Postdoctoral Fellowship @ The Phillips Collection / University of Maryland

Join / Renew   Trouble reading this email? View in web browser | Subscription | Forward to a Friend | Visit PhillipsCollection.org.   Call For Applications postdoctoral fellowships DEADLINE Feb 15, 2016   The Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland invite applications for two postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2016-2017. These fellowships will allow the recipients to work with The Phillips's exceptional collection of modern and contemporary art and the University of Maryland's leadership programs in art-historical scholarship, interdisciplinary experimentation, and virtual technologies. The Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art History will support research and teaching on topics in American, European, or non-western art of all media from 1780 to the present. The Fellowship in Virtual Culture will research emerging forms of virtual culture and the advancement of technology to enhance and enrich/deepen the museum visitor's experience. During the academic year 2016-2017, both fellows are expected to be in residence in Washington, DC, at the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection. Each fellow is expected to teach on undergraduate or graduate course at the Center or the University of Maryland, to present at least one public lecture, and to participate in other programs and discussions with scholars, critics, museum staff, and students at the museum and the university. For details on how to apply, visit the Postdoctoral Fellowships web page

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Postdoc Fellowship Opportunity @ Princeton

African Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Department of African American Studies (DAAS), and the Department of English at Princeton University invite applications for a postdoctoral research associate position (1 to 3 years beyond the Ph.D.) or an associate research scholar position (4 to 5 years beyond the Ph.D.) for the 2016–17 year (beginning September 1, 2016) from scholars working in any field of the humanities dealing with Africa or the African diaspora. Consideration will be given to candidates working in all disciplines in the humanities broadly defined, including anthropology, art and archaeology, comparative literature, English, film and video history, literatures in other languages, music, philosophy, religion, and women and gender studies. Initial appointment is for one year with possibility of renewal for a second year pending satisfactory performance and continued funding. The successful candidate will be involved in the organization and activities of the African Humanities Colloquium and may be able to teach one course each year with the approval of the Dean of the Faculty.

Eligible candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by the start of the appointment.
The salary for the position will depend on the number of years beyond the Ph.D., not to exceed five. The research associate or associate research scholar will also receive a modest research and travel fund and will be eligible for benefits.
To apply, please link to https://jobs.princeton.edu, position requisition number 1501047. Applications should include:
(1) cover letter with title and summary (200 words) of proposed research project;
(2) research proposal (five pages; 2,000 words), including detailed description of project, timetable, and explicit goals;
(3) selected bibliography;
(4) curriculum vitae and list of publications;
(5) sample chapter of the dissertation or other recent work;
(6) a suggested syllabus for a course; and
(7) names and contact information for three references from individuals who are not current members of the Princeton University faculty.

Application Deadline: February 29, 2016, 11:59 EST. Awards will be announced by March 31, 2016. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.
Questions about the application process for this position may be directed to Beate Witzler at bwitzler@princeton.edu.

Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,

Princeton Faculty Letter in Support of Student Protests

November 20, 2015

Dear President Eisgruber, Dean Dolan, Senior Administrators, and Members of the Board of Trustees:

As Princeton faculty, we write in support of our students who have occupied the President’s office and those supporting them across campus. These are difficult times. And there is a palpable sense that, even as we struggle together to make Princeton a better institution, students of color, particularly black students, all too often find themselves on the margins of this University.  They do not feel a sense of possession of “Old Nassau.” So, they are voicing their frustration and have presented demands to the leadership of our community.

They have done so with passion and intelligence and we support them. We urge you and the broader Princeton community to take this opportunity to reflect seriously on their demands.  Imagine how difficult it must be, for some, to have to live and learn in a place that celebrates people who believed passionately in white supremacy; to experience daily a sense of alienation and have no place to which to retreat and find comfort. Imagine the exhausting task of having to constantly educate your fellow classmates about the particulars of your experience and the complex histories that shape them. And, finally, imagine being told, in effect, “be quiet” and endure. Such experiences suggest that Princeton is not truly their University–that they are just passing through.

Our students are no longer quiet. They have forced all of us to confront the urgency of the moment. Princeton’s deliberate pace at reform often presupposes the sacrifice of those who must endure until we actually change. It’s a costly wager. These students refuse to wait. They have forced the conversation and now we must act. We stand with them as they struggle with the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson and its impact on this campus. We stand with them as they work to make Princeton a more inclusive community. And we stand with them as they seek an education that is consonant with the vast diversity of our nation and this world.

