Scholars from a variety of fields are invited to the Human-Animal Studies group at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Our current disciplinary backgrounds are in Sociology, Art history, Philosophy, Cultural Geography, Cultural studies, Pedagogy and Evolutionary biology. (See here and our respective homepages)

The position is a five-month (with the possibility of an extension up to a maximum 11 months) residential postdoctoral fellowship to scholars engaged in the question of animals/human-animal relations and gender/intersectionality studies.

We are particularly interested in projects that have a gender/intersectional critical perspective on animals/human-animal relations. Proposals should be interdisciplinary and aim at connecting to animal studies, feminist theory, approaches to sustainability and resilience, sexuality studies, and/or critical race and postcolonial theories.

Topics might include sustainability, climate change and bio-diversity, biotechnology and experimentation, eco-policy and social justice, globalization and industrialization, sexuality and corporeality, food production, racialization, biotechnology and transgenics, gendered predation and reproduction, or xeno-transplantation and gene pharming, medicine and health.

The fellowship is situated within the research programme /GenNa:

Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters/ (funded by the Swedish Research Council 2007-2011) which aims at creating meetings between social, cultural and natural science perspectives with the focus set on gender and science. The postdoctoral fellow is welcome to collaborate with Centre for Gender Research scholars, GENNA research groups (Body/Embodiment Group, Physics Group, Education Group), and allied fields at Uppsala University. Hence applicants envisioning long-term projects, organizing international conferences, and/or establishing international collaborations are of special interest.

The fellowship starts August 20, 2009, includes salary (health insurance), office space, and clerical support. Applicants should be no more than five years past the PhD, and should have the PhD in hand by August 2009. Send C.V., 3-5-page project proposal, writing sample (two publications), and 1-2 letters of recommendation. Questions may be posed to Professor Margaretha Fahlgren, Margaretha.Fahlgren#gender.uu.se or PhD and research coordinator Tora Holmberg, Tora.Holmberg#gender.uu.se. Send your application to:

Registrator, Ref no. UFV-PA 2009/711, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden or fax 018-471 20 00.

The closing date for applications is 15 May 2009.

Måns S. Andersson, Ph.D.
Humanimal Group
Centre for Gender Research
Uppsala University
Box 634
751 26 Uppsala
Sweden

More information available at Måns S. Andersson’s university homepage

And at the Humanimal page

Source: genus#genus.gu.se