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  • 15 July 2016: Tulane University (LA) - Newcomb College Institute - Spring 2017 Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 18 July 2016: University of Stirling (UK;Scot) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Philosophy (two posts)
  • 22 July 2016: University of Maryland (MD) - Postdoctoral Positions - Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture
  • 12 Aug. 2016 (Nominations): Harvard University (MA) - Harvard Society of Fellows: Junior Fellows
  • 23 Aug. 2016:  University of Cambridge (UK), Jesus College - Junior Research Fellowship
  • 26 Aug. 2016: University of Oxford (UK), Faculty of English Language and Literature - Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Postcolonial Text, World Form
  • 28 Aug. 2016: University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Senior Research Assistant, School of Humanities
  • 5 Sept. 2016: University of Oxford (UK) - Research Fellow, Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility
  • 9 Sept. 2016: University of Oxford, All Souls College (UK) - Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships
  • 11 Sept. 2016:  University of Warwick & University of Leeds (two posts) (UK) - Research Fellowship, Centre for Study of the Renaissance
  • 12 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Faculty of Classics - Research Associate
  • 13 Sept. 2016:  University of Warwick (UK) - Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy
  • 15 Sept. 2016: Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (DEU) - Junior and Senior Fellowships
  • 15 Sept. 2016: Humboldt University of Berlin (DEU) - Postdoctoral Research Positions in Global History
  • 15 Sept. 2016: Princeton Society of Fellows Postdocs
  • 15 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) King's College, Junior Research Fellowships - Urban Studies, Gender Studies
  • 16 Sept. 2016: Carnegie Mellon University (PA) - Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 18 Sept. 2016: University of Birmingham (UK) - Research Fellow, School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
  • 19 Sept. 2016: Dartmouth College (NH) - Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Society of Fellows
  • 19 Sept. 2016: University of Oxford, New College (UK) - Weston Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy
  • 19 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) Peterhouse College, Research Fellowships
  • 21 Sept. 2016: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (CAN)
  • 23 Sept. 2016: University of Sussex (UK) - Research Fellow in Mass Observation Studies
  • 23 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Faculty of Classice - Research Associate (Archaeology)
  • 26 Sept. 2016: Newcastle University (UK) Humanities Research Institute Post-doctoral Research Fellow
  • 27 Sept. 2016: University of Michigan (MI) - Michigan Society of Fellows
  • 30 Sept. 2016: Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges (US) - Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities for Candidates who Enhance the Diversity of the Academy
  • 30 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), St John's College - Research Fellowship in Historical & Philosophical Studies
  • 30 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), St Jouns College - Research Fellowship in History of Art
  • 1 Oct. 2016: Cornell University (NY) - Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2017-2018
  • 1 Oct. 2016: Dartmouth College (NH) - Leslie Center for the Humanities - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 1 Oct. 2016: Duke University (NC) - Thompson Writing Program Lecturing Fellows
  • 1 Oct. 2016: Harvard University (MA) - Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Scholars Program, 2017-2018
  • 3 Oct. 2016: Columbia University (NY) - Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities - 2017-2018 Fellowship Competition
  • 5 Oct. 2016: Swansea University (UK:Wales) - Research Assistant (Medieval History)
  • 6 Oct. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), Emmanuel College - Research Fellowship
  • 12 Oct. 2016: University of Sheffield (UK) - Research Associate (History)
  • 13 Oct. 2016: University of Oxford, Magdalen College (UK) - Fellowship by Examination
  • 14 Oct. 2016: Harvard University (USA:MA) - William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 14 Oct. 2016: University of Chicago (IL) - Society of Fellows - Harper and Schmidt Fellows
  • 15 Oct. 2016: American Antiquarian Society (MA) - 2017-18 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
  • 15 Oct. 2016: University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Penn Humanities Forum - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities 2017-18
  • 16 Oct. 2016: University of London, School of Advanced Study (UK) -Early Career Lecturer in Urban History after 1800
  • 25 Oct. 2016: European University Institute (ITA) - Max Weber Fellowships 2017-2018
  • 26 Oct. 2016: Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs Fellowships
  • 27 Oct. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), Christ's College - Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship
  • 27 Oct. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), Christ's College - AH Lloyd Stipendary Junior Research Fellowship
  • 28 Oct. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Newnham College - Research Fellowship, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 28 Oct. 2016: University of Toronto (CAN) - Postdoctoral Fellowships in Jewish Studies
  • 30 Oct. 2016: Brown University (RI) - Watson Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program
  • 30 Oct. 2016: ETH Zurich, Swiss School of Public Governance (Switzerland) - Senior Postdocs in Public Governance, Policy or Administration
  • 30 Oct. 2016: Leiden University (NDL) - Post-doc 19th-century architecture
  • 30 Oct. 2016: University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Price Lab Fellowship in Digital Humanities
  • 31 Oct. 2016: University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies - Jewish Culture and the Natural World - 2017-18 Fellowship
  • 31 Oct. 2016: Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg - Postdoctoral Associate
  • 31 Oct. 2016: British Museum (UK) - Postdoctoral Research Assistant [two posts]
  • 1 Nov. 2016: Bard Graduate Center (NY) - Research Fellowships: "What is Distance?"
  • 1 Nov. 2016: Brandeis University (MA) - Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race, Science and Society
  • 1 Nov. 2016: Central European University, Budapest (HUN) - Two 2-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Positions - Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East
  • 1 Nov. 2016: Cornell University (NY) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies (Central Asia)
  • 1 Nov. 2016: Cornell University (NY) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in History (Central, Eastern or Southern Europe, 1600 to the Present)
  • 1 Nov. 2016: Library Company of Philadelphia (PA) - Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2017-2018
  • 1 Nov. 2016: McNeil Center for Early American Studies - Barra Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • 1 Nov. 2016: New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)- Research Fellowships in the Humanities
  • 1 Nov. 2016: University of California (CA) - President's and Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
  • 1 Nov. 2016: University of Wisconsin - Institute for Research in the Humanities (WI) - Kingdon Fellowship
  • 1 Nov. 2016: University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research in the Humanities (WI) - Solmsen Fellowship
  • 1 Nov. 2016: University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, 2017-19
  • 4 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) Department of History & Philosophy of Science - Research Associate, History of Biology
  • 4 Nov. 2016: University of Maryland-Baltimore County (MD)] - Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity, 2017-19
  • 7 Nov. 2016: University of Michigan - LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellows Program 2017-2019
  • 8 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Magdalene College - Junior Research Fellowships
  • 8 Nov. 2016: University of Exeter (UK) - Postdoctoral Research Fellows - P54630 (Two Posts)
  • 10 Nov. 2016: Indiana University (IN) - Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 12 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), Faculty of Divinity - Research Associate
  • 13 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), Darwin College - Adrian Research Fellowship in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
  • 14 Nov. 2016: McGill University (CAN) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
  • 14 Nov. 2016: McGill University (CAN) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
  • 14 Nov. 2016: McGill University (CAN) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities-based Indigenous Studies
  • 14 Nov. 2016: New York University (NY) - Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship - NYU Center for the Humanities
  • 14 Nov. 2016: Queens University Belfast (UK:NI) - Research Fellow - Performing Restoration Shakespeare
  • 14 Nov. 2016: Southern Methodist University (USA:TX) - Center for Presidential Histories, Post Doctoral Fellow
  • 14 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) Churchill college - Junior Research Fellowship
  • 14 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Murray Edwards College - Stipendary Research Fellowship
  • 14 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK), Robinson College - Stipendary Isaac Newton Trust/Robinson College Research Fellowship
  • 14 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) Trinity Hall - Research Fellowship
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Brown University (RI) - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Racial Inequality
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Bucknell University (PA) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Dartmouth College (NH) - Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Hamilton College (USA:NY) - Asia and the Environment
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Pennsylvania State University - Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Pennsylvania State University (PA) - Richards Civil War Era Center - Postdoctoral Fellowship - African-American History
  • 15 Nov. 2016: Stanford University (CA) - Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
  • 15 Nov. 2016: University of Glasgow (UK:Scot) - Research Associate, School of Social & Political Sciences
  • 15 Nov. 2016: University of Toronto (CAN) - Jackman Humanities Institute - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, 2017-2019
  • 15 Nov. 2016 [review begins] Yale University (USA:CT) - MacMillan Center Postdoctoral Associate in African Studies
  • 17 Nov. 2016: New York University (NY) - Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity
  • 18 Nov. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) - Research Associate
  • 18 Nov. 2016: University of Oxford (UK), Institute for Science, Innovation and Society - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - How Institutions Think
  • 28 Nov. 2016: American Philosophical Society (PA) - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship
  • 28 Nov. 2016: Columbia University (NY) - Postdoctoral Positions in Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Program
  • 30 Nov. 2016: Australian Catholic University (AUS) - Research Fellow (Early Christianity)
  • 30 Nov. 2016: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (DEU) - Dept. III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof. Dagmar Schäfer, 2 Postdoctoral Scholars
  • 30 Nov. 2016: Princeton University (NJ) - Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) - Visiting Research Scholar or Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • 30 Nov. 2016: Yale-NUS College (SGP) - Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • 1 Dec. 2016: Duke University (NC) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Transgender Studies
  • 1 Dec. 2016: German Historical Institute (USA:DC) - Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Digital History
  • 1 Dec. 2016: McGill University (CAN) -Postdoctoral Fellowship in North American Jewish Life
  • 1 Dec. 2016: University of Virginia (USA:VA) - Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship
  • 1 Dec. 2016: Wellesley College (MA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies
  • 2 Dec. 2016: Central European University, Budapest (HUN) - Junior Research Fellowship in Early Modern History
  • 2 Dec. 2016: Durham University (UK) - Durham International Junior Research Fellowships
  • 2 Dec. 2016: University of London, Warburg Institute (UK) - Research Fellowships in Cultural and Intellectual History
  • 2 Dec. 2016: University of Oxford (UK:Eng) - Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy
  • 2 Dec. 2016: University of South Florida (FL) - Postdoctoral Scholars - Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017-18
  • 2 Dec. 2016: University of Southern California (CA) - Postdoctoral Scholar, USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities
  • 5 Dec. 2016: Appalachian State University (USA:NC) - Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellowship in British History 2017-18
  • 5 Dec. 2016: IE University Humanities Centre (ESP) - International Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities 2017-18 
  • 5 Dec. 2016: Rice University (TX) - 2017-18 Rice Seminar (Forgery and the Ancient: Art, Agency, Authorship) - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
  • 5 Dec. 2016: University of Pennsylvania (USA:PA) - Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Penn Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Biomedical Ethics
  • 5 Dec. 2016: Washington University in St. Louis (MO) - Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • 6 Dec. 2016: Brown University (RI) - Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 8 Dec. 2016: Harvard University (MA) - Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 9 Dec. 2017: Princeton University (NJ) - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP)
  • 13 Dec. 2016: University of Exeter (UK) - Postdoctoral Research Associate (Dept. of Archaeology)
  • 13 Dec. 2016: University of Glasgow (UK:Scot) - Research Associate, Jewish Lives Scottish Spaces
  • 15 Dec. 2016: Yale University (CT) - Henry Chauncey Postdoctoral Associate - Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy
  • 15 Dec. 2016: Yale University (CT) - Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Associate - Johnson Center for American Diplomacy
  • 16 Dec. 2016: University of Warwick (UK) - IAS WIRL-COFUND Fellow
  • 31 Dec. 2016 [see clarification] University of California, San Diego (USA:CA) - Economics Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • 1 Jan. 2017: Brandeis University (MA) - Florence Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Pacific Islander Studies
  • 1 Jan. 2017: University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts - Society of Fellows in the Humanities
  • 2 Jan. 2017: University of London, Institute of Historical Research (UK:Eng) - Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 3 Jan. 2017: Dartmouth College (NH) - Post-doctoral Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security
  • 3 Jan. 2017: University of Cambridge (UK) Department of History & Philosophy of Science - Teaching Associate, Modern Sci & Tech
  • 4 Jan. 2017: Washington University in St Louis (USA:MO) - Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Fellowship
  • 6 Jan. 2017: Northwestern University (IL) - Environmental Humanities - Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • 8 Jan. 2017: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK:Eng) - Research Assistant (History)
  • 8 Jan. 2017: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow (History)
  • 9 Jan. 2017: Haverford College (PA) - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Haverford College, 2017-2019 (Arts of Melancholy)
  • 9 Jan. 2017: Northwestern University (USA:IL) - Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the contextual study of science, technology, or medicine
  • 9 Jan. 2017: Princeton University (NJ) - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS): “Migration: People and Cultures across Borders”
  • 9 Jan. 2017: Rutgers University (NY) - 2017-18 Postdoctoral Associates - Center for Cultural Analysis - Medical Humanities
  • 10 Jan. 2017: University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
  • 10 Jan. 2017: Harvard University (USA:MA) - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 11 Jan. 2017: Valparaiso University (IN) - Lilly Postdoctoral Fellows
  • 13 Jan. 2017: Birkbeck College, University of London (UK:Eng) - Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships in History, Classics & Archaeology
  • 13 Jan. 2017: New York Botanical Garden (USA:NY) - Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Environmental Humanities, History of Science
  • 13 Jan. 2017: Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences (CZE)- Researcher, Korean History and Society
  • 13 Jan. 2017: Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences (CZE) - Researcher, Japanese History and Society
  • 15 Jan. 2017: Amherst College (MA) - Center for Humanistic Inquiry Fellows
  • 15 Jan. 2017: Brandeis University (USA:MA) Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Revolutions of the Middle East, Caribbean, and Latin America
  • 15 Jan. 2017: Brown University (RI) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Native American and Indigenous Literature and Culture
  • 15 Jan. 2017: Chemical Heritage Foundation (USA:PA) Post-doctoral and Senior Fellowships in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, Engineering, and Business
  • 15 Jan. 2017: Duke Center for Jewish Studies: Perilman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies
  • 15 Jan. 2017: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
  • 15 Jan. 2017. Penn State University (PA) - Visiting Fellowships at the Center for Humanities and Information.
  • 15 Jan. 2017: University of Michigan (MI) - Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 15 Jan. 2017: University of Texas at Austin - Institute for Historical Studies - “Migration, Exile, Displacement” Residential Fellowship, 2017-18
  • 17 Jan. 2017: Emory University (GA) - The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry - Post-Doctoral Fellowships
  • 17 Jan. 2017: University of Chicago (IL) - Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 18 Jan. 2017: Harvard University (USA:MA)- Center for the Environment, Environmental Fellows Program
  • 18 Jan. 2017: Nanyang Technological University (SGP) - Postdoctoral/Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science
  • 18 Jan. 2017: Novo Nordisk Foundation (DEN) - 4 Post-doctoral Fellowships
  • 20 Jan. 2017: Columbia University (USA:NY) -  Institute for Comparative Literature and Society 2017-2018 Andrew W. Mellon (Sawyer Seminar) Postdoctoral Fellowship “Global Language Justice”
  • 22 Jan. 2017: Penn CSERI Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Race, Ethnicity and Immigration
  • 30 Jan. 2017: Harvard University (USA:MA) - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2017-2018
  • 30 Jan. 2017: Northwestern University (IL) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Race Studies
  • 31 Jan. 2017: Stanford University (CA) - Thinking Matters Fellowship
  • 31 Jan. 2017: University of California - Berkeley - Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 31 Jan. 2017: University of Southern California (CA) - Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 31 Jan 2017 [screening starts]: Yale University (USA:CT) - South Asian Studies Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in South Asian Studies
  • 1 Feb. 2017: Brown University (RI) - Mellon Postdoc on Race in Science and Medicine
  • 1 Feb. 2017: Brown University (RI) - Postdoctoral Fellowship - "Culture and Ideology of Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean"
  • 1 Feb. 2016: Georgetown University (DC) - Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Environmental Humanities
  • 1 Feb. 2017: Rutgers University (NJ) - RCHA 2017-2019 Project: Black Bodies (2 Postdoctoral Associates)
  • 1 Feb. 2017: University of Michigan (MI) - Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Chinese Studies
  • 1 Feb. 2017: University of Winnipeg (CAN), Riley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Canadian History
  • 3 Feb. 2017: University of Oxford, St Anne's College (UK:Eng) The Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship in French
  • 5 Feb. 2017: University of Kansas (KS) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities
  • 5 Feb. 2017: University College London (UK:Eng) - School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • 6 Feb. 2017: Yale University (USA:CT) - Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 6 Feb. 2017: Yale University (USA:CT) - Yale University Postdoc in Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish History
  • 6 Feb. 2017: Yale University (USA:CT) - Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellowship, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library
  • 8 Feb. 2017: University of Cambridge (UK:Eng), CRASSH, Senior Research Associate
  • 8 Feb. 2017: Washington University in St Louis (USA:MO) - Friedman Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies
  • 9 Feb. 2017: University of San Diego Diversity Postdoc
  • 10 Feb. 2017: Center for Jewish History (NY) - Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars 
  • 13 Feb. 2017: University of Pittsburgh (USA:PA) - Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 14 Feb. 2017: University of Saskatchewan (CAN), Post-Doctoral Fellowship, History of Britain
  • 14 Feb. 2017: University of Saskatchewan (CAN) - The Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post‐Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Britain and the British World
  • 15 Feb. 2017: Brown University (RI) - Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of Slavery & Justice
  • 15 Feb. 2017: Tulane University (LA) - Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellows in Latin American Studies
  • 15 Feb. 2017: University of Pennsylvania - Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-18 on "States of Religious Freedom"
  • 15 Feb. 2017: University of Southern California (CA) - Postdoctoral Scholar, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
  • 15 Feb. 2017: Clark University (USA:MA) - Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies, Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • 17 Feb. 2017: Lehigh University (PA) - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Latin American or Latino Studies
  • 17 Feb. 2017: Stanford University (CA) - Digital Humanities Asia Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 17 Feb. 2017: UC Berkeley Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism, 2017-2019
  • 17 Feb. 2017: UC Davis Mellon Visiting Assistant Professorship in Racial Capitalism, 2017-2019
  • 20 Feb. 2017: Yale University - Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Associate Positions x3
  • 20 Feb. 2017: Stanford University (USA:CA) - Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies/Religious Studies/CCSRE, 2017-19 Postdoctoral Fellowship on Islam in North America
  • 26 Feb. 2017: Carthage College (WI)- Western Heritage Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • 28 Feb. 2017: Columbia University (USA:NY) - Weatherhead East Asian Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asia and the Americas
  • 28 Feb. 2017: Stanford University (USA:CA) - Fellow, Stanford Centre for Law and History
  • 1 March 2017: Georgia Institute of Technology (GA) - Global Languages, Cultures, and Technologies (GLACT) Post-doctoral Program
  • 1 March 2017: New York University Gallatin (USA:NY) School of Individualized Study, Post Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology
  • 1 March 2017: Oregon State University (OR) - Research Associate (Post Doc) in Film Studies
  • 1 March 2017: Princeton University - Center for Digital Humanities Postdoc Fellowship
  • 1 March 2017: University of Oxford, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (UK:Eng), Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga, DRC
  • 1 March 2017: Yale University (USA:CT) - Humanities Program, 2017-19 Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
  • 2 March 2017: University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow (History of Climate Change), School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
  • 2 March 2017: University of Antwerp (BEL) - Postdoctoral assistant in the area of History
  • 3 March 2017: Rice University (TX) - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Architecture and the Humanities
  • 3 March 2017: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign (USA:IL), Latina Latino Studies, Post Doctoral Research Associate
  • 3 March 2017: University of Texas at Austin (USA:TX) - Clements Center for National Security - Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • 10 March 2017: University of St. Andrews (UK:Scot) - Research Assistant
  • 10 March 2017: Bowdoin College (USA:ME) - postdoctoral fellowship in Middle Eastern or North African History
  • 14 March 2017: Leiden University (NDL) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Foraging Decisions
  • 14 March 2017: DePauw University (USA:IN) -Postdoctoral, Latin American History
  • 15 March 2017: Rutgers University - New Brunswick (USA:NJ) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Gender History
  • 15 March 2017: University of New Brunswick (CAN) - Pre-Confederation Canada
  • 17 March 2017: University of Chicago (USA:IL) - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
  • 22 March 2017: Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs (US)
  • 24 March 2017: University of St. Andrews (UK:Scot), Research Fellowships, School of Classics
  • 26 March 2017: King's College London (UK), Liberal Arts Early Career Development Fellow in History
  • 31 March 2017: American Academy for Jewish Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Jewish Studies
  • 31 March 2017: Carnegie Mellon University (USA:PA) - History / CAUSE Postdoctoral Fellowship, African American Urban
  • 31 March 2017: University of Bristol (UK) - Vice Chancellor's Fellowships in Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities and/or Digital Innovation and Well-Being
  • 1 April 2017: Arizona State University (USA:AZ) Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • 2 April 2017: Birkbeck, University of London (UK:Eng) Pears Institute, Early Career Fellowship
  • 7 April 2017: Queens University Belfast (UK:NI) - Research Fellow, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
  • 9 April 2017: New York University (NY) - Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow - Cultural Foundations (Ancient / Medieval)
  • 9 April 2017: University of Manchester (UK:Eng) - Research Associate
  • 10 April 2017: University of Basel (Switzerland) - Three Postdoctoral Nomis Fellowships at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image 
  • 10 April 2017: University of Edinburgh (UK:Scot), Research Fellow in Irish History
  • 11 April 2017: University of Roehampton (UK:Eng) - Senior Research Fellow, Department of Humanities
  • 14 April 2017: Columbia University (NY) - Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  • 15 April 2017: University of Toronto - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethics -- Centre for Ethics
  • 15 April 2017: University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - Research Associate (Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England)
  • 17 April 2017: University of Glasgow (UK:Scot) - Research Associate, International Economic History (2 Posts)
  • 19 April 2017: University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - BRIHC Global Challenges Research Fellow
  • 19 April 2017: University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - BRIHC Research Fellow
  • 19 April 2017: University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - BRIHC Research Impact Fellow
  • 22 April 2017: University of Southampton (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow, Philosophy
  • 24 April 2017: National Museums Scotland (UK:Scot) - Postdoctoral Researcher: Baggage and Belonging, Military Collections and the British Empire (1750-1900)
  • 25 April 2017: United States Military Academy (USA:NY) - Postdoctoral Fellowship, American History and Diversity Studies
  • 26 April 2017: University of Nottingham (UK:Eng) - Research Associate/Fellow, American & Canadian Studies
  • 27 April 2017: University of Exeter (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Humanities
  • 30 April 2017: (ongloing applications but job closes April 30th) University of Nevada Reno - Post doctoral Research Fellow Latinx/Chicanx Studies. 
  • 30 April 2017: Simon Dubnow Institute (DEU) - Post-Doc Research Fellowship
  • 1 May 2017: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DEU), Institute for Art History, Research Associate
  • 1 May 2017: University of Cambridge (UK:Eng), Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Research Associate
  • 1 May 2017: University of Tyumen (RU), Postdoctoral Researchers, Multiple Fields, School of Advanced Studies
  • 1 May 2017: Heidelberg University (DEU) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Modern Chinese Intellectual History
  • 4 May 2017: University of Amsterdam (NDL) - Postdoctoral researcher 'Gender and Urban Space in Edo (c 1600 - 1850)'
  • 15 May 2017: University of Warwick (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History (ancient numismatics)
  • 15 May 2017: University of Warwick (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History (imperial greek epigraphy)
  • 15 May 2017: University of Oxford, St Antony's College - Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellowship
  • 15 May 2017: Keele University (UK:Eng) - Research Associate - The Correspondence of Daniel Defoe
  • 18 May 2017: University of Oxford, Keble College (UK:Eng) - CMRS Career Development Fellowship in Renaissance History
  • 19 May 2017: Durham University (UK:Eng) - Barker Priory Library Fellow
  • 21 May 2017: University of Bristol (UK) - Research Associate in the History of Medicine (Life of Breath)
  • 22 May 2017: University of York (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 25 May 2017: University College London, Institute of Advanced Studies (UK:Eng) -  Junior Research Fellows 2017-18 (FOUR positions)
  • 1 Jun. 2017: University of Oxford, St Hildas (UK:Eng) - Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellowship in Women’s History
  • 1 Jun. 2017: University of St. Andrews (UK:Scot) - Research Fellow (2 posts) in Medieval Legal History
  • 8 Jun. 2017: University of Wolverhampton (UK:Eng) - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Labour and Social History
  • 16 Jun. 2017: Zurich University (CHE) - Research Associate
  • 16 Jun. 2017: University of Oxford (UK:Eng), Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall, Broadbent Junior Research Fellowship in American History
  • 21 Jun. 2017: University of Sydney (AUS) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 posts)
  • 22 Jun. 2017: London School of Economics and Political Science (UK:Eng) - Research Officers (3 posts)
  • 23 Jun. 2017: London School of Economics and Political Science (UK:Eng) - LSE Fellow
  • 26 Jun. 2017: University of Maastricht (NDL) - Postdoctoral Researcher, “History of Medicine and/or Technology”
  • 30 Jun. 2017: University of Oxford (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in 19th-Century History of Medicine/Science/Culture
  • 1 Jul. 2017: New York University, Shanghai (CHN), Center for Global Asia, Postdoctoral Fellows
  • 3 Jul. 2017: Durham University (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Archaeology of Early Chinese Trade Ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean
  • 5 Jul. 2017: University of Kent (UK:Eng) - Research Associate, School of English
  • 10 Jul. 2017: University of Exeter (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Associate (Centre for Medical History)
  • 23 Jul. 2017: Queen Mary, University of London (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Assistant
  • 4 Aug. 2017: Georgetown University (USA:DC) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery for the 2017-18 academic year
  • 7 Aug. 2017: University of Oxford, Oriel College (UK:Eng) - Turpin Junior Research Fellowship in Humanities
  • 15 Aug. 2017: USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the Study of Racial and Religious Biases on College Campuses
  • 18 Aug. 2017: University of Oxford, St Johns College (UK:Eng) - Research Assistant: History of Dyslexia
  • 21 Aug. 2017: University of Hertfordshire (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow: Philosophy of Religious Cultures and Diverse Identities
  • 21 Aug. 2017: University of Hertfordshire (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow: Conflict, Memory and Legacy
  • 28 Aug. 2017: University of Exeter (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 31 Aug. 2017: College of Europe, Warsaw (POL) - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Recent Eastern European History
  • 31 Aug. 2017: University of Leicester (UK:Eng) - Research Associate

No Deadline / Open Until Filled

  • National Humanities Alliance Foundation (DC) - Post-Doctoral Fellow - The Publicly Engaged Humanities: A Survey of the Field
  • Purdue University (IN) - Tecumseh Scholars - Postdocs for 2017-2018
  • Tulane University (LA) - Mellon Postdoc in the Humanities
  • University of California, Berkeley (USA:CA) - Postdoctoral Fellowship - Public Theology - Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities (MN) - Post Doc Social Sciences Data Curation Specialist, in the University Libraries
  • University of Washington (WA) - Social Identity Lab, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Postdoctoral Positions[]

AAUW Postdoctoral Fellows - Deadline: 15 November 2017 - FINALISTS SELECTED[]

AAUW’s American Fellowships program has been in existence since 1888, making it the oldest noninstitutional source of graduate funding for women in the United States. The program provides fellowships for women pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks.

