Critical Food Studies: Transdisciplinary Humanities Approaches: Intra Institutional Programme

Call for Applications for 2021: Student Fellowships: Honours, Masters and PhD and Position of Postdoctoral Researcher

HONOURS, MASTERS & PHD

The A W Mellon Foundation is funding several student fellowships in the broad field Critical Food Studies through a programme grant to the University of the Western Cape, running from 2019-2022. The programme addresses complex human relationships to food with reference to – 

The four broad areas of focus are: 

  • Gender, Feminism and Food Studies;
  • Food Knowledges, Ecofeminism and Indigenous Knowledge Systems;
  • Consumer Identities, Foodscapes and Foodways in Urban Contexts;
  • Foodways in relation to Literary, Visual and Popular Cultural Texts / The Materiality of Food and its Visual Representation.

Please see further application details here: Mellon CFS Fellowship application 2021

POST DOCTORAL

Applications are invited from South African PhD humanities graduates for the position of postdoctoral researcher in a Trans-Institutional Critical Food Studies Research Programme.

The applicant should:

  • Have a PhD degree in any of the following: English, Gender Studies, Philosophy/Politics, History, Sociology Anthropology, Linguistics, Media Studies or other disciplines/disciplinary clusters in the humanities;
  • Have an interest in Food Studies;
  • Be based in South Africa, preferably but not necessarily Cape Town;
  • Belong to a historically marginalised group.

Please see further application details here: Mellon CFS postdoc 2021

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