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 Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Accepting Applications to 2007-08 Fellowship Program The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is accepting applications to its Fellowship Program for the 2007-2008 academic year. The Marcus Center's Fellowship Program provides recipients with month long fellowships for research and writing at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Fellowship stipends will be sufficient to cover transportation and living expenses while in residence in Cincinnati. Applicants for the Marcus Center Fellowship program must be conducting serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, Marcus Center Fellowships will be awarded to post-doctoral candidates, Ph.D. candidates who are completing dissertations, and senior or independent scholars. The application deadline is March 18, 2007. Full information on the program together with an application form are available at the Marcus Center's website (www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/programs) or by contacting Mr. Kevin Proffitt, Director of the Fellowship Program, at the address below. Kevin Proffitt Director/Fellowship Programs Senior Archivist for Research and Collections American Jewish Archives 3101 Clifton Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45220 513.221.7444, x3304 Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
