Visiting Performing Artist/Research Fellowship Spring 2012
AADS Visiting Performing Artist/Research Fellowship Spring 2012
African and African Diaspora Studies Department
The University of Texas at Austin Application
Deadline: August 31, 2011
The African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS) at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce a one-semester Visiting Artist/Research Fellowship in the performing African and African Diaspora arts.
About the Department
The African and African Diaspora Studies Department is dedicated to the study of the
intellectual, political, artistic, and social experiences of people of African descent
throughout Africa and the African Diaspora, including the United States. In this
endeavor, it works in concert with The John L. Warfield Center for African and African
American Studies and the Institute for Critical Urban Policy.
We are committed to interdisciplinary scholarship and creative production that explores
questions of social justice for Black people around the globe. Our scholarship, cultural
creativity, and pedagogical practices reflect our investment in comparative and
transnational approaches, intersectional analyses, and critical theoretical frameworks.
They also reflect our collective commitment as scholars, artists, teachers, and students to
bridging the perceived gap between scholarship and artistic work and political
engagement. We collaborate with local, national, and international organizations in the
investigation and enhancement of the lives of Black people.
Our pedagogical strategy rests on the premise that classrooms are powerful sites for
social change. We encourage our students to be critical thinkers, skillful writers,
thorough researchers, politically conscious participants in popular culture, and active
community members. We adopt a de-centered, feminist pedagogy that prepares our
students to be politically engaged citizens, our undergraduates to pursue graduate study,
and our graduate students to become responsible members of the professoriate, public
policy makers, and activist researchers.
Professionally, we publish regularly in the leading journals in our respective fields; we
hold leadership positions in professional organizations; and we conduct research that
reflects the intersectionality, cross-disciplinarity, and activist perspectives that
characterize the Department.
About the Fellowship
The fellowship is open to emergent and established artists who would benefit from the
artistic and intellectual environment offered by AADS. This appointment is for the
spring semester of the 2011-2012 academic year (January 16, 2012 – May 31, 2012) and
carries a stipend of $25,000 plus fringe benefits. The fellow is obligated to be in
residence in Austin during the entire spring semester. The fellow will receive a moving
allowance and will have some limited access to shared office space, shared space that can
be used as rehearsal/studio space, and shared logistical office support.
Depending upon the successful applicant’s field, efforts will be made to pair the artist
with an appropriate senior faculty mentor affiliated with AADS. The fellow will pursue
his/her own artistic work, teach one undergraduate course in his/her area of specialty,
give a public performance/presentation, and submit a report on the activities at the end
of the term to the AADS Chair.
Artists working in the following fields are encouraged to apply:
traditional and experimental theatre forms, including performance art, theatre for
social change, spoken word, and performance poetry of Africa and/or the African
Diaspora;
traditional and contemporary music, including voice and instrumental performance
of Africa and/or the African Diaspora;
traditional and contemporary forms of dance/choreography, including dance and
dance theater of Africa and/or the African Diaspora.
Terminal degree in field or equivalent experience is preferred.
Completed applications must include:
Cover letter
Curriculum Vitae/Resume
Project proposal: No more than three (3) double-spaced pages describing the artist’s
work and discussing specific plans for the fellowship semester
Three (3) letters of reference
Applications must be submitted as e-documents to: applicants@austin.utexas.edu
Questions regarding the AADS Visiting Performing Artist/Research Fellowship can be
directed to Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Associate Professor of AADS,
jonijones@austin.utexas.edu.
African and African Diaspora Studies Department
The University of Texas at Austin Application
Deadline: August 31, 2011
The African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS) at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce a one-semester Visiting Artist/Research Fellowship in the performing African and African Diaspora arts.
About the Department
The African and African Diaspora Studies Department is dedicated to the study of the
intellectual, political, artistic, and social experiences of people of African descent
throughout Africa and the African Diaspora, including the United States. In this
endeavor, it works in concert with The John L. Warfield Center for African and African
American Studies and the Institute for Critical Urban Policy.
We are committed to interdisciplinary scholarship and creative production that explores
questions of social justice for Black people around the globe. Our scholarship, cultural
creativity, and pedagogical practices reflect our investment in comparative and
transnational approaches, intersectional analyses, and critical theoretical frameworks.
They also reflect our collective commitment as scholars, artists, teachers, and students to
bridging the perceived gap between scholarship and artistic work and political
engagement. We collaborate with local, national, and international organizations in the
investigation and enhancement of the lives of Black people.
Our pedagogical strategy rests on the premise that classrooms are powerful sites for
social change. We encourage our students to be critical thinkers, skillful writers,
thorough researchers, politically conscious participants in popular culture, and active
community members. We adopt a de-centered, feminist pedagogy that prepares our
students to be politically engaged citizens, our undergraduates to pursue graduate study,
and our graduate students to become responsible members of the professoriate, public
policy makers, and activist researchers.
Professionally, we publish regularly in the leading journals in our respective fields; we
hold leadership positions in professional organizations; and we conduct research that
reflects the intersectionality, cross-disciplinarity, and activist perspectives that
characterize the Department.
About the Fellowship
The fellowship is open to emergent and established artists who would benefit from the
artistic and intellectual environment offered by AADS. This appointment is for the
spring semester of the 2011-2012 academic year (January 16, 2012 – May 31, 2012) and
carries a stipend of $25,000 plus fringe benefits. The fellow is obligated to be in
residence in Austin during the entire spring semester. The fellow will receive a moving
allowance and will have some limited access to shared office space, shared space that can
be used as rehearsal/studio space, and shared logistical office support.
Depending upon the successful applicant’s field, efforts will be made to pair the artist
with an appropriate senior faculty mentor affiliated with AADS. The fellow will pursue
his/her own artistic work, teach one undergraduate course in his/her area of specialty,
give a public performance/presentation, and submit a report on the activities at the end
of the term to the AADS Chair.
Artists working in the following fields are encouraged to apply:
traditional and experimental theatre forms, including performance art, theatre for
social change, spoken word, and performance poetry of Africa and/or the African
Diaspora;
traditional and contemporary music, including voice and instrumental performance
of Africa and/or the African Diaspora;
traditional and contemporary forms of dance/choreography, including dance and
dance theater of Africa and/or the African Diaspora.
Terminal degree in field or equivalent experience is preferred.
Completed applications must include:
Cover letter
Curriculum Vitae/Resume
Project proposal: No more than three (3) double-spaced pages describing the artist’s
work and discussing specific plans for the fellowship semester
Three (3) letters of reference
Applications must be submitted as e-documents to: applicants@austin.utexas.edu
Questions regarding the AADS Visiting Performing Artist/Research Fellowship can be
directed to Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Associate Professor of AADS,
jonijones@austin.utexas.edu.
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