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Fellowship: Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace

Established in 2007 with a generous donation from Kathryn Davis, the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace provide scholarships to recipients studying one of six critical languages at the Middlebury Language Schools: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian. The scholarships were established to address the tangible need for enhanced language proficiency in an increasingly globalized world. They cover tuition, room, and board for one summer of study at the Language Schools. Visit the website for complete information.

CfP: Journal of Strategic Security

The Journal of Strategic Security (JSS) announces a special call for articles that address the roles of social and behavioral science in future conflicts. A wide range of perspectives from the fields of psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology, criminology, history, geography, and demography on these issues will be considered. Authors from around the globe are invited to share their perspectives on these and other strategic security issues. We welcome submissions from students, practitioners, scholars, and experts from the intelligence, military, and law enforcement communities, as well as from government, academia, and the private sector. If you have a proposal for a paper or a completed manuscript, please submit it for consideration according to the instructions below. Please send all questions and submissions to: editor@henley-putnam.edu. For more information, please see the journal website.

Employment: University of Richmond

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor with a specialization in international or cross-cultural studies. This position is open to a scholar and teacher working on international issues in a disciplinary specialization such as anthropology, economics, history, international relations, or sociology. Qualifications include a Ph.D. with an international focus; the potential and desire to develop, from her/his disciplinary training, an active scholarly agenda on questions of leadership; and the ability to do interdisciplinary research and teach in a liberal arts environment. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to required courses in the Leadership Studies major and elective courses such as Leadership in International Contexts. Moe information may be found here. Applications will be considered starting on Nov. 15, 2009 and continue until the position is filled.

Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship

The SSRC Eurasia program will be hosting a webinar on November 16, 2009 at 10:00 am EST. During the webinar, Eurasia program staff will be reviewing the application process, answering questions about fellowship selection and providing more information about the fellowship and related activities. This webinar is open to anyone interested in applying for our Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship. For more information or to register for the webinar, please contact the SSRC Eurasia program at eurasia@ssrc.org.

New Issue Alert: International Studies Perspectives

International Studies Perspectives Volume 10, Issue 4, is now available for our members to read online. This issue features the following articles:

• David C. Ellis, "U.S. Grand Strategy Following the George W. Bush Presidency"
• Ariel Ilan Roth, "Reassurance: A Strategic Basis of U.S. Support for Israel"
• James H. Lebovic, "Perception and Politics in Intelligence Assessment: U.S. Estimates of the Soviet and "Rogue-State" Nuclear Threats"
• Archie W. Simpson, Bernd Kaussler, "IR Teaching Reloaded: Using Films and Simulations in the Teaching of International Relations"
• Marie T. Henehan, Meredith Reid Sarkees, "Open Doors and Closed Ceilings: Gender-Based Patterns and Attitudes in the International Studies Association"

Members may access online journals by logging in to the MyISA system with their user name and password and then clicking the eJournal Access link from the Quick Links menu on the right side of the screen. Information on all of our journals can be found here.

CfP: Political Psychology in an Age of Global Challenges

The International Society of Political Psychology invites paper proposals for their 2010 annual conference to be held July 7-10, 2010, San Francisco, CA. Proposals on the conference theme "Making our World Anew: Political Psychology in an Age of Global Challenges" are welcome by Feb. 5, 2010. Please see the conference website for more information.

CfP: Culture Wars in the United States

The Center for United States Studies, University of Québec at Montreal, Canada, invites paper proposals for a conference on: Culture Wars in the United States: The Politics of Religious Conservatism in the Obama Era. The conference will be held at the University of Québec on October 14, 2010. Deadline for proposals (paper abstracts): January 15, 2010. Please send your proposal by e-mail (in a Word attachment) to Catherine Goulet-Cloutier: goulet-cloutier.catherine@uqam.ca. The full call for papers has been posted here. 

CfP: MACLAS 2010

Johns Hopkins University invites paper proposals for the annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), to be held March 26-27, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. Please submit a 250-word abstract for individual papers or complete panel proposals (250 word abstracts for all 4 papers) in English or Spanish to maclasproposals@gmail.com by December 31, 2009.  Presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes long.  Please be sure to include a title, your name (and the name of all participants if a panel), your institution and your role (faculty, student or other title). MACLAS offers prizes for the best undergraduate and graduate papers submitted, as well as prizes to the membership at large for best article and best book published in 2008-2009.  Please see the website www.maclas.org for more information.