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*Dissertation Reviews is seeking a dynamic scholar in **Slavic Languages
and Literatures** to develop a new field within our innovative scholarly
network*

Dissertation* Reviews* (www.dissertationreviews.org) is a web platform
featuring reviews of recently defended PhD dissertations in the humanities
and social sciences. We have grown by leaps and bounds since our founding
five years ago: from only one field to more than 20, from 10 reviews per
year to over 550, and from a handful of editors to a team of more than 30
talented early-career scholars across the globe.

As we look ahead to the 2014-15 season, we are seeking dynamic early-career
scholars to help us develop a new field in Slavic Languages and
Literatures (and related disciplines; please find below a complete list of
eligible areas).

*Description*

As a Field Editor, you would collaborate closely with the editorial staff
to develop a new branch of *Dissertation Reviews. *Specifically, you would:

- Work with editorial staff to learn about recently defended dissertations
in your field;

- Liaise with dissertation authors and reviewers in your field;

- Draw upon and expand your knowledge of the field in order to pair
dissertations with appropriate reviewers;

- Act as the public face of *Dissertation Reviews *within your
field/discipline/area;

- Collaborate with your fellow *Dissertation Reviews *editors in other
fields to help continually improve and enhance the overall project.

*Eligible Candidates*

All early-career faculty, post-doc, and advanced PhD students in Slavic
Languages and Literatures (and related disciplines) are eligible to apply.

As the the ideal candidate, you are:

- Committed to the development of ever more dynamic, collegial, and
innovative scholarly communities;

- Enthused by the idea of becoming more informed about current,
cutting-edge research in your field;

- Responsible and reliable;

- A professional, consistent communicator;

- An active member of your field’s scholarly networks (i.e., conferences,
listservs, etc.).

*Eligible Areas*

We are particularly eager to develop new fields in the following areas:
African Studies, African-American Studies, Archaeology (non-Asia), Art
History (non-Asia), Communication Studies, Comparative Literature,
Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethnomusicology, European History
(region/country-specific), French and Italian Studies, German Studies,
Jewish Studies, Literature (non-East Asia), Media Studies, Native American
Studies, Psychology, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies
(non-Islamic), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sociology.

As part of the application process (details below), we ask that you
indicate the particular area or field within your discipline you would like
to help develop and edit. There is *no restriction whatsoever on focus*,
only on scope: we ask that the proposed rubric be “medium-sized” – i.e.,
not too large, not too small. Recent successful applications have included
Economic History, Museum Studies, South Asian Studies, Islamic Studies,
Russian History, Latin American Studies, and Science Studies, among others.
And there’s no need to have the rubric perfected from the start: we will
collaborate with you to help determine the ideal thematic, theoretical,
temporal and spatial contours of the new branch.

*Application Items*

Please email us at [email protected] with following items:

- Brief Statement addressing:

- the field/area/discpline you are applying to help develop and edit;

- how and why the scholars and scholarship in this field would, in your
opinion, benefit from and contribute to the *Dissertation Reviews *
community;

- how your own background and credentials speak to the eligibility items
listed above.

- CV (2 pp. or less).

*Support*

To make the process of developing and managing the new branch as smooth and
efficient as possible, Field Editors receive robust support from the
editorial staff. Please note that all editorial positions at *Dissertation
Reviews* are unpaid.

*Further Information*

To learn more about *Dissertation Reviews, *our editors, contributors, and
current fields, please visit us at www.dissertationreviews.org

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