The Ph.D. Program in History

at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Job Opportunities

Researcher Positions at the Leon Levy Center for Biography

Marilyn Weber

The Leon Levy Center for Biography was established in 2007 with a gift from the Leon Levy Foundation, which remains our main funder. Our mandate is to create stronger connections between independent and university-affiliated biographers and to cultivate important discussions about the art and craft of biography historically and in our time. To this end, we host a number of public events (10 to 15 per academic year), including an Annual Lecture (in September with historian/biographer Geoffrey Ward) and an annual conference on biography each spring.

 

We also fund four yearly Biography Fellowships. We would like to provide our Fellows with a Research Assistant. These Graduate Assistant B positions will be for 7.5 hours per week and pay $11,969 per academic year. (Please note: students who currently hold a Graduate Center Fellowship may apply for the GAB at the Levy Center, but the Levy Center GAB may not be substituted for the GAB service/teaching component within the GCF. All GABs qualify for NYSHIP.)

 

We have funding for at least two positions—and possibly four. Start date: September 1, 2018. Applications are due June 22nd.

 

Our four incoming Fellows will be at work on biographies of the following subjects:

 

  • novelist Rebecca Donner, who will be working on a biography of Mildred Harnack, an American literary scholar who was a leader of one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance groups in Germany, to be published by Little, Brown

 

  • writer Stephen Heyman, whose biography is of Louis Bromfield, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost Generation novelist and agricultural pioneer. The book will be published by W.W. Norton & Company

 

  • writer and former dancer Jennifer Homans, who is the founder and Director of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, will be working on a biography of George Balanchine

 

  • long-form journalist Samanth Subramanian, who will be working on a biography of the scientist J. B. S. Haldane

 

 

Please send CV and cover letter to Associate Director Thad Ziolkowski:

tziolkowski@gc.cuny.edu

Room 6200

212-817-2025