The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis invites applications from all disciplines for post-doctoral resident fellowships to be held during the academic year of 2010-2011 from individuals working on topics related to Narratives of Power.

Inspired by the election of Barack Obama, this two-year seminar invites a broad historical meditation on the significance of historically marginal and disfranchised groups moving from the periphery to the center of social, political and cultural institutions. This topical theme creates an opportunity for an expansive, interdisciplinary dialogue about intersection, overlap, and conflict across different channels of power and identity, including race, gender, sexuality and class. We welcome scholars from all disciplines, global regions, and time periods for a wide-ranging exploration of themes of identity, narration and power.

The 2010-11 year of Narratives of Power focuses on material issues of Politics, Economics, and Identity. Possible topics of inquiry include social welfare; immigration; deindustrialization; policing and punishment; labor; non-governmental organizations; formal, informal, and underground economy. In this new era, we are mindful of how domestic social and economic policy is inextricably linked to changing concepts of citizenship, national belonging, and global integration. Therefore, we also welcome transnational research focusing on slavery, economic development, modernization, neoliberalism, foreign policy, imperialism, and militarization. In its subsequent year, Narratives of Power will focus on issues of Culture, Everyday Life, and Identity Formation.

Rutgers is an AA/EOE institution. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Not limited to recent Ph.D.s. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2010. Applicants and those interested in presenting a paper related to this project during 2010/2011 should contact the project directors: Profs. Donna Murch and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 88 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8542 USA. Email rcha@rci.rutgers.edu, or visit http://rcha.rutgers.edu