[ecrea] International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

*INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS*

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*Postdoctoral Fellowship *

*Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication*

*Annenberg School for Communication*

*University of Pennsylvania*

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the 
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania 
invites applications for a “CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship.” This is a 
one-year position renewable for a second year based on successful 
performance.

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*/Description/*

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) 
produces and promotes scholarly research on global communication and 
public life. As an institute for advanced study dedicated to global 
media studies, we revisit enduring questions and engage pressing matters 
in geopolitics and communication. Our vision of “inclusive 
globalization” recognizes plurality and inequality in global media, 
politics, and culture. Our translocal approach fuses multidisciplinary 
“area studies” knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities 
and social sciences. This synthesis of deep expertise and 
interdisciplinary inquiry stimulates critical conversations about 
entrenched and emerging communicative structures, practices, flows, and 
struggles. We explore new ways of understanding and explaining the 
world, including public scholarship, algorithmic culture, the arts, 
multi-modal scholarship, and digital archives. With a core commitment to 
the development of early career scholars worldwide, CARGC hosts 
postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty fellows who 
collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press publications, and 
organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and summer institutes.

CARGC postdoctoral fellows work on their own research, typically a book 
manuscript, and collaborate with staff and postdoctoral, doctoral and 
undergraduate fellows. They also design and teach one undergraduate 
course, typically during their second year. They also present a CARGC 
Colloquium and publish at least one original CARGC Paper with CARGC 
Press. Fellows are provided a stipend of $50,000, a research fund of 
$3000, health insurance, a work space, computer and library access.

We are interested in scholars integrating primary sources and regional 
expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, 
comparative, translocal and transnational analyses of media, technology, 
geopolitics and culture. Candidates challenging normative paradigms and 
incorporating non-Western theories, sources and contexts, are especially 
welcome. Current research groups focus on “theory and history in global 
media studies,” “geopolitics, media & culture,” “digital sovereignty,” 
and “radical media and culture.”

This is a residential fellowship. CARGC strives to be an inclusive 
community of scholars driven by intellectual curiosity and exchange. To 
foster mentoring and collaboration at all levels, we expect fellows to 
be fully engaged in the life of the center. Postdocs are therefore 
expected to work at our beautiful sixth floor premises on the Penn 
campus at least four days a week.

*/Eligibility/*

We welcome applications from scholars with PhDs awarded by an 
institution other than the University of Pennsylvania between May 1, 
2016 and May 1, 2018. The appointment typically starts on August 15.

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*/Submitting Your Application/*

A complete application consists of:

 1. *Cover Page *– include your name and contact information,
    dissertation supervisor name and contact information, defense date
    (if degree not awarded), and 100-word abstract of your project.**

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 2. *Research Proposal *(not to exceed 1000 words) – include research
    questions, topic significance, theoretical framework, methodological
    design, clear description of primary sources and necessary language
    skills, and work plan with projected date of manuscript completion
    and publication.**

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 3. *Statement of institutional fit* (not to exceed 250 words) – explain
    how your project aligns with CARGC’s mission, fits with one or more
    CARGC research themes listed above, and contributes to the field of
    global media and communication studies.

 4. *CV *(not to exceed two single-spaced pages, minimum font size 11) –
    list degrees,  peer-reviewed publications, academic
    non-peer-reviewed publications, public scholarship, invited talks,
    conference papers, other relevant qualifications, specific research
    and language skills.

 5. *Project bibliography * (not to exceed one single-spaced page,
    minimum font size 11) – include primary and secondary sources.**

 6. *Letters of recommendation *– three are required, including one from
    the dissertation supervisor, stating unequivocally expected date of
    Ph.D. defense (if degree not yet awarded).**

 7. *Up to two publications (*not to exceed 50 pages in total) –
    published peer-reviewed articles preferred.

*/Timeline/*

All materials except reference letters must be sent as a *single PDF 
document* to (cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu) <mailto:(cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu)> by April 
1, 2018. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. 
Applicants should arrange for their letters of recommendation to be sent 
to the same address by the same date. We expect to contact finalists for 
phone interviews by mid-April and make final decisions shortly thereafter.

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*/Additional Information/*

If you have additional questions, please email us at (cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu) 
<mailto:(cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu)>. Do not contact CARGC staff individually. 
The expected volume of submissions prevents us from providing feedback 
on drafts.


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