The Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
Eligibility | Application Requirements | Deadline | Fall 2009 Courses | Contact
Each year the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences sponsors the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Program, designed to foster innovation in the undergraduate curriculum, to give advanced graduate students experience teaching their own undergraduate courses, and to provide funding for graduate research. This is one of the most important opportunities available for graduate students, who regard this as a prestigious fellowship and rare opportunity to assert themselves academically.
Eligibility
Applicants must be graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences in residence for the academic year, which he/she teaches, and must have achieved ABD status before teaching in the program. Please note that fellowships may not be deferred and that former Dean's Teaching Fellows are ineligible. Fellows will teach a one-semester course and receive a salary of $8,500. In addition the Dean's Teaching Fellowship will pay 20% of the Fellows tuition for the semester, in which he/she teaches. For those receiving fellowships with specific prohibitions against outside money, the above will be offered in the form of a research fund. We expect the department to ensure that the student's time is spent appropriately.
Application Requirements
- Letter of application with completed application form
- Curriculum vitae
- Course proposal
- Letter of nomination from a faculty mentor
- Current transcript (Does not have to be official)
- Brief course description (not to exceed 30 words) for publication in the Registrar’s schedule of courses.
- Two copies of all paperwork {Do Not Staple Any of Your Paperwork}
Application materials are available from your department administrator or download the PDF file here.
Deadline
Completed applications are due to department chairs by October 9th, 2009. There will not be any exceptions to this deadline. Applications must be presented to the Dean's Office by 5p.m., Friday, October 16th.
For more information
Please contact your department administrator, or email Alicia Felder at afelder4@jhu.edu.
Fall 2009 Courses
Classics
Timothy Phin - 040.219 “Children and Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean”
This course examines the lives of children in ancient Greece and Rome by exploring the individual and collective experiences of childhood preserved in the written and visual remains of antiquity.
German & Romance Languages and Literatures
Andrew Pigott - 212.306 “Gender Issues in the Maghrebian Novel”
A survey of francophone Moroccan and Algerian novels produced in the wake of those countries’ struggles for independence. We will investigate the intertwining historical context, gender issues, and formal experimentation.
Albert Lloret - 215.321 “Trips to the Other: Heaven and Hell in Hispanic Literature”
This course studies representations of the afterlife from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, from contextual, generic, thematic, and discursive perspectives in a variety of Hispanic texts.
Jeanette Patterson - 212.307 “Tales on Trial: Storytelling in the Middle Ages”
Investigation into the making and remaking of stories in the Middle Ages, according to aesthetic moral and social criteria. Texts include lais and fabliaux, Roman de la Rose, Bible adaptations and Heptameron.
History
Katherine Gray - 100.324 “Puritan Maiden to Pop Culture Tweens: the History of Youth in America”
From farmers to flappers, factory laborers to hippies, course investigates how young people’s lives have changed in the past 300 years. We will examine the evolving cultural importance of youth.
History of Art
Andrea Olsen - 101.255 “The Art of Early Christian Pilgrimage”
This course surveys the art of Christian pilgrimage in the early medieval world, examining the range of artistic production resulting from pilgrimage between the fourth and the eighth centuries.
Brooke Shilling - 101.196 “Destroying Art: Iconoclasm through History”
This course explores the deliberate destruction of art by political regimes, religious groups, and individuals from antiquity to the present.
Political Science
Jeffrey Meiser - 191.413 “American Foreign Policy: Power and Restraint”
This course examines the causes and consequences of American foreign policy from a historical and comparative perspective, examining both domestic and international factors and their interaction.
Public Health Studies
Melissa Gilkey - 280.306 “Revising the Sick Role: The Patient and Subject, Citizen, Consumer, Expert and Advocate”
Drawing primarily from public health, sociology, and history of medicine, this seminar explores theoretical perspectives on patient-hood in order to understand current initiatives in public health and medicine.
Sachiko Ozawa- 280.307 “Health Financing in the Global Arena: Paying For Healthcare”
Discusses the controversial topic of who should pay for healthcare by examining healthcare financing, pooling, purchasing and provision mechanisms with case studies featuring Sweden, Japan, Cambodia, Britain and the U.S.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Department Deadline: October 9th, 2009
Dean's Office Deadline: October 16th, 2009
For more information:
Contact your department administrator,
or email Alicia Felder afelder4@jhu.edu.