Strategic Working Group: Critical Prison Studies in an Age of Mass Incarceration

The Townsend Center’s Strategic Working Group program (SWG), generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is designed to concentrate on foundational questions and emerging conditions in the humanities. The expectation is to reconnect the humanistic disciplines with changing historical circumstances and emerging areas of knowledge; to bring basic humanistic questions to bear on a world shaped by new social and scientific developments; and to explore the ways in which dynamic historical forces in turn compel humanists to re-think fundamental questions.

The Townsend Center is accepting faculty applications for participation in the 2012-13 Strategic Working Group on Critical Prison Studies in an Age of Mass Incarceration. The co-conveners of the SWG will be Keith P. Feldman (Ethnic Studies), Marcial Gonzalez (English).

Full Strategic Working Group description

Eligibility

All ladder-rank faculty at UC Berkeley are eligible to apply.

Please note: The Strategic Working Group meets during the spring 2013 semester.

Grant Provision

Participants will receive a 50% research leave from teaching responsibilities for the spring semester (one course). The level of course replacement funding is set at the Assistant Professor level, Step 2, as determined by the Arts and Humanities Dean’s Office. Detailed information on the Townsend Center course replacement funds policy can be found on the Townsend Center’s website.

Deadlines

March 1, 2012 – received by 5:00pm

Application Materials

Download the 2012-13 Strategic Working Group, Stage 2 guidelines and application:
PDF
Microsoft Word

For questions about the program, please contact The Townsend Center Fellowships Administrator at townsend_fellowships@berkeley.edu or 510-643-8082.