The primary purpose of the Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship is to increase the number of women in tenure-track faculty positions and to promote equality for women in higher education. This fellowship is designed to assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and further promotions by enabling her to spend a year pursuing independent research.

The American Fellowships panel meets once a year to review applications for funding. Awards are based on the selection criteria outlined here. The panel’s recommendations are subject to final approval by the AAUW Board of Directors. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis according to funds available in a given fiscal year. To ensure a fair and objective review process, AAUW does not comment on the deliberations of its award panels. No provisions exist for reconsidering fellowship proposals after the board has acted. AAUW does not provide evaluations of successful or unsuccessful applications.

Applications and supporting documents become the sole property of AAUW and will not be returned or held for another year.

The primary criterion for fellowship awards is scholarly excellence. When comparing proposals of equal merit for Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships, the review panel will give special consideration to women holding junior academic appointments who are seeking research leave, women who have held the doctorate for at least three years, and women whose educational careers have been interrupted. For Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships, preference will also be given to projects that are not simply a revision of the doctoral dissertation. Applications are reviewed by distinguished scholars and should be prepared accordingly.

  • April 14, 2017 - received news that I'm an alternate

ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs (US) - Deadline: 22 March 2017 - FELLOWS ANNOUNCED[]

ACLS invites applications for the seventh competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. This year, the program will place up to 22 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year term staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Fellows receive a stipend of $67,500 per year, with individual health insurance and up to $3,000 to be used toward professional development activities over the course of the fellowship term.

This initiative, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to expand the role of doctoral education in the United States by demonstrating that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy. The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program allows PhDs to gain valuable, career-building experience in fields such as public policy, development, conservation, arts and culture, and digital media.

ACLS seeks applications from recent PhDs who aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences.

Applicants must: possess US citizenship or permanent resident status; have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences (see note on eligible fields below) conferred between September 1, 2013 and June 18, 2017; and defend and file/deposit their completed dissertations no later than April 6, 2017, and be prepared to verify this with official university documentation during the review and selection process. Prospective applicants should read through all the fellowship positions listed below and choose the one position that best fits their career goals. (Applicants may apply to only one position.)

Applications must include: completed application form; 1-2-page cover letter tailored to a specific position and addressed to the host organization; 1-2-page résumé; and 2 reference letters. Please note that finalists may be asked to provide institutional documentation of PhD conferral (or, if the degree has not yet been conferred, an institutional statement from the registrar attesting that the dissertation defense and deposit have been completed and confirming the degree conferral date).

Only complete applications, submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system by the deadline, will be considered.

Selection Criteria: Applications will undergo ACLS’s standard rigorous peer-review process, which may include interviews by ACLS and by the hosting organization. Reviewers will look for: applicant’s academic accomplishment and success; demonstrated relationship between past experience and specified position; and commitment to pursuing a career within the public and/or nonprofit sector. Notification of application status will occur by email in late-May 2017.

  • See full list of Participating Agencies and Positions here: https://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/
  • Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (http://ofa.acls.org). Please do not contact any of the organizations directly.
  • The deadline for submitted applications is Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 8 pm EDT.
  • No update for me yet, but curious about which of the positions everyone applied for!
  • The Moth
  • Association of College and Research Libraries x2
  • BAM
  • Feminist Press (any news?)
  • Community Partners
  • April 12, 2017 - Received interview request for ACRL position. There were five interview slots to choose from, so presumably five finalists.
  • April 14 - Finalist for The Moth.
  • April 14- Finalist for BAM.
  • April 17: Any word on Humanities Action Lab? Also, any idea if these are phone interviews or in-person?
  • April 17 - My ACRL interview is via phone, but I would not be surprised if different institutions handled things differently. Also, I should note that on the day I received notice of being a finalist, I had an e-mail from the ACLS telling me they had forwarded my name to the ACRL, and then an hour or so later another one from ACRL asking about scheduling an interview. I don't know how varied the timetable is for each position, but it seems like the ACLS is notifying finalists.
  • April 17- Finalist for YBCA
  • April 17 - Finalist for Community Partners
  • April 18 - Notified of finalist status for NRDC on April 12; no word yet on interview.
  • April 20 - Interview request for NRDC.
  • April 24 - Has anyone scheduled an interview with YBCA? --(4/25 - not yet...)
  • April 27 - Interview request with YBCA
  • May 1 - Screening interview with Community Partner
  • May 2 - has anyone any inkling of ACLS's timeline and when institution recommendations are due?
  • (5/3) - I think the application website said late May for final notice.
  • May 5 - Did not advance to final interview, Community Partners
  • May 11 - any updates?  
  • (5/11) Interview scheduled with ACLS  ((5/12) Would it be possible to clarify this? Do you mean you have an interview scheduled with ACLS after interviews with the institution? Thanks!) -- (5/13) Yes, after the interviews with the organization, and after the organization then sent its preferences to ACLS, ACLS scheduled an interview. 
  • 5/11 - I was/am a finalist for ISEP (interviewed via Skype already). According to HR person there they were supposed to make final recommendation to ACLS today (5/11), and job offer will come from ACLS for the selected candidate soon.
  • May 17 - Received rejection for ACRL position
  • Has anyone who applied to the MIA position heard anything?
  • May 22 - still silence; interviewed with host organization May 1. Growing increasingly pessimistic.
  • May 26 - received official rejection via email
  • May 30 - no rejection or acceptance yet. Anyone hear anything new lately?

American Academy for Jewish Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Jewish Studies at the Center for Jewish History (NY) - Deadline: 31 March 2017[]

The American Academy for Jewish Research [AAJR] announces a nine-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Jewish History in American Jewish Studies for a recent recipient of the Ph.D.  

Expectations: The postdoctoral position requires a commitment to research and write a history of the AAJR from its founding in 1920 to the present. It is expected that at the end of the nine-month fellowship [September 1, 2017-June 1, 2018] the fellow will have completed a 25,000 word publishable article on the history of the AAJR based, in part, on the archives located at the American Jewish Historical Society. As part of the intellectual community of the Center for Jewish History, the postdoctoral fellow will participate in regular bi-weekly seminars and will give a public presentation based on the research completed under the fellowship’s auspices.

Requirements: Ph.D. in a field of American Jewish studies (e.g. history, literature, social sciences) received no earlier than 2012 and in hand by June 2017.

Stipend: $50,000.

  • Application: Interested applicants should send the following items as a single pdf to Christopher Barthel [cbarthel@cjh.org] by March 31. Fellowship winner will be notified by April 30. Curriculum vitae; Personal statement of interest in the fellowship (not to exceed two pages); Writing sample (not to exceed 30 pages).In addition, please arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation to be sent separately to Christopher Barthel [cbarthel@cjh.org] by March 31. Download application guidelines at www.fellowships.cjh.org .

American Antiquarian Society (MA) - 2017-18 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship - Deadline: 15 Oct. 2016[]

Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are invited to apply for the 2017-18 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, a year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. The purpose of the post-dissertation fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for publication. Any topic relevant to the Society's library collections and programmatic scope, and coming from any field or disciplinary background, is eligible. AAS collections focus on all aspects of American history, literature, and culture from contact through 1876, and provide rich source material for projects across the spectrum of early American studies.

The Society welcomes applications from those who have advance book contracts, as well as those who have not yet made contact with a publisher. The twelve-month stipend for this fellowship is $35,000; the fellowship also includes reimbursement of up to $4,000 to cover health insurance costs. The Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow will be selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the appropriateness of the project to the Society's collections and interests, and, above all, the likelihood that the revised dissertation will make a highly significant book.

Further information about the fellowship, along with a link to the online application form, is available on the AAS website, at http://www.americanantiquarian.org/hench.htm. Any questions about the fellowship may be directed to Cheryl McRell, Administrator of the Fellowship Program at AAS, at cmcrell@mwa.org.

  • The deadline for applications for a Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship to be held during the 2017-2018 academic year is October 15, 2016.
  • Rejection via email. 70 applicants this year. Edit: received email from AAS, 12/8. Was told applicants will also be notified by mail.
  • [9 Dec] when/from whom was this email sent? Have received nothing here. (x2)
  • [13 Dec]. I still haven't heard anything either way. Does anyone else have an update?
  • [13 Dec] Received rejection by mail 12/12
  • [3 Jan] Anyone here who's been selected as a finalist? I haven't received anything--no email, no letter in the mail. But it's getting late, so I'm assuming they've already picked people? Perhaps I accidentially put in the wrong contact info...

American Philosophical Society (PA) - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship - Deadline: 28 Nov. 2016[]

The American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s first learned society, invites applications for its two-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship. The APS seeks applications from recent PhDs in the fields of 18th- or 19th-century American history, history of science, art history, museology, or any other related humanities disciplines. The Fellowship, based in the APS Museum, will provide hands-on experience in curatorial work and the opportunity to pursue an independent research project, preferably one related to the collections or programs of the Society’s Library and Museum. As the public face of the Society, the museum researches and interprets the APS’s extensive collections for the regional, national, and international visitors who come to Philadelphia’s historic district.

The goals of the Museum are to:

Share the circa 14 million manuscripts and other materials held by the Society with the general public through curated thematic exhibitions. Nurture the spirit of inquiry, promote critical thinking, and engender enthusiasm for object-based learning by using primary source documents and authentic objects. The APS has a campus of four building and the Thomas Jefferson Garden, all owned by the Society but located within Independence National Historical Park. Exhibitions take place in Philosophical Hall (1789), adjacent to Independence Hall.

The Mellon Fellow’s primary responsibility will be to conduct research in the APS Library and Museum collections in preparation for exhibitions exploring the intersections of history, art, and science. The Fellow will be fully integrated into the APS Museum staff, working closely with others on the curatorial team. He or she will select objects for exhibitions and develop thematic narratives. The Fellow will gain extensive experience in planning and implementing exhibitions as well as researching and writing interpretive materials for non-scholarly audiences (exhibition labels and text panels, website text, etc.). Depending on the Fellow’s interests and the Museum’s needs, he or she may also participate in public programming, museum education, collections management, and website development. Upcoming exhibitions include (working titles):

April – December, 2017: The Peales: Revolutionaries, Artists, Inventors, Entrepreneurs
April – December, 2018: Benjamin Franklin to the Moon: 275th Anniversary Exhibition
April – December, 2019: Mapping the New Nation

Twenty percent of the Fellow’s time will be reserved for his or her own independent research, ideally using resources at the APS or kindred regional institutions. The Fellow will also be expected to participate in the vibrant intellectual community at the Society, including biannual symposia for the elected Members of the APS, monthly lunches at the Library with visiting scholars, and evening programs with specialists in a wide range of fields.

Qualifications: PhD in any humanities discipline, awarded within the past five years. 18th- and 19th-century American history, the history of science, and the history of art often relate most closely to exhibition content. However, the museum’s approach is interdisciplinary, and applications from qualified researchers in any humanities discipline are welcome. Applicants must have PhD in hand by June 30, 2017. Excellent analytical and writing skills; experience in writing for different purposes and broad audiences. Comfort with working collaboratively. Broad interests, along with the intellectual and conceptual tools necessary for working across disciplines and time periods, and for making creative connections. Flexibility and the capacity to learn quickly. Project-oriented organizational skills. Strong interest in exploring a career in the museum field.

REQUIRED MATERIALS (APPLICATION CHECKLIST): Applications must be submitted by EMAIL only to MellonFellowship@amphilsoc.org with the subject line as follows: Last Name, First Name - Mellon Application 2017-19

Include: Cover letter stating interest in exploring curatorial work. Completed application form, found at http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/curatorialfellowship Comprehensive curriculum vitae, with items listed within categories in reverse chronological order (include external support received during graduate study, fellowships, teaching or research assistantships, tuition grants, etc.). Statement of current research interests (no more than 1,500 words). This statement should include a description of a potential research project during the Fellowship, preferably one related to the APS collections or programs. Excerpt(s) from dissertation or thesis (no more than 5,000 words). An excerpt from a working draft is acceptable. Example of non-scholarly writing, if available. A letter from a Department Chair or Director of Graduate Studies (or equivalent) confirming that the applicant will complete their PhD by the required date. Three confidential letters of recommendation, which must be submitted on the APS recommendation form provided at http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/curatorialfellowship

This two-year Fellowship begins July 1, 2017 and ends June 30, 2019. Compensation is $45,000 a year plus benefits, along with additional funds for research support, travel, and relocation. The Fellowship may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.

  • The application deadline is November 28, 2016. Notification is in February 2017.

Amherst College (MA) - Center for Humanistic Inquiry Fellows - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017 - OFFER ACCEPTED[]

The Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) at Amherst College seeks scholars from across the disciplines for full-time, two-year appointments as CHI Fellows. In colloquy with one another and the Amherst faculty, CHI Fellows will explore the theme of “Speech/Image/Spectacle.” We invite applications from scholars whose research takes up some aspect of our theme (described in more detail below) from a humanistic perspective. Our student body is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion. The college is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff. You may learn more about the CHI at https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry

Our theme, SPEECH/IMAGE/SPECTACLE, invites inquiry into the politics, aesthetics, technologies, genealogies, and epistemologies of contemporary public discourse. Over the course of two years we will explore the ways we generate, encode, and circulate meaning through representation, inquiring after the nature and effects of speech, image, and spectacle on the senses, on human subjectivity, and on politics and sociality. How should we understand shifting relations between speech (in the guise of words, languages, speech acts, free speech rights, and so on), performance, and spectacle, both now and historically? Has speech now been spectacularized? What is the relation between spectacle and identity, authenticity, or truth? How do image and spectacle translate or channel power? How should we assess calls to regulate or repress publication and circulation of troubling speech and images, or conversely to expand their scale and reach? What ways of perceiving and practicing politics does a spectacular society demand or allow? How does the very domain of representation change as the global circulation of text and image compresses space and recalibrates time?

Fellows, who will have offices in the center, are expected to be in residence during the 2017-2019 academic years and to participate in seminars and conferences organized to explore our theme. A Ph.D. is required. Fellows may be able to teach one course in the fellowship’s second year. These fellowships include an annual salary of $50,000 and, in addition, an annual $2,500 allowance for professional travel and research support and additional support for moving expenses.

Candidates should submit a cover letter that addresses the connection between the candidate’s scholarship and the center’s theme, a CV, a research statement, a writing sample, and three confidential letters of recommendation addressed to Professor Martha M. Umphrey, Director, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2017, and continue until the positions are filled. Applications received by this date will be assured of full consideration.

Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply.

NOTES: 5 openings. Employer will assist with relocation costs.

Additional Salary Information: $2,500 allowance for professional travel and research support and additional support for moving expenses.

  • Apply at: https://apply.interfolio.com/39395
  • Review begins: Jan. 15 2017.
  • For anyone else who was wondering the research statement, I enquired and was told a 2 pp statement on plans for the fellowship period was fine (and to contextualize within a longer research arc if desired). 
  • Thanks for posting this! Good call on asking them. I'd wondered that too, but just went with my standard research statement and used the cover letter as a research proposal. Hoping that's okay too. Good luck! 
  • any news? (2/19)
  • Haven't heard anything (2/20) x5.
  • The wikis from previous years seem to suggest that Amherst is agonizingly slow with this fellowship...
  • Still nothing (03/02) x3
  • Request for Skype Interview (03/06) x1
  • Offer accepted (3/31)
  • Rejection e-mail (4/19, over 400 candidates)

Appalachian State University (USA: NC) - Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellowship in British History 2017-18 - Deadline: 5 Dec. 2016[]

  • Open to early-career scholars who have recently been or will shortly be awarded their doctorates in early modern or modern British history.
  • In line with ongoing initiatives to internationalize campus, applications from foreign nationals are particularly encouraged. This is a 9-month appointment (September to May).
  • Fellow will receive a maintenance grant ($7500); rent-free accommodation; health insurance; visa assistance; grant of $1000 towards air fare; office on campus with computer; and access to all appropriate academic support services.
  • Applications should include: one–page CV; 400-word outline of the research project to be carried out at Appalachian State University, with a statement explaining why access to the Special Collections and other material at Appalachian State University would be helpful [for information about the Collections consult www.library.appstate.edu/collections, or email spcoll@appstate.edu]; letter of recommendation from the candidate’s supervisor.
  • Send to Dr. Michael Turner, Department of History, Appalachian State University, Anne Belk Hall, ASU Box 32072, Boone, NC 28608, U.S.A.
  • Informal inquiries can be emailed to turnermj@appstate.edu (or alternatively, call 828-262-8102).
  • Closing date for applications: December 5, 2016.
  • Successful candidate will be expected to take up the Fellowship at Appalachian State University in September 2017.
  • $7500 for a nine month position??

Arizona State University (AZ) - Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: April 30 2017[]

The position will join an interdisciplinary team working on a citizen-science project, Older and Wiser BITs (Body Image Talks): Citizen Scientists in the Valley of the Sun, to better understand the links between obesity-related stigma and aging. A major focus will be on better understanding ‘body talk’ and aging through collaboration with senior citizen-scientists.  The duties include training and mentoring graduate students, undergraduate students, and citizen-scientists as research collaborators in appropriate social science and linguistic methods; additional duties include managing the overall project approval and data collection process in senior living facilities and communities in and across Maricopa County in Arizona, data analysis, and collaborating on publishing the findings in peer-reviewed journals. The position may also include outreach activities such as social and traditional media and public meetings, as a goal is to engage and empower citizens in self-advocacy techniques with regard to body stigma and other challenges to maintaining healthy body weights. 

This is a grant funded position. Anticipated ending date, June 30, 2018 depending on the actual start date.

Required Qualifications:  Proven capacity to independently manage a research project from start to finish; Experience in the systematic application of social science methods in community-based research; Current driver’s license; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Arizona State University (USA:AZ) Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Postdoctoral Research Associate - Deadline: 1 Apr. 2017[]

  • The Center for Political Thought and Leadership (CPTL) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a post-doctoral research associate in social thought and/or political institutions to begin in Fall 2017. Preference will be given to candidates whose research and teaching focuses on ancient and/or early modern Europe and/or American political ideas. This is a full time (1.0) benefits-eligible, fiscal year (July 1-June 30) appointment. Renewal is possible on an annual basis contingent on satisfactory performance, availability of resources, and needs of the program.
  • The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Center for Political Thought and Leadership, but will have the opportunity to teach within the ASUs School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies (SHPRS). The position carries a 1-1 teaching load. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute a minimum of 10 hours per week to active participation in the activities of the CPTL and to contribute to its development, both at ASU and its wider community setting.
  • Required qualification: candidates must have a Ph.D. in History, Political Science, or a field relevant to the history of ideas, by the time of the appointment.
  • Desired qualifications: evidence of achievement and promise in research and writing in social thought, history of ideas, or political institutions, a demonstrated ability to teach introductory and upper level undergraduate courses, in different settings—classroom, online, and hybrid environments.
  • To apply: submit the following application materials: 1) curriculum vitae; and 2) cover letter explaining qualifications, accomplishments in research and teaching, and future plans in research and teaching. The application should be submitted electronically to Roxane.Barwick@asu.edu with ASU Postdoctoral Research Associate in the subject line. Application review process will begin April 1, 2017: if the position is not filled, reviews will occur every two weeks thereafter until the search is closed A background check is required for employment.

