[Commlist] International Call for Applications: Faculty Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Faculty Fellowships, 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 CARGC Faculty Fellowships. We have a very 
limited number of these positions, reserved for full-time faculty 
members from institutions other than the University of Pennsylvania, 
which typically last one full semester, though other arrangements may be 
possible. This is ideal for scholars seeking a base during funded 
sabbaticals and research leaves.

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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 Fellows work on their own research, and collaborate with staff and 
postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate fellows. They present a CARGC 
Colloquium and publish one CARGC Paper with CARGC Press. Fellows are 
provided a workspace, computer and library access.

CARGC Fellows integrate 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. 
Ongoing research groups focus on theory and history in global media 
studies, geopolitics and the popular, digital sovereignty, and radical 
media and culture. We recommend that applicants review our website to 
familiarize themselves with our mission and priorities: 
https://cargc.asc.upenn.edu/.

This is a residential fellowship. CARGC strives to be an inclusive 
community of scholars driven by intellectual curiosity and exchange, and 
rooted in the life of the Annenberg School, the University of 
Pennsylvania, and the city of Philadelphia . To foster mentoring and 
collaboration at all levels, we expect fellows to be fully engaged in 
the life of the center. Fellows are therefore expected to work at our 
beautiful sixth floor premises—CARGC’s “World Headquarters”—on the Penn 
campus at least four days a week during their stay.

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*Eligibility*

Candidates should have least two years of post-PhD degree academic 
experience and have an affiliation with a university or research 
institute during the period of the fellowship.

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*Submitting Your Application*

A complete application consists of:

 1. *Cover Page *– include your name and contact information, current
    affiliation, the names and affiliations of two references, and a
    100-word abstract of your project. Please specify whether you are
    applying for Fall 2020 or Spring 2021.
 2. *Research Proposal *(not to exceed 1000 words) – include title of
    research project, 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.
 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. Please refer to our 5-year
    report for more information

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/cargc5-center-advanced-research-global-communication-celebrates-five-year.
 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 *– two are required.
 7. *Two of your publications (articles or books) in support of the
    application.*

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*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 *March 
2, 2020*. 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 by 
late March 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)>.

View call online: http://bit.ly/2Uql1rE.

Marina Krikorian | Project Coordinator

/_Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication 
<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/research-centers/center-advanced-research-global-communication>_/

/The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania/

/(215) 573-8901 /|/(marina.krikorian /at/ asc.upenn.edu) 
<mailto:(marina.krikorian /at/ asc.upenn.edu)>/

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