UIC International Center on Responses to Catastrophes
Request for Applications for Fellows
Due September 1, 2004

The UIC International Center on Responses to Catastrophes welcomes applications for fellows from students and trainees at the graduate and postdoctoral level with an interest in catastrophes. Applicants may come from UIC or other Chicago area institutions of higher learning and from any discipline.

ICORC’s primary mission is to promote multidisciplinary research and scholarship that contributes to improved helping efforts for those affected by catastrophes. The Center is highly multidisciplinary in approach with university faculty from collaborating departments and colleges, representing mental health and health services, humanities and social sciences. Vital to the Center's work is building national and international collaborations with academic, advocacy and services organizations.

ICORC activities have three core realms of focus:

• Documentary: To document the human experiencing of catastrophes through literary and multi-media approaches;
• Ethnographic: To analyze the cultural and social dimensions of catastrophes through ethnographic inquiries;
• Intervention: To conduct innovative, family focused and community based services research on the mental health consequences of catastrophes.

ICORC is seeking fellows who would like to work on some of the key projects of the center:

• HIV/AIDS and substance abuse in post conflict societies
• Teen refugees, their families, and schools
• Religion and psychiatric responses to terror
• Catastrophe and the arts
• Humanitarian interventions in post-conflict countries

Applicants may also propose their own project that they believe will support and broaden the current research of the center.

Fellows are appointed for one to two years. Fellows receive mentorship from center faculty and modest funds to support their research activities.

Interested applicants should send a 1 to 2 page proposal by September 1, 2004 to the ICORC office:

1601 West Taylor Street, Room 587
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Fax: 312.996.7658.

For additional information contact Vaughn Fayle or call him at 312.355.5407, or Stevan M. Weine, MD.