The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, is pleased to announce the Margaret Jones PhD Studentship in Ethnology & Folklore.

Applications are invited for a three-year, fully-funded PhD studentship in Ethnology and Folklore - Scottish Traditions - commencing September 2012.

Description

The studentship is funded by a bequest to the University Development Trust and applications will be considered from candidates wishing to explore one of the following areas through original fieldwork:

·        Crafts, e.g. boatbuilding in the North of Scotland

·        Traditional music in Scotland, e.g. ballad singing

·        Narratology, e.g. emigrant or diasporic narratives

The successful candidate will contribute to a diverse team of students and researchers in the Institute. The studentship covers tuition fees at Home/EU rate and includes an annual stipend, payable for three years, at a level above that provided by relevant UK Research Councils (£13,595 for 2011/12). The successful candidate will be required to undertake relevant archival work for the Institute equating to an average of six hours per week in term time.

The research will be supervised by Prof. Ian Russell, Director of the Elphinstone Institute, drawing on the support of other staff as well as the archival resources of the Institute and the University's Department of Historic Collections. There is also a postgraduate program of seminars in Anthropology, Ethnology, and Cultural History in which the successful candidate can participate.

Eligibility

This studentship is available to UK and EU nationals with Home/EU fee status.

For full details, see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/funding/details.php?funding_id=166.

Tom McKean

Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

Scholarships

For those that are interested, the scholarship deadline is tomorrow, February 24, 2012.

To be considered for one of these financial awards, please submit an application please click here, a letter of application that addresses the criteria below, transcripts, and a CV (curriculum vitae) to Prof. Evelyn Funda’s mailbox no later than 12 noon on Friday, February 24. You should present evidence of your achievements in the CV and you should also highlight and comment on the CV in a letter that supports your application. The letter is also a chance to discuss your career goals. 

The letter should be addressed to the Graduate Advisory Committee and it should be no more than two pages long, single-spaced, set in 11- or 12-point typeface, with margins of at least an inch all around. For help with creating a CV, see pp. 9-13 of the first issue of In Medias Res: A Grad Newsletter, which is linked off the main English website: http://newenglish.usu.edu/inmediasres.aspx.

Note: There will probably not be enough scholarships and tuition awards to make offer to all who apply. The GAC will make awards based on how well applicants’ letters and CVs demonstrate that they have met, or are meeting, criteria similar to those that academics are asked to meet throughout their careers.

To read more about how to apply for this scholarship, please click here.

Am I eligible for the Alumni Legacy Nonresident Waiver (for children of USU alumni)?

Please click the link below for information about the Alumni Legacy Nonresident Waiver.

http://www.usu.edu/admissions/legacy/

What is the "Binding Fees card" (one of the last steps required before your degree is posted) and how do I get it signed?

The following link will give you the instructions needed for the "Binding Fees card".

http://library.usu.edu/etd/includes/LibraryRequirementChecklist.pdf

Eastern Arizona College

Position Opening Notice

English Composition Instructor

Eastern Arizona College’s District Offices are located in Thatcher, Arizona, a beautiful rural area with easy access to arid as well as mountainous recreation. The College is located approximately 125 miles northeast of Tucson and 165 miles southeast of Phoenix. EAC is a comprehensive community college offering five associate degrees across nearly 50 programs of study. During 2010-2011, the College served over 10,000 students. The institution's annual budget exceeds $59 million. Eastern Arizona College is the oldest member of the Arizona Community College system and is fully accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of NCA.

Please click here to find out more about this position!!

CFP: New Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper

The Graduate Student Section of the American Folklore Society would like to invite submissions for the first annual Kara Nicole Bayless Best Graduate Student Paper Prize. This paper competition is held in memory of Kara Nicole Bayless, a graduate student within the department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University who passed away on October 16th, 2010 shortly after returning from the American Folklore Society annual meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee.

Prize: The recipient of the Kara Nicole Bayless Best Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition will receive $100 and a one-year membership to AFS.

Submission requirements:

• This paper competition is open for graduate students only. Students must be currently enrolled within a graduate level degree program prior to receiving their PhD. Submissions by PhD candidates are accepted.
• Graduate students interested in submitting for the paper competition must be current members of the graduate student section of AFS.
• The theme for the paper competition will rotate each year to correspond with the theme of the current AFS annual meeting theme. The theme for the 2012 competition will be "The Continuity and Creativity of Culture." The paper competition theme will always be synchronous with the current theme of the AFS annual meeting.

For more information about the prize requirements and submission instructions, see the Graduate Student Section page.

Deadline: Submissions must be received by September 25.

Email Matthew Hale with any questions or comments at either matthew.hale0009@gmail.com or at knbbspp@gmail.com.

New Prize: Newfolk@AFS to award Bill Ellis Prize for best graduate student essay

The NewFolk@AFS Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the first annual Bill Ellis Prize competition. The prize will be awarded to the best graduate student essay that combines research and analysis on folklore, broadly construed, and digital culture, popular culture, or new media. The prize carries an honorarium of $100. The winning essay will normally be submitted for publication in the section’s journal, New Directions in Folklore. All unpublished research papers written within two years of the deadline on the desired topic are eligible. Students must submit their own essays. Previously published essays are not eligible for the competition.

