ASAIL Notes

Announcements of jobs and fellowships in the field of American Indian literatures
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Calls for papers
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Forthcoming conferences
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AMERICAN NATIVE PRESS ARCHIVES:  the American Native Press Archives' website carries a number of features of interest to students and scholars in American Indian studies. These include a bibliography, hard-to-find texts, indexes to Native newspapers, and other features.
        The bibliography of Native American writers, 1772 to the present, aims to be comprehensive. 13,000 plus citations are annotated, and the bibliography is searchable by author, title, subject, time period, and tribal affiliation. This fall, First Nation writers from Canada will be added as well. The bibliography is open, that is, new citations are being added all the time.
        Native Writers Digital Text Project is another feature on the website. Introduced in summer, 2000, the project's purpose is to publish hard-to-find texts by American Indian and Alaska Native writers. The first digital texts that are available online are the poems of John Rollin Ridge and selected works of Charles Gibson. Ridge is the nineteenth-century Cherokee novelist, journalist, and poet whose verse has been out of print for over a hundred years. Gibson is the Muscogee humorist, folklorist, and historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose works appeared in newspapers and magazines.
In another activity, the archives is preparing indices to important Native newspapers and other serial publications. Among the first to go on line is an index to the complete run of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first tribal newspaper, published at New Echota, Cherokee Nation, from 1828 to 1834.
        Other features have appeared on the website over the past few years and still accessible, including those on Indian-Black history and Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary. Currently, a chronicle of Indian removal is being prepared, including texts of contemporary news and other accounts of what later became known as the Trail of Tears.
Please come to www.anpa.ualr.edu for these features and other information. Comments and suggestions are welcome: contact
                 Dan Littlefield or Jim Parins at anpa@ualr.edu or at
                 American Native Press Archives
                 UALR English Department
                 2801 S. University Ave.
                 Little Rock, AR 72204

NEWBERRY LIBRARY
FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES 2010-2011

The Newberry's fellowships support humanities research in our collections. Our collections are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric. If you study the humanities, chances are good we have something for you. We promise you remarkable collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and an array of scholarly and public programs.

Short-Term Fellowships
Ph.D. candidates and scholars with a doctorate are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. Their purpose is to help researchers study specific materials at the Newberry that are not readily available to them elsewhere. Short-term fellowships are usually awarded for a period of one month. Most are restricted to scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Stipends are $1600 per month. New: We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The individual scholars on a team awarded a fellowship will each receive a full stipend of $1600 per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member. Short-term applications are due March 1, 2010.

We also offer exchange fellowships with British, French and German institutions, a fellowship for American Indian women pursuing any post-graduate education, and a fellowship for published independent scholars.

For more information or to download application materials, visit our website at: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html or contact:
        Research and Education
        The Newberry Library
        60 West Walton Street
        Chicago, IL 60610
        312.255.3666
        research@newberry.org

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
Head of Department of Native Studies

The Department of Native Studies invites applications for the position of Head of Department at the rank of either senior Associate or Full Professor. The successful candidate will have a PhD (or equivalent), he/she will be an established senior academic in Native Studies, or an allied field, with an established teaching and publication record, a proven ability to obtain research grants, and an international scholarly reputation. She/he will be expected to have university related administrative experience such as department/program head, chair of academic committees, or management of resources. She/he will work with and lead a dynamic faculty complement of seven Aboriginal scholars in expanding the departmental graduate and research program as well as relate to a wide range of university and Aboriginal community interests. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellence or promise of excellence in teaching and graduate supervision. They will be expected to develop a vigorous, externally-funded research program.

Located in a province with a large and diverse Aboriginal population, the Department of Native Studies was established in 1983 and is now one of the most active departments in Canada. In 2006-07, a total of 2,205 students were registered in on and off-campus Native Studies undergraduate courses. Since 1989 the graduate program has experienced steady growth now with a full complement of faculty this program is poised to expand. The Department is committed to the pursuit of social science scholarship with and about Aboriginal peoples that arises out of the experience of their communities and their relationships with other Indigenous peoples. Our scholarship is grounded in local and regional cultures and communities while, at the same time, offering national and global perspectives. The University of Saskatchewan has made a special commitment to working with Aboriginal people to address their social aspirations, research priorities and educational goals. For further information related to the Department or the University and its strategic plans please consult the following websites: http://www.usask.ca/vpacademic/integrated-planning/plandocs/strategic_directions.php and http://www.usask.ca/nativestudies/.

