Other Globalizations: Histories, Trans-regionalisms, and Cultural Formations Resident Fellowship program funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES announces a new fellowship program entitled Other Globalizations: Histories, Trans-regionalisms, and Cultural Formations. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation as one of its Resident Fellowships in the Humanities and the Study of Culture, the program will offer two or more fellowships per year to visiting scholars beginning in Fall 2003, and continuing for a total of three years. The deadline for the third and final group of applications is February 4, 2005.

Globalization—whether conceived as a historical period, a concept, a political position, or simply a scholarly orientation— has been formative in shaping work in the humanities and social sciences over the past decade. Originally centered in the United States, the discourse of globalization is now as important in scholarship in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere. This project starts from the premise that the current period is not the latest stage in the long durée of globalization, but one of many globalizations in history, and of a particular and distinctive kind. “Other Globalizations” raises questions of temporality: when and under what circumstances have globalizing processes developed? It pays attention to location, space, and scale: how is “globalization” continuous or disjunctive with other region-making or network-forming processes? The project invites scholarly work on moments of globalization that predate the contemporary era, that never entered the world historical stage under the sign of the global, or that are occluded or overlooked in dominant discourses of contemporary globalism. We encourage focus on a variety of transnational, transcultural, or trans-regional phenomena through categories of analysis developed in contemporary globalization theory. We welcome projects which expand the concept of globalization by thinking about certain historical trajectories—conventionally understood through the models of diffusion, influence, or dissemination, centered on empires and nation-states—as traces of perduring and uneven processes of globalization.

Research projects should involve global or trans-regional phenomena. We expect that most applicants will be from history, literature, art history, cultural studies, anthropology, or related disciplines. All prospective applicants should be committed to dialogue and exchange with scholars working on areas other than their own, and to participation in formal and informal conversations that cross disciplines and fields. We anticipate offering two year-long fellowships each year, with a stipend of $40,000; fellowships of shorter duration may also be arranged.

FACILITIES
The Center for Cultural Studies is located in Oakes College, one of UC Santa Cruz’s residential colleges, with a beautiful view of Monterey Bay. Offices come with computers with ethernet connections and telephones. Fellows will have borrowing privileges at the UC Santa Cruz and other UC libraries, and we can also arrange for borrowing privileges at the Stanford University library. Other amenities include on-campus recreational facilities, an internet and email account, and a free bus pass. The Center does not provide housing, but can put fellows in contact with on-campus and local listing agencies.

ELIGIBILITY
The fellowship is designed for humanities scholars—history, literature, film and video, philosophy, art history, religious studies, area studies, et al.— who work in the field of globalization, broadly defined, and whose projects accord with the Center’s theme. We expect most applicants to be university faculty members, but will also consider independent scholars, journalists, or government or NGO officials who have scholarly projects. The fellowship does not support dissertation research. Candidates are expected to propose projects that will result in a substantial publication. The evaluation committee will favor candidates who can contribute to the intellectual life of the campus through exchange, colloquium participation, and collaboration. For this reason, fellows are expected to reside in the Santa Cruz area during the term of their fellowship.

STIPENDS
The Center will provide a stipend of $40,000 for one academic year (Sept.­June, pro-rated for shorter periods), plus medical and life insurance (subject to terms of appointment). Summer office space is usually available, but the fellowship does not include a summer stipend.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
A complete application will consist of four sets of materials arranged in the following order:

• A copy of the completed single-page application form
• A curriculum vitae
• A description of the research project (approximately 1000 words) and a bibliography. The project description should give a clear sense of the objectives and importance of the project, its relation to previously published work in its field, and its relevance to the theme of “Other Globalizations.”
• An optional writing sample (article or book chapter).

Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to the Center by the application deadline. They should address the applicant’s scholarly achievements, qualifications for this project, and the relationship of this project to the “Other Globalizations“ theme.

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Application deadline: February 4, 2005.

Contact:
Stephanie Casher, Program Manager
Center for Cultural Studies, Oakes College,
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA.
Phone: 831-459-1274; fax 831-459-1349;
email: cult@ucsc.edu.