As faculty, we recall the long history on this campus of previous student actions, administrative responses, faculty votes, and the vast array of University task forces and committees charged with addressing elements of the core problems that remain before us today. This history and the reality of our current moment suggests to us the need for a different, bolder, more comprehensive kind of action on the part of University leaders. In addition, we call for a meeting of the faculty dedicated to the issue of faculty diversity. Like our students, we note with dismay the alarming paucity of faculty of color in our senior ranks. In order to create the kind of just, inclusive, and welcoming University community students are insisting upon, we desperately need a faculty that more closely reflects not only the demographic profile of the nation but of the undergraduate student body itself.

Substantive change isn’t always neat and civil. Democratic debate is often messy and full of passion. But it requires that we hear each other, that we respect the right of others to protest. Threats of disciplinary action send a terrible signal to our students about your commitment to them and to making Princeton a better place.

We believe we have an opportunity to model something for the nation as we stand with our students. We urge you to seize this opportunity. We urge you to see and hear them.  As they chanted:

We here
We been here
We ain’t leaving.

Signed,

Department of African American Studies Core Faculty:

Anna Arabindan Kesson, African American Studies & Art and Archaeology

Wendy Laura Belcher, African American Studies & Comparative Literature

Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., African American Studies & Religion

Joshua Guild, African American Studies & History

Tera Hunter, African American Studies & History

Naomi Murakawa, African American Studies

Kinohi Nishikawa, African American Studies & English

Chika O. Okeke-Agulu, African American Studies & Art and Archaeology

Imani Perry, African American Studies

Stacey Sinclair, African American Studies & Psychology

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American Studies

Princeton University Faculty, Fellows and Lecturers:

Ben Baer, Comparative Literature

Joao Biehl, Anthropology

Margot Canaday, History

Bruno Carvalho, Spanish and Portuguese

Miguel Centeno, Sociology

Garnet Chan, Chemistry

Zahid Chaudhary, English

Katie Chenoweth, French and Italian

Sarah Chihaya, English

Steven Chung, East Asian Studies

Andrew Cole, English

Alin Coman, Psychology & Woodrow Wilson School

Jessica Delgado, Religion

Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Spanish and Portuguese

Susan Draper, Comparative Literature

Lauren Emberson, Psychology

Karen Emmerich, Comparative Literature

Margaret Frye, Sociology

Paul Frymer, Politics

Robert George, Politics

Simon Gikandi, English

William Gleason, English

Tao Leigh Goffe, African American Studies

Javier Guerrero, Spanish and Portuguese

Tod Hamilton, Sociology

Elizabeth Harman, Philosophy & Center for Human Values

Brian Eugenio Herrera, Program in Theater & Lewis Center for the Arts

Erin Huang, East Asian Studies

Alison Isenberg, History

Desmond Jagmohan, Politics

Amaney Jamal, Politics

Justin Jungé, Psychology

Matthew Karp, History

Beatrice Kitzinger, Art and Archaeology

Emmanuel Kreike, History

Regina Kunzel, History & Gender and Sexuality Studies

Hendrik Lorenz, Philosophy

Nell Painter, History & African American Studies

Betsy Levy Paluck, Psychology & Woodrow Wilson School

Gyan Prakash, History

Rachel Price, Spanish and Portuguese

Bridget Purcell, Anthropology

Joe Scanlan, Visual Arts Program

Eldar Shafir, Psychology & Woodrow Wilson School

Irene Small, Art & Archaeology

LaFleur Stephens, Politics

Dara Strolovitch, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Diana Tamar, Psychology

Marta Tienda, Sociology & Woodrow Wilson School

Anastasia Mann, American Studies

Meredith Martin, English

Alecia McGregor, Woodrow Wilson School

Germán Labrador Méndez, Spanish and Portuguese

Angel Loureiro, Spanish and Portuguese

Jarvis McInnis, African American Studies

Pedro Meira Monteiro, Spanish and Portuguese

David Minto, History

Kathleen Nolan, Program in Teacher Preparation

Carolyn Rouse, Anthropology

Rory Truex, Politics & Woodrow Wilson School

Deborah Vischak, Art & Archaeology

Judith Weisenfeld, Religion

Keith Wailoo, History & Woodrow Wilson School

Max Weiss, History & Near Eastern Studies

Tamsen Wolff, English

Public presentation: Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in 20th-Century Nigeria

1:54 FORUM NY: Opening Remarks & Panel: Global Black Subjectivities

Just found this audio recording of the panel discussion organized by Koyo Kouoh (of Raw Material Company, Dakar) for 1:54 Forum, as part of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, 15-16 May 2015, at Pioneer Works, in Brooklyn, NYC. If you have the time and interest on black subjectivities and contemporary art, you are welcome to listen to it on Youtube.

