The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University is pleased to announce the inauguration of the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology. The fellowship is to support graduate students whose scholarly work would benefit from the use of library and archival materials at The Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Applications are accepted through December 22, 2008, and are encouraged from all students enrolled in a graduate program in the United States and whose interests concern the history, politics, and/or methodology of sexology and sexuality studies. For more information, please visit: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/library/moneyfellowship.html

Please forward this announcement:
The Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University is seeking a fulltime instructor to teach three courses per semester beginning August 2008. Applicants should:
Have a PhD or be advanced to candidacy and possess a strong graduate academic background in research related to women, gender or sexuality
Have previous successful teaching experiences at the collegiate level in Gender/Women’s Studies or a related field

Possible Courses: The successful applicant will normally teach at least one section of an introductory course such as G225: Gender, Sexuality & Popular Culture or G105 Sex, Gender, and the Body as well as topics courses in his/her area of expertise. Please visit the IU Gender Studies website at www.indiana.edu/~gender to read course descriptions. We are particularly interested in applicants with strengths in media and popular culture and race and ethnicity.
Salary & Benefits: This position is a fulltime ten-month appointment with a 100% FTE for each term. The salary will be at least $38,000 with full university benefits including a generous moving allowance and health insurance coverage for the employee and their spouse or same-sex partner. (We offer an array of domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples and their families). IU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
Application: Please apply via a single e-mail message to:

Professor Suzanna Walters, Chair

Department of Gender Studies

walterss@indiana.edu

Include the following attached Microsoft Word files in your e-mail message:

1. An updated curriculum vitae;

2. A cover letter explaining background, experience and qualifications to teach our courses;

3. A list of relevant academic references, including addresses, phone and e-mail contacts.
For full consideration, please send all items by May 1, 2008. Applications received after that date will be accepted only as needed until the position is filled.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

IU Department of Gender Studies / Visiting Lecturer’s Position

Memorial Hall East, Room 130, 1021 E. 3rd St. , Bloomington, IN 47405

Phone: (812) 855-0101 E-mail: gender@indiana.edu

For all of us who are colored & those of us who are colorless, I ask for your support for Andy.  As I continue to consider my own path toward the academy…I must consider this struggle of tenure, the struggle of the academy, the struggle of institutional bullshit, etc…as a colorless and queer person…there are those struggles of the industrial complex that will inevitably be encountered! 

You may very well be familiar w/ INCITE.  In fact, I hope you are!  If not, please familiarize yourself with this very critical and important work!  Read on, friend!!

Andy Smith, co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, is a brilliant Native American scholar and organizer. Her scholarship, research, and activism has impacted tens of thousands of Indigenous people worldwide (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Northern Europe) and her work provides a critical contribution to women of color movement building. Andy is the author of three books on Native American socio-history, and co-editor of the two recently published INCITE! anthologies. The Women’s Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches, recently denied her tenure. The students and faculty at U of M are organizing the response below to this decision as well as to the status of women of color in academia.

Native Feminism Without Apology!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2008

Statement of University of Michigan Students and Faculty in Support of Andrea Smith’s Tenure Case
CONTACT: TenureForAndreaSmith@gmail.com

On February 22nd, 2008, University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) issued a negative tenure recommendation for Assistant Professor Andrea Lee Smith. Jointly appointed in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies, Dr. Smith’s body of scholarship exemplifies scholarly excellence with widely circulated articles in peer-reviewed journals and numerous books in both university and independent presses including Native Americans and the Christian Right published this year by Duke University Press. Dr. Smith is one of the greatest indigenous feminist intellectuals of our time. A nominee for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Smith has an outstanding academic and community record of service that is internationally and nationally recognized. She is a dedicated professor and mentor and she is an integral member of the University of Michigan (UM) intellectual community. Her reputation and pedagogical practices draw undergraduate and graduate students from all over campus and the nation.

Dr. Smith received the news about her tenure case while participating in the United States’ hearings before the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Ironically, during those very same hearings, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decisions that restricted affirmative action policies at UM specifically were cited as violations of international law. At the same time, there is an undeniable link between the Department of Women’s Studies and LSA’s current tenure recommendations and the long history of institutional restrictions against faculty of color. In 2008, students of color are coming together to protest the way UM’s administration has fostered an environment wherein faculty of color are few and far between, Ethnic Studies course offerings have little financial and institutional support, and student services for students of color are decreasing each year.

To Support Professor Andrea Smith: The Provost must hear our responses! Write letters in support of Andrea Smith’s tenure case. Address email letters to ALL of the following:

* Teresa Sullivan, Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs, LSA, tsull@umich.edu
* Lester Monts, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, LSA, lmonts@umich.edu
* Mary Sue Coleman, President, PresOff@umich.edu
* TenureForAndreaSmith@gmail.com

Write letters in support of Assistant Professor Andrea Smith’s tenure case by MARCH 31ST 2008!

