SPAN is hosting a book talk for author Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s new book Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco. The talk will take place this Thursday, February 15 from 5-6 pm in the Norris Center’s Armadillo Room (2-287).
This is a free public event. We hope to see you there!
2024-26 SPAN Postdoctoral Fellows
Application deadline:
Friday, December 1, 2023.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications for two two-year postdoctoral fellowships in Sexuality Studies, to run from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026. Applications are welcome from scholars who study sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed). Each Fellow’s appointment will be a joint one: in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and in another department relevant to the Fellow’s research interests. We are particularly interested in candidates who could affiliate with one of the following participating departments: Anthropology, Black Studies, Communication Studies, History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, or Sociology. That is, the Fellow must have relevant expertise in both Sexuality Studies and one of these other disciplines, and must be prepared to teach courses that reflect that combined expertise.
Fellows will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty mentor and will teach two undergraduate courses (typically one seminar and one lecture course) over the course of each year. Northwestern is on the quarter system by which the Fellows’ two courses will be distributed across three academic quarters. Fellows will also be expected to be active participants in SPAN’s community of faculty and graduate students and, as applicable, in their affiliated department by attending talks and events, and by giving a public talk once each year. Finally, they will assist in the organization of on-campus educational activities such as the annual SPAN workshop.
Fellows will be expected to be in residence for each of the academic years of their appointment, and all teaching will be conducted in person.
Applicants with a PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) must have completed it after September 1, 2020. Applicants without a PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) must complete all the requirements for the degree before September 1, 2024. At time of application, the applicant must be available for the full two-year term of the Fellowship. The stipend is $64,000 in the first year of the fellowship. In addition, the Fellow is eligible for $4,000 per year to fund research and conference travel, and up to $2,000 for allowable relocation expenses in the first year. Up to $1,000 is also available for allowable travel expenses for an area visit prior to the start of the postdoc term. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position.
All application materials other than letters of recommendation must be received by 11:59 p.m. on December 1, 2023. The initial letter of recommendation is due no later than December 8, 2023. Given that your references will not receive submission instructions until you submit your completed application, we urge you to submit your application well before the deadline.
The application, submission instructions, and FAQs can be accessed here:
https://www.sexualities.northwestern.edu/funding-opportunities/postdoc-applications/
Administrative questions not addressed in the submission instructions and FAQs should be directed to Ariel Clark-Semyck (sexualities@northwestern.edu). Substantive questions not addressed below may be sent to the Co-Directors of SPAN, Héctor Carrillo (hector@northwestern.edu) and Gregory Ward (gw@northwestern.edu). For more information about Programs and Departments at Northwestern, visit: https://offices.northwestern.edu/browse/A/academic.
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The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation, broadly construed.
Deadline: Monday, October 9, 2023
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Congratulations to 2022-24 SPAN postdoctoral fellow Annie Wilkinson, whose Gender & Sexuality Studies course won the 2023 Northwestern Canvas Hall of Fame “Excellence in DEI/Accessibility” award!
Read more about Annie Wilkinson’s course and the 2023 Northwestern Canvas Hall of Fame cohort here.
Call for Proposals: Dissertation Fellowships
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Dissertation Fellowships for the 2023-2024 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 topic of sexuality studies are invited to apply. The fellowship may be awarded for 1, 2, 3, or 4 quarters.
Deadline: Monday, May 8, 2023.
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Call for Proposals: Summer Research Grants
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Summer Research Grants for Summer 2023 are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students – at any stage – who have a research project that relates to the study of sexualities (broadly construed) are welcome to apply. SPAN Summer Research Grants are designed to cover expenses related to research (within the guidelines outlined below). Projects of all sizes are welcome, up to a maximum of $2,500 per grant.
Deadline: Monday, May 8, 2023.
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation, broadly construed.
Deadline: Monday, January 17, 2023
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation, broadly construed.
Deadline: Monday, January 16, 2023
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
We invite faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to participate in a small, focused reading group (consisting of 15 to 18 people) that will meet biweekly during Winter Quarter 2023. The theme for this year is “Global Indigeneities and Sexualities” and will be co-facilitated by Diego Arispe-Bazan (Assistant Professor of Instruction, Anthropology), Enzo Vasquez Toral (PhD Candidate, Performance Studies), and Mary Weismantel (Professor, Anthropology).
