zamora will give a public lecture and accept the book prize for 2007 on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.
The Inordinate Eye uncovers the transnational influences on Baroque art in the New World to determine how those relationships influence contemporary narratives and form points of resistance to European colonization. Latin American artists create a discourse of “counterconquest” that Zamora terms the “New World Baroque,” a hybrid form combining the diverse influences of indigenous, African, and European cultures in an effort to challenge the hegemony of Catholic and monarchical ideologies.

Zamora combines critique of visual art with discussion of fictional narratives to argue that an integrated understanding of each provides a better perspective to examine the epistemological structures that underpin modern and contemporary art in Latin America. The discussion ranges from the murals of Diego Rivera in the National Palace of Mexico City to the fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. Zamora examines these artists and many more, and in The Inordinant Eye offers a comparative study that goes beyond the interartistic, exploring how diverse artistic media influence one another and provide a unified challenge to the colonizer’s gaze.

The Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship was endowed in December 2000 by Melbern G. Glasscock, Texas A&M University Class of '59, in honor of his wife. Mr. Glasscock, CEO of Texas Aromatics, L.P. in Houston, Texas, and has, with his wife, made numerous other gifts to Texas A&M University. In July 2002 they generously endowed the Center for Humanities Research, which was renamed in Mr. Glasscock’s honor.

The Book Prize is chosen by a committee of two humanities scholars from Texas A&M and one from another university. This year’s committee was Suzanne Poirier (Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago), David McWhirter (Department of English, Texas A&M University), and Cynthia Werner (Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University).

Last year’s Book Prize winner was Beth Fowkes Tobin, Professor of English at Arizona State University, for her book Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820. A complete list of previous Book Prize winners can be found on the Glasscock Center website at http://glasscock.tamu.edu.

American Antiquarian Society Fellowships

AAS-NEH Fellowships information can be found at
(http://www.americanantiquarian.org/nehfellowship.htm).
Due Jan. 15.

NEH fellowshipsare for persons who have already completed their formal professionaltraining. Degree candidates and persons seeking support for work inpursuit of a degree may not hold AAS-NEH fellowships. Foreign nationalswho have been residents in the United States for at least three yearsimmediately preceding the application deadline for the fellowship areeligible. Mid-career scholars are encouraged to apply. AAS Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarlyqualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project,and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society'scollections.

The Eurasia Program Fellowships

Information for the Eurasia Program Fellowships can be found at (http://programs.ssrc.org/eurasia/fellowships/<http://programs.ssrc.org/eurasia/fellowships/ ).
Due by November 13, 2007.

The Eurasia Program is pleased to announce a fellowship program for research on the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the New States of Eurasia. Research related to the non-Russian states, regions, and peoples is particularly encouraged.

The 2007 Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty

Information for the 2007 Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty can be found at
(http://www.woodrow.org/about/currentprograms.php<http://www.woodrow.org/about/currentprograms.php> ).
Due by Nov. 30, 2007.

The 2007 Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty will be funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by theWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The objective of the fellowship program is to aid the scholarly research and intellectual growth of junior faculty (men and women) and improve their chances forsuccess as tenured university scholars by offering support for twelve months of research and writing.