A Letter from Jenny Furlong of The GC Career Services

by Jessica Ty Miller

Dear Students and Alumni,   Welcome to fall semester 2014.  I hope all of you are settling down nicely (and productively) into your course schedules and routines.   Below is our semi-weekly list of job/internship opportunities and other items of interest.   Some of you may notice that in this season of tenure-track job postings, we don’t tend to feature tons of them in our email (to include them for all the GC’s doctoral fields would make for a very long email).  If you’re worried about how to find them, here are a few resources we suggest (I’m going to …

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Today! Feminism and the Archive: A Roundtable

by Jessica Ty Miller

Feminism & the Archive: A RoundtableFriday, September 12, 4pmRoom 4406, The Graduate Center, CUNYModerated by Nancy K. Miller This roundtable will bring together a variety of perspectives on feminismand the archive, broadly conceived. Participants will speak about theirwork about and in the archive as archivists, scholars, and feminists, aswell as how archival research allows us to consider and reconceive offeminist genealogies and genres. Roundtable participants to include:*Meredith Benjamin* is a PhD candidate in English at The Graduate Center,City University of New York. She is writing a dissertation entitled“Creating Feminist Identities: The Autobiographical Across Genres in the1970s and 80s” that explores how and …

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Post-doctoral Opportunity: Dartmouth

by Jessica Ty Miller

Postdoctoral Fellowships These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees, by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed. The program also benefits Dartmouth by complementing existing curricula with underrepresented fields. Postdoctoral Fellows are individuals at the early stages of their careers who demonstrate exceptional promise as scholar-teachers. There are two categories of Postdoctoral Fellows: Society Fellows and Affiliate Fellows. Society Fellows are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty, following a competitive process. Society Fellows are …

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Post-doctoral Opportunity: The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

by Jessica Ty Miller

Smithsonian – University of Virginia Postdoctoral Research Associate in Forest-Fire-Climate Interactions The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and University of Virginia (UVA) seek a creative and energetic postdoctoral research associate to participate in NSF-funded research addressing the potential for a climate change-driven critical transition from forest to chaparral in the Klamath region (N California/ S Oregon). This position will focus on climatic controls on the dynamics of forest recovery following fire—a key piece of the broader picture of how climate change may shift the system to an alternative stable state through altered disturbance-recovery dynamics and how management practices may mitigate …

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Graduate Center Student Handbook and Fall 2014 Student Affairs Newsletter

by Jessica Ty Miller

Please find below links to the Graduate Center Student Handbook and Fall 2014 Student Affairs Newsletter. These publications contains news and reminders of program offerings and other opportunities, contact information, procedures and policies.  Please distribute these links to your students.     Graduate Center Student Handbook http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Publications/Student_Handbook_web.pdf?ext=.pdf     and   Student Affairs Fall Newsletter http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Publications/StudentAffairsNewsletter-Fall14final.pdf?ext=.pdf

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GC Conference Presentation Support Application

by Jessica Ty Miller

Attached is the Fall 2014 Conference Presentation Support Application.  Please forward the attached instructions and .pdf writeable application to your eligible students.  Fall 2014 applications are for participation at scholarly conferences between June 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014.  We will start accepting the Fall 2014 applications on Monday, September 8.  The instructions and application can also be found on the Graduate Center’s webpage.  From the GC Homepage → Prospective & Current Students → Student Life → Resources → Conference Presentation Support.  The link is: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Forms/Conf_Presentation_Support-Instructions_Form.pdf?ext=.pdf   Students must attach to their application documentation of acceptance to present or participate …

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Space Time Research Collective Fall Meeting

by Jessica Ty Miller

SpaceTime Research Collective Invites you to attend   INTRODUCTORY MEETING + FALL PARTY   //   WEDNESDAY  SEPT 17   6:30-8:30 PM | RM 5409 For new and returning students What’s this all about? Come find out! STRC is an interdisciplinary community of GC scholars exploring the intersections of space, place, time, culture, society, power and politics. We are a platform for non-competitive creative production, constructive intellectual dialogue, and personal professional development support.

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Fall Colloquium Begins with Tammy Lewis on Greening Ecuador

by Jessica Ty Miller

Welcome back, everyone! Join us for our first colloquium this fall–  Thursday 11 September at 5:30 in the Science Center (Room 4102 at the Graduate Center) with Tammy Lewis. Tammy L. Lewis is Director of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY/Brooklyn College, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology and Earth & Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center. Greening Ecuador: International Funding and the Rise, Fall and Revision of Ecuador’s Environmentalism, 1978-2013 Transnational environmental funding has significantly affected Ecuador’s national environmental organizations, including non-governmental organizations and social movement actors (together “environmentalists”). Non-governmental environmental organizations’ strength ebbs and flows in tandem with …

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AAG CFP: Digital Geo-Humanities

by Jessica Ty Miller

Call For Papers: Digital Geo-Humanities Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers Chicago, Ill. / April 21-25, 2015 web.stanford.edu Session Description: The umbrella of the Digital Humanities has enabled the proliferation of a variety of sub-disciplines within: digital history, digital media studies, spatial humanities, distant reading, text mining, and information visualization being some of the more prominent.  In each of these cases the real work happens when questions and sensibilities from a background in traditional humanities meet the power of computer processing.  Geographers – through the practice of map making and spatial analysis – have been wielding digital, cartographic …

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De-mystify the End of Dissertation Process

by Jessica Ty Miller

Next Tuesday, September 9th at the Graduate Center at 10am: talk with fellow students about the end of dissertation process. *Naomi Adiv and Steve McFarland, both from EES-Geography, have kindlyoffered to talk with those of us mystified by the last stages of thedissertation process. * This would be open to folks from Geography and others from the GC oroutside as well.* It would be an informal gathering where folks could comewith their questions.* The proposed meeting would take place at the Earth and Environmentalstudent lounge Room 4304 (unless anyone else is using it). Please spread the word and invite others who might be interested. *I …

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