Center for the Study of the American South

Application

The UNC-Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the history, culture, or society of the American South, to begin July 1, 2010. The award will support an outstanding junior scholar in the revision of a book-length manuscript for publication in a field related to the South, broadly construed to include the states of the former Confederacy and adjoining areas. We especially welcome proposals that will utilize the special collections of the UNC-CH Library or other research collections of the Triangle area, and explicitly engage issues of southern regional identity or distinctiveness.

Long Civil Rights Initiative

The Southern Oral History Program is participating in a three-year collaboration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that focuses on the “Long Civil Rights Movement” of the 1930s to the 1990s. In support of this goal, the selection committees for 2009-10 and 2010-11 will be especially interested in applications dealing with the theme of civil rights in the American South. The SOHP’s partners in the Long Civil Rights initiative are the University Library, the Center for Civil Rights at the Law School, and the University of North Carolina Press. The project is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (Click here to read more about the Long Civil Rights initiative.)

Support

The fellowship provides a salary of $42,500 plus health insurance and $3,000 in research and travel funds. The fellow may arrange to teach no more than one course at UNC during the fellowship term.

Requirements

Applicants must have received the Ph.D. prior to the beginning of the fellowship year and no more than four years before the year begins. Scholars who have received tenure, published a previous scholarly book, or signed a book publication contract (except with UNC Press) are not eligible. The CSAS Fellowship is a residential award, so Fellows are expected to reside in the Chapel Hill area and take an active part in the intellectual life of the Center.

Publication

Acceptance commits the Fellow to submit her or his revised manuscript to UNC Press and to grant the Press the right of first refusal. Consideration will follow the established peer-review procedures of the Press.

Applications:

Applications are due Friday, February 12, 2010, and consist of four hard copies of the following:

cover sheet
curriculum vitae
three letters of recommendation
three- to five-page description of the project, including plans for revision of the existing manuscript
writing sample from the project of no more than thirty pages.

Following selection, each Fellow must submit a hard copy of the existing manuscript. Notification will come no earlier than April 1, 2010.

Send applications to:
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southern Studies
The Center for the Study of the American South
Love House and Hutchins Forum
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
410 E. Franklin Street, CB# 9127
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127

If you have additional questions, call (919) 962-5665.