Australian Catholic University (AUS) - Research Fellow (Early Christianity) - Deadline: 30 Nov. 2016 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • The University is seeking postdoctoral and early career researchers of outstanding potential and demonstrated achievement to contribute to the research of the Centre for Biblical and Early Christian Studies. Researchers will contribute to a major five-year project, Modes of Knowing and the Ordering of Knowledge in Early Christianity. This international project, led by Prof. Lewis Ayres (ACU/Durham) and four others from ACU, Durham and Notre Dame, investigates 'modes of knowing' constructed by Greek, Latin and Syriac Christians c.100-700 CE. A particular focus is the manner in which developing Christian thought was shaped by classical intellectual discourses (such as grammar, philosophy, rhetoric and medicine), institutions, social practices, and material culture.
  • This project builds on research across the Centre in areas such as the social and cultural history of early Christianity, the cultural and intellectual transformation of Classical antiquity, strategies of Christian identity formation, and intersections between Christianity and ancient philosophy, rhetoric, medicine, and education.
  • Within the 'Modes of Knowing' project, we envisage individual projects that will relate early Christian modes of knowing to at least one of: a) contemporary philosophical, medical and rhetorical discourses; b) social practices of early Christianity and late antiquity (e.g. asceticism, pilgrimage, liturgies); c) imperial and institutional power structures; or d) and the material world of early Christianity and late antiquity (e.g. relics, sacred texts). Researchers will also have opportunities to pursue other individual and collaborative research beyond the Modes of Knowing project.
  • The Project and Centre are located in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU. The Institute promotes interdisciplinary and collaborative study through research that seeks to enrich and extend the traditional fields of philosophy and theology at an international level. It hosts several discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research seminars and reading groups, and regular international symposia at ACU's Rome Campus. Research in Theology and Religious Studies at ACU was rated above world standard in the 2015 Excellence in Research Australia exercise. The Institute is currently undergoing a major expansion: recent junior and senior appointments have been made in Philosophy, Theology, Ethics, New Testament Studies and Early Christian Studies.
  • General enquiries about the position, the project, and working at ACU Melbourne can be directed to Professor Lewis Ayres (lewis.ayres@acu.edu.au).
  • Total remuneration valued to AUD110,847 - AUD130,747 pa, including salary component AUD93,667 - AUD110,590 pa, employer contribution to superannuation, and annual leave loading.
  • To apply, and for further information, including the full position description, please visit http://careers.acu.edu.au/caw/en/job/971107/research-fellowsenior-research-fellow-early-christianity
  • Deadline: 30 Nov. 2016.
  • request for skype interview Dec. 8th

Bard Graduate Center (NY) - Research Fellowships: "What is Distance?" - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016[]

Bard Graduate Center invites scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PhD or equivalent professional experience to apply for funded research fellowships, to be held during the 2017–18 academic year. The theme for this period is "What is distance?" Applicants are asked to address in a cover letter how their projected work will bear on this question. The fellowships are intended to fund collections-based research at Bard Graduate Center or elsewhere in New York, as well as writing or reading projects in which being part of our dynamic research environment is intellectually valuable. Eligible disciplines and fields of study include—but are not limited to—art history, architecture and design history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. The stipend rate is $3,500 per month, and housing is available. Both long- and short-term fellowships are available (1–6 months). The timing of dates will be negotiated with individual awardees. Fellows will be given a workspace in our Research Center at 38 West 86th Street, between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, in New York City. Bard Graduate Center is a graduate research institute devoted to the study of the decorative arts, design history, and material culture, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. It offers MA and PhD degrees, possesses a specialized library of 60,000 volumes exclusive of serials, and publishes the journals West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture and Source: Notes in the History of Art, the book series Cultural Histories of the Material World (all with the University of Chicago Press), and the catalogues that accompany the exhibitions it presents every year in its gallery (with Yale University Press). Over 50 research seminars, lectures, and symposia are scheduled annually and are live-streamed around the world on Bard Graduate Center’s YouTube channel. To apply, please submit the following materials electronically via email to fellowships@bgc.bard.edu in a single PDF file: (1) cover letter explaining why Bard Graduate Center is an appropriate research affiliation and how your work bears on the question “What is distance?” Please also indicate your preferred length and dates of the fellowship; (2) 150-word abstract of project; (3) detailed project description; (4) CV; (5) publication or academic writing sample of approximately 20–30 pages. In addition, please arrange for two letters of reference to be submitted either via email (fellowships@bgc.bard.edu) or post (to Bard Graduate Center, Research Fellowship Committee, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY, 10024).

  • All materials must be received by November 1, 2016. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
  • Rejection: 12/12

Birkbeck College, University of London (UK:Eng) - Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships in History, Classics & Archaeology - Deadline: 13 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Department of History, Classics and Archaeology (part of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London) invites applications for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships. These prestigious awards provide postdoctoral reseachers with an opportunity to undertake a significant project of original research and to progress their academic career. The fellowships are for three years and are based upon a matched funding agreement between the Trust and the host institution. Birkbeck is keen to build upon its past success with this scheme by selecting outstanding candidates to support for the 2016-17 call.
  • Birkbeck will sponsor one exceptional candidate with expertise in any field of nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental European history. In addition, we hope to support at least one other exceptional applicant in any field of history, classics or archaeology. If successful, the fellowship holder(s) will carry out their own research project and also have the opportunity to develop and teach advanced BA and/or MA option modules in their field of expertise, as well as contributing to team-taught introductory courses where appropriate.
  • The Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck has a long and distinguished record as a centre of research and teaching excellence and a longstanding commitment to research-led teaching. HCA is one of the top History departments in the UK, ranked 7th out of 83 in REF 2014 (Times Higher Education research intensity table), with 85% of its research portfolio deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. For further information about the Department, please visit http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/.
  • Potential candidates must contact their preferred mentor in the first instance, ideally no later than 2nd December 2016. Candidates should work with their mentor to prepare the short pro-forma application (available, along with details of the application procedure, at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/staff-information/research/early-career-researchers) and this should be returned to researchgrants@bbk.ac.uk by 13th January 2017
  • [6 Dec]: Note eligibility: only for those with a UK degree.

Birkbeck, University of London (UK:Eng) Pears Institute, Early Career Fellowship - Deadline: 2 Apr. 2017[]

  • The Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck is the only centre dedicated to the study of antisemitism in the UK and one of only two such centres in the whole of Europe.
  • The Institute intends to appoint an Early Career Fellow for a period of two years, commencing in September 2017, with a research specialism in modern history in one of the following areas: Europe (including Britain), Middle East, United States of America or the history of Empires. Applicants should have completed their doctorate, or be close to completion, and have identified an area for further original research. Their research interests should align closely with the remit of the Institute.
  • This post is full time, 35 hours per week (1.0 FTE) and fixed term for two years. The salary quoted above is on the College's London Pay Scale and includes a consolidated Weighting/Allowance which applies only to staff whose normal contractual place of work is in the Greater London area. The initial salary will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful applicant. The appointment is subject to a probationary period of 12 months. Birkbeck also provides a generous defined benefit pension scheme, 31 days paid leave, flexible working arrangements and other great benefits.
  • For further information on this opportunity please contact Professor David Feldman, Director – Pears Institute (Email: d.feldman@bbk.ac.uk). A link to the PDF document containing the job description and person specification can be found on the college's website, accessed by pressing the apply button below.
  • apply online
  • Deadline: 2 Apr. 2017
  • Interviews will be held on Monday, 22 May 2017.

Bowdoin College (USA:ME) - postdoctoral fellowship in Middle Eastern or North African History - Deadline: 10 Mar. 2017[]

  • Two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Middle Eastern or North African History to begin July 1, 2017.
  • Sub-field open, but preference is given for candidates who can offer curricular coverage of the twentieth century. Fellows are expected to teach three courses per year and participate in the life of the department.
  • Applicants for this fellowship must have completed their Ph.D. no earlier than January 1, 2014. Candidates who expect to receive their Ph.D. by June 30, 2017 should provide documentation from their home institution confirming this schedule. Applicants must possess a demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching and research, and a commitment to the liberal arts.
  • Bowdoin College accepts only electronic submissions. Please visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu to submit a c.v., a letter of application, and the names and contact information for three references who will provide letters of recommendation.
  • Review of applications will begin on March 10, 2017 and continue until the position is filled.

Brandeis University (USA:MA) - Florence Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Pacific Islander Studies - Deadline: 1 Jan. 2017[]

Brandeis University invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Pacific Islander Studies, beginning Fall 2017. We are open to expertise in any field and welcome a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Asian American experience, especially with respect to history, politics, religion, culture (art, music, literature), immigration, identity, community formation, social movements, homeland/diaspora, the environment, as well as broader connections to class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The Fellow will be appointed as a faculty member at the rank of Lecturer with a joint appointment in one of the following departments—Anthropology, English, History, Sociology, and Politics— and an interdisciplinary program—such as American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and East Asian Studies--depending on the background of the candidate. The fellow will pursue his or her own research and writing and teach two courses (one per semester). The fellowship includes a salary $57,500, plus benefits, with moving expenses (approximately $1,500), and a research fund of up to $4,000 per year. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in hand by the commencement of the fellowship, preferably received within the past six years. Applications should be submitted through AcademicJobsOnline at http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo.jobs/8062 Please include the following: a letter of interest outlining a research project and possible course offerings (syllabi if available), a CV, and three letters of recommendation.

  • First consideration will be given to applications submitted by January 1, 2017.

Brandeis University (USA:MA) - Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race, Science and Society - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016 - ADDITIONAL MATERIALS / SKYPE INTERVIEWS REQUESTED[]

The Department of African and Afro-American Studies and the Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program at Brandeis University invite applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race, Science and Society, beginning Fall 2017. The Fellow, who will be appointed as a faculty member at the rank of Lecturer, will actively pursue his or her own research interests and teach one course per semester. The Fellow will receive a 2017-2018 salary of $57,500, plus benefits, with moving expenses (approximately $1,500), and a research fund of up to $4,000 per year. Ph.D. must be completed by September 2017. We are particularly interested in candidates with interdisciplinary expertise in the fields of sociology, anthropology, history, history of science, history of medicine, political science, and bioethics. Please include a cover letter that includes a brief description of your research and two courses you would be interested in teaching, your CV, and three letters of recommendation. Applications will be accepted electronically through Academic Jobs Online (AJO) at the following link: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7574.

  • First consideration will be given to applications received by November 1, 2016.
  • [6 Dec] Sorry for the late update, but received request for more materials and invitation for a Skype interview on November 22nd. Was then emailed later about scheduling time slots, and sent back my preferences, but haven't heard confirmation or anything else since. Anyone else have any updates on this?
  • [11 Jan] Any more updates?

Brandeis University (USA:MA) - Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Revolutions of the Middle East, Caribbean, and Latin America - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • The Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Brandeis University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for 2017-2018. The position will hold the title of Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Revolutions with the rank of Lecturer. The theme for this seminar is “Misplaced Dreams and Forgotten Revolutions: Conceptualizing Twentieth Century Revolutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.”
  • Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the seminar will situate revolutionary movements from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East in comparative dialogue with one another in order to reconceive revolutionary theories, practices, and programs.
  • Eligibility: The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences whose research investigates revolutionary movements in the twentieth century and whose work is interdisciplinary in scope. Geographical specialization is open.
  • Preference will be given to scholars working on:
  • Revolutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa
  • Revolutionary movements constituted by diasporic populations connected to Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa
  • Theories of comparative revolutions applicable to these regions Terms
  • The fellowship is a one-year residential appointment beginning in the Fall of 2017. The salary will be $53,000. In addition, $2000 in funding is available for research, travel, and related expenses. Fringe benefits, including health insurance will be available during the appointment period.
  • While in residence at Brandeis, the postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for attending and contributing to all seminar meetings and working with graduate students participating in the seminar. The fellow will also teach an undergraduate course on a topic related to their research during their fellowship year.
  • Applications will be received online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/8688. Please submit a cover letter, CV, a writing sample of no more than thirty pages, and three letters of recommendation.
  • The committee will start reviewing applications on January 15, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. All candidates must have received their Ph.D. after June 30, 2013 and must have finished all requirements for the Ph.D. by September 1, 2017.
  • [SKYPE Interviews noted in header ~ 2nd week of Feb.]

British Museum (UK) - Postdoctoral Research Assistant [two posts] - Deadline: 31 Oct. 2016[]

  • Fixed Term: 30 months in duration from January 2017
  • £28,460 per annum pro-rata
  • Ref: 1593568
  • An exciting opportunity has arisen at the British Museum for two Postdoctoral Research Assistants to contribute to the Leverhulme Trust funded research project Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections under the Principal Investigator, Kim Sloan and Co-Investigator Julianne Nyhan (UCL).
  • Beginning in January 2017, as part of this project, the post-holders will assist with the process of digitally encoding externally sourced transcriptions of six of Sir Hans Sloane’s manuscript catalogues and will assist with identifying information entities within them which will inform research. You will also participate in the production of the project’s peer-reviewed research publications, planned to be a minimum of four co-authored interdisciplinary articles which will be published by the end of the project.
  • The successful candidates will have completed a PhD, or equivalent, and will be proficient in Latin and/or at least one modern language related to the project. With experience of research/teaching/curatorial work, you will have strong knowledge of electronic text, particularly digital cultural heritage resources for the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • As an excellent team player, you will be able to work closely and diplomatically with research partners and museum colleagues and will be confident in speaking publicly about research to scholarly and wider audiences. You will have excellent organisation skills, will work to meet set deadlines and will have your own academic publication in preparation.
  • If you are a positive individual, passionate about the Museum and would like to know more about this exciting opportunity, please visit the website for further information and details on how to apply: https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/jobs.aspx
  • Interviews will be held on 22 November 2016
  • Closing Date: 31 October 2016.

Brown University (RI) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Native American and Indigenous Literature and Culture - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017 - OFFER ACCEPTED[]

Brown University's Department of American Studies, Department of English and the Cogut Center for the Humanities seek applications for a two-year postdoc in Native American, First Nations, or Indigenous literature and culture. Applicants can come from a range of disciplinary homes but should also have experience with the varieties of interdisciplinary scholarship prominent in Native American Studies. We seek candidates who focus on the topic of Native North American cultural production, with a distinct preference towards scholars working on literary and expressive culture in any period since 1800. We are looking to strengthen the commitments of these departments to both Native American Studies and contemporary American culture, as well as art and culture of the nineteenth century.

Faculty in the Departments of American Studies and English work closely with students in ethnic studies and public humanities. Both departments have nationally renowned graduate programs, close working relations with the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the John Carter Brown Library, the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. The best candidates should thus present themselves as capable of working, like our faculty, across various disciplinary borders, undergraduate and graduate foci, and institutional emphasis.

The appointment will begin on July 1, 2017, or as soon as possible thereafter, and candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand or very firmly expected by that date. The successful candidate will teach two courses per year which will be cross-listed in the Cogut Center's Humanities course offerings. The fellow will also be affiliated with the Cogut Center and is expected to participate in the weekly Tuesday seminars as well as other activities of the Center. Fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral scholars who have received their degrees from institutions other than Brown within the last five (5) years. The fellowship stipend for the first year is $61,500 with an increase to $63,907 the second year, and $2,000 of research support each year.

Brown University (RI) - Mellon Postdoc on Race in Science and Medicine - Deadline: 1 Feb. 2017[]

Brown University invites applications for a 2-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship on race in science and medicine. We seek an interdisciplinary scholar from the fields of Africana Studies, History of Science and/or Medicine, Religious Studies, Sociology, or Anthropology with specialization in race, medicine, and the legacies of slavery. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and the Department of Africana Studies, effective July 1, 2017. Our goal is to appoint an exceptional scholar to work with colleagues in the newly established Race, Medicine, and Social Justice cluster in the CSSJ. The successful candidate will teach two courses per year in the Department of Africana Studies cross-listed in the Cogut Center's Humanities course offerings. The fellow will also be affiliated with the Cogut Center and is expected to participate in the weekly Tuesday seminars as well as other activities of the Center. PhD must be in hand by July 1, 2017 and must have been awarded in the last five years. Stipend of $61,500 with an increase to $63,907 the second year plus benefits and a research budget of $2,000 per year. Applicants must apply online to: http://apply.interfolio.com/39794.

  • Applications will be reviewed beginning February 1, 2017 and accepted until the position is filled. Please include a current CV, a writing sample and three letters of reference.
  • Has anyone heard anything?

Brown University (RI) - Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 6 Dec. 2016 - OFFER MADE[]

In 2017-2018, the Pembroke Center will award residential postdoctoral fellowships to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of "The Cultures of Pacifism". Fellows are required to participate in a weekly research seminar and teach one undergraduate course. Candidates are selected on the basis of their scholarly potential and the relevance of their work to the research theme. Recipients must have a PhD at the start of the fellowship and may not hold a tenured position. Fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral scholars who have received their degrees from institutions other than Brown within the last five (5) years. The term of appointment is July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018. The stipend is $50,000 plus $1,500 for research expenses. Postdoctoral Fellows are eligible to participate in the Brown University health and dental benefit plan. For full consideration, applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.

In 2017-18, Leela Gandhi, Professor of English at Brown University, will lead the Pembroke Research Seminar on "Cultures of Pacifism". The terrible wars in the first half of the twentieth century (peopled by masses of unacknowledged soldiers from garrison states around the colonial world) provoked complex transnational pacifist subcultures. Unexpected interlocutors came together to protest war and militarism and develop a planetary philosophy of non-violence drawn from diverse traditions. This seminar aims to recover the transnational history of twentieth-century pacifism and to clarify its philosophical and ethical content. Core readings will include manifestoes, manuals, memoirs, diaries, letters and other documents from the global networks of pacifism through the first half of the twentieth-century. We will also consider historically intersecting and imagined “source” philosophies of non-violence continually invoked by twentieth-century pacifists: late-Vedic, Buddhist, Jain and Cynic, among others. Finally, we will review conditions of possibility for ideals of non-violence/pacifism in post-war and late-twentieth-century critical theory through select readings on the ethical turn (Buber, Levinas, Butler), negativity (Adorno), and immortality (the ontological turn in anthropology, speculative realism and new materialism). The seminar will include workshops with significant scholars, activists, artists and writers in the field.

See full seminar description on the Pembroke Center website.

The Pembroke Center invites applications from scholars working in all disciplines and fields, including Anthropology, Political Science, History, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Classics, History of Art, Cinema and Media Studies, Music, Gender and Women’s Studies, Science Studies, Religious Studies, and across all historical periods and traditions.

Complete applications must include: 1. One page with title and 250-word abstract of proposed research project 2. Five page research project proposal (double-spaced) 3. Brief representative bibliography for research proposal 4. Curriculum vitae 5. Three (3) letters of recommendation 6. Course syllabus & description, including a reading schedule.*

  • The course should be designed as an undergraduate seminar, meeting once or twice a week. The topic need not intersect with the seminar theme. It should be related to your own discipline and training. It would be listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies and should involve in some way questions of gender and/or sexuality, though those need not be the primary focus.
  •  rejection email 12/20 X2
  • additional materials requested [12/20] x3
  • offer made by phone [2/2]

Brown University (RI) - Postdoctoral Fellowship - "Culture and Ideology of Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean" - Deadline: 1 Feb. 2017[]

The Departments of Religious Studies, Classics, and History, and the Programs in Judaic Studies and Early Cultures, invite applications for an International Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the area of the culture and ideology of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Specialization is open, but preference will be given to candidates who employ the digital humanities in their research; applicants from outside North America are especially encouraged to apply. The fellow’s administrative home will be in the Department of Religious Studies, but applications are invited in any of the fields represented by the sponsoring programs, and the successful candidate is expected to be able to work across disciplines.

Fellows participate in a weekly, multi-disciplinary seminar at the Cogut Humanities Center and teach one course each term. S/he will join a strong intellectual community of scholars from across the university who work on issues involving the role of writing in the pre-modern world.

This is a two year position beginning July 1, 2017, with stipends of $61,500 and $63,907 in their 1st and 2nd years, respectively, plus standard fellows’ benefits and a $2,000 per year research budget. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within the last five years from an institution other than Brown.

  • Applicants should submit a CV; letter of interest; and writing sample (of about 20 pages) online through https://apply.interfolio.com/39903, and arrange for the submission of three letters of recommendation. The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications on February 1, 2017.

Brown University (RI) - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Racial Inequality - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016[]

Brown University invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Racial Inequality to be jointly shared by the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs and the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America. We seek a scholar with interests in racial inequality/structural racism in the post 1970s U.S. in areas such as: urban poverty, social and cultural theories of racism, gender, segregation, housing or welfare.

The successful candidate will teach one course per year in a Watson Institute related program, collaborate on the vision, design and implementation of CSREA programming related to his/her research areas each year on a key topic in contemporary racial inequality studies, and be expected to actively participate in the intellectual life of CSREA (including regular participation in the CSREA research seminar), the Watson Institute and the University as a whole.

For more information, please visit: https://www.brown.edu/race

http://watson.brown.edu

QUALIFICATIONS: Scholars with a Ph.D. in Sociology, American Studies, Political Science, History, Social Theory, African-American Studies or a related discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences will be considered. Dissertation must be signed by August 1, 2017.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Candidates should submit a letter of application, CV, writing sample (15-20 pp), a personal statement (1 page) and the names and addresses of three referees through the Interfolio posting, here.

  • The application deadline is November 15th, 2016. Review of applications will begin November 17th, 2016, and final notifications are expected to go out by March 2017. This two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment will be effective August 1, 2017, and is not renewable.
  • Has anyone heard back about this one?
  • not yet (2/20)
  • rejection email (2/28*2)

Brown University (RI) - Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavery and Justice - Deadline: 15 Feb. 2017 - SKYPE INTERVIEWS STAGE[]

The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University invites applications for a one-year position (2017-2018) as the Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavery and Justice.

The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) is a scholarly research center with a public humanities mission. Recognizing that racial and chattel slavery were central to the historical formation of the Americas and the modern world, the CSSJ creates a space for the interdisciplinary study of the historical forms of slavery while also examining how these legacies shape our contemporary world. We are also attentive to contemporary forms of human bondage and injustice. The Center is devoted to interdisciplinary scholarly research around issues of racial slavery, contemporary forms of injustice, as well as freedom.

Applicants should have Ph.D. in any humanities or social science discipline and have received their degree within the last five years (or will obtain a Ph.D. by June 2017) and work on questions concerning the historical formations of slavery in global or comparative terms; issues concerning contemporary forms of indentured servitude; philosophical, historical, and theoretical questions concerning slavery, justice, and freedom. Consideration will also be given to candidates whose work pays special attention to contemporary issues and legacies of slavery. Applicants working on questions of gender, contemporary racial formations, public history, and memory are welcome. The successful applicant will be expected to be an active participant in the Center’s regular brown bag lunch series, and will have the option to teach a course in the semester of his/her choosing.

  • Search Opens December 15. Deadline is February 15, 2016. Please include a cover letter, current CV, a writing sample, and three letters of reference. Apply at: https://apply.interfolio.com/39600
  • Skype interview (3/24)

Brown University (RI) - Watson Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program - Deadline: 30 Oct. 2016 - INTERVIEW STAGE[]

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University aspires to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement. Central to this mission is the Watson Postdoctoral Fellows Program, an effort to galvanize the careers of young social scientists conducting research related to the Institute’s three core thematic areas: development, governance, and security. Participants in this program will join an interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in theoretically and substantively important research addressing the most pressing global issues of our time. Fellows receive two years of support, to be taken within a three-year period, with the expectation that they will pursue research and participate fully in the intellectual life of the Institute. Fellows will also teach one course per year in the Institute or in an affiliated Brown University social science department.

The fellowship competition is open to candidates from across the social sciences working in any area of the world on issues that can be understood in a comparative global context. Scholars of all nationalities who have received their PhDs within two years of the application deadline are eligible to apply. Individuals who are currently – or have previously been – postdoctoral fellows in other programs are not eligible to apply. As full members of the Watson Institute’s scholarly community, fellows are required to be in residence during the academic year. Fellows will receive an annual stipend of $55,000, an additional research fund of $2,500, and a health-insurance subsidy. Candidates selected for the Postdoctoral Fellows program who have not completed their dissertations by July 1, 2016, will be paid a reduced salary until their dissertation is defended.

To receive full consideration, the following materials should be submitted by October 30, 2016, via Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/35593

A cover letter stating the applicant's academic field, status of their dissertation, and proposed research to be conducted during their fellowship period. The cover letter should not exceed 2,000 words and should make clear where in the Institute's core areas of security, development, or governance the proposed research best fits.

An up-to-date curriculum vitae.

An official copy of each graduate transcript.

A writing sample.

Three letters of recommendation from scholars familiar with the applicant’s research.

  • Review of applications will begin on October 30; to receive full consideration applications should be received by that date. Awards will be announced in January 2016.
  • anyone know if they do an interview round for this one? (12/8)
  • rejection email 12/13; finalists have been contacted for interviews x3
  • 542 applications this year!

Bucknell University (PA) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016 - PHONE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

The Postdoctoral Fellow will report to and will work closely with the chair of the Africana Studies program and the Director of the Griot Institute for Africana Studies.

