Faculty Mobility

Applications Open for Faculty Mobility Fellowships 

OSUN invites applications from OSUN faculty to 
1) Teach courses and engage in relevant collaboration requested by OSUN partner institutions; 
2) Create new opportunities to advance curricular integration on OSUN’s academic themes, expand course offerings, diversify course content, and/or improve teaching capacity with partner institutions; or
3) Enhance OSUN Network Collaborative Courses (NCCs) through short-term (1-2 week) visits between co-faculty

The OSUN Faculty Mobility Program is designed to spur collaboration on teaching, course design, curriculum development, scholarship, research, and civic engagement. These collaborations foster academic integration, which will in turn expand opportunities for students, faculty and institutions to engage diverse global perspectives more fully.

The following fellowship opportunities are available:

• Junior Faculty Development Fellowships for faculty of under-resourced OSUN institutions to spend a semester or full academic year at an OSUN host institution.
• Visiting Faculty Fellowships to expand course offerings and teaching capacity at OSUN institutions, particularly to exchange knowledge between different continents.
• Short-Term Visiting Faculty Fellowships to guest or co-teach intensive 1- to 3-week modules that are integrated into courses taught at the host institution.
• Replacement Support Fellowships offered as supplements to institutions who replace faculty on leave or on sabbatical with faculty from OSUN institutions.
• OSUN Sabbaticals that support semester-long placements of faculty at an OSUN partner institution.

This call is open to faculty at OSUN institutions that participate in OSUN courses, pedagogy programs, and other core integrative programs.  Strong preference is given to applicants from under-resourced OSUN institutions and to Global South-South or South-North mobility.

Semester-long Fellowships
Applications for Junior Faculty Development, Visiting Faculty, Replacement Support, and Sabbatical Fellowships are now open. OSUN will give strong preference to applications that propose the following collaborations between requesting partner institutions: 

Al-Quds Bard

• Courses related to technology and society/humanities/public policy 
• MA in Teaching program
• Short visits at the beginning and end of the semester with most of the course taught online

Ashesi University

• Courses on Research Methods or Africana electives
• Collaboration on climate change and innovation

American University of Beirut

• Teaching and research on forced migration, sustainable development, and civic engagement
• Scholarly attendance for 1-2 weeks of lectures

American University in Bulgaria

• Courses in Social Entrepreneurship, Economics, Journalism, Political Science, and Psychology
• Visiting faculty teaching 300- or 400- level courses with diversified course offerings
• Visiting faculty teaching at Assistant Professor or Associate Professor levels
• Engagement with the new Center for Information, Democracy, and Citizenship

American University of Central Asia

• Teaching First- and Second-Year Seminars
• Intro and elective courses on comparative politics, including courses related to China, Africa, Latin America, political economy, and research methods, and support in developing research capacity

Bard College Berlin

• Economics courses, both foundational and advanced, including environmental economics, global economics, and econometrics
• Courses in comparative politics, international relations, and globalization
• Courses in law, particularly human rights law; historical studies, with emphasis on non-European civilizations; and Core Program (Greek civilization, medieval literature, Renaissance Florence, early modern science, origins of political economy), with preference for instructors who have some experience teaching First-Year Seminar or Language & Thinking

BRAC University

• Teaching and contributing to curriculum development in philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology (with expertise in the Global South), and environment and humanities
• Education expertise in setting up a center for teaching and learning
• Courses in comparative literature, human rights (in School of Law), and social entrepreneurship

Central European University
B.A. Program in Culture, Politics and Society seeks OSUN visiting faculty for the following subjects during the AY 2024-2025:

• Applied media
• Media theory
• Comparative politics
• Democracy and free speech

National Sun Yat-sen University

• Visiting faculty in arts management, theater, (European) philosophy, and Chinese literature and humanities
• Courses related to sustainable development (environmental monitoring, citizen science, science communication, green energy, food and agriculture, community development, social innovation, etc.), cultural translation, and gender studies
• Teaching English language in Center for Teaching Excellence

Bard College at Simon’s Rock

• Faculty who can contribute to OSUN Certificate in Food Studies
• Courses in human rights and in literature

Universidad de los Andes

• Courses for new Global Studies Department, including global history, area studies (particularly Asia), global health, sustainability and climate
• Graduate-level courses in digital humanities and in journalism
• Collaboration with Music Department, including collaboration in summer music camp

Short-Term Fellowships
Short-term (1-3 week) fellowships may either (a) serve to further develop  OSUN Network Collaborative Courses, for example by allowing NCC faculty to co-teach in person, or (b) create new collaborations to advance curricular integration on OSUN’s academic themes, expand course offerings, diversify course content, and/or improve teaching capacity.

What OSUN Covers
For semester-long fellowships: OSUN will pay travel expenses including visa fee. Any salary or housing allowance paid by OSUN will be decided in consultation with the successful applicant’s home and host institutions. Salary will not exceed the amount paid to the host institution’s faculty and will be disbursed through the host institution according to its policies and procedures.

For short-term fellowships: OSUN will pay the travel expenses, lodging, and per diem as per Bard/OSUN Travel Policy. Funds will be disbursed through the successful applicant’s home institution.

How To Apply for Fellowships
In order to submit an application you must first register on the OSUN Portal. If you have already registered you will not need to do so again.

How to Register

• Go to the OSUN Portal
• Follow the Not Registered? link below the Log In button
• Fill in the fields
• Click on the Sign Up button to create your OSUN Portal account
• Once logged in, complete your registration by filling in the Register With OSUN form

After submitting the registration form you will be able to access the link to the application form.

Prepare your application with this checklist

Selection Process:
The Faculty Mobility Steering Committee will review applications in November 2023  and recommend faculty for participation in the program. The final decision on faculty mobility fellowships, except for short term fellowships, will be contingent upon the host institution’s formal appointment process for visiting faculty and the Dean’s or Chief Academic Officer’s confirmation of the placement dates, scope of work, and host institution resource commitments. OSUN expects to inform applicants of final decisions on faculty mobility fellowships in December 2023.

Questions? Contact Zahid Jalali at [email protected].
Technical issues submitting the application on the portal, please email [email protected].

To learn more about these fellowship opportunities, please join an information session on either of the following dates:
Tuesday, September 12 at 8 AM New York l 2pm Vienna
Thursday, September 14 at 8 AM New York l 2pm Vienna
Thursday, October 5 at 8 AM New York l 2pm Vienna
Join each session via Zoom

Deadline to apply is Friday, October 20

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