Calling all Faculty!!!

We are re delighted to announce the theme for the 2019 Smithsonian  Faculty Fellowship! Is this your year to apply????

THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN IDENTITY:  BUILDING A NATION TOGETHER

What do you say if asked:  Who is an American?  What does an American look like?  Who should be an American?  In today’s multicultural, multilingual, multinational America, those can be complicated, imposing, unsettling questions.  Those questions and their possible answers will form the cornerstone of the 2019 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship with Smithsonian museum exhibits providing crucial guidance and inspiration.

A primary source for the 2019 Fellows will be a major exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, which explores the complex struggle to find an American identity in its Many Voices, ONE NATION exhibit.  The exhibit asks:  How did we become US? and presents the 500-year journey of how very different peoples and backgrounds created the culture of the U.S.

The National Museum of the American Indian offers a very different look at American identity with a major new exhibit, Americans.  Filled with images and stories, the exhibit reminds visitors that Indians have been a part of America’s identity before there was an America, but much of that identity is myth, misrepresentation, or degrading stereotypes despite the major role Indians have played in the country’s history, pop culture, and identity.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture presents many exhibits that highlight how the African American and African diaspora continues to evolve, including Watching Oprah, A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond, and Cultural Expressions.  The Power of Place highlights how a sense of geography has deeply shaped African American history and culture, influencing how identities are created, tested, and reshaped over time.

The National Air and Space Museum adds different insights into American identity with Apollo to the Moon, which embodies America’s “We can do this” identity and chronicles astronaut Neil Armstrong’s historic lunar moonwalk, which gave the country pride in what America is and who Americans are.

The 2019 theme promises a bounty of riveting and challenging subject matter both for our students and professors in various disciplines across our three campuses.

This program is open to all Full Time and Part Time Faculty. Deadline for application is October 15, 2018 at 5 pm. For more information regarding the application process go to : https://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Department4.aspx?id=69089­)