Bucknell Africana Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships support the development of recently-graduated scholars working in the arts, humanities, social sciences, cultural studies and/or post-colonial studies who are committed to the liberal arts and aspire to be distinguished teacher/scholars. We are particularly interested in recent graduates from sectors of the population historically underrepresented in U.S. colleges and universities.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a field that contributes to African, Caribbean, Afro-Latino/a, and/or African-American studies, received no earlier than May 2012 and no later than August 15, 2017. Postdoctoral Fellows teach two courses per year in fields related to their research, advise and mentor undergraduate students, formally present their research in faculty fora once each semester of the fellowship, and work five hours a week on administrative and programming opportunities related to Africana Studies.

The Postdoctoral Fellowship is for two academic years. Fellows are required to be in residence each semester. The Postdoctoral Fellowship award for 2017-19 includes an annual salary of $50,000, employee benefits, a research/travel fund of $3,000, and housing.

The successful candidate will have: - Strong organizational and interpersonal abilities. - Skill in and interest in teaching and advising students and interacting with staff, faculty, and alumni. - An ability to manage autonomously. - High degree of creativity and vision, as well as an ability to work collaboratively. - Excellent written and oral communication skills. - Demonstrated creativity, ability to solve problems strategically, and success in managing multiple projects. - Interest in and enthusiasm for supporting the mission of a liberal arts institution through programmatic endeavors in Africana Studies.

To complete your application, please submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a 3-5 page description of the research project proposed for the fellowship years, a description of the undergraduate courses you would like to teach, a sample of published or unpublished writing on a topic related to the proposal, and three confidential letters of recommendation.

  • Applications will only be accepted through Intefolio ByCommittee via http://apply.interfolio.com/35703. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 15, 2016. Awards will be announced in spring 2017.

Carnegie Mellon University (USA:PA) - History / CAUSE Postdoctoral Fellowship, African American Urban - Deadline: 31 Mar. 2017[]

  • The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University seeks a scholar in the humanities and/or social sciences doing history-related research in African American urban studies. The fellow will pursue his/her own research project; interact with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students; and collaborate with the director on current center projects.
  • The appointment is for nine months beginning August 14, 2017. The fellowship carries a stipend of $50,000, and $5,000 for research, benefits and other expenses.
  • Application: Send a cover letter, c.v., two letters of reference, writing sample, and a three-to-five page project proposal. The proposal should include a project description, chapter outline, explanation of the significance to relevant fields, and plans and goals for the fellowship term.
  • Send all materials to: Professor Joe William Trotter, Jr. CAUSE, Dept. of History, Baker Hall, 244 Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
  • Deadline for receipt of applications is March 31, 2017. (Notification of decision by April 21)

Carnegie Mellon University (USA:PA) - Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 16 Sept. 2016[]

Thanks to a recent Digital Humanities Implementation Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University s Department of English seeks a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate to lead day-to-day programming and data curation activities for Six Degrees of Francis Bacon . Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and students can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. The successful candidate will likely have a PhD in History, English, Library and Information Science, or a related discipline with demonstrated experience in web development or digital humanities.

The fellow will be housed in the Department of English in the Dietrich College of Arts and Social Sciences and work with Associate Professor Christopher Warren, Principal Investigator of the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project. Day-to-day work will involve a disciplinarily diverse and geographically disparate team of Six Degrees collaborators, including literary historians, historians of science, librarians, statisticians, and web developers.

Job Duties: The fellow will leverage expertise in a humanities discipline and a strong technical aptitude to help fulfill five priorities of the NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant: Enriching project data. Enhancing user experience. Integrating with other digital resources. Identifying and partnering with an institutional home for long-term preservation. Packaging and distributing website code so that scholars can create similar networks for different eras and regions.

Required Knowledge and Skills: Ph.D. or ABD in a relevant subfield of a humanities discipline or Library and Information Sciences. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and successfully in a team-based environment. Demonstrated willingness to learn technical programming and data curation skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills: Experience with modern web development, system administration, databases, or programming languages relevant to the project, including R, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, or Python. Demonstrated experience in project management and/or digital humanities research. Ph.D. in a relevant subfield of the humanities.

More Information: Please visit Why Carnegie Mellon to learn more about becoming part of an institution inspiring innovations that change the world.

A listing of employee benefits is available at: http://www.cmu.edu/jobs/benefits-at-a-glance/index.html

Department URL: http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/

Carthage College (WI)- Western Heritage Post-Doctoral Fellow - Deadline: 26 Feb. 2017[]

Carthage College invites applications for a three-year teaching fellowship, starting August 2017, in the Western Heritage Program. With a Ph.D. in any academic discipline offered by Carthage at the time of appointment, the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate excellence in teaching foundational texts of the Western intellectual tradition to first-year college students.

The successful candidate will teach two sections of Western Heritage per term, participate in and help lead faculty development activities, and deliver one public lecture. In addition to the Western Heritage sections, Teaching Fellows may have an opportunity to teach one course per year in the area of their expertise. More information about Carthage’s Western Heritage Program can be found at www.carthage.edu/western-heritage.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter discussing primary and secondary teaching areas as well as scholarly interests, a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, and three names of reference. Additional supporting materials may be included if desired.

Apply online using the link below, and submit materials through the “Resume Upload” section.

https://carthage.applicantpro.com/jobs/519553-122305.html

  • For best consideration, complete applications should be submitted by February 28, 2017. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position can be directed to ​whpostdoc17@carthage.edu
  • Any news on this one? [3/26]

Center for Jewish History (NY) - Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars[]

The Center for Jewish History is pleased to offer a fellowship for emigrating postdoctoral and early career scholars through a grant from the Vivian G. Prins Foundation. We invite foreign scholars who seek permanent teaching and research positions in North America to apply for this award, which will support 10-month fellowships for scholars who are at the beginning of their careers. Fellows will be provided with a stipend of up to $35,000 to conduct original research in the collections of the Center’s partners – American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This award allows the Center to serve as the gateway for emerging scholars seeking to begin a new academic life in North America.

  • Application deadline: February 10, 2017
  • Full eligibility requirements and application guidelinese are posted at fellowships.cjh.org

Central European University, Budapest (HUN) - Two 2-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Positions - Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016[]

  • The Center for Religious Studies at Central European University invites applications for two post-doctoral fellow positions for its new research project Striking from the Margins. The project, which examines religion and state disintegration in the Middle East, is supported jointly by the University and by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The two positions will be granted for the period two years, beginning January 1, 2017. For information on the program please visit https://religion.ceu.edu/projects.
  • The main focus of the project is on Syria and Iraq in the past three decades, seeking to connect developments in these countries with those in Arab countries and with global dynamics overall.
  • Applications are invited from researchers working in one of the five thematic fields
  • Reframing religion and the devolution of religious authority to new actors;
  • The atrophy of state functions and devolution of the monopoly of violence, including security functions, to informal patrimonial and private actors as well as to quasi-state structures.
  • The political economy of structural marginalization and socio-economic, cultural and geographical segmentation;
  • Transnational and global jihadist networks and the reconfiguration of the margins;
  • Gender as a transversal perspective cutting across all previous themes.
  • The fellowships will be offered to researchers who wish to conduct original research and who have already extensive experience with and in the region. It is expected that applicants apply with their own research profiles and agendas which they will integrate and develop further within the framework of the project.
  • Post-doctoral fellows will join doctoral students and members of CEU faculty from across a number of disciplines, along with external colleagues and members of partner institutions, in contributing to coherent research program. The project aims to produce a critical mass of original scholarship that would map novel research domains to produce more convincing analytical results. With specific reference to postdoctoral fellows, it aims to produce detailed empirical research with appropriate analytical elaboration that would be published and disseminated in print and in digital form. The two post-doctoral fellows will be expected to participate in a bi-weekly internal seminar, participate fully in the life of the project, and to play a major role in preparing an international conference at the end of the project which will bring in participants from both the research and policy communities and which will result in a major publication.
  • Fellows will be required to enter into a definite term employment contract with Central European University. Fellows will benefit from the usual research facilities in place, and will be eligible for support for field research.
  • Eligibility
  • Eligible applicants should have held a doctoral degree for a period of less than five years, and have a demonstrable record of promise in a related area.
  • Applicants are expected to have extensive experience of the region.
  • Applicants are expected to have a keen interest and experience in cross-disciplinary work in the social sciences.
  • Requirements
  • Post-docs are required to be in residence at CEU for the duration of their fellowship except for agreed field research trips abroad and the normal seasonal holidays;
  • Fellows will be expected to provide a mid-term narrative report, and a final narrative report;
  • Fellows will be expected to post research results and other materials on the project’s website, and to prepare a manuscript of a monograph for publication during the tenure of their fellowship.
  • Fellows will be given the opportunity to play a major role in preparing the concluding international conference, and to produce the edited volume of the proceedings.
  • Post-docs are expected to acknowledge clearly the CEU and Carnegie Corporation of New York contributions to publications and to their participation at events arising from their tenure of the fellowship.
  • The Application package should include:
  • A full curriculum vitae, including a list of publications
  • A detailed covering letter
  • A summary research proposal, and a full version of the proposal including bibliographic references
  • A sample article or analytical research report, published or unpublished
  • The names and contact details of three referees
  • Interested candidates should apply via e-mail to advert@ceu.edu. Please include the following job code in the subject line: 2017/009.
  • Applications will be processed on a rolling basis and shall not be accepted for consideration any later than 1 November 2016.

Central European University, Budapest (HUN) - Junior Research Fellowship in Early Modern History - Deadline: 2 Dec. 2016 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • 2 year fellowship, to ebgin Sept 2017
  • The new platform for Early Modern Studies (EMS) at the Departments of Medieval Studies and History at Central European University Budapest is offering a twenty-four months Junior Research Fellowship for research on a subject related to the historical period between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. This postdoctoral position forms part of CEU’s Humanities Initiative and is an exciting opportunity to join a collegial and vibrant environment for the study of early modernity, with the freedom and facilities to develop your research and strengthen your position in the academic job market. The specific disciplinary and thematic focus on the early modern period is open, but preference will be given to candidates whose projects speak to the broader research foci of the two Departments, and their related research centers, and complement the existing expertise of the resident faculty (for more information, please visit history.ceu.edu and medievalstudies.ceu.edu).
  • The primary duty of a Junior Research Fellow is to pursue his/her own research for publication. EMS will provide academic support and peer mentorship for a Fellow who is developing his/her doctoral dissertation into a monograph-length publication and/or is advancing a new independent research project.
  • The Fellowship includes a 2000 EUR monthly net stipend. The Fellow is also eligible for the reimbursement of a one-off round-trip ticket to and from Budapest in the value of 800 EUR. The Fellow is responsible for his/her own travel arrangements and health insurance.
  • The Fellow is entitled to a discretionary research allowance of 1000 EUR per year. In addition, EMS provides a lump sum of 2000 EUR for organizing an interdisciplinary workshop or invited talks from scholars whose work is relevant, broadly, to the Fellow’s own research.
  • We accept applications from candidates who have been awarded their doctoral degree after 1 August 2012 or are about to complete their doctorate. Current doctoral students must provide evidence that they will receive their degree before the start date of the fellowship.
  • The fellow is required to be in continuous residence for the duration of the fellowship.
  • Interested candidates should apply via e-mail to advert@ceu.edu including in the subject line the code 2017_003. The application should include an academic CV, a writing sample or one representative publication, a research proposal of not more than 1,500 words and the contact information of three referees. The cover letter should describe research and achievements so far and a statement of what the candidate hopes to accomplish during the tenure of the Fellowship.
  • The deadline for applications is December 2, 2016.
  • For informal inquiries, please contact Jan Hennings on henningsj@ceu.edu.
  • 12/22 email saying on preliminary shortlist and to arrange for LORs to be delivered
  • [1/30] Has anyone received an update from them since sending further materials? When I emailed to ask about the timeline, I was told that letters were due 1/31 and that the committee would meet mid-Feb to pick people to interview, interview late Feb and announce shortly after interviews.
  • 2/7 email requesting writing sample
  • Have all the candidates who are still on the shortlist received requests for additional writing samples? Has more than one person received such a request?
  • I'm the person who posted the 2/7 request for an additional writing sample. The email I received gave no information. It was just a request for an article. I would also be interested in learning if other candidates were asked to provide a second writing sample. Adding 2/14 that I'm not sure what to make of the request for an additional writing sample. They specifically asked for an article. What I'd sent before is a forthcoming article but not published yet, so maybe that was the difference?
  • I haven't heard anything since shortlisted. x2
  • 15/02 Request for skype interview
  • 2/17 informal rejection email

Chemical Heritage Foundation (USA:PA) Post-doctoral and Senior Fellowships in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, Engineering, and Business - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), an independent research library in Philadelphia, PA, invites applications for short-term and long-term fellowships in the history of science, medicine, technology, and industry. Applications are due January 15.
  • Short-term fellows are particularly meant to use the collections, while long-term fellows' work must help to support the mission of the institution and fit with collections more generally. The research collections at CHF range chronologically from the fifteenth century to the present and include 6,000 rare books, significant archival holdings, thousands of images, and a large artifact and fine arts collection, supported by over 100,000 reference volumes and journals. Within the collections there are many areas of special strength, including: alchemy, mining & metallurgy, dyeing and bleaching, balneology, gunpowder and pyrotechnics, gas-lighting, books of secrets, inorganic and organic chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, and pharmaceuticals.
  • We support roughly 25 fellows each year, creating a vibrant international community of scholars whose work is in some way tied to the history of materials and materiality, chemistry, and all related sciences. Applications come from scholars in a wide range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.
  • To Apply, go to: https://www.chemheritage.org/node/244
  • Senior Fellowships 1 or 2 Semesters in Residence: available to those who received their PhD before July 2012 • $30,000/Semester
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships: 9 Months in Residence available to those who received their PhD after July 2012 • $45,000
  • Short-Term Fellowships: 1–4 Months in Residence; open to all scholars and researchers • $3,000 per month
  • Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017.

Clark University (USA:MA) - Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies, Post Doctoral Fellowship - SHORT Deadline: 15 Feb. 2017 - OFFER ACCEPTED[]

  • Teaching Fellowship in Health Humanities and Race
  • Renewable Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2017. The successful applicant will teach three courses the first year and four in the second year, beginning undergraduate to graduate level; give one public lecture based on research; and actively participate in the intellectual life of the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies. Candidates must have PhD in hand by start date, and be no more than three years past receipt of degree. This interdisciplinary teaching appointment seeks to bridge humanities-based inquiry with medicine and/or the health sciences.
  • Through this teaching fellowship in Health Humanities and Race, Clark University wishes to add to its strengths in interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching. Candidates must have research programs that study health, including but not limited to: illness, disability, disease, the provision of health care, the health sciences, or medical technology from a humanities-based approach with particular focus on race and ethnicity. Humanities-based approaches appropriate for this position include but are not limited to: cultural, historical, or philosophical studies of medicine, nursing, or public health; intersections with gender and sexuality; literary or artistic analyses of health, illness, or disability; studies of discourse and narrative in medicine; and ethics and social justice in the health professions.
  • The successful applicant will be housed in the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies, a federation of interdisciplinary majors and concentrations including Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Peace Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. This interdisciplinary unit will facilitate collaboration with relevant departments, centers, and schools within the University, and provide a scholarly community and network of support for the successful candidate. The successful candidate may also participate in the Master of Health Science in Community and Global Health, offered through Clark’s International Development, Community and Environment department.
  • Review of applications begins February 15, 2017; finalists will be invited for campus visits in March 2017. Applications should include a cover letter that addresses the position description and describes teaching experience, c.v., and three confidential letters of reference. Referees should send their letters by email attachment, and should write the name of the applicant in the subject line of the email. Nominations are invited. Applications, letters of reference, and nominations should be emailed to CGRAS@clarku.edu.
  • Any news on this? (3/15)
  • invitation via email 3/24 for Skype interview
  • [13 Apr] Have any of the interviewees heard anything?
  • no but I think they said they were making their decision closer to the end of the semester (4/13)
  • Offer accepted

College of Europe, Warsaw (POL) - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Recent Eastern European History - Deadline: 31 Aug. 2017[]

  • The College of Europe, Natolin Campus (Warsaw) is seeking applications for the position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with a starting date of October/November 2017, to be held for twelve months. The post will be held within the framework of the European Civilization Chair, founded by the European Parliament in memory of the late Professor Bronisław Geremek.
  • We are looking for ambitious and industrious candidates with:
  • a recently awarded doctorate in History or a closely related field;
  • a proven track record of research in recent Eastern European history, with refereed publications;
  • excellent team-working skills;
  • a very good command of English. A good command of Polish, Ukrainian and/or Russian would be an advantage.
  • Tasks include:
  • undertaking research activities leading to high-level scholarly publications; as a minimum, writing a source-based research article in the field of recent Eastern European history and submitting it to a leading academic journal;
  • contributing a leading role to the development of collective research projects by the team based in the Chair responsible for the ‘Three Ukrainian Revolutions’ project;
  • contributing more generally to the activities of the European Civilization Chair, under the supervision of the Chairholder;
  • providing academic support for students undertaking Masters theses related to recent European history and European civilization.
  • E-mail applications in English or French, comprising a detailed curriculum vitae, information on research interests and plans, a letter of motivation and the names and contact details of two referees, should be submitted by 31 August 2017 via e-mail to: civilization-chair.pl@coleurope.eu.

Columbia University (USA:NY) - Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities - 2017-2018 Fellowship Competition  - Deadline: 3 Oct. 2016 - FINALISTS NOTIFIED[]

The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of postdoctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2017-2018. Fellows newly appointed for 2017-2018 must have received the PhD between 1 January 2015 and 1 July 2017. The Fellowship Stipend for 2017-2018 is $62,000. Medical benefits are provided, and subsidized housing is available. There is a $6,500 research allowance per annum.

Aims of the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities: The Society seeks to enhance the role of the humanities in the University by exploring and clarifying the interrelationships within the humanities as well as their relationship to the natural and social sciences. The program is designed to strengthen the intellectual and academic qualifications of the Fellows: first, by affording them time and resources to develop independent scholarship within a broadening educational and professional context; second, by involving them in interdisciplinary programs of general education and in departmental courses, often of their own design; and third, by associating them individually and collectively with some of the finest teaching scholars in the University.

The Society comprises the Fellows, the faculty members of the Governing Board, and other invited faculty. The Society holds weekly meetings to advance the intellectual and educational purposes common to the membership.

Fellows are appointed as Postdoctoral Research Scholars (Mellon Fellows) in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University and as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University (see list of Humanities Departments below). This one-year fellowship is renewable for a second and a third year. In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester. At least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program: Contemporary Civilization, Literature Humanities, Music Humanities, Art Humanities, Asian Civilizations, Asian Humanities, or Global Cultures, including those of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. For more information on Columbia’s Core Curriculum please visit http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/. The second course may be a departmental course, the design of which will be determined jointly by the Fellow and the Fellow’s academic department. In the second and third years, Fellows teach one course per year, leaving one semester free of teaching responsibilities. The courses taught in the second and third years of the fellowship may be departmental courses or Core courses as described above; however, at least two of the four courses taught over the three Fellowship years must be in the Core.

  • The Online Application Form can be accessed at http://www.societyoffellows.columbia.edu. Please follow the instructions carefully, noting that the deadline for submission of hard-copy materials is Monday, 3 October 2016. A select number of candidates will be invited to interview in January 2017. Fellowship decisions will be announced by 6 March 2017. Applicants who have not been contacted for interview by 9 January 2017 should assume that their candidacy is no longer active.
  • "Should you wish to receive confirmation that your hardcopy application materials have been received, please include with your application materials a stamped, self-addressed postcard." -- I did this, but alas, three weeks later, my postcard has yet to arrive. Anyone else have this happen? [Same here. Update: It arrived today, Chicagoland.]; Has anyone still not received a postcard?
  • Has anyone heard back? On the Fellowship's website it said they'd contact people in December to invite them to interviews..
  • This should be the fateful week.
  • anyone heard anything?
  • [20 dec] nope
  • [27 dec] nada
  • how come no one has heard anything by now? Isn't it very late?
  • It sure feels late, but on the other hand, postdoc notifications are sort of like Gandalf. They are never late, nor early, but arrive precisely when they mean to.
  • looks like last year notifications were made on 12/28.
  • Any interview requests yet? (12/30)
  • Nothing on my side. But only the interviewed people are notified so that's not a sign of anything [12/30]
  • I think it's (almost) safe to assume that invitations have already gone out, and this ship has sailed. Strange no one posted about it here, but I guess it's not improbable.
  • Well, the official deadline is on the 9th ("Applicants who have not been contacted by 9 January 2017 should assume that their candidacy is no longer active.") so let's wait until then to make conclusions! 
  • I broke and emailed them. They confirmed finalists have already been notified by email. [posted ~ 1/6]
  • ^Thanks for doing that! I appreciate it. In fact, thank you to all who posted on this thread. The rest of my applications have been dead silent here and over email so it's nice just to have company. x2!

Columbia University (NY) - Institute for Comparative Literature and Society 2017-2018 Andrew W. Mellon (Sawyer Seminar) Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 20. Jan. 2017[]

“Global Language Justice” The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia University will award one Andrew W. Mellon (Sawyer Seminar) Postdoctoral Fellowship for a one-year appointment beginning August 1, 2017. The Fellow will receive a stipend of $62,000 for the year plus benefits. The ICLS Sawyer Seminar takes the simultaneity of the dwindling of linguistic diversity and biodiversity as the occasion for a broader set of reflections on the question of language justice. We are interested in a range of questions including: the social effects of English monolingualism; the relationship of language and technology; the question of translation across disciplinary divides, machine translation; and new possibilities for revivifying language communities at the interface of arts activism, legal redress, and digital technologies. This initiative promotes research and pedagogical innovation at the interface of science, humanities, and big data to ask about the life and death of languages on a planetary scale. The Seminar will include public lectures, workshops as well as the development of undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition to pursuing a research project that speaks to central themes of the seminar, the Fellow will help organize a series of monthly workshops and other activities relating to the theme of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar; and work with two graduate students whose time will be dedicated to the Seminar. There will be a one-course teaching requirement (1/0 or 0/1) in the fellowship year. Eligibility: Applicants should have completed all their Ph.D. or J.D. requirements (completed and filed the dissertation) no earlier than June 30, 2013 and no later than August 1, 2017. Applicants must have a demonstrable background in the study of cultures, societies, or technologies that relies on a multilingual and comparative or interdisciplinary approach, in linguistic/literary studies, the social sciences, and/or natural sciences. Selection Process: Each proposal will be carefully evaluated by the conveners of the Sawyer Seminar comprised of an interdisciplinary group of ICLS affiliated faculty. The primary evaluation criteria will be intellectual fit with the core ideas of the Seminar, the promise of the proposed research project, including prospects for publication and significant advances in tangible research, as well as the feasibility of the proposed course to be taught in the fellowship year. Applicants will be notified of fellowship decisions in March 2017. Application Process: The following list of materials is required for all applicants. Application materials should be submitted via email to icls@columbia.edu with applicant’s name in the subject line by January 20, 2017.

A cover form must be electronically submitted through this link: https://goo.gl/forms/yPbL82eC30gxAaEq1 Email these supporting documents to icls@columbia.edu with the applicant’s name in the subject line. PDF format is preferred: 1000-word research project proposal plus one-page bibliography, in language appropriate for a multi-disciplinary panel. Please double-space and use 12-point type. Save the file name as your last name and “research project”, i.e., “SMITH research project.pdf”. 250-word statement of the project’s potential contribution to the Columbia University’s Sawyer seminar. Please save the file name with your last name and “statement.” Curriculum vitae. Please save file name with your last name and “CV.” Course proposal: 2-3 page proposal for an undergraduate course to be offered at Columbia University that must emphasize trans-regional, translingual and interdisciplinary approaches. The course proposal should convey a sense of your teaching interests beyond the special field of your research. Please save the file named with your last name and “course proposal.” Two letters of recommendation. Interfolio and other dossier services are accepted. Subject lines of emails should include applicant’s name. Transcript upon request. We will contact you if your transcript is required. Please do not submit it unless asked.

