The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT will host a fresh or recent social science Ph.D. to serve as Paul E. Raether postdoctoral teaching/research fellow for 2009-10. Supported by newly endowed funds for the Center, this postdoctoral fellow will teach one undergraduate course in each semester on the comparative issues and challenges facing American and world cities, preferably involving a comparative focus on African and/or Latin American cities. These courses will help meet the teaching needs in Trinity’s growing urban curriculum and be cross-listed between the department of the fellow’s discipline and another department/program. The successful fellow must have a Ph.D. in hand and already demonstrate strong evidence of published or publishable scholarship related to the above broad teaching focus. This fellow is expected to carry out his or her research and writing while actively participating in and assisting the Center's research activities. The position will carry a competitive salary and good benefits.

Interested candidates should consult the Center’s website (www.trincoll.edu/UG) and contact:

Xiangming Chen
Dean and Director,
The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel: 860-297-5175; Fax: 860-297-5172
Email: Xiangming.Chen@trincoll.edu

All applicants for the Paul E. Raether Postdoctoral Teaching/Research Fellowship at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT for the 2008-09 academic year should submit the requisite materials as enumerated below. All submissions should be sent - electronically, if possible - to:

Xiangming Chen
(Xiangming.Chen@trincoll.edu),
Dean and Director,
The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106

ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED BY APRIL 20, 2009 AND MUST BE COMPRISED OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. A detailed application letter stating teaching and research interests and expertise;
   
2. A complete Curriculum Vitae;
   
3. A writing sample, preferably a published or forthcoming journal article, or a crucial chapter of the dissertation;
   
4. Two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the primary dissertation advisor;
   
5. Sample syllabi for two undergraduate courses that relate to and reflect the applicant’s research interest and expertise: One course could focus on the economic, political, and cultural aspects of the American city from a comparative perspective, while the other course should deal with globalization and cities in the developing world, preferably involving African and/or Latin American cities.

Faculty Section Committee:

Vijay Prashad, the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies; Brigitte Schulz, Associate Professor of Political Science; Kristin Triff, Associate Professor of Fine Arts; James Wen, Professor of Economics and International Studies

About our Visiting Scholar for 2008-09

Dr. Ahmed Kanna, who received his doctorate in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2006 and served as a postdoctral fellow at the University of Iowa during 2006-08, is the first Visiting Fellow at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College during 2008-09. Dr. Kanna is the editor of The Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2009) and author of Dubai: Architecture as Everyday Practice and Theory on the Neoliberal Frontier (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). He taught Introduction to Urban Anthropology at Trinity in fall 2008 and is teaching The Making of Modern Dubai in spring 2009.

We wish Dr. Kanna, a fine scholar and friend, the very best as he will leave Trinity at the end of July to become Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of the Pacific in California.

Xiangming Chen

Dean and Director

The Center for Urban and Global Studies

Raether Distinguished Professor of Sociology

and International Studies