Rachel Carson Center Munich: Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships for 2010-2011 in Environment and History

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 after the deadline. Please send applications electronically (only!) in PDF or Word format via e-mail or mail copies to

Rachel Carson Center

Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships

80802 München

Germany

CarsonCenter@lmu.de

For more information about the Rachel Carson Center visit the website at www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de.