All application materials (including letters of reference) should be submitted electronically on or before January 20, 2017. Candidates may be invited for a Skype interview. All evaluations made in connection with applications received are confidential. Columbia University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. There is no citizenship requirement or restriction for this fellowship. Employment eligibility verifications requested upon hire.

  • Application deadline: January 20, 2017.

Columbia University (NY) - Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Reserach Scholar - Deadline: Review of applications will begin on April 14th - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality invites applications for a postdoctoral research scholar position to begin July 1, 2017. We seek an innovative scholar whose work focuses on gender and sexuality, is informed by feminist and queer theory, and is rigorously interdisciplinary in its approach to the world. We are particularly keen to consider transnational research in such fields as critical development studies, law and social justice, environmental studies, migration, indigeneity, human rights, science and technology studies, visual cultures, and performance studies. Scholars in the social sciences, as well as those trained in interdisciplinary fields, whose work focuses on peoples, institutions, discourses, and practices outside North America and Europe are especially encouraged to apply. 



  • Fellows are expected to pursue their research on gender and sexuality in an interdisciplinary context, teach one course per semester (1-1 load) in our core curriculum, be available to advise undergraduates, and organize one public program per year, connected to their research.  The initial appointment will be for one year, renewable for up to three years. Starting salary will be $60,000 with benefits. 

  • Applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, writing sample, a sample syllabus, and contact information (email addresses) for three individuals who will provide letters of reference. Review of applications will begin on April 14th and continue until the position is filled. Please send all application materials to irwgs@columbia.edu.
  • Qualifications: Ph.D. in hand or defended and deposited by June 30, 2017.

  • Application deadline: Review of applications will begin on April 14th and continue until the position is filled.
  • Any updates?
  • Anything yet (4/25)?
  • Interview conducted by Skype (4/29). Decisions in the next two-three weeks. 
  • Can you clarify when the interview took place? any updates on when decisions would be made?

Columbia University (NY) - Postdoctoral Positions in Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Program - Deadline: 28 Nov. 2016 - FINALISTS NOTIFIED[]

The Center for Science and Society at Columbia University invites applications for a postdoctoral research scholar/scientist or associate research scholar/scientist position to begin July 2017. Columbia University is pleased to announce three interdisciplinary postdoctoral positions in the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program for researchers who have earned the doctorate, or its equivalent, in either (1) a humanities, arts, or social science discipline - such as psychiatry, psychology, public health, law, history, economics, literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political science, journalism, music and the arts - and who have extensive acquaintance with, and critical understanding of, neuroscience research; OR (2) neuroscience or a related discipline in the natural sciences and who have extensive acquaintance with, and critical understanding of, another discipline in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

These Scholars will join an innovative program, Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, which will include nine postdoctoral positions and a large group of mentors and affiliated faculty from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Over the last decade, Columbia University has assembled a distinguished group of neuroscientific researchers in the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, which stands poised to become one of the most important loci of neuroscience research in the world. Columbia University is committed to supplementing the groundbreaking experimental inquiry of the neuroscience faculty by systematic investigation into the conceptual underpinnings and the social foundations and consequences of such newly obtained knowledge.

The Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience will add the perspective of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to intensify and broaden the neuroscientific research base and help advance transformative interdisciplinary research throughout the University. The goal of this interdisciplinary experiment is to train and foster a new generation of scholars with the capacity to advance understanding of the humanistic and social dimensions of mind, brain, and behavior. In order to foster true interdisciplinary research, each Presidential Scholar will work closely with at least two senior mentors, at least one drawn from neuroscience and the other(s) from the arts, humanities or social science discipline closest to the work of the scholar. The Scholars, mentors, and affiliated faculty will meet regularly throughout the academic year, inviting guest discussions from accomplished scholars around the world and serving as a locus for the Presidential Scholars' presentation of their own work. Successful applicants will be appointed in the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.

Appointments will be made at the level of postdoctoral scholar or scientist, or associate research scholar or scientist, with a start date of July 1, 2017 for the 2017-18 academic year. Renewal for the second and third years will be based on satisfactory performance. The annual salary will be approximately $80,000, plus benefits.

  • Heard from a source on campus that finalist have been notified (3/26)

Columbia University (USA:NY) - Weatherhead East Asian Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asia and the Americas - Deadline: 28 Feb. 2017[]

  • 2017-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asia and the Americas
  • The Weatherhead East Asian Institute invites applications for its 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Global Circuits” through the Dorothy Borg Research Program. The Institute is searching for a postdoctoral scholar who studies a region in East Asia or the Americas from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, or art history/material culture studies, and whose research involves primary sources (archival, material and/or digital) from both East Asian and American archives. We seek candidates who are able to teach transnational and/or global issues relating to the Americas and East Asia, involving both East Asian and American materials in the classroom. The ability to engage with digital humanities in teaching and research is preferable, though not required. The Fellow will teach one course each semester, as well as pursue his or her own research. The Fellow will also participate in collaborative projects with other Fellows, and s/he will be an active participant in day-to-day WEAI programs and events.
  • Candidates who study a region in East Asia or the Americas from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, or material culture studies and/or art history are welcome to apply. The fellowship will cover a 10-month period beginning September 1, 2017, and comes with a stipend of $47,476 plus $5,000 for each taught course (total compensation is $57,476).
  • About the Borg research program, “Global Circuits, American-East Asian Archives, and Future Directions": The general goal of the “Global Circuits” program is to study transnational issues involving the Americas and East Asia, and to support the development of associated skills. These include the ability to use archives in both the Americas and East Asia, employ the tools of digital humanities, as well as explore new conceptual strategies and themes for the study of both regions. A central goal is to encourage and support those who work primarily in either East Asia or the Americas to broaden their scope to focus on transnational and global linkages, as well as to facilitate areas of convergence that can be drawn between the fields of East Asian and American studies. The program is named in honor of Dorothy Borg, a historian of U.S.-East Asia relations whose influence on political scientists, historians, and many others helped to bridge the work of history and contemporary analysis.
  • Eligibility: Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. degree requirements (completed and filed the dissertation) between July 2015 and July 2017; Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. focused in a region in East Asia or the Americas from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, or material culture studies and/or art history, with research involving primary sources (archival, material and/or digital) from both East Asian and American archives or holdings; Applications from individuals who hold or have held full-time teaching positions will not be considered.
  • Application Procedure - The following list of materials is required for all applicants. Application information and forms are available on the Weatherhead East Asian Institute website: http://weai.columbia.edu/dorothy-borg-research-program/fellowship-east-asia-americas/
  • Completed Application Cover Sheet
  • Updated Curriculum Vitae, including a list of classes taught (if any)
  • Course evaluations for classes taught (if any)
  • A statement not exceeding 300 words that conveys your personal outlook on trans-regional and global approaches and their role in the curriculum
  • Two graduate-level course proposals (for courses to be offered at Columbia University)
  • 3 letters of reference (signed and sealed) that include an evaluation of the applicant’s research, proposed courses, and prior teaching experience
  • All application materials (including letters of reference) must be received by the Institute on or before February 28, 2017. Faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Candidates may be invited for an interview to be held by phone or in person. All evaluations made in connection with applications received are confidential.
  • Awards will be announced no later than April 28, 2017. Acceptance of award is due no later than May 5, 2017.
  • 2017-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asia and the Americas, ATTN: Jamie Tan, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, Room 934, New York, NY 10027
  • For more information about the Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship East Asia and the Americas, please contact Jamie Tan, Student Affairs Coordinator, at weaipostdocs@gmail.com.
  • Complete information and an application form are available at http://weai.columbia.edu/dorothy-borg-research-program/fellowship-east-asia-americas/

Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges (US) - Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities for Candidates who Enhance the Diversity of the Academy - Deadline: 30 Sept. 2016 - FINALISTS CONTACTED[]

The Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges invites applications in all disciplines for Scholar-in-Residence appointments.

Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or unconditional permanent residents committed to and willing to contribute to enhancing the diversity of the faculty at consortia colleges.

Scholars will receive a salary equivalent to that of Visiting Assistant Professors at their host institution. Scholars will be assigned up to 60% of the teaching load for a full-time faculty member per academic year at the host institution and contribute to other campus activities. Mentoring on teaching, scholarship, and professional life at liberal arts colleges will be provided.

Applications are available to all Consortia institutions, which award appointments based on their individual policies, procedures, and academic needs.

For inquiries please contact Suzanne Gockowski at sgockows@gettysburg.edu

Qualifications: Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. or an M.F.A. degree by July 31, 2016, but not before July 31, 2011 (Maximum of 5 years since degree completion.)

Application Instructions

Please click here to submit a free application via Interfolio: https://account.interfolio.com/login?apply=35809

Please submit the following documents to complete your dossier: Cover Letter; C.V.; Three Confidential Letters of Recommendation or Evaluation.

Consortium Members Institutions: Allegheny College • Amherst College •Bard College at Simon’s Rock • Bowdoin College • Bryn Mawr College •Bucknell College • Carleton College •Centre College •Centenary College of LA •Coe College • College of the Holy Cross • Colorado College • Denison University • DePauw University • Dickinson College •Franklin & Marshall College • Gettysburg College • Grinnell College • Gustavus Adolphus College • Hamilton College • Haverford College • Hobart and William Smith Colleges •Juniata College • Lafayette College • Lawrence University •Lewis & Clark College • Macalester College • Mount Holyoke College • Muhlenberg College • Oberlin College • Pitzer College • Pomona College • Reed College • Scripps College • Skidmore College • Smith College • Southwestern University •St Lawrence University • Swarthmore College •The College of Wooster • Trinity College •Union College • University of Richmond •Vassar College • Wellesley College

  • Apply By date: September 30, 2016.
  • has anyone heard about these yet?
  • Nope (3/14) (x2)
  • Contacted by two schools as of 3/15
  • Contacted by a school in late January. They just signed someone else for the position. (3/15) 

Cornell University (NY) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies (Central Asia) - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016 - ALTERNATES NOTIFIED[]

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Asian Studies invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning July 1, 2017. We are interested in a scholar/teacher specializing in the literature, religion, and culture (including film, media, and intellectual history,) of Central Asia, broadly defined as Afghan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongol, Tajik, Tibetan, Turkmen, Uyghur, or Uzbek studies. This region connects Russia and East Europe, Iran and Southwest Asia, Pakistan and South Asia, China and East Asia.

Postdoctoral Fellows teach one course per semester. Candidates should propose an introductory, 2000-level course on some aspect of Central Asian studies, and an upper, 4000-level course on topics of contemporary relevance.

Eligibility Requirements: Applicants for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2017/18-2018/19 academic years must have received the Ph.D. degree after September 2011. Mellon Fellowships are no longer restricted to citizens of the US and Canada; international applicants are welcome to apply. Applicants who will have received the Ph.D. degree by June 30, 2017 are eligible to apply. Applicants who do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application must include a letter from the committee chair or department stating that the Ph.D. degree will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins.

The following application materials must be submitted via Academic Jobs Online by November 1, 2016. 1.Cover page with: (a) Full name and home institution (b) Date (or expected date) of Ph.D (c) Research interest(s) (d) Referees’ names and emails 2.Curriculum vitae 3.Detailed statement of research interests 4.One writing sample [30-page limit] 5.Course proposals for the courses the Mellon Fellow will teach while in residence at Cornell: two courses during each year of the fellowship: one lower-level course and one upper, 4000-level course and a sample syllabus for each 6.Three letters of recommendation. Please ask referees to upload their letters directly through the link provided by Academic Jobs Online. Letters must be received on or before November 1, 2016.

  • Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016.
  • Notification of alternate status [1/9]

Cornell University (NY) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in History (Central, Eastern or Southern Europe, 1600 to the Present) - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016[]

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of History invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning July 1, 2017. The fellowship offers a stipend of $50,000/year.

We are seeking applicants who are specialists in in the history of Central, Eastern or Southern Europe, 1600 to the present. The Mellon Fellow will be expected to teach 2 courses per year (4 different courses total): one introductory, 2000-level course on a topic concerned with any aspect of the history of Central, Eastern or Southern Europe, and one upper, 4000-level undergraduate research seminar on a more specialized topic, designed for history majors. The History Department places great emphasis on superlative teaching, as well as on innovative research.

Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage. We are an employer and educator recognized for valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

Eligibility Requirements: Applicants eligible for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2017/18-2018/19 academic years include those who have received the Ph.D. degree after September 1, 2011 and no later than June 30, 2017. Applicants who do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application must include a letter from the committee chair or department stating that the Ph.D. degree will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins. Mellon Fellowships are no longer restricted to citizens of the US and Canada; international applicants are welcome to apply, contingent upon visa eligibility.

  • The following application materials must be submitted via Academic Jobs, https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7538 by November 1, 2015: Cover page with: (a) Full name and home institution (b) Date (or expected date) of Ph.D (c) Research interest(s) (d) Referees’ names and emails, Curriculum vitae, Detailed statement of research interests, One writing sample [30-page limit], Statement of teaching philosophy, Course proposals for the courses the Mellon Fellow will teach while in residence at Cornell: two courses during each year of the fellowship: one lower-level course and one upper, 4000-level course and a sample syllabus for each, Three letters of recommendation. Please ask referees to upload their letters directly through the link provided by Academic Jobs Online. Letters must be received on or before November 1, 2016.
  • Any news? 
  • Rejection Email Jan 9 x2

Cornell University (NY) - Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2017-2018 - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2016[]

Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with the Director of the Society for the Humanities, Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, an international research center on new media. The Senior Scholars in Residence will be Kamari Clarke, Professor of Global and International Studies in Law and Legal, Studies/Anthropology, Carleton University, Fred Moten, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, and Christopher Newfield, Professor of Literature and American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

FOCAL THEME 2017-2018: CORRUPTION

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects for residencies in 2017-2018 that reflect on the theme of corruption. The Society is looking for scholarly approaches that seek to trace the consequences of corruption for humanistic and artistic thinking and practice, whether from philosophical, aesthetic, political, ecological, religious, legal, psychoanalytical or cultural perspectives.

Considerations of corruption have a long lineage in philosophical, theological, critical, and political thought. We welcome global approaches to understanding corruption in political, legal, and institutional terms, as a symptom of disorder or, alternatively, a means of asserting order, such as in a government, university, or institution. In moral or religious spheres, corruption often marks the “fallen” or what is other to an original or desired soul, life, or society of perfection. How might the theme of corruption broaden out into “pollution” (whether sacred or environmental) or degeneration (vis à vis cultural practice)? In what way does corruption affect standards of artistic or literary genre or form?

A lively subject of representation across the broadest of artistic, literary, and musical traditions, corruption has been mobilized as an ambiguous force that either limits or liberates. Consider how the same antitheatrical traditions that denounce the moral corruption of theatre, the novel, opera, and cinema often serve as the most articulate indicators of the passions, gestures, sounds, and sights most fundamental to aesthetic production. Conversely, how might the humanities appreciate the formal qualities of corruption that are inherent and essential features of transmission and form, from the production and recording of musical sound to the natural or evolutionary changes of artistic practice to avant-gardist corruptions of conventional forms of art and expression? How might Fellows examine the "transmission of information,” such as corrupt computer files, viruses, glitches or noise, and even "corrupt readings," whether of ancient and medieval manuscripts or via the deep data sets of the digital humanities?

How does the lens of corruption impact recent studies of the Anthropocene, ecological stability, preservation of cultural heritage, precarity, economic disparity or social injustice? Applicants might consider the mobilization of social anxieties about pollution -- miasma, infestation, poisoning, dissolution, and dissipation -- to frame theories of race, sexuality, queer or (trans)gender, miscegenation, or ideologies and rhetorics of collective or ethnic purity. What about notions of the integrity of social units and systems, such as the family, the nation, the university or corporation? Might corruption reflect the deformation of “master” discourses, such as capitalism and psychoanalysis or the West and the Rest?

The Society for the Humanities welcomes applications from scholars and practitioners who are interested in investigating this topic from the broadest variety of international and disciplinary perspectives.

Cornell’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future co-sponsors one fellowship to support scholarly work addressing corruption as it relates to intersections in the humanities with energy, the environment or economic development. For more information about the Atkinson Center, please visit http://www.acsf.cornell.edu/.

Qualifications Fellows should be working on topics related to the year’s theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines.

Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2016. The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching experience, which may include teaching as a graduate student.

Please submit the following application materials: 1. A curriculum vitae and a copy of one scholarly paper no more than 35 pages in length. 2. A one-page abstract in addition to a detailed statement of the research project the applicant would like to pursue during the term of the fellowship (1,000 - 3,000 words). Applicants are also encouraged to submit a working bibliography for their projects. 3. A brief (two-page) proposal for a seminar related to the applicant’s research. Seminars meet two hours per week for one semester (fourteen weeks) and enrollment is limited to fifteen graduate students and qualified undergraduate students. 4. Two letters of recommendation from senior colleagues to whom candidates should send their research proposal and teaching proposal. Letters of recommendation should include an evaluation of the candidate’s proposed research and teaching statements. Please ask referees to submit their letters directly through the application link. Letters must be submitted on or before October 1, 2016.

For further information: phone: 607-255-9274 or 607-255-4086 email: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu

Awards will be announced by the end of December 2016. Note: Extensions for applications will not be granted. The Society will consider only fully completed applications. It is the responsibility of each applicant to ensure that all documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters of recommendation to the Society before the closing date.

  • This fellowship was *not* a postdoc.
  • Rejection email 12/20

Dartmouth College (NH) - Leslie Center for the Humanities - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2016[]

With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dartmouth is pleased to accept applications for two postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences from Fall 2017 to the end of Spring 2019. These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees, by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed. The program also benefits Dartmouth by complementing existing curricula with underrepresented fields.

We are currently NOT accepting applications for Anthropology; Art History, Asian/ Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Film & Media Studies; Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies; Music; and Russian. Applicants must focus on materials customarily associated with research in the humanities or employ methods common in humanistic research.

Fellows are expected to teach two courses in their home department(s) or program(s) in each year of their residency. At least one of the four courses should contribute something new to the Dartmouth curriculum, and at least one should be an introductory lecture course. Fellows will not, however, be asked to teach basic language courses.

The appointed fellows will enjoy full use of such college resources as the library, computing center, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Hopkins Center. The 2016-2018 fellows received an annual stipend of $57,528 plus benefits, an annual research allowance of $2,000, and a first-year-only computer allowance of $2,500. The terms for the 2017-2019 fellows will be similar.

Fellowship applications and departmental requests to house a fellow will be evaluated by the Leslie Center's Advisory Committee, in consultation with the Associate Deans of the Faculty for the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary & International Programs. Strong fellowship applications will be circulated to relevant departments and programs, which will then be invited to apply for one of the candidates. Departments and programs will be expected to justify requests for a fellow by detailing the benefits expected from, and afforded to, that fellow, and by indicating how the fellow might contribute something new, or currently lacking, to the intellectual life of the college. There is no requirement that the fellows be U.S. citizens, but the Mellon Foundation does want to see the fellowships awarded to individuals who seem likely to make their careers in the United States.

QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants for the 2017-2019 fellowships must have completed a Ph.D. no earlier than January 1, 2015. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2017 should supply a letter from their home institution corroborating such a schedule.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Applications for the 2017-2019 fellowship must be received on Interfolio on or before October 15, 2016 [edit: Oct 1 - typo?]. That deadline includes all supporting documentation and reference letters. Incomplete dossiers will not be reviewed. In addition to a completed application form, three confidential letters of reference, a CV, academic transcripts, candidates should submit a personal statement (of no longer than 2,000 words) outlining their completed research (including dissertation), work in progress, professional goals and plans for publication, and any other information relevant to their candidacy.

  • All documents are required electronically via Interfolio by October 1, 2016. Please note that even if you have begun the submission process before that date, Interfolio will cut you off from further submissions after that date and time, and we will only review files that are complete by our stated deadline.Transcripts uploaded to Interfolio are considered "unofficial." Uploaded transcripts are required and accepted at the time application; finalists may be asked to submit official paper transcripts.Should you have questions, please direct them to humanities.center@dartmouth.edu.
  • Any news on this front?
  • [23 jan] haven't heard anything x2
  • The confirmation email says "All applicants will receive notice of their final status by March, 2017. Updates on application status will not be provided" so it's too early to worry about that one.
  • [23 feb] still nothing here, and it's less than a week until March
  • Anyone?
  • Nothing yet (3/1) x2 (3/3) x3 (3/7) x1 (3/8) x 3 (3/10) x 2 (3/13) (3/16)
  • At this point we are just assuming offers/finalist notifications have gone out and no one posted it on this wiki, yes? (3/15)
    • Pretty much! We screwed. (3/17)
    • The site does say that all applicants are notified of their status in March, but I, too, am assuming that winners have been elected. (3/17)
    • Nothing (4/4)
    • Stlil nothing (4/10)
    • I don't know why I'm surprised that Dartmouth hasn't had the decency to send out rejections yet. (4/13)

Dartmouth College (NH) - Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016 - OFFER MADE[]

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows competition for positions starting September 1, 2017. Neukom Fellows are interdisciplinary positions for recent Ph.D.s, DMAs, or MFAs whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, but has some computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit component of the work that is pursued. The successful candidate should have a history of collaborative work across disciplines, but still show good evidence of independence and initiative. The Fellowships are two- to three-year appointments, with the third year extension considered upon request after a review early in the second year. Neukom Fellows will be mentored by faculty in two departments at Dartmouth College, take up residence in one department, and will teach one seminar course each year on a subject of their interest. Beyond that there are no additional duties. Neukom Fellow stipends are $60,000 for 2017-2018. Additional funds are available for equipment, travel, and research materials. Requirements: 1. Ph.D. in any discipline or DMA or MFA (or expected by September 2017). 2. Research interests that strongly intersect the theme of computation. 3. A proven ability to work independently and collaboratively 4. A demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary research. 5. Evidence of the ability to think outside traditional paradigms. Application Materials: Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact prospective mentors at Dartmouth College and must submit the following materials: 1) Curriculum vitae (including publications list).
 2) Statement of research interests (max. 2 pages) including a short description of the research you would like to pursue and why.
 3) Description of which departments (and even better, which Dartmouth faculty) you would be interested in working with and why the opportunity to engage with multiple departments would enhance your work. Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek out connections with and contact potential Dartmouth mentors as they draft their applications. 4) Three referees whose letters of recommendation speak to the aims of the Fellowship. 5) (Optional) A copy of one paper you have written in English, either published or unpublished.

General inquiries should be directed to the Neukom Institute Manager, Christine Alberga (Christine. E.Alberga@dartmouth.edu). Dartmouth is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to diversity. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of people, including women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, veterans or any other legally protected group. For a list of current Neukom Fellows: http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows.html For more information on The Neukom Institute: http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/ The Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows Program and the Neukom Institute are made possible by a generous gift from Mr. William H. Neukom, Class of 1964.

  • Completed applications received by November 15, 2016 will receive first consideration. Materials received after that date or those that do not fulfill the above requirements stand the chance of not being considered.
  • Link to Apply: Academic Jobs Online
  • Skype interview - 1/5/17
  • Offer made via e-mail - 1/9/17
  • Rejection sent by email 1/25 (congrats to the person above!)

Dartmouth College (NH) - Post-doctoral Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security - Deadline: 3 Jan. 2017 - OFFERS MADE[]

The Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College invites applications for the 2017-18 (September - June) Dartmouth Fellows Program in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security. This is a multidisciplinary program which brings together historians, political scientists, and scholars in other fields who are conducting research on problems pertaining to U.S. foreign policy and international security, both past and present.