Listen on Youtube

And BTW, here is a note I wrote in May following my trip to 1:54 Art Fair:

 Last week, I was at the 1:54 Forum, the superb discussion program of the Contemporary African Art Fair established a couple of years ago by Touria El Glaoui. 1:54 (the 54, referring to the number of African Countries) is arguably the most important platform for selling contemporary African art to the world, through the agency of art galleries invested in this field. By placing the Forum, organized by curator Koyo Kouoh, who runs the RAW Material Company in Dakar, at the very center of the fair program, Touria and Koyo signal in unmistakable terms their awareness that the fair, apart from serving as a metamarket for African art, has to join intellectual and scholarly groundwork needed to further break the barriers that have long kept this field--especially the work of artists working inside the continent--from reaching certain attractive realms of the art world.
In coming to New York, the art and money capital of the United States, which unfortunately has not been a particularly fertile ground for contemporary African art (as big as its art world is, only the first rate Jack Shainman and, to a lesser extent, Bill Karg's longer-running Contemporary African Art Gallery, and Skoto Gallery have kept continental African artists visible in the city's art scene) the organizers of the art fair seem poised to shake things up as never before.The question in the end is whether stakeholders--galleries and collectors from New York and elsewhere--will recognize the fair's potential and therefore identify with it in the coming years. My hope though is that the organizers of 1-54 keep faith with the work of supporting intellectual debates, artists' presentations and conversations anchored around its Forum. But also, I would like to see the fair expand its horizon beyond serving as platform for African art galleries. It ought to grow, to become the place where galleries in the African and black diaspora--whether they are in Europe, the Americas, Asia--can identify with. That is to say, let it become the Pan-African contemporary art fair. 

Class Day Photos, Art & Archaeology Department, Princeton

Tuesday, June 1 was Class Day, and this year was an especially good year with some fine especially theses for the (Program 1: Art History) and thesis exhibitions (for Program 2: Studio Art). And yes, some really smart young women and men. 

Chair, Michael Koortbojian address the audience

Professor Michael Koortbojian

 Here are samples of Honors Thesis and Thesis Exhibitions from Programs 1 & 2:

Phway Su Aye thesis on Yangon's colonial architectural heritage

Joseph Thomas Bonura's thesis on War Posters in America

Elizabeth Hall Rise on Social Surrealism in mid-20th-century America

Yael Wollstein's thesis on the French modernist Maurice Denis

Hoi Lam Helen Wong's investigative thesis on a carved stone fragment in the Princeton
Univ. Art Museum, from ancient Egypt

Joe Scanlan, Director & Professor of Visual Arts (Lewis Center for the Arts), presents
thesis exhibitions

Margaret Ann Craycraft's video, Labor Against Waste (in the background)

Kemy Chuxia Lin's Disorientations, an installation featuring multimedia evidence of her
documented trip to the moon

Amber Symone Stewart's Black Balance, a video and photographic installation on comparative blackness

Christopher Bogle Webb St. John's Bench, a multimedia installation on the relationship between object (Bench),
meaning and experience

Amber Stewart receives The Herbert L. Lucas Award in Visual Arts

Elizabeth Hall Rise receives The White Prize in Art and Archaeology, the top departmental prize. Ms. Rise also received the Grace May Tilton Prize in the Program in American Studies

Alison Kay Itzkowitz receives the Rensselear Lee Prize (for a thesis on art theory and literature)

Yael Wollstein receives The Irma S. Steiz Prize for the best thesis in the Field of Modern Art

Dalma Foldesi and Misha Semenov jointly received The Frederick Barnard White Prize in Architecture. Misha was Princeton's Valedictorian this year! 

Elizabeth Hall Rise receives The Federick Barnard White Prize in Art and Archaeology

Phway Su Aye receives The Senior Thesis Prize

Amber Stewart's grand father among the guests 

Public presentation of my book Postcolonial Modernism @ Goethe-Institut, Lagos, June 18

I am truly excited that there will be a public presentation of my newest book at the Goethe-Institut, Lagos on June 18. I am expecting friends new and old, and colleagues from far and near. Please come if you are in the vicinity of Lagos. Thanks to Marc-Andre Schmachtel, the Director of the GI, Lagos for making this possible!