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Location: Munich, Germany
Source: The Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative
of Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously
supported by the German Ministry for Research and Education
(Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), the Rachel Carson Center’s
major goal is to further research and discussion in the field of
international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the
humanities in the current political and scientific debates about the
environment. Special emphasis is being placed on international, comparative
and historical perspectives. The Center is designed to bring together
academics from all over the world who work on the complex relationship of
nature and culture across disciplines. Individual projects will focus on
different time periods and different geographic areas. The institute is conceived
as a national and international think tank that discusses and analyzes the
role of human actors and the role of nature
in this relationship.
The Rachel Carson Center invites applications for its
2010-11 class of postdoctoral and senior fellows. The program, directed by
Professor Christof Mauch of Munich University and Professor Helmuth Trischler
of the Deutsches Museum is designed to bring to Munich a cohort of excellent
scholars working in environmental history and related professional disciplines.
The Center will award fellowships to scholars from around
the globe and from a variety of disciplines. Research and writing of
applicants should pertain to one (or more) of the topics that will be at the
core of the Center’s 2010-2011 research agenda:
- Resource Use and Conservation
- Transformation of Landscapes
- Knowledge and Knowledge Societies
- Natural Disasters and Cultures of Risk
The fellowships will usually be granted for periods of 6, 9 or 12 months but
they can also be granted for 3 months or be broken up into individual 3 month
periods. Fellows are expected to be in residence and to work on a major
research project as well as to engage within peers and senior fellows at the
Carson Center, and to contribute to programs at the Center.
The Carson Center will pay for a replacement of the successful candidate at
his or her home institution; alternatively it will pay a fellowship that is commensurate with experience and current employment.
The deadline for applications is March 15, 2010.
Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a copy of your
last diploma, project description (3,000 word maximum), research schedule for
the fellowship period, and the names of three scholars who might serve as
references. While applicants may write in either English or German, we
recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. They
will be notified about the outcome within approximately two months of the
deadline given above. Please send applications electronically (only!) in PDF
or Word format via e-mail
or mail copies.
Contact Info:
Rachel Carson Center
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships
Leopoldstraße 11a
80802 München
Germany
Email: CarsonCenter@lmu.de
Phone: (0049) 89 2180 72352
Fax: (0049) 89 2180 72353
URL: http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Deadline: 15 March 2010
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