Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities

[Hank Hancock]

Receipt deadline: December 15, 2009

http://hrc.rice.edu/MedPDCall.aspx

The Humanities Research Center at Rice University (Houston TX) will
award one Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Medical
Humanities for a two-year appointment beginning July 1, 2010. The
second year’s appointment is contingent on successful review of first
year’s performance. The Fellow will receive a stipend of $40,000 per
year, plus benefits eligibility, as well as an allowance for research
and relocation. In consultation with a faculty mentor, the Fellow will
develop an introductory-level interdisciplinary medical humanities
course that will be taught once each year of the fellowship. In
addition, the Fellow will collaborate with the faculty mentor to
develop a year-long series of lunch lectures with invited outside
speakers, to be held at Rice and at nearby medical institutions. The
Fellow will be expected to make significant progress in research, and
to present that research at a lunch lecture.

The fellowship recipient will also participate in the intellectual
life of the center by sharing research activities through a brown bag
series with other HRC fellows. Applicants should describe how their
research project would contribute to the intellectual community at
Rice, and in particular how it would contribute to medical humanities
faculty research activity in the School of Humanities.

Engagement with research problems and methods across disciplinary
boundaries is expected, and a background in history, philosophy, art
history, media studies, or literature would be especially welcome.

EEO/AA. This fellowship will be awarded pending funding.

See the website for further information and applications instructions.

US Mail:
Humanities Research Center - MS 620
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892

Deliveries:
Humanities Research Center - MS 620
Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston TX 77005