Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 12:46 CDT From: Vivien Ng Please help us distribute this announcement as widely as possible. If you are the editor of your organization's newsletter, or know someone who is, please help us get this into the newsletter. We are especially interested in encouraging applications from activists who are engaged in scholarly research and writing. --Vivien Ng (CLAGS Board Member) aa0509@uokmvsa.backbone.uoknor.edu aa0509@uokmvsa.bitnet ANNOUNCEMENT The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) of the City University of New York (CUNY) is offering two Rockefeller Residency Fellowships for the 1995-96 academic year. The theme for this year will be The History and Practice of Lesbian and Gay Politics. We expect that this broad concept will stimulate much-needed empirical, monographic work on topics such as pre-Stonewall political formations. We are also seeking proposals on the process and strategies of social change affecting the lesbian and gay world. Questions raised include (but not limited to): Does the protest strategy of separation or of confrontation produce the greater shift in concentration of privilege and power? Are lesbian and gay efforts to influence the mainstream best accomplished by "boring from within" or assaulting from without? What produces the proliferation of factions and in-fighting within lesbian and gay activist communities? Residency Fellowships are open to all academic or independent scholars in the humanities and related areas who have shown a genuine commitment to lesbian and gay studies. Applicants need not have an academic or organizational affiliation, but must be working on a serious and relevant project. Dissertation proposals are not eligible. Preference will be given to unaffiliated scholars, junior faculty, as well as activists engaged in scholarly research and writing. All applications will be reviewed and evaluated by a jury of scholars and specialists in diverse areas of lesbian/gay studies who are not affiliated with CLAGS. Fellows will receive $35,000, plus a $2,000 travel/relocation stipend, for residency from September 1 to June 1. Applications for shorter-term residencies can be considered, provided the proposed project is suited to the abbreviated time period and the Fellow has sustained interaction with CLAGS. For participation as a Residency Fellow for 1995-96, applications must be completed and returned by February 15, 1995. The full application includes a cover page; a 10-page narrative detailing the proposed project; a complete curriculum vitae/resume; samples of the applicant's publications or relevant work; and three letters of reference from persons familiar with the applicant's work. Application forms are available from: Martin Duberman, Director, CLAGS, CUNY Graduate School, 33 West 42nd St., New York, New York, 10036. (212) 642-2924.