Voice your ideas on the web forum at http://www.woclockdown.org/

To Support Women of Color at Michigan and the Crisis of Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies: Attend the student organized March 15th Conference at UM!!!! Campus Lockdown: Women of Color Negotiating the Academic Industrial Complex is free and open to the public. Speakers include renowned activists and scholars Piya Chatterjee, Angela Davis, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Ruthie Gilmore, Fred Moten, Clarissa Rojas, and Haunani-Kay Trask. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.woclockdown.org/.

TALKING POINTS YOU CAN USE IN YOUR SUPPORT LETTER:

• Smith is author of the following books:

- Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
- Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
- Sacred Sites, Sacred Rites

• Smith is editor and/or co-editor of the following anthologies:

- Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
- Native Feminisms Without Apology
- Forthcoming on theorizing Indigenous Studies

• She has published 15 peer reviewed articles in widely circulated academic journals including American Quarterly, Feminist Studies, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Hypatia, Meridians, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
• Smith is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards from organizations such as the Lannan Foundation, University of Illinois, Gustavus Myers Foundation, Ford Foundation
• Smith was cited in the U.S. Non-Governmental Organization Consolidated Shadow Report to the United Nations
• A co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations, she has been a key thinker behind large-scale national and international efforts to develop remedies for ending violence against women beyond the criminal justice system. As a result of her work, scholars, social service providers, and community-based organizations throughout the United States have shifted from state-focused efforts to more systemic approaches for addressing violence against women. In recognition of her contributions, Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
• As of June 2007, Professor Smith’s book, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005) had sold over 8,000 copies. Three-fourths of these sales have gone to college and university courses. In addition, the leading Native studies organization, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, organized a special panel about this book at their last annual conference (2007). The international impact of Conquest is evidenced by its reprinting in Sami (Sweden) and in Maori Institutions in New Zealand; by Professor Smith’s invitation to participate in an academic workshop in Germany based on the book; and by the book’s frequent use in Native Studies classrooms in Canada.
• She has also played a key role in contributing social-justice based research, teaching, and community building at the University of Michigan.
• Under Andrea Smith’s mentorship, a large number of undergraduate and graduate students have grown as intellectual members of the UM’s campus community.

FACTS FOR DR. ANDREA SMITH’S TENURE CASE

• Her intellectual work contributes to the fields of Native American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, and American Studies.
• Smith is jointly appointed in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies at Michigan.
• The Program in American Culture gave a positive recommendation for Smith’s tenure, while the Department of Women’s Studies gave a negative recommendation. After the tenure recommendations were released from the two departments, the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts reviewed the tenure file and also gave a negative tenure recommendation.
• She is currently the Director of Native American Studies at Michigan.

More blog discussion here:
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Campus Lockdown:

Women of Color Negotiating the Academic Industrial Complex

The Campus Lockdown conference will center women of color in the academic industrial complex.  We will consider its structural constraints, as well as the implications of our scholarship.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
10:30 - 5:00pm
Michigan Union
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Speakers will include:

Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside
Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz (via teleconference)
Rosa Linda Fregoso, University of Southern California
Ruth Gilmore, University of Southern California
Fred Moten, University of Southern California
Clarissa Rojas, San Francisco State University
Haunani-Kay Trask, University of Hawai’i

Schedule at a glance:
10:30 - 12:00   Panel I:  Women of Color in the Academic Industrial Complex
1:30 - 3:30      Panel II:  Why Women of Color Scholarship?  Social Justice, Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies
3:45 - 5:00      Closing Event

EXTENDED: The registration deadline is March 13, 2008.
For more information & to register online, please visit www.woclockdown.org

If you are interesting in social justice, then perhaps check out the following…

SOA Watch is Hiring! 

Are you passionate about the struggle for human rights? Do you think our government should be held accountable for its deeply flawed and oppressive foreign policy towards Latin America? Do you believe that change and a better world are possible?

