The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: Oct 13, 2017
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications for two-year post-doctoral fellowships in sexuality studies (social scientific approaches), to run from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2020. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work falls within one or more of the following fields: African American Studies, Anthropology, Communication Studies, History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, or Sociology. The deadline to apply is January 5, 2018.
Click here for a more detailed description of the positions (PDF). The application page can be found here. We would appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with any contacts and listservs in these fields.
Many thanks!
Héctor Carrillo and Steven Epstein | Co-directors, The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
V Chaudhry (Anthropology)
“The Price of Transgender Justice: Funding, Advocacy, and Racial Politics in Philadelphia, PA”
Eddie Gamboa (Performance Studies)
“Sex Tech(s): Pleasure, Performance, Pedagogy in the Age of Geo-location”
Rae Langes (Performance Studies)
“Performing Monstrosity: Queer and Transgender Tactics of Resistance in Twenty-first Century United States”
Whitney Pow (RTVF / Screen Cultures)
“Illegible Subjects: A Phenomenology of the Other in Queer Software Studies”
Jeremy Birnholtz (Communication Studies)
“Identity, Attraction and Trust: How MSM Compose and Assess Location-Aware Dating/Hookup App Profiles in Mumbai”
Jillana Enteen (Gender and Sexuality Studies / Asian American Studies)
“Transitioning in Thailand: Medical Travel for Trans* Surgeries in Bangkok”
E. Patrick Johnson (African American Studies / Performance Studies)
“Making Sweet Tea Documentary Film”
Abram J. Lewis (Gender and Sexuality Studies / History)
“Historicizing ‘Trans’ within and beyond the LGBT Nonprofit Sector”
Kathryn Macapagal (Medical Social Sciences)
“Hookup app use and sexual behavior among adolescent men who have sex with men”
Erin Moore (Buffett Institute for Global Studies)
“Women Who Pay Their Own Brideprice? The Gendered Politics of Intimate Exchange in Uganda”
“Stigma: Deviance, Criminality, and Sexualities”
More photos from the workshop can be found on our facebook page.
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Full event details can be found here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Dissertation Fellowships for the 2017-18 academic year are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students who either have advanced to candidacy or will advance in the current academic year, and whose dissertation relates to the topics of sexual orientation and/or sexuality (including health in social context), are invited to apply.
Deadline: May 5, 2017
For further details and to complete the application, please click here.
