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Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Academic Initiative Professorships The University of California, Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce the creation of four distinguished professorships, two in the social sciences and two in the humanities, that will be clustered around the study of global civil society. Made possible by a generous endowment from Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, these Mellichamp Academic Initiative Professorships will be committed to the interdisciplinary study of those aspects of global society, history, and culture that are not encompassed within the traditional study of nation states and their international relations. While departmental affiliations are open - chair holders may work in or between any of the disciplines in the Social Sciences, Humanities, or Arts and hold joint appointments across departments or divisions if this is desirable - the endowed chairs themselves will focus on one of the following areas of global civil society: • Global Authority and Governance Descriptions of the individual chair searches are below. For further information contact Giles Gunn, Professor of English and Global and International Studies, ggunn@global.ucsb.edu, Chair of Mellichamp Academic Initiative Professorships Search. Global Authority and Governance The University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications from well-established scholars and teachers for an endowed chair in the field of “Global Authority and Governance.” As one of four positions clustered around the study of global civil society and dedicated to creating a high-profile, dynamic core of senior faculty interested in teaching, research, and collaboration within this area, this position will focus on emerging forms of global governance and transnational forms of global authority. These include, but are not confined to, all those transnational civil society organizations that have proliferated outside the boundaries of the conventional interstate system of authority. Among the many issues of global governance that may be of interest to applicants for this position are the economic regulation of transnational production and trade, environmental protection, labor standards, human rights, international migration, combating terrorism, and potentially all human-related activities that cross national borders. Richard Appelbaum Global Religions and Modernisms The University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications from well-established scholars and teachers for an endowed chair in the field of “Global Religions and Modernisms.” As one of four positions clustered around the study of global civil society and dedicated to creating a high-profile, dynamic core of senior faculty interested in teaching, research, and collaboration within this field, this position will focus both on the emerging role of religion as an ideological and political force in public affairs and on the encounter of politicized religion with secular modernity. The expertise required for this position will include close familiarity with one or more religious traditions together with an understanding of how religion has shaped, and has been shaped by, modern values and practices deriving from the Enlightenment and their impact on the contemporary world. An interest in the way political theologies inform current global conflicts between political religion and state formations will be particularly useful for this position. Dwight Reynolds Global Media and Representation The University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications from well-established scholars and teachers for an endowed chair in the field of “Global Media and Representation.” As one of four positions clustered around the study of global civil society and dedicated to creating a high-profile, dynamic core of senior faculty interested in teaching, research, and collaboration within this area, this position will focus on the global expansion of media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Media such as print, audio, video, graphics, publishing, and the Internet have played a central role in weaving the world together into evermore complex networks of communication, exchange, interdependence, and exclusion, and in creating a new global civil society. We are particularly interested in candidates who seek to investigate what happens to conceptions of the world when they are obliged to submit to the subjectivities, dominions, technologies, protocols, and politics of the global media. This exploration may consider what happens to information of all kinds (cognitive, sensate, imaginative) in the transmissions, translations, interactions, dispersions, diversions, and transformations that its cultural representation and mediation entails or requires -- how these processes transpire on a global scale, what controls, manipulates, undermines, and dominates them both overtly and covertly, and how, particularly, these processes alter representations of what the global was, or is, or should be, or could be. Lisa Parks and Bhaskar Sarkar Transnational Civil Society Networks The University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications from well-established scholars and teachers for an endowed chair in the field of “Transnational Civil Society Networks.” This is one of four positions clustered around the study of global civil society dedicated to creating a high-profile, dynamic core of senior faculty interested in teaching, research, and collaboration within this field. We welcome all applicants whose research focuses on transnational networks that have emerged from different aspects of globalization in the past as well as the present, but are especially interested in scholars whose work concentrates on political, economic, or cultural nongovernmental networks or social movements concerned with human rights, the environment, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity/nation, religion, migration, war, peace, neoliberalism, and global justice. John Foran Mellichamp Lecture Series
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