Courses

The Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge has no degree- or certificate-granting programs and does not independently sponsor any courses.  The Institute’s mandate is to enhance the graduate curriculum with original courses that would not ordinarily find a place in established departments.  In this capacity, IHPK faculty work collaboratively with faculty in other departments and programs to develop and offer innovative, one-time courses (repeated only if there is overwhelming interest in the topic and if enrollment cannot be accommodated in a single semester), that  examine topics in the production and organization of knowledge.  All courses developed by Institute faculty are then formally sponsored by, or cross-listed, with appropriate NYU departments and programs as topical seminars. 

• Courses - Fall 2004
• Courses - Spring 2005
• Courses - Fall 2005
• Courses - Past
  

Graduate Funding Opportunities

Since its inception, the IHPK has been able to offer graduate funding opportunities in the form of an annual dissertation fellowship and two graduate assistantships per year.  These opportunities have been made possible with funding from the Graduate School of Arts and Science.  We are pleased to report that all recipients of the IHPK Dissertation Fellowship to-date have successfully defended the dissertation.   

• Graduate Assistantship Opportunities
• Dissertation Fellowship Opportunities (cancelled for 2006-2007)
• Dissertation Fellows 1998-2003

Courses - FALL 2004

• Sociology of Knowledge - Science (Duster)
• Topics in the History of the Production of Knowledge - TBA (Poovey)

Courses - Spring 2005

• Gender, Kinship and Ethnography (Martin and Stacey)
• Secrecy and Disclosure in Modern Institutions (Poovey)

Courses - Fall  2005

• Genres of Enlightenment (Poovey and Siskin)
• Topics in the History of the Production of Knowledge (Duster)
• Topics in the History of the Production of Knowledge (Martin)

Courses - Past

Graduate Assistantship Opportunities

2006-2007  IHPK Graduate Assistantships (2*)
Nomination deadline:  Friday, April 14, 2006, 5:00 p.m. 

The Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge expects to have funds available for two one-year Graduate Assistantships*.  If funding is approved by the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, these will be awarded for the academic year 2006-2007, to eligible advanced doctoral students whose areas of study or research interests are relevant to the work of the Institute. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to): the history (or future) of the disciplines, the establishment of criteria of validity in a discipline or knowledge area, professionalization and knowledge-production, and the role of technologies in the production of new knowledges. 

The assistantships require 20 hours of administrative and research support to the Institute each week during the Fall and Spring semesters. In accordance with NYU and FAS guidelines regarding graduate assistantships in the humanities and social sciences, the stipend for each assistantship is expected to be approximately $19,000** for the academic year and benefits may include full health care, payment of registration, maintenance of matriculation, and all access fees, as well as tuition remission.  Graduate Assistants will be provided with office space, a computer, and use of IHPK resources and facilities.  Eligibility will be based upon nomination by the student's department/program Chair, Director of Graduate Study, or the Dissertation Advisor.  Interviews may be requested with nominees as part of the selection process.  Students who are still within the period of the McCracken award are not eligible.  Only advanced GSAS doctoral students will be considered for these assistantships. 

Students intending to seek a nomination by their Chair, Director of Graduate Studies or Academic Advisor should submit an email with the text "Intent to Seek Nomination" in the subject line to IHPK@nyu.edu, in order to begin the application process.  The e-mail should include the following information:

Full Name
Home Address
Home Phone
Cell Phone (if applicable)
E-mail Address
NYU ID Number
Department or Program
School
Title of Dissertation (if known)
Name(s) of Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, or Advisor making the nomination.

Nominees must submit a c.v. (cover letter optional) to the IHPK office by Friday, April 14, 2006 , 5:00 p.m.   The vita may be submitted either as an email attachment (not in the body of the email please) or hard copy to the addresses below.

Letters of nomination from faculty are due in the IHPK office by Friday, April 14, 2006 , 5:00 p.m.   
Letters may be submitted either as an email attachment (not in the body of the email please) or hard copy to the addresses below.

C.v. and letters of nomination may be submitted separately.  All documents should be sent to: 

2006-07 Graduate Assistantship
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge
285 Mercer Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY  10003
MC:  0651

~or~

IHPK@nyu.edu

Special Instructions for Electronic Submissions

• The text "2006-07 Graduate Assistantship" must appear along with the applicant's name, in the subject line.  
  (i.e.,  "2006-07 Graduate Assistantship -- Jane Smith")  
• Letters of nomination from faculty submitted electronically will be accepted either as an e-mail (i.e., in the body of the e-mail) or as a document attached to the e-mail.  Mac users should send letters as "rich text formatted" (.rtf) documents.
• When submitting the vita electronically, it must be as an attached document (i.e., not in the body of the email).  Mac users should send the vita as a "rich text formatted" (.rtf) document. 
• UPDATE VIRUS SOFTWARE AND SCAN ALL ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FOR VIRUSES PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.

Selection of the two assistantship candidates will be made by May 3rd.  Appointments are pending funding approval and cannot be processed until we have received confirmation of funding.  Interviews may be requested with nominees as part of the selection process.    Candidates selected for appointment will be notified by telephone and by mail.  All other nominees will be notified of the outcome by mail.  Nominating faculty will be notified of their nominee's outcome by interoffice mail.  All decisions are final.

(* All Graduate Assistant appointments pending approval of funding by GSAS.)

(**Actual salary and benefits will be determined by NYU and FAS policies in effect on the date that the assistantship begins.)

  For a printable version of the 2006-2007 Graduate Assistantship Opportunities information, click here.

Dissertation Fellowship Opportunities

There will be no IHPK Dissertation Fellowship offered for 2006-2007.  These fellowship opportunities have been suspended until further notice. 

Please check out our Graduate Assistantship opportunities for advanced NYU doctoral students.

Dissertation Fellows 1998-2003

Miriam Halpern, Ph.D.
IHPK Dissertation Fellow 2002-2003
Department of Italian
Collecting Dust:  Italian Women's Examination of World War II Trauma After 1968
mh220@nyu.edu

Natalie Kapetanios, Ph.D.
IHPK Dissertation Fellow 2001-2002
Department of English
"Making a Library of the Grocer's Window":  Paradigms of Eating and the Victorian Novel
nek201@nyu.edu

Andruid Kerne, Ph.D.
IHPK Dissertation Fellow 2000-2001
Department of Computer Science
Collage Machine:  A Model of 'Interface Ecology'
http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/~andruid/ecology/

Heather Schuster, Ph.D. 
IHPK Dissertation Fellow 1999-2000 
Department of Performance Studies 
Framing the (W)hole:  Representing the Prison in the Era of U.S. Mass Imprisonment, 1972-Present

Lisa Golmitz Weihman, Ph.D. 
IHPK Dissertation Fellow 1998-99 
Department of English
Deconstructing the Nation:  Women's Literary Politics in England and Ireland, 1880-1941 

Originally posted: 04/23/2003

Last updated: 03/29/2006