[Commlist] International Call for Applications: CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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 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 $50,000, a research fund of $3000, health insurance, a work space, 
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 read our 5 year-report 
<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5707>to familiarize themselves with our 
mission and priorities. This year we are particularly interested in 
candidates working on the Middle East and/or Latin America with Arabic 
and/or Spanish primary sources, though all candidates will be actively 
considered.

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. Postdocs 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.

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*Eligibility*

We welcome applications from scholars with PhDs awarded by an 
institution other than the University of Pennsylvania between May 1, 
2018 and May 1, 2020. 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.
 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 <https://www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5707>for more information.
 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.

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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 
*February 1, 2020*. 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.

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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 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.

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