The School of History and Anthropology is seeking to appoint a full time, permanent member of academic staff. This post is available to undertake high quality research and teaching which will complement, diversify or enhance research activities within the School.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Anthony Stanonis, telephone: 028 9097 5030 or email: a.stanonis@qub.ac.uk.
Anticipated interview date: Tuesday 27 January 2015
Please visit our website for further information and to apply online – www.qub.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively contact the Personnel Department, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 90973044 FAX: (028) 90971040 or e-mail on personnel@qub.ac.uk
The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability.
University of Bristol – Department of History (Historical Studies)
Location:
Bristol
Salary:
£35,256 to £39,685
Hours:
Full Time
Contract Type:
Contract / Temporary
Placed on:
22nd December 2014
Closes:
19th January 2015
Job Ref:
ACAD101204
The University of Bristol invites applications to a permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in North American History. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research interests are in global and transnational approaches, however candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research and teaching in any aspect of this history are invited to apply.
The successful candidate will have a PhD (or completion by August 2015), and will be expected to contribute fully to high-quality teaching and administration within the Department of Historical Studies and to pursue research in her/his area of specialism to the highest standards in order to enhance the international research profile of the Department, the School of Humanities, and the Faculty of Arts. The post-holder will be a specialist in North American History.
S/he will be expected to develop further an established research profile through publication, bidding for external research funding, and presentations at national and international conferences. S/he will also be expected to supervise postgraduate research students.
Please note that the University will be closed for Christmas from 24 December to 4 January so you may not get a response to your email until 5 January.
Timescale of appointment:
Long-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 30th January 2015. They will be required to submit a sample of their work (in English, not more than 10,000 words) as soon after notification as possible but no later than Wednesday 4th February 2015.
Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 13th February 2015 and invited to interview. They will be required to submit brief outlines for 2 units they might teach (see department website for unit types http://www.bris.ac.uk/history/)
Interview date: Wednesday 4th March 2015 Anticipated start date: September 2015
The University of Bristol is committed to equality and we value the diversity of our staff and students.
We wish to appoint a Lecturer in Modern American History (twentieth century). The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher and researcher, able to deliver a range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and possessing outstanding research potential. S/he will demonstrate an ability to develop innovative pedagogy, including the use of technology-enhanced learning techniques, and be able to make an appropriate contribution to the 2020 REF.
Applications are welcome from specialists in any area of modern American history. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates able to strengthen one of the Department’s core teaching and research interests, which include political, cultural, gender, and transnational history, and the history of ideas and beliefs.
You will have:
– Excellent skills in teaching and facilitating learning
– Research profile commensurate with level of experience
– Good organisational skills
– Clear potential to make a full contribution to the 2020 REF
To formally apply, please visit www.reading.ac.uk/jobs or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH. Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 (voicemail)
Please quote the relevant reference number. We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
University of Hull – Arts and Social Science; History
Qualification type:
PhD
Location:
Hull
Funding for:
UK Students, EU Students, International Students
Funding amount:
£13,863
Hours:
Full Time
Placed on:
12th December 2014
Closes:
2nd February 2015
To celebrate the University’s research successes, the University of Hull is offering one full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship or International Fees Bursary for candidates applying for the following project.
Studentships will start on 28th September 2015
Supervisor: Professor Joy Porter, joy.porter@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465464, Department of History
Co-supervisor: Professor John Oldfield (WISE)
Project Title:
Interest in the role and significance of Native American Indian slaveholding continues to grow significantly across disciplines. However specific Native American slaveholding connections to the early biracial communities that so deeply resisted Euro-American domination remain obscure. Thus this project sets out to investigate Native American Indian slaveholding and its specific relationship to the formation of biracial communities as well as their continued assertion of cultural and political sovereignty. The successful PhD applicant will have the opportunity to expand his/her knowledge of the history of coalition and biracial agency in North America through investigation of a number of themes including (but not restricted to): Slave rebellion and African and Indian coalition from the first slave rebellion (Hispianola, 1522) and the first on U.S. soil (North Carolina, 1526); Escaped Africans, Maroon or quilobo communities including the “Republic of Palmores” 1600-1694; Seminole resistance and the Second Seminole War; African American involvement in the Trail of Tears 1838/39; John Horse 1812-1882, African American Seminole leader. The project leader is a specialist in indigenous North American Indian history, and the co-supervisor is a specialist in the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world (1750-1850) and Director of the University’s Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE). The project will benefit from research synergies with WISE’s recent AHRC £1.5 million grant award under the “Care for the Future” research theme. This doctoral project also links directly with the University of Hull’s Ethics and Social Justice research theme.
