Not a critique of Dorot trustees who have every right to set priorities--and I remain incredibly grateful for support I received directly and indirectly from them at an early stage of my career. Sad that state of the (Jewish) world makes long-term investments less pressing than immediate concerns.
Dorot Foundation is winding down endowment over next 8 years to deal with pressing, urgent issues. Already shifted focus from academic Jewish studies and culture but still supporting a few institutions in these areas. So another loss of a funding source for research/culture. #JewishStudies
Any chance of zoom/virtual for those of us who can't be in Cologne?
Amazing lecture series!
I think Vance and the Pope are having a theological argument not a historical one. Theologians can theologize about the nature of a true Christian (Scotsman), n'est-ce pas?
even crazier, 4 other colleges would get together and start that college together.
I think it is mainly a real estate arrangement (lease or owning part of the land and the building). Someone should correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think the Yiddish Book Center is formally part of Hampshire. (Still sad news for higher ed.)
If a targeted search, fine, but keep to the minimal listings (college site, local paper, whatever your internal policy/legal requirements ask); if not a targeted search and you really want a national pool, explain in the ads why the positions are based in those cities. 2/2
the UK case (Theology and Religious Studies intertwined and structure of undergrad studies) seems worrisome but not directly relevant to the US-Canada situation.
This is great to hear but definitely downplayed in AHA communications.
E-journals as the default for prof org membership is fine. But the lack of an easy-to-skim version not so fine. AHA--please let me read AHR on my ipad w/o having to download each article/review 1 by 1 from OUP's website. Let me browse the range of scholarship in the discipline. @historians.org
Association for #JewishStudies members-- please read the email from the president of the organization today and vote/proxy vote yes.
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Thanks for sharing this!
Would that emoji have come into existence without 18th-century coffeehouses?
Ancient AI? Looking forward to this talk next week at the University of Pittsburgh. #ReligiousStudies #Pitt
I "heart" this in appreciate of your comment not expressing love for the situation. You and your colleagues did good work with the limited funds and that makes all this more tragic.
US support for humanities research, #8. Limiting to American history & the fictional construct of "Western civ" doesn't mean that there isn't good, critical, non-partisan, non-cheerleading scholarship going on that is eligible for these grants. Will they be funded? Ah, who know?
US support for humanities research, #7. A community of researchers working together/in tandem on interesting research problems that require resources & time. Say, what NIH/NSF fund. NEH not likely to grow--even if it does, currently all directed at pet hobbyhorses of the lunatic right.
US support for humanities research, #6. Compare this to what is typical in Europe and other places: money for teaching release for a PI, money to hire a team of post-docs and grad students, funding for library and archival work, etc. Collaboration on research from start to end, not at the end.
US support for humanities research, #5. NEH expanded to more collaborative projects, especially in the DH realm (gone now), but focus has tended to be on digital apparatus for analysis of evidence (already amassed.) Funding to get into libraries and archives and amass the dataset-- slim.
US support for humanities research, #4. It would take me a long-time to unpack what I mean by this but the biggest buckets of support from NEH are for individual fellowships (write a book), followed by collaborative fellowships (write a book together).
US support for humanities research, #3. Problem is the weakness of government support. Well before Trump destruction, it's been obvious that NEH was a) a tiny amount of support & b) not set up to support broad-based "basic" research the way the ERC & national agencies do in other countries.
US support for humanities research, #2.. on foundation support, see the recent article in the Atlantic Monthly.
I have no objection to a private foundation saying these are our goals and this is what we fund and if you don't like it, tough. (Mellon can do what they want, so can Templeton.)
US Support for humanities research has long been weak. Private foundation support has narrowed to topics that fit their agendas (mostly left-wing) and now the Trump administration further narrows the NEH to "American history and culture and Western civilization" to fit their (right-wing) agenda.
When the "Reader" title got changed at some places to "Associate Professor" and "Associate Professor" became the entry level at Oxford, an already chaotic system got just a little more confusing.
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I think so-- pretty early in the admissions/recruitment timeframe as far as I know.
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Intensive Hebrew this summer in Pittsburgh. 1 year in 6 weeks. Lots of scholarship aid. www.sli.pitt.edu #JewishStudies