Deadline: 15 January 2010 or until the position is filled. Submit current curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching interests, current and projected research activities (including any funded research), a sample of recently published work, any available teaching evaluations, and three letters of reference to the following address: Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 125 Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C8. We would like the candidate to begin 1 July 2010. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, however Aboriginal, Canadian, and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Saskatchewan is committed to Employment Equity. Members of Designated Groups (women, Aboriginal people, people with disabilities, and visible minorities) are encouraged to self-identify on their applications.

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY FELLOWSHIPS

The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer about 30 research fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011, including at least two long-term research fellowships made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society also offers Short-Term Fellowships, and participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. For more information about the Society's research fellowships please visit our web site, www.masshist.org/fellowships, or contact Conrad E. Wright (fellowships@masshist.org), 617-646-0512. Application deadlines: MHS-NEH fellowships, January 15, 2010; New England Regional Fellowships, February 1, 2010; MHS Short-Term fellowships, March 1, 2010.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Indian Studies

Under the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Indian Studies Program seeks two Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. This fellowship program provides a stipend, a close working association with AIS faculty, and assistance in furthering the fellow's development as a productive scholar. Applicants should have an ongoing research project that promises to make a notable contribution to American Indian and Indigenous Studies. While fellows will concentrate on their research, they may choose to teach one course in American Indian Studies.

Furthermore, fellows are encouraged to participate in the intellectual community of the American Indian Studies Program. The Fellowship stipend for the 2010-2011 academic year is $42,000, including health benefits. An additional $5,000 will be provided for the fellow's research, travel, and related expenses. Candidates must have completed all Ph.D. requirements by August 15, 2010. Preference will be given to those applicants who have finished their degrees in the past five years.

The one-year fellowship appointment period is from August 16, 2010, to August 15, 2011. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a thorough description of the research project to be undertaken during the fellowship year, two samples of their scholarly writing, and two letters of recommendation to Robert Warrior, Director, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1204 West Nevada Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3818. Applications received by January 22, 2010 will receive full consideration. The review process will continue until the fellowships are filled.

For further information, contact Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Chair, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, American Indian Studies: Phone: (217) 265-9870, Email: tewa@illinois.edu, or visit the Program's website at www.ais.illinois.edu.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

The American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State University invites applications for the 2010-2011 Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award in American Indian Studies. The fellowship award provides office space, access to Michigan State University's outstanding library and computing facilities and to the faculty involved in the American Indian Studies Program, benefits for the year, and a substantial stipend.

Applicants must be finished with all doctoral work but the dissertation, actively working in American Indian Studies, and committed to a career in Native Studies. It is expected that the Fellow will complete the dissertation during the award year. Applicants may be pursuing the Ph.D. degree in any discipline or area offered at Michigan State University. (More information about the university's offerings is available at the university website, http://www.msu.edu.)

The successful applicant will be required to teach one course and will affiliate with a department or program in one of the university's colleges, as well as participate in activities of the American Indian Studies Program. The Fellow must reside in the East Lansing, Michigan area for the duration of the fellowship. Award Period: MSU Fiscal Year, July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011. Application Deadline: February 1, 2010. Application Requirements: complete contact information, including e-mail, phone, and address; cover letter detailing background, coursework, training and future plans in American Indian Studies, including any work with Native groups, organizations, or communities; Curriculum Vita; 5 to 10 page dissertation proposal; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; 3 letters of support from faculty on doctoral committee; one should be from your chair, indicating your ability to complete the dissertation by the end of the award period. Applications should be sent to:
        American Indian Studies Program
        414 Baker Hall
        Michigan State University
        East Lansing, MI 48824

For further information: aisp@msu.edu / (517) 432-2193 / www.aisp.msu.edu

YALE UNIVERSITY
2010-2011 American Indian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders invite applications for the inaugural Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. The Roe Cloud Fellowship is intended to develop American Indian Studies at Yale and by extension throughout the academy by facilitating the completion of the doctorate by scholars working on issues related to the American Indian experience. Scholars working on topics in Indigenous Studies that relate to the study of North American Indians are also encouraged to apply.

The Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship honors the legacy of Henry Roe Cloud, a member of the Winnebago Nation of Nebraska and graduate of Yale College, 1910. A tireless critic of federal Indian assimilation programs and a proponent of increased educational opportunities for American Indians, Roe Cloud transformed American Indian higher education through his leadership of the Society of American Indians, his founding of the American Indian Institute, and as co-author of "The Problem of Indian Administration," commonly known as "The Meriam Report," an extensive survey made at the request of Secretary of the Interior that detailed the appalling failures of federal Indian policy in the early twentieth century. This survey, presented to Congress in 1928, helped to set in motion many of the subsequent reforms of the Indian New Deal.

