Upcoming Opportunities at Tufts’ Tisch College of Civic Life
NCDDer Peter Levine shared this on the NCDD Main Discussion listserv yesterday and we wanted to lift it up here for the larger network. There are a lot of fantastic opportunities happening at Tisch College this year that we encourage you to check out! Some highlights – proposals are now being accepted for 2019 Frontiers of Democracy (June 20-22), applications are also being accepted for The Summer Institute of Civic Studies at Tisch and an opportunity to receive a postdoctoral fellowship, and more!
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Opportunities at Tufts’ Tisch College of Civic Life for Summer 2019
Please consider applying or submitting proposals for one or more of these 2019 opportunities
- The Frontiers of Democracy Conference at Tisch College: an interactive conference, mixing practitioners and scholars (June 20-22)
- The Summer Institute of Civic Studies at Tisch College: a selective seminar in its 11th year, for seasoned practitioners, advanced graduate students, and scholars from all fields, exploring a distinctive approach to social analysis (June 20-28)
- The American Political Science Association Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) at Tisch College: a selective workshop for graduate students and faculty in political science (June 17-22)
- The European Summer Institute of Civic Studies: a selective seminar for seasoned practitioners, advanced graduate students, and scholars from specific countries in Eastern Europe and the former USSR (July 14-27 in Germany). (Details on this page.)
- Postdoctoral fellowships at Tisch College: Tisch College will award one postdoc in American political behavior (jointly with the Tufts Department of Political Science) and another postdoc in Civic Science (jointly with the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio). Both postdoctoral fellows are expected to attend Frontiers of Democracy and the Summer Institute of Civic Studies (June 20-28) and then work for the academic year 2019-20 at Tufts.
