LINGUIST List 9.1406

Fri Oct 9 1998

Jobs: Sociolinguistics, Mayan or Spanish Ling

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  • Joseph F. Eska, Sociolinguistics, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.
  • John B. Haviland, CIESAS-Sureste, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

    Message 1: Sociolinguistics, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.

     Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:56:15 +22303835 (EDT)
    From: Joseph F. Eska <eskavtaix.cc.vt.edu>
    Subject: Sociolinguistics, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.


    Pending approval of funding, the Department of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University seeks to make a tenure-track appointment in Sociolinguistics to take effect 15 August 1999. The successful candidate must be able to teach such regularly offered courses as Modern English Linguistics and English Syntax. Strong interests in conducting interdisciplinary work with such departments/ programmes as Black Studies, Communication Studies, Education, Sociology, Women's Studies, etc. will be an advantage. Please direct letters of interest and curricula vitarum by 16 November 1998 to:

    Prof. Johann Norstedt, Dept. of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112.

    Message 2: CIESAS-Sureste, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

     Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:39:23 -0500
    From: John B. Haviland <johnhreed.edu>
    Subject: CIESAS-Sureste, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico


    The following job announcement has just been authorized.

    CIESAS-Sureste (Center for Research and Advanced Study in Social Anthropology), a research organization with graduate programs and regional center in San Cristbal, invites applications for two tenure-track positions in the anthropological study of southeastern Mexico. Preference to Mexican citizens, junior rank.

    Requirements: Ph.D. awarded/near completion, demonstrated research and graduate teaching capacity, fluent Spanish. Interests: linguistics, indigenous education, law and society, social/political movements, social history, ecology, gender, visual anthropology. Preliminary deadline December 1, 1998. Positions open until outstanding candidates contracted. Send CV, letter stating qualifications, research plan, 3 examples of written work, names/addresses of 3 academic referees to:

    Coordinadora, CIESAS-Sureste AP 338, San Cristbal de las Casas Chiapas 29247, Mxico

    Information/electronic submissions: ciesassclc.ecosur.mx, tel/fax: 52.967.85670.

    To amplify what sort of linguist(s) are invited to apply for these positions, I may add that linguists or linguistic anthropologists of virtually any theoretical persuasion and specialization with experience and ongoing research interests in the languages of Chiapas (Mayan [Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Chol, Lakandon, and Mam, to name the most numerous], Mixe-Zoque, as well as regional varieties of Spanish) are welcome to apply. CIESAS is a center for full-time research, with links to teaching in graduate level programs in its other centers (Mexico City, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Jalapa, and Chetumal). We hope to be able to make tenurable appointments which could begin as early as March 1999. (This posting submitted by John B. Haviland, currently Ctedra Patrimonial, CIESAS-Sureste, johnhreed.edu.)