The Fellowship will support a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for the academic year, beginning September 2010 and ending August 2011. Graduate students working towards careers in higher education who have completed all doctoral requirements but the dissertation are invited to apply. The expectation is that the dissertation will be completed during the fellowship year. The criteria for selection will be based solely on an assessment of the quality of the candidate's work and the project's overall significance for the study of American Indian and/or Indigenous Studies.

The Roe Cloud Fellowship will provide support comparable to that for Yale University graduate students, including an annual stipend of $26,000, full access to Yale facilities and services, and health care coverage. The fellow will have office space in the Lamar Center and access to Yale's exceptional research libraries. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in addition to its premier collection of Western Americana, also holds the papers of many important American Indian writers, including Joseph Bruchac, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch, as well as those of important policy makers such as Felix Cohen and Richard Henry Pratt. Manuscripts and Archives at Sterling Memorial Library holds the papers of John Collier and Henry Roe Cloud. The Lewis Walpole Library hosts the New England Indian Papers Project, which is in the process of collecting, digitizing, and placing on the World Wide Web a comprehensive database of primary sources written for, by, and about New England Indians.

The Roe Cloud Fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in the activities of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, the Native American Cultural Center, and the Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANAAY). Yale student and faculty members are also increasingly active in regional and national Indian Studies networks, and the Roe Cloud Fellow may choose to participate in the gatherings of the Native Studies community in New England, which generally holds bi-semester and other informal gatherings in the Northeast. Additionally, the state and federally-recognized Indian Nations of Connecticut maintain museums, archives, and research centers, and host community events that draw regional, national, as well as international visitors.

Each fellow will be mentored by a professor in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The fellow will be responsible for making a formal presentation of the project near the conclusion of the academic year, an event open to all interested members of the campus community.

Applications must include a c.v. the dissertation prospectus, a writing sample of approximately 25 pages, a letter describing plans to complete the dissertation during the fellowship period, as well as three letters of recommendation, sent under separate cover, including one from the candidate's dissertation advisor. The application deadline is March 5, 2010. All materials must be sent to:
        Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship Committee
        Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
        Yale University
        PO Box 208201
        New Haven, CT 06520-8201
For further information write to: RoeCloud.Fellowship@yale.edu.

ASAIL at AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
27-30 May 2010 / Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero Center, San Francisco CA

The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, a member society of the American Literature Association, invites submissions of individual papers and pre-formed panels on any topic of American Indian literature. Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Inquires and/or one page abstracts should be submitted by email no later than January 27, 2010 to Stephanie Fitzgerald, University of Kansas, sfitzger@ku.edu. For more information, please see the conference website at http://www.americanliterature.org.

SOUTH CENTRAL MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
October 28-30, 2010 / Fort Worth TX

The Native American Literature Panel of the South Central Modern Language Association invites papers or 500-word abstracts to be considered for the annual convention in Fort Worth, Texas, from October 28-30, 2010. Papers may pertain to any aspect of Native American literature and should be no more than twenty minutes in length. Please e-mail abstracts or papers by March 26, 2010, to Kirstin Squint at kirstin.squint@gmail.com. For more information about the conference, consult the SCMLA website: http://www.ou.edu/scmla/.

SOUTHWEST/TEXAS POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
February 10-13, 2010 / Albuquerque NM

Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtxpca.org/.

MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER
11th Native American Literature Symposium
March 4-6, 2010 / Isleta Casino & Resort, Albuquerque NM

Featured Speakers: acclaimed filmmaker Chris Eyre, Hawaiian poet Brandy Nalani McDougall, Comanche playwright Terry Gomez, and more!

All queries, registration forms, and checks should be sent to the Program Director:
        Dr. Gwen Westerman
        Native American Literature Symposium
        English Department
        230 Armstrong Hall
        Minnesota State University, Mankato
        Mankato MN 56001
        E-mail: gwen.westerman@mnsu.edu
        (507) 389-2117
        (507)389-5362 (fax)
Registration forms can be printed from the NALS web site: www.mnsu.edu/nativelit/. The host facility for the symposium will be the Isleta Casino & Resort, 11000 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM 87105, (505) 724-3800, General Information (505) 244-8246, FAX 1-8-777-ISLETA, http://www.isletaeagle.com/. Please visit the NALS website for more information about the symposium: http://www.mnsu.edu/nativelit.

NATIVE AMERICAN & INDIGENOUS STUDIES ASSOCIATION / NAISA
May 20 - 22, 2010 / Tucson AZ

Go to naisa.org for more information about NAISA; go to http://naisa.ais.arizona.edu/

Contact: Robert Nelson
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