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CASBS INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR 2011-2012 RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS

STANFORD, CA, NOVEMBER 20, 2009 —The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS) is pleased to encourage applications for residential fellowships during the 2011-2012 academic year.

Online applications are being accepted from January 12 - March 3, 2010.  Potential applicants are encouraged to plan to apply soon. 

For more information, guidelines and application instructions, BEGIN HERE >>

IMAGINE A YEAR AT CASBS
Picture yourself in a private office, located on a secluded hilltop overlooking Stanford University and the San Francisco Bay.  For one academic year, you will be freed from the usual deadlines, teaching responsibilities, committee assignments, hierarchies or constraints of disciplinary silos.  You will spend your days within a close community of highly intelligent, provocative and productive scholars with a simple mandate — to ask challenging questions of yourselves and others.  You may choose to interact with your peers in a sustained way, join small working groups or work alone. 

In other words, imagine giving yourself a year in a place that many fondly describe as academic heaven on earth —an ideal setting for quiet reflection and active engagement with other scholars where interdisciplinary exchange and inquiry thrives.

A year at CASBS can have a profound effect, both personally and professionally.  CASBS Fellows often describe their experience as productive, transformative and the best year of their entire career.  We also encourage you to plan to spend the year with your family in residence.  We are proud to be recognized as a family-oriented, supportive community.  We can help locate local housing for you and your family and offer work space for spouses/partners and participation in Center activities.

ABOUT THE CENTER
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS) is a national and international resource that exists to extend knowledge of the principles governing human behavior to help solve the critical problems of contemporary society.

We offer a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars from this country and abroad.  Since 1954, CASBS fellowships have been awarded to scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines.  These include the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology as well as scholars from a wide range of humanistic disciplines, education, linguistics and the biological sciences.