Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program for Academic Diversity
Program Description
| Criteria | Candidates who will contribute to diversity in higher education through their teaching, research or service and who will have a doctorate awarded by the start of the appointment on 7/1/10 |
| Award | $41,496 for 2010-2011 academic year, plus benefits |
| Due Date | November 2, 2009 |
| Administered by | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion |
The Program: The Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity provides postdoctoral fellowships, research opportunities, mentoring and guidance in preparation for academic career advancement. The goal of the program is to help develop young scholars committed to careers in university research and teaching, and dedicated to fostering an inclusive academic environment. The program currently solicits applications from individuals committed to careers in university research and teaching, and whose life experience, research or employment background will contribute significantly to academic diversity and excellence at the Berkeley campus.
These contributions may include public service addressing the needs of our increasingly diverse society, efforts to advance equitable access to higher education for women and minorities, or research focusing on underserved populations or understanding issues of racial or gender inequalities. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic careers the critical perspective that comes from their non-traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.
Awards and Tenure: Awards will be made to applicants who show promise for tenure-track appointments on the Berkeley campus. The Fellowship will be in residence in the Bay Area for one academic year, with the potential for renewal for an additional year upon demonstration of academic productivity and participation in the program events.
Stipend: $41,496 for the 2010-2011 academic year (11 months plus one month vacation). Funds are available each year for supplies and expenses ($500), program event travel ($500) and research-related expenses ($3,000).
Eligibility: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application and must receive a doctorate by the start of the appointment on July 1, 2010.
Application Process: All applicants for the Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program should submit their application to the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at: http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ppfp/how-to-apply.html The mentor’s letter should address the department’s future hiring plans and the applicant’s potential for appointment at UC Berkeley. Applications must be completed online by November 2, 2009.
Awards will be announced in February. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to (510) 643-6566 or kadkinson@berkeley.edu
Current Fellows
2007-2009 Fellows
2005-2008 Fellows
2004-2006 Fellows
Amy Lonetree
Marlon Kuntze
Michael Cohen
Eduardo Conteras
Eduardo Contreras is an United States historian, with specializations in U.S. Latino History, urban history, and the history of gender and sexuality. He holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in History from The University of Chicago and an A.B. in History from Amherst College. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Latinos in the Liberal City: Politics and Community in Postwar San Francisco. The study examines the evolution and diversity of Latina and Latino politics in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 1970s. Prior to his appointment as a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. His teaching portfolio includes courses such as The United States since 1877, Comparative Latino Histories, Postwar Society and Culture, and the History of Sexuality.
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Bethany Lyles Goldblum
Dr. Bethany Lyles Goldblum completed her doctoral degree with perfect marks in the Department of Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Absolute and Relative Surrogate Measurements of the 236U(n,f) Cross Section as a Probe of Angular Momentum Effects" investigated the limitations of the Surrogate Method, a technique for indirect determination of neutron-induced reaction cross sections on radioactive nuclei. Dr. Goldblum’s research interests are in the area of applied nuclear physics, with current emphasis on nuclear data needs for homeland security and Generation IV nuclear energy systems as well as active interrogation methods for nuclear materials control and accountability. She maintains collaborations with researchers in the Physical Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Goldblum has received numerous fellowships and grants including the American Association of University Women Selected Professions Dissertation Fellowship, the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship and the Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering Fellowship, among others. As a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Grant Recipient, she traveled to Canberra, Australia to collaborate with researchers in the Department of Nuclear Physics at the Australian National University. She has served as a teaching assistant to undergraduates in nuclear physics, radiation detection and nuclear instrumentation and as a lecturer in radiation biophysics and dosimetry.
In addition to Goldblum’s scientific pursuits, she maintains a functioning interest in nuclear energy and weapons policy. She held the National Science Foundation Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Fellowship, was a Project on Nuclear Issues Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a member of the United States delegation to the China-India-United States Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in Bangalore, India. Goldblum organized the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s 2007 Emerging Nuclear Threats Conference held in Washington, D.C. and coauthored a proposal outlining a novel means for deterring a nuclear North Korea, which was presented on Capitol Hill.
