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Race & Capitalism presents Next Chapter | Call for Papers

Next Chapter is a digital forum of the Race & Capitalism Project that showcases essays by emerging scholars (graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty) concerned with the study of race and capitalism. Each essay should be critical, innovative, and interdisciplinary, and must engage directly and explicitly with the relationship between race and capitalism. Contributions may include: analyses of contemporary or historical issues; responses to activist struggles; book reviews; short summaries of ongoing research projects and/or preliminary findings; etc. Next Chapter will feature three essays per quarter.

Next Chapter is seeking submissions for its Winter series. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of affiliates with the Race & Capitalism Project. Selected essays will be published on the Next Chapter page of the Race & Capitalism Project website. Writers will receive a small stipend for their contributions. (Please see previously published essays for more insight into the aims and structure of the forum.)

Writers interested in contributing to Next Chapter should submit their completed essays to nextchapter@uchicago.edu by January 20th. Essays will be profiled individually, on a monthly basis. If you have any questions regarding submissions, please email nextchapter@uchicago.edu. 

Jobs

Race and Capitalism Project Position Description

The National Race and Capitalism Project invites applications for a Research Associate based at the University of Chicago. This is a full-time research position beginning September 2019 with a one-year term, renewable upon satisfactory performance review. The salary (nine months) and benefits are competitive. To be eligible, candidates must have received their Ph.D. within the previous five years or be on track to complete a Ph.D. in a social science or humanities field prior to the start of this position, and have a research agenda that examines the intersection of race and capitalism. The Race and Capitalism Project is a multi-institution collaboration housed in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. The project seeks to reinvigorate, strengthen, and deepen scholarship on how processes of racialization shape capitalist society and economy and how capitalism simultaneously shapes processes of racialization. This project was initiated and conceived at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago, and the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) at the University of Washington. Central questions included: 1) What is the relationship between racial and economic inequality; 2) How has the relationship between various racial and ethnic groups, the economy, and civil society changed over time; and 3) What theoretical approaches to the studies of capitalism and race best explain the empirical reality of 21st century capitalism.

Key goals included: increasing collaboration between scholars across disciplines; advancing the state of scholarship on race and capitalism; and where appropriate, highlighting key findings from the project for use in public discourse. The Research Associate will take a leading role in coordinating the program and will participate with the project staff, the faculty director, and a Pre-doctoral fellow in formulating a long-range vision for the project as well as implementing the plan for the year. Candidates for the fellowship must bring a project related to the goals of the National Project on which they intend to work during the appointment. The Research Associate will also participate in scholarly activities associated with the Project, which include workshops, retreats, and lectures. The Research Associate will also be involved in local projects, events, and programming at the University of Chicago, such as helping organize speaker visits for public lectures and coordinating the related reading groups. The Research Associate will be responsible for advancing their own research agenda while contributing to the seminar’s scholarly output through a public lecture. The Research Associate will be supervised by the faculty director, with additional mentorship from other members of the University of Chicago faculty as appropriate, depending on specialization.

To apply please submit: (1) a two-page cover letter that includes a summary of the dissertation and discusses how the candidate’s research addresses questions of the relationship between race and capitalism; (2) a current CV; (3) one writing sample (limit 30 pages); (4) three letters of recommendation. Click here to submit your application.

Candidate materials should be submitted electronically. Priority will be given to complete applications received before November 01, 2019. Finalists will be notified by the end of January, and will be invited for an interview via video conference. The final decision will be announced by the end of February.