The Reading Group will meet five times during the quarter to discuss short texts (for example, 3-4 articles or book chapters/excerpts per meeting) that explore the Reading Group’s theme. Meetings will be held from 5:00-6:30 p.m. on the following Thursdays: January 12th, January 26th, February 9th, February 23rd , and March 9th. It is expected that participants will attend and actively participate in all five of the meetings.
We are currently planning for all five meetings to be held in person, subject to COVID restrictions in place at the time. While the main reward for participation is good company and active intellectual engagement, Northwestern participants who attend regularly (i.e. by attending at least four of the five meetings) will receive a research stipend of $750 at the end of the quarter.
The Theme of the Reading Group
This year, the SPAN Reading Group will explore Queer Indigenous Studies, a burgeoning new area of inquiry that lies at the intersection of two interrelated fields, Sexuality Studies and Global Indigenous Studies. Despite their disparate origins, the two fields are similar in their attention to both oppression and its opposites: Sexuality Studies in its attention to both normativity and queerness; and Global Indigenous Studies in its attention to the effects of genocidal colonialisms, as well as to the liberatory potential of decoloniality and Indigenous futurities. We will explore similarities and commonalities as well as tensions and frictions between the two fields through a series of targeted readings that explore the space between. We review how in colonial settings, Indigenous forms of kinship, gender, and sexuality constitute(d) a fundamental challenge to Western forms of normativity – a challenge met with harsh, unyielding regimes of repression. Nevertheless, memories and traces of these non-European forms of gender and sexuality, and continuities among Indigenous pasts, present and futures, give rise to a rich history and contemporary flourishing of many different Indigenous genders and sexualities. Of particular relevance is the issue of appropriation: What can we learn from one another, and how should we do it? Readings (and viewings) may include academic writing in history, literature, anthropology, art history and performance studies, as well as works of fiction, art, cinema and performance, according to the interests of the participants.
Select preliminary readings:
Barker, J., ed. (2017). Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Duke University Press.
Morgensen, S. L. (2011). Spaces between us: Queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonization. U of Minnesota Press.
TallBear, K., & Willey, A. (2019). “Critical relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and multispecies belonging beyond settler sex & nature.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 10(1), 5-15.
Weismantel, M. (2021). Playing with things: Engaging the Moche sex pots. University of Texas Press.
A tentative list of readings has been prepared by the facilitators, but applicants are encouraged to suggest readings as well. Suggestions can be submitted at the time of application as well as throughout the duration of the Reading Group.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
ALL APPLICANTS must complete a brief online application. Click here to apply.
Questions about the reading group or application process may be sent to Ariel Clark-Semyck at sexualities@northwestern.edu.
For more information on previous years’ reading groups, click here.
The Sexuality Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is seeking a facilitator to lead (either individually or jointly; see below) a small, focused reading group consisting of 15 to 18 people on a theme of their choosing that will meet during Winter Quarter 2023. We invite applications from any faculty member with a continuing appointment who has research and teaching interests in the area of sexuality studies, broadly construed. Themes that address new research areas and directions will be particularly welcome. This year, we invite faculty members to submit either an individual application or a joint application with another faculty member, post-doctoral fellow, or advanced graduate student.
The facilitator(s) will, in consultation with the Co-Directors of SPAN, select a topic in the area of sexuality studies as well as a set of readings (3-4 articles/chapters per week) that explore this topic.
The reading group will meet five times during Winter Quarter on the following Thursdays from 5:00-6:30 pm: January 12, January 26, February 9, February 23, and March 9.
We are currently planning for all meetings to be held in person, subject to COVID restrictions in place at the time. The reading group facilitator(s) must attend each session and actively engage in and promote the discussion of the assigned readings.
The facilitator(s) of the Reading Group will receive a total research stipend of $7500. Faculty members only will have the option of having their stipend converted into an equivalent amount of summer salary.
Application deadline: Monday, October 17, 2022.
To apply, please send your name, department/program, contact information, and a brief description of your proposed topic (as well as a set of representative readings) to sexualities@northwestern.edu.
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: Monday, October 10, 2022
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