To apply for this post please click on the Apply button below.
Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarships will include fees at the ‘home/EU’ student rate and maintenance (£13,863 in 2014/15) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress, due to funding restrictions.
Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependant on satisfactory progress, due to funding restrictions.
PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.
Successful applicants will be informed of the award as soon as possible and by 17th April 2015 at the latest.
The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in English Literature, with special reference to American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. The post is designed to foster research and teaching across conventional period boundaries. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research in any area of the subject are eligible to apply.
The successful candidates will join a Department with a long-standing reputation for the quality of its teaching and its research and become part of a dynamic community of scholars in the School of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts.
Please note that the University will be closed for Christmas from 24 December to 4 January so you may not get a response to your email until 5 January.
Timescale of appointment:
Long-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 30th January 2015. They will be required to submit a sample of their work (in English, not more than 8,000 words) by Wednesday 4th February 2015.
Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about Monday 16th February 2015 and invited to interview.
Interview date: Week of 9th March 2015 Anticipated start date: September 2015
The University of Bristol is committed to equality and we value the diversity of our staff and students.
It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of Tony Emmerson after a short illness. A founder member of the Association, Tony was a dedicated servant to the Association in a number of committee roles over the last forty years and who, up to this sudden news, was our Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a lifelong Sunderland fan, and a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, William Anthony Emmerson laid claim to a unique academic distinction: in 1967 he became the first and also the last graduate of the BA in Ancient and Medieval History, an achievement to which he referred with characteristic good humour.
After leaving Queen’s, Tony established himself as a keen historian of the United States of America and flew the flag for history, both within the IAAS and in the classroom. For forty-six years – and one month, he would regularly remind both himself and others – his academic home was the University of Ulster where successive generations of students were nurtured by his ardent commitment to the academy and to the education of Northern Ireland’s third level students in very difficult historic times. Tony’s academic career was defined by his promotion of the values of interdisciplinarity, and by his understanding of the importance of international contexts for a university education. With research and teaching interests in railroads and the West, the New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tony was perfectly placed to contribute significantly to the pedagogical development of the history curriculum in the north of Ireland, whether in terms of teaching, policy-making and what now would be termed outreach activities.
One of Tony’s major achievements was as Head of American Studies in the University of Ulster (Jordanstown and Coleraine). For many years before his retirement, he developed a very successful interdisciplinary programme which attracted students from Britain, Ireland and the United States of America. In addition, he co-ordinated the International Student Exchange Programme for the university, and consistently arranged innovative USA-Ulster exchanges for students. To succeed as he did, Tony undertook an annual or bi-annual road-trip in the States. He drove remarkable distances to visit universities in order to build and maintain connections in the interests of his students. Such commitment to bring this international perspective to the University of Ulster must be set in the context of his crowded teaching and administration schedules in his home university. For those of us who came to know Tony well over the years, it was always his energy matched by the intelligence and enthusiasm he brought to all his roles that marked him as a special contributor to the academy.
To encourage an all-Ireland engagement with American issues and the study of the USA, the Irish Association for American Studies was founded in the 1970s to support and offer an academic forum for the work of Americanists in Ireland. Those involved at the beginning included Peggy O’Brien (Trinity College Dublin), Denis Donoghue (University College Dublin), Alan Graham (Queen’s University Belfast) and, of course, Tony Emmerson (Ulster College then; now Ulster University). Of that first committee, Tony continued to be an active member of the IAAS to this year, and has served its committee with distinction.
