Announcement:
We invite
applications for a Fellowship in the WITS ART MUSEUM at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This fellowship is funded by The Andrew W Mellon
Foundation and will be situated in the Wits Art Museum. The fellow will work
with the curators of the Wits Art Museum and the Chair in the Centre for the Creative
Arts of Africa on a research-driven re-engagement with the collections of
historical and contemporary African arts in the Wits Art Museum. We are
therefore looking for a fellow with research experience in one or more of the
following fields: African visual art, African music, African performance arts,
African dress. One of the main tasks of
the fellow will be to help academic divisions in Wits and at other institutions
access, engage with, and use the collections in teaching and research. They
will have to outline and drive a series of seminars which will, at the end of
the project, be published as a collection of essays. Fellows will be expected
to participate in exhibitions and publications planned within the Wits Art
Museum.
The fellowship
will be for a period of 36 months (although we may consider terms shorter than
that) and will include a stipend, a shared office with own computer, library
access and a small research grant per year. The fellowship project will start
in May -June 2013, and will end in May - June 2016.
Applications
must be sent to Julia Charlton, (Senior Curator at WAM) Julia.Charlton@wits.ac.za and should include:
Title and abstract of the doctoral
thesis, or master’s thesis/research report
Copies of degree certificate (or a signed
letter from a supervisor saying that the degree will be completed before the
candidate is due to take up the position)
Copies of completed articles or
published essays (if any)
A Curriculum Vitae (Resumé)
A letter of motivation.
The names and email addresses of two
referees, one of whom should be the supervisor of the doctorate/MA dissertation.
Submission deadline 22 February 2013
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