[STS-Africa] Masters and Doctoral Fellowships with Environmental Humanities South at UCT

[Lesley Green]

 Environmental Humanities South<http://www.envhumsouth.uct.ac.za/> at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, invites application for five Masters fellowships and three Doctoral fellowships, for study commencing in February 2016, thanks to generous funding for the National Research Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.  Applications are due to envhumsouth at uct.ac.za by 09h00 on October 15, 2015. Further details are on our website:  http://www.envhumsouth.uct.ac.za<http://www.envhumsouth.uct.ac.za/>.

We would welcome applicants from all disciplines in the Humanities, and particularly from students living in Africa. Having received much interest  from students in the social sciences during our pilot year , we  particularly invite applicants from literary studies, film and media, and the creative arts.

The core courses and research programme are presented jointly in the Departments of Historical Studies, Sociology, Fine Art, Film and Media, English, and Anthropology, in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, and includes the possibility of co-supervisions and electives across a wide range of departments.

  Masters and Doctoral candidates both take the two new core courses: "Earth, Ecology, Humanities", in the first semester, and "Researching the Anthropocene" in the second semester.

 For M.Phil students, electives include the following graduate courses:

Environmental Conflicts; Science, Nature and Democracy; Space, Place and Literary Non-Fiction in Africa; Film and the Environment; Environmental Documentary; Society and Natural Resources; Decolonial Theory; Philosophy of Science; Advanced Development Theories; Biodiversity and Climate Change; African Environmental History; Introduction to Climate Change and Sustainable Development; Capital, Politics and Nature; Alternative Economies; Geography of Development and the Environment; Environmental Law for Non-lawyers; Climate Law and Governance.

Our current research themes include

  *   Race and the making of an environmental public

  *   The militarisation of conservation

  *   The anthropocene amid the challenges of the decolonising South

  *   Nature and democracy

  *   Space, place, land and infrastructure


For the first round of offers of a place in Environmental Humanities South in 2016,  please send a CV, an academic transcript, a one page research proposal and a writing sample. Prospective applications will be assessed in October, prior to the official UCT graduate admissions deadline of October 31. Please send these application materials to  envhumsouth at uct.ac.za<mailto:envhumsouth at uct.ac.za> by 9:00 am on October 15, 2015.

 We look forward to hearing from you.

 Sincerely,

 The Environmental Humanities South team

Lesley Green (Convenor – Environmental Humanities; based in Anthropology)

Lance van Sittert (Deputy Convenor – Environmental Humanities; HOD Historical Studies)

Frank Matose (Sociology / Society and Natural Resources)

Hedley Twidle (English Language and Literature / Creative Nonfiction)

Ian Rijsdijk (Film and Media / Ecocriticism)

Virginia MacKenny (Fine Art / Environmental Art)

Bodhisattva Kar (Historical Studies)

Carla Tsampiras (Medical Humanities)



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