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Michigan Society of Fellows, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Deadline: 1 October 2007

The Michigan Society of Fellows

2008-2011 Postdoctoral Fellowships Application
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/faculty_staff/sof/
Deadline: 1 October 2007

The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate
School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford
Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. The most distinctive
aspect of the Society is a multidisciplinary emphasis which gives the
Fellows an opportunity to interact across disciplines and to expand their
horizons and knowledge. While their own scholarship is enriched, the Fellows
also enrich the University of Michigan through teaching during their
residency and bringing new insights to other faculty members. Each year the
Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year
fellowships in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the
professional schools. In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add
three Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of
fellowships awarded each year from four to seven. The newly appointed
Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of
their peers as well as Senior Fellows. Past Fellows of the Society include
some of the most distinguished scholars in the nation. The Chair of the
Society is Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University
Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures at the University of Michigan.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who are at the beginning of
their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional
or artistic degree between June 1, 2005 and September 1, 2008. Fellows are
appointed as Assistant Professors in appropriate departments at the
University of Michigan and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society
of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence during the academic years
of the fellowship, to teach for the equivalent of one academic year, to
participate in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote
time to their independent research. The annual stipend will be $50,000.

Applications from degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from The
University of Michigan will not be considered.

Please see our online application instructions, or send requests for
application materials to our contact information.