CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 155 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

June 18, 2021September 1, 2021

Fellows and Interns Wanted (Research to Policy Collaboration)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

This opportunity allows junior scholars to gain hands-on experience applying empirical information to the needs of federal public policymakers. This position can be adapted to meet a range of professional development goals, including supporting fieldwork requirements and student milestones. The purpose of this position is to support the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) by

a) joining meetings with legislative staff and the RPC coordinator

b) organizing requests for research-based information

c) organizing a response to requests using a network-based approach for voluntarily mobilizing research experts

June 18, 2021September 1, 2021

Job: Administrative Assistant, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies (UT Austin)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Position assists department’s executive assistant, assistant director, and outreach coordinator with administrative duties.

Currently, staff are working remotely. However, staff are expected to return to campus starting in August 2021.

June 18, 2021September 1, 2021

Washington D.C. Congressional Policy Postdoctoral Scholar

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Program Description

The Research-to-Policy Collaboration invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar interested in a career at the research-policy nexus supporting the translation of scientific evidence to policymakers. This exciting opportunity would support an embedded policy fellowship placement to train a Policy Associate who would be responsible for implementing an effective, replicable and non-partisan model for brokering researchers and policymakers—known as the Research-to-Policy Collaboration model.

June 18, 2021September 1, 2021

Acad. Job: Postdoctoral Researcher – Researcher-to-Policy Collaboration Optimization

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Location Remote

Duration 12 months (100% time) with possibility of renewal based on need and performance

Position Description

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher (Postdoc) appointment that will support the optimization of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC; research2policy.org). Housed in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), the RPC is an approach for facilitating partnerships between researchers and congressional officials in ways that are thought to support policymakers’ use of research evidence. This optimization study will examine how augmenting the RPC’s ability to cultivate empowering settings can increase policy engagement, influence, and benefits, particularly for researchers of color. The scholar selected for this position will collect and analyze in-depth qualitative data from researchers involved in the RPC via semi-structured interviews and focus groups.

June 18, 2021October 4, 2021

Acad. Job: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cognitive Linguistics (Arctic University of Norway)

Deadline: September 1, 2021

One Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Cognitive Linguistics is available in the Department of Language and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The position is affiliated with the CLEAR research group (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian

June 18, 2021September 1, 2021

Acad. Job: Researcher with focus on Gender Equity in Public Health Data Systems (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Candidate sought to fill a Researcher role (funding pending) in the Department of Health, Behavior & Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The candidate will be part of the Gender Equity Core of the Data for Health Initiative, a global project focused on improving public health data systems. While funding is pending for this project, it is highly likely. Funding will be through March 2023 with the possibility of a two-year renewal.

June 15, 2021September 1, 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship in 19th Century Russian Literature and Culture (University of Bologna)

Deadline: June 30, 2021

The “Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities” (NONWESTLIT) Project, funded by the European Research Council, is hiring a full-time post-doctoral researcher in 19th century Russian literature and culture.

Job description:

* Conduct and publish high-quality research within the framework of NONWESTLIT.

* Co-responsibility in the collection of data, their analysis and interpretation.

* Collaborate closely with other researchers in the project.

* Disseminate results from NONWESTLIT at international conferences and in high-quality academic outlets.

* Participation in research administration and the organization of project’s related events (e.g., webinars and workshops).

* The position provides opportunities to advance the candidate’s own research agenda within the framework of the project, including research related travel opportunities.

* Starting date: 1 September 2021 or later. One-year contracts, renewable for the duration of the project (2021-2026).

June 15, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Gender and Materiality in Central and Eastern Europe in the XX Century (International Interdisciplinary Conference, France)

Deadline: August 15, 2021

“The political struggle is also a cultural struggle, a struggle for the reappropriation and
transformation of symbols of the dominant” wrote Christine Bard in her work Une histoire
politique du pantalon revisiting the methodology of history of fashion and highlighting the
symbolic function of clothes (Bard 2010). Since the 1980s, the material culture studies have developed into a solid forum of interdisciplinary research in which anthropologists,
archeologists, geographers, sociologists, literary scholars, and more recently historians, play a central role. Scholars have theorized the role of things in power relations (Bourdieu 1979), agency of material things (Gell 1998), and the ability of objects to construct, maintain, reinforce and transform social identities (Miller and Tilley 1996). Objects are important notably because we do not “see” them, the less we notice them, the more important they are in the way they determine our expectations by setting the scene and defining and ensuring normative behavior (Miller 2005 5). Thus, objects that constitute the material culture have the capacity to determine our behavior and identity by remaining at the same time peripheral to our vision.

June 15, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Bobby R Inman Award for Student Scholarship on Intelligence

Deadline: June 30, 2021

The June 30th deadline for submitting papers in the 7th annual Inman Award competition is rapidly approaching!

This competition recognizes the best student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the Inman Award will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open to unpublished work by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree programs at accredited U.S. higher education institutions during the 2020-21 academic year.

June 15, 2021October 4, 2021

CFP: Enduring Influence: Classical Exemplars from the Medieval to the Modern Era

Deadline: September 30, 2021

The Classics have exerted a profound influence on world culture from the medieval period to the present day. Scores of literary works have drawn upon the intellectual and literary models of Classical authors as well as the rich trove of pagan legends and myths. This appropriation of classical and mythological themes and personalities allows authors to exploit deep hermeneutical potential and invest their works with cultural resonance, often endowing the original exemplar with a novel, vivid representation. The figures of Antiquity, both historical and mythological, have endured to serve as exemplars to many ends. Authors use these exemplars to praise or criticize their literary subjects’ actions, invite their readers to engage emotionally with the text, subvert traditional associations with these figures, and fashion new identities for their literary subjects or for themselves. All of these uses and many more demonstrate the enduring influence of the Classics and the exemplarity of the figures of Antiquity through the modern day.