Applicants must be members of the NewFolk@AFS Section at the time of submission (join today: https://afsnet.site-ym.com/store/default.asp). Electronic submission of essays is required. The deadline for the annual competition is September 1. Essays should be sent to David J. Puglia. Limit one submission per person. Three judges who are members of the American Folklore Society, the NewFolk@AFS Section, and the New Directions in Folklore editorial board will evaluate the submissions. The winner will be announced at the annual section meeting. Please contact prize committee chairs David J. Puglia and Trevor J. Blank with any questions.

CANCELING FEBRUARY BROWN BAG

Hey Everyone!!

I'm sorry to deliver bad news, but we are canceling this months brown bag that was schedule for Feb 15. We are currently swamped with new applicants for our grad program. We will be having a March brown bag so look for the announcement soon!

Thank you!

English Grad Program

AWSF

The Association of Western States Folklorists (AWSF) invites applicants for its scholarship entitled The Bea Roeder Fund: For the Future of Public Folklore in the West.

This fund, named in honor of the late Western folklorist Bea Roeder, provides support for graduate and undergraduate students and community scholars with demonstrated interest in a career in public folklore in the American West, to attend the annual AWSF meeting. AWSF has established this Fund as a way to celebrate Bea¹s life and work and to create opportunities for networking and professional development for a new generation of public folklorists and cultural workers. The fund is administered by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) on behalf of AWSF.

The fund will provide the recipient(s) up to $400 to be used to attend the annual AWSF conference, to be held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, from April 15-18, 2012. Applications are available on the AWSF blog (www.awsf.wordpress.com), and will soon be available on the ACTA website.

Applications need to be postmarked or emailed by February 23, 2012. To learn more about AWSF, see http://awsf.wordpress.com/. For more information about the scholarship, please contact Nelda Ault at neldarenae@gmail.com or 435-792-0324.

To make a contribution to the Bea Roeder Fund, you many contact Amy Kitchener at 559-237-9813 or akitch@actaonline.org.*

Moore’s Thesis Recognized by Dean of Graduate School

Mark McClellan, who serves as the USU’s Vice President for Research & Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, has offered his congratulations for a job well done to Bonnie Moore for her thesis “Creating Space & Place: The Life of a Morman Polygamous Woman, Amy Teresa Leavitt.” As a part of his oversight and approval of graduate degrees, McClellan regularly chooses a thesis or dissertation to read, and in an email to Bonnie, McClelland writes that this semester, “Yours was the thesis that I selected to read and review. I very much enjoyed the analysis of Ms. Leavitt's life. Your insights to the emergence, proliferation and ending of polygamy was well framed. Your prose was both enjoyable and insightful. It kept me glued to the thesis while enjoying the analysis you provided.  The life story of Ms. Leavitt was intriguing and caused me to raise questions of curiosity throughout.”

Summer English Teaching

From Eric Sims
Global Academy Coordinator
Office of Global Engagement Hello, Dr. Funda,

The Academic Tracks of the Global Academy program is are now hiring instructors for our morning intensive English instruction program component.  A proposal is not necessary, rather it is a more traditional application (resume, cover letter, references, student employment referral).  The Graduate English Instructor (Dept. Global Engagement) position is currently posted on the On-Campus job board, and we are accepting applications.  It will remain posted through next Friday, the 17th.  See http://www.usu.edu/studemp/oncampus/jobboard.php

Join in again for the February Brown Bag Lunch with Evelyn.  

Date:
February 15, 2011

Time: 12:30 – 2:00

Place: RBW 308 

Bring your own lunch. A small treat will be provided.

May I still apply for Fall admission if I’ve missed the January 15 deadline?

January 15 is the first deadline for Fall admission to the graduate program; however, our department works under a rolling admission period.  Admissions committees continue to review files for applications throughout the Spring semester. You must have your file complete and ready for distribution to admission committees before the end of Spring semester. This is because faculty disperse during the summer to work on various research projects, and they will not be available to review files. Application files that are completed after May 15 will be considered for admission in the following Spring semester. Regarding the distribution of Graduate Instructorship (GIs), students who complete applications by the January 15 deadline and who express an interest in a graduate instructorship will be considered in the first distribution of those instructor openings. Openings are limited.  Later applicants will may still be eligible for instructorships, but will be considered in the second pool of GI-applicants. GI positions are distributed based on quality, promise for good work in the classroom, as well as available openings.

Planning to Graduate Current Semester with a Plan C degree?

To do so, you must fill out a Plan C Completion of Requirements for before the deadline (see below).  A Plan C Completion of Requirements form simply alerts that School of Graduate Studies that you plan to graduate during a given term. It needs to be signed by your major professor (chair of Supervisory Committee).  The form is available here. After your chair has signed the form, send the original to Joan Rudd, School of Graduate Studies (drop off at Old Main, room 164; campus mail to UMC 0900; or mail to USU School of Grad Studies, 0900 Old Main Hill, 84322-0900).  Also drop off a copy of the signed original in Dr. Funda’s mailbox or send to her campus address (Dept of English, USU, 3200 Old Main Hill, Logan UT 84322-3200).

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!

The School of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the Dr. Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Graduate Fellowship for underrepresented and international doctoral students. A $5,000 award for the 2012-13 Academic Year is avaliable.  Click here to find out more about this fellowship, the application, the purpose, and requirements.

The SGS is also announcing the funding opportunity for the doctoral students expecting to graduate during the 2012-13 Academic Year. Click here to find out more about this fellowship, the application, the purpose, and requirements.

Please not that the deadline for these fellowships are April 1, 2012.