Bard College, OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts

Two Resident Fellowships in Human Rights and the Arts

The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts (CHRA) invites applications for two resident research and teaching fellowships in human rights and the arts. 

Scholars and/or artists with teaching experience and a research project are eligible to apply. The 2023–2024 fellowships cover a period of one year, i.e. two academic semesters, from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. The positions are based at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The fellowships include a full-time salary of $65,000, health benefits, and a research budget.

The Open Society University Network Resident Fellows in Human Rights & the Arts are appointed for a one-year period to pursue their own research projects and contribute to the curriculum by offering two seminars. Fellows are expected to participate in the academic life of Bard and OSUN, pursue their own research, and contribute to the CHRA’s public programs. The goal of the fellowship program is to support outstanding engagement in human rights and the arts by scholars, artists, and activists.

The MA Program in Human Rights & the Arts offers a two-year graduate-level interdisciplinary curricular experience that takes stock of the growing encounter between human rights and the arts as fields of both academic knowledge and professional work. The curriculum is grounded in flexible and rigorous graduate-level coursework, involving theory, case studies, and studio classes. In addition, all students are expected to successfully present a research-based academic thesis or artistic performance/film/installation as their capstone project.

The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts (CHRA), at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley (occupied homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people). CHRA aims to stimulate new ways of thinking about the intersection of human rights and the arts; develop new strategies for research, practice, and engagement; and incubate new relationships between activists, scholars, and artists. The Center offers a variety of annual public programming geared toward the MA student, Bard College, OSUN partner institutions, and the general public: a talk series, digital commissions, collaborations with activist groups, workshops, and a biennial festival that takes place at Bard College and across the OSUN network. Featured artists and activists have included Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Kenyon Adams, Cooking Sections, Mohammed El-Kurd, Forensic Architecture, Coco Fusco, Suzanne Kite, Zayaan Khan, Faustin Linyekula, Layli Long Soldier, Ernesto Pujol, Benji Rha, Vivien Sansour, Hamed Sinno, Juliana Steiner, Jordan Weber, and Eyal Weizman, among others.

Applications are due Thursday, January 5, 2023, 11:59 p.m. EST. Candidates should apply online by submitting required documents to Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/117274