Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar's Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) is pleased to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The Fellowship will support a recent Ph.D. recipient (in all disciplines) working in the area of the Middle East, with priority to those working in the Gulf.
The Fellowship is for a period of one academic year, starting in the Fall 2010 semester.
The Fellow is expected to devote this time to turning his/her dissertation into a book manuscript for publication.
Applicants must have completed Ph.D.s between August 1, 2007 and July 31, 2010.
The Fellowship requires residence at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (GU-Qatar).
The Fellow will be given library privileges at Georgetown University and office space at CIRS and is expected to participate fully in the academic and intellectual life of the Center, including delivering occasional lectures at CIRS and taking part in the Center's academic seminars and conferences.
Depending on needs and interests, the Fellow may be invited to teach one course, as well.
GU-Qatar, which is located in Education City in Doha, Qatar, offers a four-year undergraduate curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree, identical to that offered on the Main Campus of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., through the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Each year, GU-Qatar admits a class of approximately 50 students, many from the Middle East and South Asia, who take courses in, and will graduate from, the Doha campus.
The students and facilities of GU-Qatar are outstanding.
GU-Qatar employees join a community of scholars in Education City, who teach in the other branch campuses of Carnegie-Mellon University, Northwestern University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Compensation, benefits and other terms of employment are highly competitive.
Interested candidates should submit cover letters, current curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation and synopses of Ph.D. dissertations. Also, candidates should provide statements, outlining the precise nature of their intended work during the period of the Fellowship, the final product's significance in terms of the discipline and the body of knowledge and when the completion of the project for publication may be expected.
Please submit application materials, electronically, to:
cirspositions@georgetown.edu
Applications or supporting materials may be sent, as well, to:
Naila Sherman
CIRS/GU
3300 Whitehaven Street, NW
Suite 2100
Washington, D.C. 20007-2401
