Post-Doctoral Fellowship

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2008-2009 Academic Year

Application Deadline: March 14, 2008

Beginning in January, 2008, the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism (DCC) will welcome applications for a one-year DCC Postdoctoral Fellow in any discipline whose research is pertinent to the Program's 2008-2009 theme, "Civic Representaiton, Elections, and Public Opinion."  The Program welcomes both empirical and normative scholarship.

The Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism program is an interdisciplinary initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which includes a faculty seminar series and annual conference on themes chosen by the Program's Faculty Advisory Council; a graduate workshop series; and undergraduate research grants. The DCC Postdoctoral Fellow is expected to participate in the faculty seminar series, teach a Freshman Seminar on a related topic, and joint monthly meetings to discuss the progress of undergraduates receiving research grants. The Fellow also has the opportunity to pursue the Fellow's research and study and participate generally in the intellectual life of the Penn community. Stipend is $53,800, plus health insurance.

Eligibility is limited to applicants who will have received their Ph.D. within five years prior to the time they begin their fellowship at Penn (i.e. May 2003 or later). Application deadline: March 14, 2008.

For guidelines and applications, view the online document or write to:

Office of the Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
116 College Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6377

For more information on the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, contact DCC Program Chair Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, rogerss@sas.upenn.edu.

The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

The 2007-2008 DCC Postdoctoral Fellow is Karolina Szmagalska-Follis.

Ms. Szmagalska-Follis wrote her doctoral thesis in the Department of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research.  It examines the transformation of Poland’s border with Ukraine into an external boundary of the European Union. Her work explores how the new paradigm in EU border and immigration policy is related to the entire political project of constructing an integrated European Community. Approaching this issue from the perspective of a marginal Eastern European location allows her to draw attention to some of the contradictions of EU integration which have a profound effect on lives lived near and across borders. At Penn she will be working on a project entitled “What is at Stake in Being Legal? Borders, citizenship and the new legal subjectivities in Europe”.

KAROLINA SZMAGALSKA-FOLLIS