Each year the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences sponsors the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Program, designed to foster innovation in the undergraduate curriculum, to give advanced graduate students experience teaching their own undergraduate courses, and to provide funding for graduate research. This is one of the most important opportunities available for graduate students, who regard this as a prestigious fellowship and rare opportunity to assert themselves academically.

Eligibility

Applicants must be graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences in residence for the 2009-2010 academic year, and must have achieved ABD status before teaching in the program. Please note that fellowships may not be deferred and that former Dean's Teaching Fellows are ineligible. Fellows will teach a one-semester course and receive a salary of $8,500. In addition the Dean's Teaching Fellowship will pay 20% of the Fellows tuition for the semester, in which he/she teaches. For those receiving fellowships with specific prohibitions against outside money, the above will be offered in the form of a research fund. We expect the department to ensure that the student's time is spent appropriately.

Application Requirements

letter of application with completed application form
curriculum vitae
course proposal
letter of nomination from a faculty mentor
current transcript
a brief course description (not to exceed 30 words) for publication in the Registrar’s schedule of courses.
two copies of all paperwork

Application materials are available from your department administrator or download the PDF file here.

Deadline

Completed applications are due to department chairs by October 13th, 2008. There will not be any exceptions to this deadline.

For more information

Please contact your department administrator, or email Alicia Felder at afelder4@jhu.edu.

Fall 2008 Courses

Bhrigupati Singh – Course# - 070.391 – Religion and the Problem of Suffering
How do different religious traditions interpret the meaning of human suffering? How are secular responses to suffering inflected by religious or moral imaginations? Key authors include Nietzsche, Weber, Mauss, Deleuze, Rene Girard, Michael Taussin, Veena Das and the anthropological literature on ‘social suffering’.

James Roberts – Course# 100.309 – Sailors Ashore, Afloat and Across the line to Piracy: Perspectives in 18th Century Maritime History
This course looks at the maritime history of the 18th century Anglo-Atlantic and Caribbean from the perspectives of merchant, naval, pirate, and enslaved seamen in their communities at sea and shore.

Helene Coccagna – Course# 040.223 – Everything in Moderation? Exploring wine in Ancient Greece
This course explores wine consumption in ancient Greece, including its role in religion, gender, childhood, and ethnicity as well as Greek attitudes toward moderation and excess in drinking and other behavior.

Sarah Adelman – Course# 100.206 – Children without Parents: orphaned, abandoned & stolen children in American history
This course studies children separated from parents by death, poverty, abandonment, and coercion, and the ways Americans have cared for them – including indenture, orphanages, “orphan train,” adoption, and foster care.

Adam Maskevich – Course# 130.257 – The Archaeology of Food
Food is the basis of life and the foundation of civilization. This class will explore the role food has played in various cultures as evidenced in the archaeological record.

Martin Shuster – Course # 300.344 Genocide as a Philosophical Problem
This class will be an overview of cases of genocide from antiquity to modernity. We will study genocide from an interdisciplinary perspective, keeping an eye towards the theoretical issues that arise in the comparative study of genocide.

Doron Bauer – Course# - 010.290 - At the Very Edge: The Art of Islamic Spain as a Furtive Introduction to ‘Islamic Art’.
The course examines the notion of Islamic Art by focusing on the art of Al-Andaulas as a case study.

Massimo Petrozzi – Course# 140.383 – Thinking and living with Animals: Human Relationship in History
The course analyzes the history of human- animal interactions focusing on the way in which discourses and knowledge about animals shaped fundamental concepts such as gender, culture, agency, and knowledge.

Daniel Pasciuti – Course # 230.334 – The City in Time and Space: Historical Sociology of the Urban World
This course will cover the past and current developments of urbanization from a comparative historical perspective examining how cities operate in the increasingly connected and complex world of today.

Matthew Holtzman – Course# - 150.480 – Philosophy and Geometry in History: Episodes from the Early Modern Period
Students will explore the relationship between philosophy and geometry in the period from Descartes to Kant, from 1650 to 1800, through a study of crucial historical episodes.