While scholars at all stages of their careers will be considered, recent recipients of the Ph.D or equivalent degree are especially welcome to apply. Fellows must be in residence during their Fellowship and are asked to participate in Dickey Center seminars and events, participate in teaching a seminar (with the other fellows and a faculty member), and are invited to take advantage of other Dartmouth activities.

The Dickey Center for International Understanding encompasses War and Peace Studies, the Global Heath Initiative, the Institute for Arctic Studies (an interdisciplinary center for the study of the environment, climate change and policy implications), and new research foci in human development and gender. Researchers with projects that intersect any of these areas are particularly encouraged to apply.

Fellows receive competitive stipends, research support and benefits, comparable to those offered by other fellowship programs. Faculty on leave from their home institutions will receive half of their annual salary, up to $50,000. Dartmouth is an EE/AO employer.

Applications will be evaluated on the basis of the quality and significance of the proposed research and its relevance to U.S. foreign policy and international security, and the ability of the applicant to benefit from interaction with and mentoring from Dartmouth faculty in the Departments of History, Government, and other relevant academic units.

Information and application instructions are available at: http://dartgo.org/dartmouthforeignpolicypostdoc.

  • Applications must be received by Tuesday, January 3, 2017 to ensure consideration.
  • Per their website the Dickey Center will "contact you with the results within 45 days of the due date." That was over a week ago. Has anyone heard from them?
  • I have not as of 2/24 (x2); still nothing 3/7
    • Heard from someone there that they already sent out the acceptances, that was ~ 3/1 (x2)

Dartmouth College (NH) - Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Society of Fellows - Deadline: 19 Sept. 2016 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees, by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed. The program also benefits Dartmouth by complementing existing curricula with underrepresented fields. Applications will be accepted in the various fields of humanities, social sciences, interdisciplinary programs, sciences, engineering, business and medicine.

Society Postdoctoral Fellows participate in the activities of the Society, including presenting their own work; hold appointments as a Lecturers in a department and/or program as well as Postdoctoral Fellows in the Society; this appointment is not tenure-track; teach one course each of the second and third academic years; are in residence for the fall, winter and spring terms, and during one of two summer terms; receive training in teaching via the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL); off-campus research leave during academic terms is permitted only in rare cases, only for brief periods of time, and only upon written application to the Faculty Director of the Society well in advance of the proposed leave. are not asked to teach basic language courses; have access to college resources such as the library and computing center; do not control dedicated laboratory or studio space.

Stipend and resources: Society Fellowships normally run for up to 34 months, beginning on September 1 and ending on June 30th of the final year. Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $4,600 plus benefits, and $4,000 annually to support computing, travel and research needs.

The departments and/or programs where fellows are appointed Lecturers have the primary responsibility for providing office and working space for Fellows, as well as access to other research needs or equipment. The Society helps to assure the cooperation of departments in providing the requisite setting for the scholarly and creative work of each Fellow.

Eligibility: Applicants for the 2017 – 2020 Society Fellowships must have completed a Ph.D. no earlier than January 1, 2015. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2017, should supply a letter from their home institution indicated that the applicant is expected to receive the degree before November 1, 2017.

Applicants are expected to consult with a relevant faculty colleague at Dartmouth before submitting an application. A complete application packet consists of the following: Interfolio Society of Fellows application cover sheet, a personal statement (of no longer than 1,500 words) outlining your completed research (including dissertation), work in progress, professional goals and plans for publication, and any other information relevant to your candidacy, a statement answering the question “After reviewing your opportunities at Dartmouth and your contact with Dartmouth faculty, what can Dartmouth do for you and what do you think will be the most productive aspect of your interactions with Dartmouth faculty and students?” (500 word limit), a curriculum vitae, three confidential letters of recommendation, and relevant academic transcripts. Incomplete or late dossiers will not be reviewed.

Fellowship applications are evaluated by the Society of Fellow’s Senior Fellows, who make recommendations for appointments to the Provost.

  • Rejection email received on 12/20/2016 (x4).
  • Does anyone know who to contact about application status? (I have not received a rejection and have a legitimate reason to inquire, but the main address listed just sends an autoreply....)
  • I had my Skype interview last Friday and was told notifications would be out extremely soon, within the week. Has anyone received an offer? Would just love to know! [posted 2/2] x2
  • Rejection Email Received Feb 13

DePauw University (USA:IN) - Postdoctoral, Latin American History - Deadline 14 Mar. 2017 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • DePauw University, a top-tier liberal arts college, seeks to hire a postdoctoral scholar in the History Department with courses coordinated and cross-listed with Latin American and Caribbean Studies for the 2017-18 academic year. Ph.D. defense successfully completed by the time position starts in August 2017, but not prior to 2014. Sub-specialty and period open and may include Brazil as well as Spanish-speaking regions. The postdoctoral scholar will teach Colonial and Modern Latin American history surveys and Latin American history topics classes at the 200 and 300 level of the candidate’s own design based on scholarly expertise and teaching interests. Ability to promote a dynamic classroom environment based on inclusive pedagogies essential. The position will come with a four course teaching load, employment benefits, faculty development, presentation opportunities, and mentoring. There is a possibility of a one-year renewal based on performance, availability of funding, and continuing need.
  • Candidates should be submitted through Interfolio https://apply.interfolio.com/40940 and should include: a cover letter; curriculum vitae; one-page teaching philosophy; one-page summary of research program; graduate transcripts; and three letters of recommendation. Candidates should be able to demonstrate, in application material, a commitment to fostering an engagement with a diversity of ideas and experiences, which promote an inclusive environment in the classroom and at the University. Review of applications will begin on March 14, 2017, and will continue until the position is filled.
  • DePauw University is a nationally recognized, leading liberal arts college dedicated to educating 2,300 highly talented, motivated, and diverse students from across the country and around the globe. Connected to the liberal arts college is one of the nation’s first Schools of Music. For more than 175 years, DePauw has created an atmosphere of intellectual challenge and social engagement that prepares students for lifelong success. Located in Greencastle, Indiana, about a 45-minute drive west of Indianapolis, DePauw is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, a consortium affording excellent opportunities for faculty development and collaboration. DePauw is committed to diversity and inclusion for its student body, faculty, staff, and curriculum.
  • DePauw University is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Women, members of underrepresented groups, and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Questions may be directed to search committee chair David Gellman at dgellman@depauw.edu.
  • Skype interviews

Duke University (USA:NC) - Rabbi Nathan J. Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017[]

The Duke Center for Jewish Studies is proud to offer a Post-Doctoral Fellowship that honors the memory of Rabbi Nathan Perilman, who, after serving at Temple Emmanu-El in New York City, joined the Triangle-area Jewish in his retirement.  The Fellowship may be used for post-doctoral studies (Ph.D. received within last three years) in any field of Jewish Studies.  Preference may be given to candidates whose presence on the Duke campus promises the greatest contribution to faculty, student and regional seminar interaction; for example, those whose research interests correspond to those of faculty and graduate students at Duke, or to those for whom the use of the Duke library and special collections would be most beneficial.  Candidates must agree to be in residence at Duke University for the tenure of their fellowship. The Post-Doctoral Fellow receives a stipend of $47,500.00USD plus benefits for one full year, and is expected to offer one public lecture in the Fall 2017 semester and one undergraduate course during the Spring 2018 semester.

1.A letter of intent stating how applicant would use the year to further his/her research and scholarly publication (not to exceed five pages); 2.A current CV; 3. A writing sample, (not to exceed 20 pages); 4.Three letters of recommendation, including one that speaks to applicant's teaching ability, emailed directly to Duke in .pdf form; 5. A teaching portfolio, including statement of teaching interests, syllabi, and evaluations as available; 6.An official transcript from the applicant's doctoral-granting institution.

Duke welcomes applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, disability, age, sex, national origin, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other factors as prohibited by law. Previous applicants are eligible to re-apply.   Candidates from all American and foreign universities are welcome.

All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be PDF files and sent as email attachments to serena.elliott@duke.edu.

Phone interviews may be conducted for finalists.

Further information about the Duke Center for Jewish Studies may be found on our website: http://jewishstudies.duke.edu.   Further information about post-doctoral services at Duke may be found at: http://postdoc.duke.edu/. Please send any questions to serena.elliott@duke.edu.

  • Deadline: 15 Jan. 2016.

Duke University (NC) - Postdoctoral Fellow - Transgender Studies - Deadline: 1 Dec. 2016 - ADDITIONAL MATERIALS REQUESTED[]

The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies invites applications for a residential postdoctoral fellow in Transgender Studies for the 2017-2018 year. Through research, teaching, and service, the fellow will contribute to the overall work of the GSF Program. We seek candidates with interdisciplinary experience in Gender/Women’s/Sexuality Studies, a record of scholarship on transgender, transsexual, or gender-non-conforming subjects, and demonstrable engagement with conversations in Transgender Studies. Scholarly specialization can be empirical, archival, textual, and/0r theoretical. Postdoctoral fellows are expected to design and teach an undergraduate course on transgender studies and to support the integration of transgender studies through a variety of potential activities across the fellowship year (e.g., outreach to student groups, mentoring graduate students, participating on panels). The fellowship includes a stipend, health insurance, and office space. Applicants should have PhD in hand by July 1, 2017 and be no more than five years past the PhD. In addition to your letter of application, please include a 1000 word project proposal (with 1 page bibliography), a C.V., and names and contact information for references.

Duke University (NC) - Thompson Writing Program Lecturing Fellows - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2016[]

We anticipate offering several postdoctoral fellowships on a multidisciplinary faculty charged with teaching an innovative first-year course in Academic Writing. We seek candidates with a Ph.D. in any field and a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate teaching. Those with PhDs in STEM disciplines or the quantitative social sciences are especially encouraged to apply. Fellows are asked to draw on their disciplinary training and interests to design a seminar-style course introducing students to academic writing. Teaching load is five sections of Academic Writing per year, with each section limited to 12 students. Appointment is at a level of Lecturing Fellow (non-tenure-track), starting July 1, 2017. Contract is for an initial three years, renewable after successful review for two more years. Salary is competitive with a strong benefits package, and with opportunities for professional development. PhD required. Applicant must hold or anticipate receiving PhD before July 1, 2017.

To apply use our online application form at: http://twp.duke.edu/fellowships/apply-for-a-fellowship You will be asked to upload as a single pdf document a CV, a letter in which you discuss your aims in teaching Academic Writing, and a brief proposal for a writing seminar modeled on course synopses posted on our website: http://twp.duke.edu/writing-101 We may subsequently ask you to provide other supporting materials, including a more detailed course outline, other course materials, and recommendations. Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations in the application and/or interview process please contact Dr. Marcia Rego, Chair, Lecturing Fellows Search, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University, Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708-0025.

  • Application period begins September 1, 2016 and ends October 1, 2016. Applications must be received by 11:59 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) October 1, 2016. DEADLINE IS FIRM. IMPORTANT: All submissions are final. You will not be able to change your application information after you have applied for a position. The Thompson Writing Program cannot alter submitted applications. We will inform you of the status of your application by late-December 2016. Phone calls will not be accepted.

Durham University (UK:Eng) - Barker Priory Library Fellow - Deadline: 19 May 2017[]

  • Contract Type: Full-time, fixed term (1/10/17 – 30/9/18)
  • Job Purpose: To conduct post-doctoral research in the context of the Priory Library Digitisation Project. This project, entitled ‘Durham Priory Library Recreated’, is a collaboration between Durham Cathedral and Durham University for the digitisation of 480 volumes of manuscripts and several dozen printed books belonging to the pre-Reformation Cathedral Library and dating from the seventh century AD onwards.
  • The fellow will work on material that has been, or is being, digitised in one of five (overlapping) research strands: (1) History of the Book; (2) Community Living: Liturgy, Rules and Well-Being; (3) Scholastic Learning and Philosophical Enquiry; (4) Science, Knowledge and the Natural World; (5) Digital Recreations. For more information about these strands, including current work and the names of the strand leaders, see www.dur.ac.uk/imems/durhampriory/.
  • apply online
  • Deadline: 19 May 2017
  • Intend to interview 15 June.

Durham University (UK:Eng) - Durham International Junior Research Fellowships - Deadline: 2 Dec. 2016[]

The Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) scheme is designed to attract the most talented researchers in Europe and beyond, and build international networks of scholars with a common passion for the deepest theoretical questions and most pressing practical problems facing humanity.

The JRF scheme is aimed at researchers with significant post-doctoral experience, but recent doctorands of exceptional ability and researchers who have followed non-traditional academic career paths (such as in public corporations, NGOs or industry) are also encouraged to apply. JRFs will pursue new research ideas of their own design, undertaken in collaboration with academic researchers at Durham University.

Applicants are encouraged to take advantage of the diverse spectrum of opportunities offered by the Institutes at Durham, which span the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, and link their proposals to research programmes of the Institutes and their constituent research centres. Applicants may, however, submit a research proposal that is independent of the Institutes or the Durham Business School, provided that they have a coherent and cogent reason why this research should be conducted in Durham: such 'free-standing' Junior Fellows will be affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Study.

To be eligible, in line with the terms of funding set by Marie Curie, "researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account". The reference date is 1 July 2017.

There are no nationality restrictions, but the award of a Fellowship will be conditional on a visa and work permit being secured, if required, from the UK Border Agency.

A member of the Durham academic staff will act as host and Mentor for each Fellow. Before applying, applicants MUST seek the agreement of a Durham academic to act as their host. The host will help them to refine their research proposal and ensure that the appropriate facilities for the conduct of the research project are available in the University. The host is required to complete a proforma (below), which is a required part of the application documentation. For advice on finding hosts, please visit our Finding an Academic Host page: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/diferens/findingahost/

For further details about this scheme and how to apply please consult the 'JRF Further Particulars' document as well as the Additional Application Guidance page: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/diferens/junior/additionalguidance/

  • Application materials will need to be submitted through the Durham University online application system: https://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/. The deadline for applications is Friday 02 December 2016 (at midnight).

Durham University (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Archaeology of Early Chinese Trade Ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean - Deadline: 3 July 2017[]

  • This post is Full Time and Fixed Term until 30th June 2019.
  • The purpose of this 23-month fixed term full-time PDRA post is to work alongside the Head of the Department of Archaeology (Prof. Robin Skeates), our Senior Lecturer/Associate Lecturer (Dr. Derek Kennet) and other colleagues in Durham’s Department of Archaeology in developing, undertaking and publishing collaborative research with the Palace Museum in Beijing on the archaeology of early Chinese trade ceramics. Within the contemporary context of the Chinese Belt and Road initiative, a particular focus will be on their classification, their production at kiln sites in China, their overland trade in Iran, and their maritime trade in the western Indian Ocean from the 8th to the 19th centuries.
  • Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University.
  • Closing Date: 03 July 2017 (Midday)

Emory University (USA:GA) - The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry - Post-Doctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 17 Jan. 2017 []

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry of Emory University is accepting applications for up to three Post-Doctoral fellowships for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. The FCHI Fellows Program offers research opportunities to those trained in the humanities as traditionally defined and to others seriously interested in humanistic issues; research projects must be humanistic, but fellows may hold the Ph.D. in any discipline. We especially seek applicants and projects that will benefit from and contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the group of Fellows and the work of the FCHI.

Post-Doctoral Fellows, who must have the Ph.D. in hand before the submission of their applications, are awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than six years before receiving the fellowship.

Besides being an active member of the Center’s intellectual agenda through the academic year, Fellows will be expected to offer an upper-level interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar on a subject of their choice during the spring of the fellowship year. Stipends of $45,000 will be offered to Post-Doctoral Fellows, along with a research budget of $2,000, shared office space in the Center, and library access.

  • The deadline for submission of completed applications is January 17, 2017. Announcements of awards will begin in mid-April and will continue until all positions are filled. More information and application instructions are available from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at 404-727-6424 or foxcenter@emory.edu, on the web at http://www.fchi.emory.edu, or write to: Fox Ctr. for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322.
  • Any word here? Announcements should begin soon. [12 April]
  • Did they do interviews for this fellowship?
  • Rejection email received 4/12
  • Still waiting for news over here, but, judging from past wikis, that doesn't seem to mean much. This has to be one of the most opaque adjudication processes. It's unclear if they send rejections in batches or just hold on to a huge shortlist of candidates. [14 April]
  • Any more rejections sent out and/or have they extended offers?
    • My guess -- but who really knows -- is that they send out the first rejections when, or soon after, they extend offers. That would mean they're waiting right now for winners to confirm or reject. That said, I have no idea what the qualitative difference is between those applicants who got an "early" rejection and those of us who are waiting for a "late" rejection. 
  • 24 April - 'Late' rejection received, noting that the committee met last week to consider the applications (x2)
  • 7 May - do they have alternates for this position?

European University Institute (ITA) - Max Weber Fellowships 2017-2018 - Deadline: 25 Oct. 2016 - OFFER MADE[]

Applications are now open for the 2017/18 entry to the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Amongst the largest, most prestigious and successful post doctoral programmes in the historical and social sciences, and located in one of the most beautiful settings, with truly outstanding research facilities, we offer from 50-60 fully funded 1 and 2 year post doctoral fellowships to applicants from anywhere in the world in the fields of economics, history, law and social and political sciences. All areas and types of research within these fields are considered. Last year 98% of Fellows found an academic position on completing the Fellowship.

To find out more about the programme and how to apply, go to: http://www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/MaxWeberProgramme/ApplytotheMWP/Why-Apply-Index.aspx

  • Deadline for applications: 25 October 2016.
  • Unofficial offer made by email (12/7)
  • Anyone else recieved offers? do they go by departments?
  • rejection email (12/15) x3

ETH Zurich, Swiss School of Public Governance (Switzerland) - Senior Postdocs in Public Governance, Policy or Administration - Deadline: 30 Oct. 2016[]

The Swiss School of Public Governance (SSPG) at the ETH Zurich invites preliminary applications for 4-year senior postdoctoral positions within any research field related to public governance, policy or administration. The positions commence in August or September 2017.

Recipients are expected to conduct an independent research project for the duration of the fellowship. Additionally, senior postdocs are required to teach two one-day seminars per year in their area of expertise for the School’s academic programs, as well as deliver two public lectures during the fellowship period. Pay will vary depending on familial circumstances; past median salary is CHF 105,000 plus social security contributions. Additionally, the positions can include generous conference participation and research funds, depending on the nature of the research proposal.

Possible research areas include, but are not limited to, technology and public governance, transparency and corruption, institutional design, conflict mitigation and resolution, public financial management and leadership and management in the public sector. A strong preference will be given to innovative projects that demonstrate the potential for achieving high impact within their field(s).

Requirements are:

  • A Ph.D. in public administration, political science, management or a related discipline. The doctorate cannot have been awarded earlier than January 2013 (parental leave does not count against applicant's "academic age".)
  • A postdoctoral research position of at least 12-months at an institution other than the one the applicant received his or her Ph.D. from.
  • A strong record of research and publications in top journals appropriate to the applicant’s academic age.
  • A willingness to relocate to Zurich, Switzerland for the duration of the postdoctoral fellowship.

Application procedure: Please visit http://www.sspg.ethz.ch/about-sspg/open-positions.html to learn more about the application procedure. This is a pre-application process only. Successful pre-applicants will be sponsored by the SSPG in their applications to the Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship program. The comprehensive applications to the SNSF must be completed by January, 2017.

  • Deadline: 30 Oct. 2016.

Fonds de recherche du Québec (CAN) – Société et Culture (FRQSC) Postdoctoral Competition 2017-2018 - Deadline: 30 Sept. 2016[]

  • Deadline (application) : September 30th, 2016, 4 PM
  • Amount : $30,000/year + supplement for partnership, transfer and dissemination activities + reimbursement of travel expenses
  • Duration : 6 to 24 months
  • Announcement of results : End of April 2017
  • Follow results of this competition here

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (DEU) - Junior and Senior Fellowships Deadline: 15 Sept. 2016[]

  • Up to 25 Junior fellowships (completed PhD plus one to six years post-doctoral experience) & Senior fellowships (completed PhD plus a minimum of six years post-doctoral experience or a tenured professorship or equivalent permanent position)
  • The FCFP is intended for current or future leaders in their fields. About 25 FCFP fellowships are awarded through a highly competitive, strictly merit-based selection process. Applications are invited from academics of all nationalities and all disciplines. Note, however, that during the 3-year period prior to the application deadline, applicants may not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in Germany for more than a total of 12 months.
  • Fellowships of 3 to 10 months in the Senior scheme and of 12 months in the Junior scheme may be applied for. They will allow researchers to conduct their own research projects. Fellowships are awarded to individuals with challenging and innovative research projects of high academic quality. The determining selection criteria are the academic excellence of both the applicant and of the project proposal. Personal qualifications with regard to international expertise, leadership skills and interdisciplinary interest are also taken into account during the evaluation of the applications. Application is open to proposals from all disciplines that can be supported at the University of Freiburg.
  • Successful applicants will become FRIAS fellows. Each fellow will receive an internationally attractive living allowance (Junior: E 13 TV-L, ca. 54.000 € p. a. pre-tax; Senior: W3-equivalent professorial salary, ca. 80.000 € p. a. pre-tax, additional regulations apply for applicants with unlimited work contracts at their home institution), mobility allowance and a research cost contribution (theoretical sciences: up to 450 € per month, experimental sciences: up to 1.050 € per month). A mentoring program is put in place for each Junior Fellow in her/his career development.
  • FRIAS unites research in the humanities and social sciences, the natural and life sciences, engineering and medicine. It is the aim of the Institute to support academic exchange across existing boundaries: between disciplines, between different cultures and countries, between established and younger researchers.
  • The institute provides its fellows with modern office space and an up-to-date infrastructure. Fellows have full access to all library services from one of the leading German university libraries. Special attention is given to fellows who plan to come to Freiburg together with their families. FRIAS makes every effort to provide tailor-made solutions with regard to suitable accommodation, child care and educational facilities.
  • The FCFP call for applications is co-financed by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7) “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – People” (co-funding of regional, national and international programs) and the State of Baden-Württemberg.
  • The completed FCFP application form together with the required documents has to be uploaded on the application website for External Senior Fellowships or Junior Fellowships and submitted by September 15, 2016.
  • Information on the application and selection process (required documents, guidelines on eligibility, evaluation criteria, timeline and stages of the selection process) is provided at www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/wege-ins-frias/cofund
  • More information on FRIAS is available at: http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de.

Georgetown University (DC) - Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Environmental Humanities - Deadline: 1 Feb. 2017 - OFFER ACCEPTED[]

Georgetown University invites applicants for a one-year Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship on the topic “Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change.” The annual salary is $55,000. Applicants should work in the Environmental Humanities, broadly construed, but might come from any humanities discipline, including Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Geography, History, Literary and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, or Religious Studies. More information at https://anthropocene.georgetown.edu; inquiries should be directed to anthropocene@georgetown.edu.

The successful candidate will take a leading role in a year-long John E. Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, focusing on the role of the humanities in the context of ongoing climate change. The seminar is directed by Nathan K. Hensley, Dana Luciano, and John McNeill. The fellowship runs for the 2017-2018 academic year. During that period the Mellon fellow will participate in all activities associated with the seminar, including workshops, lectures, meetings, and film series; will teach one class in Environmental Humanities of their own devising (in conjunction with Seminar events); and will advance their own research agenda while contributing to the seminar’s scholarly output by offering a public lecture in Spring 2018. The fellow will be mentored by the seminar leaders and other Georgetown faculty as appropriate.

Applicants can come from any humanities discipline, but her or his work should engage with one or several of the seminar’s thematic threads: Future Humanities, Rethinking the Human, Risk and Precarity, Extinction and Life, Trash Culture, Anthropocene Genres, Anthropocene Media, Aesthetics, Representation, Justice, Interspecies Relations, and Sustainability: Cultures / Institutions.

Candidates must have received their Ph.D. no earlier that July 1, 2014 and must have degree in hand by July 1, 2017. To apply, please submit: (a) a cover letter that includes summary of dissertation work; (b) a CV; (c) a 20 page writing sample; and (d) the names and contact information for three academic references, who may be prompted to provide letters after initial review of cover letter, sample, and CV.

