[Commlist] International Call for Applications: CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global 
Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of 
Pennsylvania

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) 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.

Description

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication 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 may design and teach one undergraduate 
course during their second year. They present a CARGC Colloquium and 
publish one CARGC Paper with CARGC Press. Fellows are provided a stipend 
of $55,000, a research fund of $3000, health insurance, a work space and 
a computer in the sixth floor premises — CARGC’s “World Headquarters”— 
on the Penn campus, and library access. In addition, CARGC will cover up 
to $1000 in domestic relocation expenses and up to $2000 if moving 
internationally. Fellows who are selected to teach during their tenure 
will be paid an additional stipend.

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 read the CARGC 5-year 
report to familiarize themselves with our mission and priorities 
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=cargc_strategicdocuments 
<https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=cargc_strategicdocuments>. 
This year we are particularly interested in candidates whose work 
centers on the Global South.

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. The final determination of the residency 
requirement for the 2022-2023 academic year will be made in the coming 
months based on university policy related to COVID-19.

Eligibility

We welcome applications from scholars with PhDs awarded by an 
institution other than the University of Pennsylvania between May 1, 
2020 and August 1, 2022. The appointment typically starts on August 15.

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.
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.
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://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=cargc_strategicdocuments 
<https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=cargc_strategicdocuments>.
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) 
<mailto:(cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu)>> by February 1, 2022. Because of the volume 
of applications, we are unable to read drafts of submissions. 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-March and make final decisions shortly thereafter.

Additional Information

If you have additional questions, please email us at (cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu) 
<mailto:(cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu) <mailto:(cargc /at/ asc.upenn.edu)>>. Kindly do not 
contact CARGC staff individually.

The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal 
opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive 
consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on 
the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender 
identity, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, 
disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by 
law. For more information, go to 
http://www.upenn.edu/affirm-action/eoaa.html 
<http://www.upenn.edu/affirm-action/eoaa.html>.

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