Tony always defined his work as being both within and beyond the classroom. For example, he, along with his brother Michael, was a key figure in developing the Belfast Arts Festival in 1964. Since its genesis, the Belfast Festival has arguably become the main arts and culture showcase in Northern Ireland. Stories from those formative years of the Festival are now legion: Anthony Burgess reading from a manuscript called A Clockwork Orange; Alex Haley arranging for Playboy to arrange his trip to the Festival and then travelling to Carrickmacross to track down presumed slaveholder ancestors buried there; or Tony having to ask the Queen’s bursar for money to pay an irate Patrick Kavanagh in the Elms Bar. His involvement with the Belfast Festival also lead to another lifelong commitment: his brother Michael’s secretary Mary Mills would become Tony’s wife in 1968.
In addition to his commitments to the University of Ulster and the IAAS, Tony was the long-time Treasurer of the influential British Universities Transatlantic Exchange Association. Tony was the IAAS’s representative on the Board of the European Association for American Studies for an extended period and was elected to the prestigious post of Treasurer of the EAAS during his time on the EAAS Board. Indeed, Tony’s presence and influence on the EAAS Board was an important factor in the decision to bring the biennial EAAS conference to Dublin in 2010.
For those of us in Ireland who had the pleasure to work alongside Tony, it was his assiduous commitment to the IAAS cause that always heartened the membership and kept the Association alive when otherwise it may well have folded. While the IAAS has continued its work without a break since its formation, it is fair to say that it experienced a crisis in the mid-1990s. With the sudden death of Alan Graham, and the departure of Peggy O’Brien and Denis Donoghue to the US, the IAAS was active in a number of ways (conferences and the Irish Journal of American Studies), but faced dwindling membership numbers. Tony was a very significant influence in its continuity and its recent renewal. He served as Secretary, as Treasurer, and as Chair at crucial moments in the development of the IAAS, and, since 2011, had taken on the combined role of Membership Secretary and Treasurer. The continuity and even-handedness that he brought to all our discussions were important elements in the recent expansion of the IAAS’s membership and activities. For Tony, no distance was too great to bridge, no journey too far to travel to ensure the success of the Association. Apocryphal road trips were not confined to the USA: for the annual IAAS conference in Cork in 2005, Tony set off from Coleraine having finished his teaching at 6pm that Friday evening, travelling the length of Ireland to arrive at UCC shortly before midnight. Stragglers from the reception that evening as well as delegates the next morning shared a general sense of awe at Tony’s willingness to drive through at times atrocious conditions to take his seat at the conference and also, as ever, to offer his unique knowledge of constitutional affairs at the AGM.
Tony’s work with the Association was defined consistently by his openness to new ideas, by his willingness to work closely with a number of committees and by his incisive, gentle, sensible, and good-humoured contributions to discussions. The IAAS is a relatively small association and has managed to achieve a great deal on, often, limited resources. If it were not for the intelligence, enthusiasm and selflessness evident in all Tony accomplished and sought to accomplish, the IAAS would not have survived to become the organisation that it is today. I know I speak for everyone that has come into contact with Tony when I say that it has been a privilege to know him and to work with him. On a personal note, as the current IAAS Chair, he offered me nothing but total support and wise counsel over the last four years. None of our committee or association business shall ever be the same again.
It is for men like Tony Emmerson that the phrase a gentleman and a scholar was invented. He was an academics’ academic: dedicated to the study and teaching of his specialist subjects, to connecting through a community of scholars to the wider world, and to supporting the coming generations to realise their potential, the true measures of impact to which every academic should ever wish to aspire.
Tony is survived by his wife Mary, his sons Alan and Christopher, his daughter-in-law Miranda, and grandchildren Alice and Rosalind. His family has asked us to make well-wishers aware that donations to the Macular Society are gratefully received.