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Ellen Huang
Dr. Ellen Huang’s research considers the intersections among modernity, aesthetics, and subject formation as they are related to the historiography of Chinese art and canon formation. Using textual and visual sources, her work focuses on the production and dissemination of knowledge about “china” (porcelain) from China during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-centuries. She is interested in both the material and social aspects of ceramic aesthetics and the global processes by which the boundaries of Chinese art history were formed. Within the field of East Asian Studies, her project on ceramics investigates the porosity of regional, imperial, and national constructs in the modern period. In art history, she is interested in exploring the negotiation between material and visual aspects of an art object at specific historical contexts. In the future, she hopes to apply these research interests and findings to a theoretical study of the significance of art and aesthetics in the development of histories of ornament and decoration in the non-West.
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Courtney J. Martin
Courtney J. Martin is completing a dissertation in the History of Art department at Yale University entitled, Cyclones in the Metropole: British Artists 1968-1989. Her dissertation examines the confluence of civic disruption, immigration, and new forms of object making in post-War Britain. She is interested in the ways in which 20th century British art has both highly idealized international and regional components. In addition to her scholarly research, Courtney has curated several exhibitions, including Poison America: Sharon Gilbert’s Bookworks at the Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University and C-Series: Artists’ Books and Collective Action, in New York at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She has also contributed to exhibition catalogues. These include, “They Will Come and They Will Go,” Exhuming Gluttony with Wangechi Mutu (forthcoming 2009); “Sight Was Regulated, Shapes Were Continually Re-fashioned”: Alia Syed’s Eating Grass at the Biennale of Sydney (2006); and “The Re-selection of Ancestors: Abstraction in the Second Generation,” in Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980, the Studio Museum in Harlem (2006). Currently, she is a predoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. In 2007, she was a Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow. Prior to her arrival at Yale, she was the Interim Head Curator at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum and worked in the media, arts, and culture unit of the Ford Foundation in New York on an international arts portfolio. She has served as a consultant for Ford in the areas of arts education and cultural re-organization in the Gulf region. Her criticism has appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Art Papers, Contemporary, Flashart, Frieze and NKA. She is a regular contributor to Artforum.com.
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Jun Sunseri
Dr. Kojun “Jun” Ueno Sunseri received his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and his Bachelors of the Arts in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. After service with the U.S. Peace Corps and work with a small engineering firm, Dr. Sunseri went on to receive his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2009. His dissertation, ““Nowhere to Run, Everywhere to Hide: Multi-scalar identity practices at Casitas Viejas,” used detailed archaeological analyses of foodways and cultural landscape creation to explore hidden dimensions of situational identity practices on the frontier of Spanish Colonial New Mexico.
Dr. Sunseri’s research in historical archaeology includes complementary lines of evidence of varied types and spatial scales. These include analysis of archaeological ceramic and faunal assemblages related to domestic foodways and GIS analysis of remote sensing, survey, and excavation data to reveal tactical, engineering, and ritual patterning of cultural landscapes. By placing these suites of data in dialogue with each other, he seeks more robust explanations of the ways that communities expressed various aspects of their identities in different contexts and scales of social performance. Primary to such research is the study of systems of cross-cultural contact and the way they operate in structuring and mitigating social and ethnic boundaries during the proto-historic and colonial periods. Related to these research foci are the relationships between colonization and the historical transformation of indigenous landscape, foodways, and identity. As an archaeologist, he is especially interested in the potential for examining these issues through the analysis of material culture and technology.
In addition, Dr. Sunseri’s research projects are focused on multidimensional processes that are both archaeological and contemporary, necessitating his collaboration with living communities in the narrative building process. He has conducted research in collaboration with local community members and agencies in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Dr. Sunseri’s commitments to the communities who trace their heritage to his dissertation research site have facilitated partnerships with local residents and teachers interested in a revival of Indo-Hispano ethnohistory in local curriculum and land management endeavors.
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For More Information Contact:
Kimberly M. Adkinson, Program Manager
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of California
Office of Equity & Inclusion
102 California Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1508
(510) 643-6566
kadkinson@berkeley.edu