Then we need YOU at SOA Watch.WORK AT SOA WATCH: School of the Americas Watch is hiring for the Development & Operations Coordinator and Communications Coordinator positions to be based in Washington, DC. The positions are full-time with health benefits, paid vacation and holiday time. Salary is negotiable, and there are opportunities for skills development. Our staff is made up of paid, unpaid, full-time, and part-time activists who are all dedicated to this work. Development & Operations CoordinatorSome of the responsibilities are:- Produce donor appeals; grant applications, and other fundraising materials- Develop and pursue new ways to raise money- Maintaining database- Process donations and maintain records on donors- Stock, promote, sell and distribute SOA Watch books and video resources- General office management functions- Manage daily operation of computers; providing information on problems to consultants for repairs- Recruit and coordinate interns and office volunteers- Directly coordinate some logistics for all national SOA Watch eventsClick here to view the complete job description, requirements and instructions on how to applyCommunications CoordinatorSome of the responsibilities are:- Develop a proactive media campaign- Update and maintain a database of Spanish- and English-language media outlets and reporters- Monitor news and respond to stories with an SOA/ WHINSEC connection- Send out news releases; host press conferences; develop messaging strategies- Coordinate a volunteer media working group to assist with events and other ongoing media work- Compose and send out mass emails to grassroots base- Maintain and update the SOA Watch websiteClick here to view the complete job description, requirements and instructions on how to applyInternships at SOA Watch: SOA Watch is accepting applications for full-time Spring Internships. These positions can be focused on a particular area of work or more general in nature. Click here for more information on internships and volunteer opportunities at SOA Watch. You can also contact SOA Watch at info(at)soaw(dot)org or 202-234-3440. School of the Americas Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA, now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC), and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. We are grateful to our sisters and brothers throughout Latin America for their inspiration and the invitation to accompany them in their struggle for economic and social justice. 

Metadata Librarian

San Diego State University Library and Information Access invites applications from experienced and innovative individuals for the position of Metadata Librarian.  Reporting to the Head of Monographs Cataloging, the successful candidate will provide leadership in developing, implementing and managing metadata standards, and will create metadata for the library?s growing number of digital collections and repositories, including text, images, audio, video and data files.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the evaluation and implementation of appropriate metadata standards for description, access, retrieval and management of the library?s digital assets
• Serves as the local authority for metadata standards, keeping abreast of developments in electronic publishing, digital conversion and related copyright concerns
• Documents locally adopted metadata standards, practices and workflows
• Creates metadata for the library?s digital collections
• Trains staff and supervises metadata creation
• Manages authority and quality control issues for the library?s metadata
• Participates in the Digital Initiatives Steering Group to plan digital collections and projects
• Collaborates with faculty, librarians and staff as they develop digital collections
• Serves as the library?s metadata liaison to the University
• May collaborate with colleagues to structure, plan and build University-wide repositories
• Experiments with promising new metadata/cataloging tools or technologies
• Participates in appropriate library and University task forces, committees, and outreach activities
• Provides exceptional customer service to colleagues and library users alike

Required Qualifications:

• ALA-accredited MLS degree, or equivalent
• A minimum of one year of experience working with two or more recognized metadata schema, such as Dublin Core, EAD, METS,  MODS or MARC in a digital library environment
• Basic knowledge of the processes involved in digitization/data transformation
• Demonstrated knowledge of information organization concepts
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse constituencies
• Ability to work well with library staff to provide access to the library?s digital collections
• Ability to be flexible and responsive in a rapidly changing work environment
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to meet the requirements for tenure and promotion at San Diego State University

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two years of library experience
• Project management experience

This is a full-time, twelve-month, tenure track faculty position.  Tenure is dependent upon continuing library service effectiveness, professional growth and development, and service to the University and community.  Rank of either Senior Assistant or Associate Librarian with a salary range of $55,944-$89,472.  Excellent benefits, including medical, dental and vision plans, as well as 24 days vacation per year.

San Diego State University is one of the largest academic institutions in California, and is the oldest in the San Diego region.  Part of the California State University system, SDSU serves an ethnically diverse student body of approximately 36,500 students.  SDSU is the nation?s most productive small research university, offering bachelor?s degrees in 81 areas, master?s degrees in 74 and joint-doctoral degrees in 16 areas.  Its mission is to provide well-balanced, high-quality education for undergraduate and graduate students, and to contribute to knowledge and the solution of problems through excellence and distinction in teaching, research and services.  Additional information is available at http://www.sdsu.edu.

SDSU is a Title IX, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, disability or veteran status, including veterans of the Vietnam era.

Please send letter of application, resume and names, postal and e-mail addresses of five professional references to mlester@mail.sdsu.edu .  Print versions of the application packet may be sent to:

Mark Lester
Director, Administrative Operations and Communication
Library and Information Access
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Please indicate the position for which you are applying.  Screening will begin March 3, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled.

University of California , Davis
General Library

Announcement of Vacancy

Position: Humanities Librarian

Salary: $43,560 – $60,408 (Assistant Librarian II – Associate Librarian V)
(Appointment level and salary commensurate with experience and qualifications)

The Humanities and Social Sciences (H/SS) Department, located in the Peter J. Shields Library, University of California , Davis , seeks a dynamic and self-motivated librarian to provide effective reference, instruction and outreach services to a diverse campus community. The Humanities Librarian serves as the bibliographer for Literatures in English, Film Studies and the Performing Arts, developing and managing print and electronic collections to support campus research and instruction in assigned disciplines. With a team of nine H/SS bibliographers, the Humanities Librarian participates in creating new services and programs within an environment of rapidly changing information technologies, scholarly communication models and media resources.

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