Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts and Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellowship Guidelines
The Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences at Bentley, a four-year private university in greater Boston offering BS, BA, MS, MBA., and PhD degrees, is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2009-2010 postdoctoral fellowship. The center seeks postdoctoral students from any discipline in the arts and sciences who are working within the broad theme identified below. The fellowship will allow emerging scholars to complete work on a project related to the annual theme and to engage in intellectual exchange with Bentley faculty and students.
Annual Theme
The theme of our Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts and Sciences for academic year 2009-2010, “Behaving Ourselves: Motivation and Agency Across the Disciplines,” is described in detail online here. The center encourages interdisciplinary projects, especially work that connects the arts and sciences to business disciplines.
Terms
Candidates must have PhD in hand by June 30, 2009 and may not have received their doctoral degree earlier than September 2006. The postdoctoral fellow will receive a total stipend of $40,000 (equal to the NEH rate) for the nine-month residency as well as office space and borrowing privileges at Bentley and research libraries in the Boston area, as needed. The fellow will meet regularly with Bentley faculty fellows, present their work in a Working Seminar Series, and may offer one undergraduate seminar. The fellow must be in residence at Bentley and may not be otherwise employed during the fellowship period.
Applications are especially welcome from those who go beyond their empirical work to reflect more generally upon the subject of motivation and agency. Candidates are also encouraged to identify faculty members at Bentley (in either business or the arts and sciences) with whom they might collaborate in research.
Application Materials
- A curriculum vitae;
- A project title and one-page abstract of the research and writing you will undertake as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts and Sciences at Bentley;
- A detailed statement of the research or writing that you will complete as a fellow. The statement should show the project’s objectives, significance, methodology, and relation to the Valente Center’s theme. The statement may not exceed 10 double-spaced pages, but can include a separate bibliography;
- An article- or chapter-length writing sample, either published or in manuscript (please scan into .pdf format if the sample is not otherwise available in electronic format);
- Two letters of recommendation.
All materials, including recommendation letters, should be submitted no later than December 1, 2008.
Excluding recommendation letters, all materials should be clearly labeled with the candidate’s name and file content description (e.g. “Smith, cv” or “Smith, title and abstract”) and sent as e-mail attachments to: Janice McMahon, jmcmahon@bentley.edu
Letters of Recommendation should be postmarked by December 1, 2008 and sent via regular mail to:
Attn: Janice McMahon
Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences
Bentley
AAC 245
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
Letters of recommendations only may be faxed by December 1st to 781.891.2262, attn: Janice McMahon
We cannot accept materials that are faxed [except letters of recommendations], nor can application materials be returned. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Awards will be announced after February 15, 2009.