  • 3/7: Received invitation for Skype interview 
  • 3/9: Received polite rejection letter. They got over 100 applications and have narrowed it down to four finalists.
  • 4/4 Offer made and accepted.

Georgetown University (USA:DC) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery for the 2017-18 academic year - Deadline: 4 Aug. 2017[]

  • Georgetown University invites applications for a Mellon PostDoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery for the 2017-18 academic year.
  • Candidates must be specialists in the history of American slavery and must have received their PhD in a Humanities discipline within the past two years.
  • The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be expected to participate in ongoing research activities relating to Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative (which may include archival research in Georgetown and Jesuit archives and further development of the digital capacity of the Georgetown Slavery Archive), as well as pursue her or his own independent research. The Fellow may have an opportunity to teach a class in the Spring 2018 semester.
  • The salary will be up to $60K with standard benefits.
  • Applications should include a cover letter, cv, and the names of two referees, and should be sent to Prof. Adam Rothman at ar44@georgetown.edu by August 4, 2017. Review of applications will begin immediately.

Georgia Institute of Technology (GA) - Global Languages, Cultures, and Technologies (GLACT) Postdoctoral Program - Deadline: 1 March 2017 - ONLINE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

The School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta seeks six recent PhDs with training in modern languages (French, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Spanish) for the newly instituted Global Languages, Cultures, and Technologies (GLACT) Post-doctoral Program. The GLACT Program seeks to foster collaboration across languages, technologies, and global cultures. GLACT positions are full-time and renewable for up to three years. They include a 3/3 teaching assignment (with opportunities for a course offset in support of academic program development), health and retirement benefits, a salary of $45,000 per academic year, and a professional-development allocation. Candidates with expertise in innovative teaching methodologies and interest in shaping cross-disciplinary language program development for the 21st Century are especially encouraged to apply.

Position requirements include a PhD awarded no more than five years prior to appointment plus demonstrated research and teaching strengths. Dossiers should include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, teaching portfolio (minimally, a teaching statement, sample syllabi, and summary of course evaluations/comments; additional elements are acceptable), and three letters of recommendation, to be submitted in one single PDF document to glact-hiring@modlangs.gatech.edu.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The School of Modern Languages is especially interested in considering applications from minority candidates.

Detailed description: https://modlangs.gatech.edu/node/149

  • Review of applications begins on March 1 and continues until the positions are filled. Expected start date is August 15, 2017.
  • Invitation to an online interview (e-mail, 3/17)

German Historical Institute (USA:DC) - Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Digital History - Deadline: 1 Dec 2016[]

  • With the generous support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Historical Institute (GHI) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University (RRCHNM) invite applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship in digital history.
  • Over the last few years there has been a stunning growth of new and exciting digital tools and methods that have the potential to augment and revolutionize traditional historical research. Scholars increasingly need to develop their own familiarly and facility with these new digital tools and approaches. As a means to build out that capacity, this fellowship is intended to equally support junior scholars working in the field of digital history as well as for scholars who are perhaps new to digital history but are interested in developing new skills and methods that could aid their research.
  • The fellowship will provide a unique opportunity for the recipient to develop an innovative research project at RRCHNM, where she/he will be in residence for one year. One of the Center's Associate Directors will work with the fellow to develop a project further and help her/him develop the skills needed for that project. The fellow will also have the opportunity to join teams working on projects in development at RRCHNM as well as to sit in on graduate digital history classes at GMU. Depending upon qualifications and visa status, the fellow might teach or co-teach undergraduate courses involving digital history.
  • The fellow is also expected to cooperate with the GHI on a regular basis. She/he will participate in the Institute's scholarly activities and its digital projects. Moreover, the fellow will have the opportunity to get in contact with other North American Centers for Digital History or Digital Humanities. The Max Weber Foundation - International Humanities will invite the fellow to organize a workshop on new perspectives in the field of Digital History after completing the fellowship.
  • A member institution of the Max Weber Foundation - International Humanities, the German Historical Institute Washington is a distinguished non-university affiliated historical research institute that conducts inter- and transdisciplinary research with a transatlantic focus. Its fellowship program promotes cutting-edge research in history and related disciplines and the international exchange of scholars. The GHI seeks to foster inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation and contributes to the advancement of digital history and digital humanities.
  • Starting at the beginning of the 2017 GMU fall semester, the successful applicant will be in residence at the RRCHNM and will also participate in GHI activities, events, and digital projects. The fellow will be expected to plan and convene a joint conference or workshop at the end or shortly after the fellowship, which will be funded by the Max Weber Foundation.
  • Funding will be provided for a 12-month stay for postdoctoral scholars, who are currently affiliated with a German research institution. The monthly stipend will be € 3,000. The fellow will also receive reimbursement for his or her round-trip economy airfare to the US and a grant for travel to other North American institutions up to € 5,000.
  • The deadline for applications is December 1, 2016. To apply, please send a cover letter, a CV, a copy of the certificate of your most recently earned degree, the names and contact details of two referees, and a research project proposal (5 pages or 2,000 words max.). The proposal should outline a research question, the main sources to be used, and ideas about what digital tools and methods could be used to analyze those sources. We can accept applications in electronic form only. Please submit your documents as a single PDF file to: fellowships@ghi-dc.org.
  • All candidates will be notified in early February 2017 of the result of their application.
  • For more information, please contact: Bryan Hart at the GHI or Stephen Robertson at the RRCHNM.

Hamilton College (USA:NY) - Asia and the Environment - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • The Asian Studies Program at Hamilton College invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in any discipline for a scholar working on Asia and the environment at the rank of Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2017.
  • Candidates with a Ph. D. are preferred, although ABDs will be considered.
  • Applicants must possess a demonstrated commitment to excellence in research and teaching, and mastery of a relevant Asian language. We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate their experience in teaching and working with diverse student populations. Your cover letter should address ways in which you raise issues of diversity in your teaching and scholarship. Now in its fourteenth year, the Asian Studies postdoctoral program at Hamilton seeks to foster a cooperative milieu in which post-docs can develop as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts environment conducive to interdisciplinary thinking.
  • The successful candidate will be housed in the department appropriate to his or her training and teach three courses a year. The annual salary is $50,000 for the candidate with Ph.D. in hand. Candidates should submit application materials, including a letter of application, c.v., dissertation abstract (Dissertation Abstracts Online version), a writing sample, three letters
of recommendation, and two course syllabi via interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/37482. Questions regarding the search may be directed to Thomas Wilson, Asia and the Environment Search Committee. Our review of applications will begin on November 15, 2016.
  • Contacted for preliminary interview (12/13)
  • Skype Interviews were conducted 12/15/2016

Harvard University (USA:MA)- Center for the Environment, Environmental Fellows Program - Deadline: 18 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department while also strengthening connections across the University's academic disciplines.
  • The fellowship includes a salary of $64,000 per year, employee health insurance eligibility, up to $2,500 reimbursement for relocation expenses, and a $2,500 annual allowance for travel and other professional expenses.
  • The Harvard University Center for the Environment expects to award approximately six fellowships for the 2017 cohort. The Center will organize a co-curricular program to ensure that the fellows get to know each other and each other's work. All fellows will attend biweekly dinners with their colleagues, faculty members, and guests.
  • Program Requirements: Candidates for 2017 Environmental Fellowships should have received their terminal degree between May 2013 and August 2017. (Fellows must have filed their dissertation before starting their appointment in September 2017.); Candidates with a doctorate or equivalent in any field are eligible, and they may propose research projects in any discipline. Applicants without a Ph.D. may apply if they have studied in fields where the Ph.D. is not the typical terminal degree. All successful candidates will be able to demonstrate experience performing scholarly research; Each candidate must secure a commitment from one or more Harvard faculty members to serve as a mentor and to provide office or lab space for the two-year fellowship; Candidates may have received their degrees at any university in the world. Foreign nationals are eligible for fellowships, though study at Harvard requires proficiency in English; Candidates who received terminal degrees from Harvard, and post-docs currently working at Harvard are eligible for the fellowship provided their research and host arrangements take them in new directions and forge new connections within the University. Harvard candidates should not propose to continue to work with the same professors or lab groups with whom they are currently associated. No candidate should propose to work extensively with his or her thesis advisor.
  • Successful candidates should be prepared to commit to work at Harvard for the full two years of the fellowship. This fellowship requires residency in the Cambridge area and any fieldwork trip must be scheduled for the summer or January recess.
  • Application Requirements: Please complete the online application form found at http://environment.harvard.edu/application by January 18, 2017 and attach the relevant supporting documents as PDFs: curriculum vitae including list of publications; detailed research proposal where applicants should explain their specific reasons for applying to a Harvard residential environmental fellowship (maximum of five pages, references counted separately) Note: While applicants should discuss the proposal with their potential faculty hosts, the final product should clearly be the work of the applicant; and up to three publications/writing samples; Three letters of reference, including one from the applicant's dissertation adviser; A letter of support is also required from the applicant's host committing to serve as a mentor and explaining his or her commitment to the proposed research, including the provision of office or lab space.
  • Applicants are encouraged to ask their referees and hosts to email letters of reference as PDFs or, if necessary, as Word documents attached to the emails. Referees and hosts should send their letters directly to the attention of Jean Gauthier at the Center at environmental_fellows@harvard.edu.
  • If you have questions about the fellowship or application process, please contact: Jean Gauthier, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge MA 02138, 617-495-0368, jgauthier@fas.harvard.edu
  • Any updates on this?

Harvard University (USA:MA) - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 10 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University invites applications for its 2017-2018 Fellows Program on the theme "Revolution(s) in Eurasia."
  • Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world historical importance of the Russian Revolution has faded from scholarly and public consciousness. Yet this seminal event of the twentieth century had, and arguably continues to have, a deep and enduring effect on a variety of global and national histories through its contending narrative understandings, social representations, and political appropriations.
  • In synchronicity with the centennial of this revolution, the theme for the 2017–2018 Fellows Program is “Revolution(s) in Eurasia.” The Davis Center encourages prospective fellows to interpret the theme broadly and welcomes all applications. Find more information on our website (http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research/individual-research/fellows-program/how-apply)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Eligibility and Benefits: For junior scholars who will have completed the Ph.D. or equivalent by September 2017, but no earlier than September 2012 (less than five years ago); Stipend of up to $40,000 for 9 months or $53,333 for 12 months; $5,000 in additional research funding; Eligible for employee benefits (including subsidized health insurance); Shared office space and borrowing privileges at Harvard libraries provided; Citizens of all countries may apply.
  • Any junior scholar whose research touches on the work of the Davis Center community is welcome to apply to the Fellows Program. We invite applicants to consider some of the ways in which their work speaks to these thematic elements.
  • For complete application procedures and to submit an application, please visit: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research/individual-research/fellows-program/how-apply.
  • Scholars who do not meet the eligibility requirements for a Postdoctoral Fellowship should consider applying for affiliation via the Visiting Scholar Program (http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research/individual-research/visiting-scholars-program)
  • DEADLINE: January 10, 2017. All materials, including letters of recommendation, must be received at the Davis Center by this date.
  • Rejection letter received (3/13)

Harvard University (USA:MA) - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2017-2018 - Deadline: 30 Jan. 2017[]

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2017-2018 competition for the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chinese Studies. Research topics may cover any period of Chinese history or contemporary China and involve any academic discipline. A strong working knowledge of Chinese and English is required. Each fellow will be expected to pursue his or her own research and contribute to Fairbank Center programs. Priority will be given to candidates working in the fields of a) Environmental Humanities/Social Sciences or b) Digital Humanities/Social Sciences; however, applications are also welcome from scholars in other fields.

The fellowship period is from August 1, 2017 to July 31, 2018.

Applicants must be able to provide evidence of successful completion of their Ph.D. degree by June 30, 2017, and may not be more than 5 years beyond the receipt of their Ph.D. at the start of the fellowship. Harvard University doctoral degree recipients are not eligible for this fellowship.

For program and application details please see: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/apply-to-our-programs/non-harvard-affiliates/#an-wang-postdoctoral-fellows

  • The fellowship carries a stipend of $50,000 and includes health insurance benefits. The application deadline is January 30, 2017.

Harvard University (USA:MA) - Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Scholars Program, 2017-2018 - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2016[]

The Academy Scholars Program identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational issues, past or present.

The Academy Scholars are a select community of individuals with resourcefulness, initiative, curiosity, and originality, whose work in non-Western cultures or regions shows promise as a foundation for exceptional careers in major universities or international institutions. Harvard Academy Scholarships are open only to recent PhD (or comparable professional school degree) recipients and doctoral candidates. Those still pursuing a PhD should have completed their routine training and be well along in the writing of their theses before applying to become Academy Scholars; those in possession of a PhD longer than 3 years at the time of application are ineligible.

Academy Scholars are appointed for 2 years by the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and are provided time, guidance, and access to Harvard University facilities. They receive substantial financial and research assistance to undertake sustained projects of research and/or acquire accessory training in their chosen fields and areas. Some teaching is permitted but not required. The Senior Scholars, a distinguished group of senior Harvard University faculty members, act as mentors to the Academy Scholars to help them achieve their intellectual potential.

Postdoctoral Academy Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $67,000, and predoctoral Academy Scholars will receive an annual stipend of $31,000 until they are awarded the PhD or equivalent degree.

  • The online application for the 2017-2018 class of Academy Scholars is due by October 1, 2016. Finalist interviews will take place in Cambridge on December 6, 2016. Notification of Scholarships will be made in late December, 2016. For complete information on how to apply and for access to the online application, please visit: http://www.academy.wcfia.harvard.edu.
  • Email rejection, 27 October.
  • 1,193 total applicants for this year.
  • Did anybody receive an email confirming they are finalists or is going for an interview on December 6th?
  • I, for one, have not heard anything!

Harvard University (MA) - Harvard Society of Fellows: Junior Fellows - Nomination Deadline: 12 Aug. 2016 - OFFERS MADE[]

Candidates are nominated for Junior Fellowships, generally by those under whom they have studied. Applications are not accepted from the candidates themselves. A letter of nomination should include an assessment of the candidate's work and promise, i.e. a full letter of recommendation, and also provide complete contact information for the candidate, including current residential address and email address, and the names, mailing addresses, and email addresses of three additional people who agree to write letters of recommendation by the date requested when they are contacted by the Society. Men and women interested in any field of study are eligible for these fellowships. Nominees should be of the highest calibre of intellectual achievement, i.e. comparable to the most successful candidates for junior faculty positions at leading universities.

Upon receipt of the mailed nomination, the Society will request letters of recommendation from the referees listed, and ask the candidate to submit samples of written work (dissertation chapters, articles, papers) along with a one or two-page proposal describing the studies he or she would like to pursue while a Junior Fellow:

  • The Society will request that the three additional letters of recommendation be submitted electronically - not by email, but through a link which we will provide in our correspondence with the referees. After receipt of the nomination, the referees will be contacted by our office both by regular mail and email and asked to submit their letters within three weeks of the date of our email. (This is why full and accurate email addresses are necessary to process the nomination.) Instructions for uploading letters will be provided to each referee, along with a password to enter the secure site.
  • Our communication with the candidate will request that written materials be submitted both electronically through a link to our submission portal and by mail or express mail within three weeks from the date of our initial email contact. Full instructions for uploading the C.V., list of publications, research proposal, and three samples of work will be provided, along with a password to enter the secure site.
  • The candidate is requested to provide official transcripts of both undergraduate and graduate records. (Ideally, transcripts should be forwarded directly to the Society from the universities involved; however, candidates who have sealed transcripts may submit them with their mailed materials.)

On the basis of the materials submitted, the Senior Fellows select a certain number of candidates for interview. It is from this number that the final selection is made. The Society pays the traveling expenses of those candidates interviewed.

Please note: If still pursuing the Ph.D., candidates should be at the dissertation stage of their theses and be prepared to finish their degrees within a year of becoming fellows. If already a recipient of the degree, they should not be much more than a year past the Ph.D. at the time the fellowship commences. Most Junior Fellows receive the Ph.D. just prior to the start of the fellowship.

  • The deadline for receiving nominations for Junior Fellowships that begin July 1, 2017, is Friday, August 12, 2016. No nomination will be accepted with a postmark past the deadline. Nominations will not be accepted by email. All letters should be sent to: The Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 78 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

​UPDATES:

  • 8/9 - Materials requested (MidEast studies / CompLit); due (8/29)
  • 8/12 - Materials requested (Sociology); Due 9/2
  • 8/18 - Materials requested (History); due 9/8.  Does this application really not require a cover letter????
  • 8/23 - Materials requested (English); due 9/13
  • A question: does anyone know if they request materials from all nominees?
  • I heard that they do. The nomination procedure is just a formality to cut down on the number of applications. 
  • Have candidates starting receiving interview requests?
  • At this point they've probably been interviewing for the last 2-3 weeks. [posted Oct. 3]
  • For interview timeslines for this fellowship, check out extensive discussion on last year's page: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2015-16. Interview requests are evidently rolling throughout the Fall months. [posted 10/4]
  • Interview scheduled, early October
  • Interview scheduled, October 25
  • On campus interview, Nov 7
  • Hey folks -- are we thinking that the final calls will be made around Monday the 12th? Previous years suggest that the second Monday in December is the norm, but I wanted to see if anyone else had special insight ...
  • Yes. Either Sunday evening (the 11th) or Monday. Good luck!
  • Thanks -- same to you!
  • Acceptance call 12/11 (x2)
  • [15 Dec] polite rejection letter rec'd via snail mail

Harvard University (MA) - Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 8 Dec. 2016[]

The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities.

Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism and human rights. Too often, the humanities are summoned merely as witnesses to the spectacle of the significant currents and crises of contemporary life. Literature and the arts are viewed as iconic presences whose primary aesthetic and moral values lie in their illustrative powers of empathy and evocation. Yet the intellectual formation of the humanities—their very conception of the nature of meaning, knowledge, and morals—is deeply resonant with the displacement of values and the revision of norms that shape the transitional and translational narratives of migrant lives.

Built around pedagogies of representation and interpretation—textual, visual, digital, political, ethical, ecological, etc.—the humanities engage with the history of shifting relations between cultural expression, historical transition, and political transformation. The ethics of citizenship in our time are defined as much by migration and resettlement as by indigenous belonging, as much by global governance as by national sovereignty. And the humanities play a central role in defining the terms and the territories of cultural citizenship as it creates innovative institutions and identities in the making of a civil society.

The migration “crisis” makes it imperative for humanists to reflect on the foundational concepts and values of our disciplines in addressing the representation of others as they are recognized in the norms of cultural citizenship. The issues the seminar will explore include: the ethics of hospitality; modes of cosmopolitanism; negotiation of cultural “differences” under duress; the role played by interpretation and cultural translation in enhancing processes of social integration.

We welcome applications from scholars in all fields whose work innovatively engages with migration and the humanities.

Terms and Conditions: In addition to pursuing their own research projects, fellows will be core participants in the bi-weekly seminar meetings. Other participants will include faculty and graduate students from Harvard and other universities in the region, and occasional visiting speakers.

Fellows will be joined at the Center by postdoctoral fellows from Germany, who will be coming as part of a collaboration between the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Volkswagen Foundation. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Harvard for the term of the fellowship.

Fellows will receive stipends of $65,000, individual medical insurance, moving assistance of $1,500, and additional research support of $2,500.

Eligibility and Deadline Information: Applicants for 2017-18 fellowships must have received a doctorate or terminal degree in or after May 2014. Applicants without a doctorate or terminal degree must demonstrate that they will receive a doctorate or terminal degree in a related discipline in or before August 2017.

Application Instructions

Please apply using our online application: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7050

In addition to biographical and professional information, we ask applicants to submit: 1. A curriculum vitae. 2. A detailed statement of the research project (1,000-3,000 words) that provides a detailed description of what the applicant proposes to do during the fellowship year. 3. One chapter- or article-length writing sample (no longer than 40 pages). 4. Names and contact information of three referees, who will be asked by a system- generated email to upload a letter of recommendation once the candidate’s application has been submitted. Three letters of recommendation are required, and the application is considered complete only when three letters have been received. Recommendations may be those included in the applicant’s placement dossier, but they must specifically address the proposed research project. Letters should be uploaded to the electronic application.

Please contact Andrea Volpe (alvolpe@fas.harvard.edu) with questions about applying for a fellowship.

  • Applications must be completed by December 8, 2016.
  • Rejection: email 1/23 (x2)
  • No rejection here yet. Anyone get good news? (x3)
  • To judge by last year's competition, the Mahindra Center rejects people in various waves. If you have heard nothing you are still on a shortlist somewhere apparently
  • Last year applicants & alternates were notified 2/24. Any word?
  • No word, still waiting. 2/26
  • Still waiting too. Anyone? 2/28
  • Rejection letter 3/1 (x3)
  • No acceptances?! Anyone still waiting??

Harvard University (USA:MA) - William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 14 Oct. 2016[]

  • T he Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invites applications for the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship. One fellow will be appointed for the 2017–2018 academic year, with the possibility of extending the fellowship for one additional year—conditional on the approval of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, WCFIA associated faculty, and the co-hosting academic department.
  • The fellowship is open to scholars in all disciplines who are engaged in US-Canada comparative research and teaching, with preference given to individuals working within the social sciences and humanities. For postdoctoral candidates who will have completed the PhD within 12 months of the July 1, 2017 start date, verification of completion of the degree will be required prior to the appointment. Those in possession of a PhD for more than five years are ineligible.
  • The fellowship provides an annual stipend of $68,000, which is supplemented by funding for research and for health insurance coverage. The fellow will be required to teach one course during the year, and will be expected to engage with the Canada Program and with the University's wider community. Fellows receive shared office space at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and enjoy full access to the University’s library, archival, and computing resources.
  • Candidates should submit: a letter of application describing their suitability for the fellowship; a curriculum vitae with a list of publications; a sample of their written work; a teaching portfolio, containing a statement on teaching experience and syllabi; and three letters of recommendation.
  • For more information about the WCFIA Canada Program, please visit: http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/canada_program
  • TO SUBMIT:https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7012
  • Deadline 14 Oct. 2016.
  • 1/24 - Any updates/movement here?
  • 2/10 - None here. Anyone else?
  • 3/13 - Nothing here. Anyone else heard anything? 
  • 4/3 - Any news or decisions here?
  • 4/5 - No news here. 

Haverford College (PA) - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Haverford College, 2017-2019 (Arts of Melancholy) - Deadline: 9 Jan. 2017[]

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities of Haverford College invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to begin Fall 2017 (see http://www.haverford.edu/HHC/mellon_post-doctoral_program/index.php for details). The Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities (HCAH) seeks a scholar interested in the history, nature, and artistic representation of melancholia. Candidates should have broad theoretical and interdisciplinary interests.

During the first year of the program, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will participate in a year-long faculty seminar, led by Professor Richard Freedman (musicology), that will bring together faculty with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literary, musical, and visual studies, as well as the history of the emotions, cognition, and medicine. Applicants should make clear the nature of their potential contributions to this seminar, which will use melancholia (and how it has been explained) as a focal point of inquiry into works of art: their modes of representation, their genesis, and their place in a broader scheme of cultural prestige. (For a more detailed description, see https://www.haverford.edu/hcah/center/programs-and-grants/faculty-seminars.)

In the second year, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will organize and present a spring symposium related to his or her scholarly field funded by the Hurford Center. During each of the four semesters at Haverford College, the Mellon Fellow will teach one course at the introductory/intermediate or advanced level and engage a diverse student body. Applicants should submit two brief course proposals related to their area of interest, one for a broad-based introductory course and the other for a more specialized or advanced course.

Applicants are asked to submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, two course proposals, and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and should arrange to have three confidential letters of recommendation submitted via Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/38450.

