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Postdoctoral Fellowships at The Phillips Collection

 

The Phillips Collection-George Washington University Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Phillips Collection, in partnership with The George Washington University (GW), offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship available to support research and teaching on topics in American, European, or non-western art, including photography, from 1780 to the present. The fellow is expected to be in residence in Washington, D.C., at The Phillips Collection during the fall and spring semesters throughout the term of the fellowship. The next fellowship opportunity is July 2013 through June 2014. The Fellow will be expected to teach one undergraduate or graduate course at the Phillips' Center for the Study of Modern Art or at GW's Foggy Bottom Campus, present at least one public lecture at the Phillips, and participate in other programs and discussions with scholars, critics, museum staff, and students at the museum and the university during the fellowship. 

The appointment carries a departmental affiliation with GW's Department of Fine Arts and Art History and with The Phillips Collection. The Fellowship carries a stipend and a generous benefits package is available. In addition, the fellowship will provide various university/museum privileges, including access to facilities, libraries of institutions, equipment, support staff, curators, and faculty. 

The Fellowship is open to untenured scholars who have received their PhDs within the past five years. Preference will be given to applicants whose projects focus on subjects related to the museum's areas of collecting and reinterpret the topic via innovative methodological approaches or alternative perspectives that may cross national boundaries and art historical time periods. 

Deadline for receipt of application for the 2013–14 fellowship is January 15, 2013. To apply, send a cover letter, CV, a one-page research proposal, a sample syllabus for proposed undergraduate or graduate course, and two letters of reference (under separate cover). All application materials must be sent in electronic form to:

Program Coordinator 
Center for the Study of Modern Art 
The Phillips Collection 
1600 21st Street, NW 
Washington, DC 20009 
CSMAprograms@phillipscollection.org
202-387-2151 x286

The Phillips Collection and The George Washington University are Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action Employers.

Kristin Romberg (PhD, Columbia University) is the 2011-12 Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Romberg is a scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism, particularly Russian and Western European during the interwar period. While at the Phillips, she is completing a book manuscript about the Russian constructivist Aleksei Gan. Entitled Radical Constructivism: Aleksei Gan's Grass-Roots Modernism, the book demonstrates how Gan’s work as a political organizer was central to the movement’s historical and aesthetic foundations. Dr. Romberg is also teaching a course for GW graduate students and members of the public.

Spring 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow Riccardo Venturi giving a talk on Mark Rothko at the Center, May 2011.