  • Candidates who earned their Ph.D. as early as 2012 or who have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. by the application deadline of January 9, 2017 are eligible to apply. The position will begin in fall 2017.
  • 2/13 Any movement here/ heard anything?
  • nothing here (2/21)
  • 4/8 Any news? Seems like they must have contacted candidates by now.

Heidelberg University (DEU) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Modern Chinese Intellectual History - Deadline: 1 May 2017[]

  • The Heidelberg University seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in Modern Chinese Intellectual History for a fixed term (2 years) full time position starting on 1 July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter.
  • The candidate will work with the Project Leader, Prof. Joachim Kurtz, on the collaborative research project ‘East Asian Uses of the European Past: Tracing Braided Chronotypes’ funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). This interdisciplinary project investigates how East Asian scholars adapted specific moments or historical tropes from Europe’s past (such as the renaissance’ or the ‘scientific revolution’) to interpret their own histories and predicaments, as well as how such reflections in turn inspired new perceptions of the European past in Europe proper. The project seeks to show that, far from being Europe’s exclusive property, the pasts constructed through such emblematic historical moments were shaped in global circulations of meaning.
  • The Postdoctoral Researcher will work closely with the Principal Investigator to conduct his/her own research related to the grant theme. S/he will also be responsible for planning conferences and organizing knowledge-exchange activities with academics as well as local partners. S/he will also be expected to work closely with Heidelberg University’s other HERA collaborators at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Universities of Zurich and Madrid (http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/hera-funding-for-joachim-kurtz.html).
  • The Postdoctoral Researcher will have completed a PhD in Chinese or East Asian Studies, Philosophy, History, or a related discipline. S/he will be experienced in conducting textual or other forms of analysis appropriate to her/his discipline, have a demonstrated ability to advance research in transcultural intellectual history, and be comfortable working in a small multidisciplinary team. The Postdoctoral Researcher will also have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including native or near-native fluency in academic English and advanced reading ability in classical and modern Chinese. Familiarity with other East Asian languages is desirable.
  • During the two-year project, the appointee will be employed on a non-renewable contract by Heidelberg University and will be treated as a normal employee of the university. The position offers attractive working conditions and remuneration according to the German academic salary scale (TV-L E13, 100%).
  • How to apply:
  • Interested applicants should send one PDF file containing two writing samples comprising no more than 20,000 words in total; a detailed CV including names and contact details of two referees; and a cover letter addressing how the candidate's research fits the theme of the collaborative research project supported by the grant to Ms. Shupin Lang (lang@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de).
  • Review of applications will begin 1 May 2017 and continue until the position is filled.
  • Interviews with shortlisted candidates will be held in the first weeks of May (by Skype or in person).

Humboldt University in Berlin (DEU) - Postdoctoral Research Positions in Global History - Deadline: 15 Sept. 2016[]

The International Research Center "Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History" at Humboldt University in Berlin, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites scholars to apply for international research fellowships (senior scholars and postdoctoral candidates) for the 2017-2018 academic year. Eight to twelve fellowships will be awarded. Applications are due in Berlin on 15 September 2016.

Candidates: We welcome candidates from various disciplines including history, anthropology, law, sociology, political sciences, geography, economics, and area studies. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level or senior scholars. We would like the proposed projects to employ a historical and transregional perspective. Applications should ideally focus on work / labour in relation to changing patterns of life course. Possible topic areas are, among others, the household, loss of work, the relationship between work and non-work, work and gender, free and unfree labour. We welcome proposals about all regions of the world and especially those that look at comparisons, conflicts, relations between different regions. A global history perspective is not required; keeping an open mind to such ideas, however, is highly desirable. The fellowships will begin on 1 October 2017 and end on 31 July 2018. Shorter fellowship terms will be possible.

Fellows will receive a monthly stipend to be determined. This is a residential fellowship. Fellows are obliged to work at the research center in Berlin. A fully equipped office will be provided as well as organizational help for visa, housing, etc. During the fellowship, we also encourage fellows to introduce their work to wider audiences within Berlin’s scientific community.

Application procedure: Please use this electronic form or access the link directly https://rework.huberlin.de/de/call-for-appl.html.

You will be asked to provide information regarding your biography, the research project you intend to work on during your fellowship as well as details on your current research. Applicants should provide the names of two referees in addition to that. Please note that we can only accept electronically submitted applications!

  • Application deadline: 15 September 2016.

IE University (SPAIN) - IE Centre for Humanities International Teaching Fellowship - Deadline: 5 Dec. 2016 - OFFERS MADE (05/04)[]

The IE Humanities Centre at IE University invites applications for one year, renewable International Teaching Fellowships in the Humanities.  The International Teaching Fellowship is designed to assist recent doctoral students in their professional development by building a robust teaching portfolio, while at the same time affording them time and resources to pursue their own research. 

Fellows will join the IE Humanities Centre as a faculty lecturer to teach in the Humanities program of IE University at our campuses located in central Madrid and Segovia.

The fellowship is open to candidates of all nationalities in any area of the Humanities who expect to receive their PhD by the time of the appointment or who have already received their PhD within two years of the application deadline. The term of the appointment is from September 1, 2017 - July 31, 2018 and may be renewed for a second year. The fellowship stipend is €40.000. 

  • Full details of the fellowship and instructions on how to apply can be found here. Information about IE University can be found at: www.ie.edu
  • Request for more materials.
  • When were additional materials requested? (01/11)
  • I got my request for more materials on 12/15/2016
  • News? Interviews? (x2)
  • Anyone receive any status update on this? (3/22) (x2)
  • Wrote to IE. They are delayed in the process (3/30)
  • Thanks for stepping up! Did they give you an estimate of their timeline? (3/30) (x2)
  • They said next week (probably). (3/31)
  • What point have they reached in the process? Was there any communication beyond the request for additional materials? (4/03)
  • I didn't get anything after that, but maybe I'm in the trash heap. The wait is killing me! (04/08)
  • The request for additional materials went out before I had even submitted my application (that is to say, before the deadline had passed). Good luck to all who heard back. (04/10)
  • No updates yet? I was the person who wrote to them...maybe they're still delayed? (4/11)

Indiana University (IN) - Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 10 Nov. 2016[]

Indiana University, Bloomington is pleased to accept applications for the CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of social science and humanities fields, including (but not limited to) African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Economics, Geography, Gender Studies, History, Native American Studies, Latino Studies, Media and Communications, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology. These fellowships are designed to nurture the academic careers of new scholars by providing opportunities to pursue research while gaining teaching experience and mentoring from CRRES affiliates and faculty in host departments. Strong applicants will demonstrate evidence of scholarship potentially competitive for tenure-track appointments at Indiana University and other research universities.

Terms of Agreement Fellows are expected to pursue research, teach one course during each year of residency, and participate in CRRES as well as host department activities and seminars. These two-year positions begin on August 1, 2017 and end on May 31, 2019, at a 10-month annual salary of $51,500. Postdoctoral fellows will also receive Indiana University health benefits and $3,000 each year in research support.

Application Process We invite applications from qualified candidates at the beginning of their academic careers who do not yet hold tenure-track academic positions. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and those who do not hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2016 must provide a letter from the chair of their dissertation committee, confirming the timeline for completion. All applicants must file their dissertations no later than June 30, 2017. Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, research statement (3,000 words describing dissertation project, work in progress, professional goals, plans for publication, and proposed major field[s] of teaching), writing sample, and three letters of reference. Applicants may also submit materials demonstrating their aptitude as teachers. We prefer that applications be submitted online at: http://indiana.peopleadmin.com. Materials sent by mail or any questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Prof. Dina Okamoto, Search Committee Chair, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University - Schuessler Institute for Social Research 209, 1022 E. Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 or crres@indiana.edu.

  • Applications received by November 10, 2016 at 11:59 pm EST will receive full consideration. Information about the center can be found at: http://crres.indiana.edu.
  • 20 Dec - Has anyone heard from this yet?
  • Nothing here (12/21)
  • Nothing here (01/09)
  • Rejection via email (01/13) X3

Keele University (UK:Eng) - Research Associate - The Correspondence of Daniel Defoe - Deadline: 15 May 2017[]

  • We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate. This post represents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to work on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project entitled ‘The Correspondence of Daniel Defoe’. The project will produce a new scholarly edition for Cambridge University Press of the letters of Defoe (1660-1731) and investigate the literary, personal, and political contexts of Defoe’s correspondence and related writings.
  • The successful candidate will undertake archival and bibliographic research into primary and secondary materials relating to Defoe’s life and writings. This involves conducting archival work in England and Scotland to source and transcribe primary materials. You will have the opportunity to communicate findings to academic and other audiences at conferences along with assisting in the planning of training events and public engagement activities.
  • Applicants must a have a PhD in literature or history (ideally with a focus on the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries) or equivalent qualification, and experience of planning and conducting research activities including collecting and analysing data. To be successful you must have excellent communication skills, with a professional and flexible approach to work and be skilled in writing high quality reports and other research documentation.
  • The post is available for 1 year with an expected start date of the 1st September 2017.
  • For full post details please visit: www.keele.ac.uk/vacancies
  • Deadline: 15 May 2017
  • intend to interview 9 June.

King's College London (UK) - Liberal Arts Early Career Development Fellow in History - Deadline: 26 Mar. 2017[]

We are seeking a scholar in the Arts and Humanities with an interest in and commitment to interdisciplinarity in research and education and with a particular academic interest in History. Working in a multidisciplinary team, which will include four other Fellows newly appointed as part of the Liberal Arts Early Career Development Fellowship scheme, the Fellow will contribute to teaching, leadership, and pastoral support for the Liberal Arts BA, while having the opportunity to pursue research in their field.

This Fellowship is a career development post intended to provide a promising early-career academic with opportunities to develop as a teacher and researcher, and will include training and mentoring, and as such is non-renewable. 

As appropriate, the Fellow will spend time during the second and third years of the Fellowship working on the development of a research grant application, to be held (if awarded) at King’s College London, either individually or (opportunity permitting) in collaboration with a senior colleague or team. Funding permitting, there may be a continuing opportunity for the Fellow to continue onto a fixed-term research role as defined by any successful grant proposal after the Fellowship concludes. 

The selection process will include a presentation and a panel interview. 

  • Has anyone received notice or interview requests for this position? [4/24]
  • No to the above question, and they were supposed to short list a month ago...has anyone heard anything?? [5/24]
  • Received rejection email after I followed-up. No feedback offered, and I'm an alumnus! (6/01)

Lehigh University (PA) - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Latin American or Latino Studies - Deadline: 17 Feb. 2017[]

The Latin American Studies Program at Lehigh University invites Ph.D.’s specializing in Latin American or Latino studies, with a contemporary cultural studies focus, to apply for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship, beginning Fall 2017.

Applications are welcome from candidates whose research concentrates in any of the following areas: social movements, identity (gender, ethnic, religious, etc.), transnational migration, and/or urbanization. Candidates working within the fields of Religion and Theater/Performance Studies are especially welcome to apply. Successful candidates must have finished all requirements for the Ph.D. They will also demonstrate breadth and depth of cultural and Spanish language experience, and the ability to design and offer a Latin American and Latino Studies introductory course. The fellow will be expected to contribute to further develop the Latin American Studies Program, establish links with the campus community, and share the results of his/her research. The teaching load is one course per semester.

Lehigh University is a private, research-extensive institution in southeast Pennsylvania. The College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University is committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply and identify their strengths or experiences in this area. Lehigh University is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.

A detailed description of the fellowship and complete list of application materials can be found at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/8705. Application materials should be uploaded to Academic Jobs Online.

Address inquiries to: Matthew Bush, Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies, Director, Latin American Studies Program. matthew.bush@lehigh.edu

Skype Interviews to be conducted the week of March 6, 2017

  • For first consideration, all application materials should be received by February 17, 2017.

Leiden University (Netherlands) - 2 year post-doctoral position in Foraging Decisions - Deadline: 14 March 2017[]

HARVEST project: Behavioral and biological adaptations to rainforest foraging.
The ERC-funded HARVEST project aims to understand the factors that influence the choice of foods. We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in behavioral ecology studies, particularly with fieldwork experience working either with humans or primates, and with an excellent speaking ability in French. The project will involve travel to Cameroon to work with the Baka and Bantu groups, specifically to explore their dietary and related behaviors. The candidate will be expected to manage all of the practicalities of field work, to collect behavioral data and samples of the foods for nutritional analysis, and as well to handle fecal samples for microbial studies. The position would begin as soon as possible, but at latest by June 2017.

Requirements: A completed PhD in the field of Anthropology, Primatology, Ethnography, or a related field; Fieldwork experience with humans or primates (other animal studies may also be considered); Broad general knowledge of behavioral ecology, diet, optimal foraging theory; Excellent research qualities, demonstrated for example by (international) publications; An excellent command of the English and French language, knowledge of the Dutch language is considered an advantage.

  • To apply, please send your CV, cover letter, one page description of previous research and the names and contact information of two academic referees to Amanda Henry at a.g.henry@arch.leidenuniv.nl.

Leiden University (NDL) - Post-doc 19th-century architecture - Deadline: 30 Oct. 2016[]

  • Postdoc, 38 hours per week (1,0fte), in the HERA Joint Research Program Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and the Uses of the Past in Modern Europe.
  • This project examines the relationship between architecture, print culture, and uses of the past in modern Europe and beyond. Looking primarily at architectural debate from late 18th to early 20th century, we study the ways in which new notions of the past were negotiated and constructed through architecture. This negotiation took place not only in stone but on paper, not least in the illustrated press emerging from the 1830s onwards, spreading architectural texts and images to new audiences in Europe, European colonies and USA. By means of hitherto neglected historical material, PriArc studies the preconditions of architectural culture in the contemporary world; an urgent task, it seems, at a time when Europe’s built environment is being rapidly reconfigured, both as a physical structure and a mediated environment.
  • Based at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), this multidisciplinary humanities project involves researchers from Leiden University, Ghent University, and University College London, as well as designers and curators from Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal Institute of British Architects, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, and the digital media lab Factum Arte based in Madrid/Bologna.
  • The postdoc in this program will be based in Leiden, and will investigate, together with prof. dr Mari Hvattum (Oslo, P.I. of the program), prof. dr Caroline van Eck (Leiden/Cambridge) and dr Alice Thomine (Musée d'Orsay) the role of the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. S/he will chart how the paper and built reconstructions of Graeco-Roman buildings the main issues addressed in this HERA program play a role:
  • - transformation of the architectural canon and its implications about the question whether architecture should embody universal principles or is contingent on time and place
  • - the polychromy debate and its ramifications/transformations into a debate about the origins of architecture
  • - the aims and methods of architectural history
  • - the transformation in the classical style that takes place in the envois and designs.
  • We are looking for an architectural or art historian specialized in 19th-century European architecture. The candidate must have an affinity with the theme of this research project, as is evident from publications, conference papers and teaching topics. Good French reading and speaking fluency is a requisite. The candidate must be a team player, who is ready to play a substantial role in the research and teaching of LUCAS.
  • Tasks
  • To conduct research in the archives of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Musée d'Orsay in Paris;
  • To prepare and submit research output for publication in peer-reviewed international journals;
  • To write a monograph;
  • To organize one of the projects workshops, to be held in Cambridge or Leiden, and to curate a web exhibition
  • To take an active part in the various activities of LUCAS
  • Requirements
  • Ph.D. degree in architectural or art history on a relevant subject, obtained after 2010
  • Good knowledge of French
  • Excellent knowledge of English, both oral and written
  • Clear affinity to the project’s topic
  • The ability to work independently but at the same time being a strong team player
  • The successful applicant will be appointed according to the terms of the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities ( CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten), for a period of three years (38 hours per week). The gross monthly salary will range, depending on qualifications and experience, between € 2.744,- and € 3.755,- based upon a full-time appointment according to salary scale 10. The successful candidate will be expected to start between November and December 2016.
  • More information on the project may be obtained from the project’s coordinator, prof. dr Caroline van Eck (c.a.van.eck@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
  • Applications should be submitted by October 30, 2016 at the latest. Applications should be sent to: c.a.van.eck@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
  • Interviews are expected be held in early November 2016.
  • In order to apply, the applicant must submit the following: Cover letter; Curriculum vitae; Major writing sample; Research plan of no more than 2000 words;Name and contact details of two referees.

Library Company of Philadelphia (PA) - Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2017-2018 - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016 - AWARD MADE[]

Library Company of Philadelphia

Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2017-2018

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2016

National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries. NEH Fellowships are for individuals who have completed their formal professional training. Consequently, degree candidates and individuals seeking support for work in pursuit of a degree are not eligible to hold NEH-supported fellowships. Advanced degree candidates must have completed all requirements, except for the actual conferral of the degree, by the application deadline, November 1, 2016. Foreign nationals are not eligible to apply unless they have lived in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. NEH fellowships are tenable for four to nine months. The stipend is $4,200 per month

Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in the collections of the Library Company and other nearby institutions into the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. The fellowships provide scholars the opportunity to investigate the history of commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, economic policy making and other topics. Applicants may be citizens of any country, and they must hold a Ph.D. by September 1, 2017. The stipend is $40,000 for the academic year, or if the award is divided between two scholars, $20,000 per semester.

Senior scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The Library Company’s Cassatt House fellows’ residence offers rooms at reasonable rates, along with a kitchen, common room, and offices with internet access, available to resident and non-resident fellows at all hours. All post-doctoral fellowships are tenable from September 1, 2017 through May 31, 2018, and fellows must be in continuously in residence at the Library Company for the duration of their fellowships.

  • THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS NOVEMBER 1, 2016 with a decision to be made by December 15. Make just one application; you will automatically be considered for all the fellowships for which you are eligible. To apply, go to http://www.librarycompany.org/fellowships/postdoc.htm fill out an online coversheet and upload a single portable document format (PDF) containing a brief résumé, a two- to four-page description of proposed research, and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages. In addition, two letters of recommendation should be submitted online in PDF format.
  • [6 DEC] received PEAES rejection--decisions for other fellowships will be made by another committee in the "near future."
  • [3 DEC] notification of PEAES award for 1 semester

London School of Economics and Political Science (UK:Eng) - LSE Fellow - Deadline: 23 Jun. 2017[]

  • This is a fixed term appointment for 3 years
  • Applications are invited for LSE Fellows in the Department of Economic History. LSE Fellow is a career development post which allows aspiring academics who are post PhD, or close to PhD completion, the opportunity to gain experience in teaching and research. LSE Fellows teach at undergraduate and Masters’ level and contribute to courses as appropriate, with the support of faculty.
  • An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position. As such, applicants who have already been employed as a LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply. If you have any queries about this please contact the HR Division.
  • The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification for the post, which is attached to this vacancy on the LSE’s online recruitment system. For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and person specification.
  • To apply for this post, please go to www.lse.ac.uk/LSEJobs. If you have any queries about applying on the online system, or require an alternative format for the application, please e-mail: hr.jobs@lse.ac.uk
  • Deadline: 23 Jun. 2017

London School of Economics and Political Science (UK:Eng) - Research Officers (3 posts) - Deadline: 22 June 2016[]

  • Fixed Term (2 years)
  • The Role: Applications are invited for Research Officers to work on the EU-funded project Narrative Science under the direction of the principal investigator, Professor Mary S. Morgan. This team project will investigate how, when, and why scientists use narratives to explain their work within their own communities (www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/Research/Home).  Each researcher will develop their own case materials within the overall project, working - by agreement with the project leader - on particular topics and fields of science past and present.
  • Candidates must have a PhD in history of science, or a closely related field (including narrative studies, science communication, etc) provided that you have some experience of historical research work; or you must have an equivalent track record of independent and original research. 
  • To find out more information about the Narrative Science project and who we are looking for, visit the jobs section of our website where you will find full details, as well as further information about the benefits of working for us, and the Research pages of the Department of Economic History website, www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/Research/Home.  
  • For further information about the post, please see the job description, person specification and How to Apply document.
  • Deadline: 22 June 2017

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow (History) - Deadline: 8 Jan. 2016[]

  • We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to work on the research project "Progressives to laggards? Health system reform in Britain and New Zealand, 1948-1993". This project is part of Dr Martin Gorsky’s Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Investigator Award "Health Systems in History: ideas, comparisons, policies", and will be conducted in collaboration with Professor Linda Bryder (University of Auckland) and Professor John Stewart (Glasgow Caledonian University).
  • The post-holder will be expected to carry out research on the comparative history of health policy in Britain and New Zealand since 1948, present research findings to conferences, seminars, workshops and the media, and to co-author a range of outputs, including a planned monograph, peer-reviewed journal articles and non-academic outputs. The post-holder will also be expected to contribute to teaching at Masters level.
  • The successful candidate will be required to have a PhD in history (or equivalent), experience of conducting documentary research in the post-war political history of Britain or New Zealand, ideally in a health or social policy context, proven ability to write up research findings for dissemination in a range of formats for different audiences, proven ability to deliver research outputs to project deadlines, the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a team, excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written), and willingness to travel to New Zealand for periods of archival research. There will also be some teaching requirements for the MSc Public Health, including tutoring on distance-learning modules. Further particulars are included in the attached job description.
  • The post will be based in London at the Centre for History in Public Health in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The appointment will be full time for 34 months, commencing April 2017 and tenable up to 31 January 2020. Salary will be on the School’s Research Fellow Academic Pathway Grade 6 scale, £37,889 - £43,028 per annum (including London weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year. In addition to this there are discretionary “Director’s Days”. Membership of the USS Pension Scheme is available.
  • Applications should be made on-line via our website at http://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk. Applications should include a CV and the names and email contacts of two referees who can be contacted immediately if shortlisted. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to: jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. For informal enquiries please contact Dr Martin Gorsky: martin.gorsky@lshtm.ac.uk.
  • The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as “Please see attached CV” will not be considered acceptable.
  • Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.
  • Deadline: 8 Jan. 2016

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK:Eng) - Research Assistant (History) - Deadline: 8 Jan. 2016[]

  • We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to work on a project examining the history of emotion in post-war British public health. This project is a component of Dr Alex Mold’s Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Investigator Award ‘Placing the Public in Public Health: Public Health in Britain, 1948-2010’, and the post-holder will join the exisiting project team. For more information about the project see http://placingthepublic.lshtm.ac.uk/ The post is based in London at the Centre for History in Public Health http://history.lshtm.ac.uk/ in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • The post-holder will be expected to undertake literature searches and research on primary documentary sources, all relating to the ways in which emotion figures in British post-war public health and its relationship with the public. In addition, the post-holder will be expected to play a full part in the work and collaborative activities of the Award team, present research findings to conferences, seminars and workshops and the media, and collaborate in writing up results for a range of outputs, which may include peer-reviewed journal articles and non-academic outputs. There will also be some teaching duties.
  • The post-holder will be required to have a Masters level qualification (or equivalent) in history or a related social science discipline, experience of conducting historical research, ideally in a health context, as well as proven ability to write up research findings for dissemination in a range of formats for different audiences, such as websites and reports. The post-holder will also have a proven ability to deliver research outputs to project deadlines, the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a team and excellent written and spoken communication skills.
  • This full-time position will be based in London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, commencing March 2017 until 30 June 2018. The appointment will be made on the School’s Research Assistant Academic Pathway Grade 5, £33,006 - £37,889 per annum inclusive. The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year. In addition to this there are discretionary “Director’s Days”. Membership of the USS Pension Scheme is available.
  • Applications should be made on-line at our website at jobs.lshtm.ac.uk. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm on the closing date. Applications should include the name and email contact details of two referees who can be contacted immediately if you are shortlisted. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.
  • Prospective candidates may contact Dr Alex Mold (Alex.Mold@lshtm.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.
  • The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as “Please see attached CV” will not be considered acceptable.
  • Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.
  • Applications should be made through this website.
  • Deadline 8 Jan. 2016

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DEU), Institute for Art History, Research Associate - Deadline: 1 May 2017[]

  • Applications are sought for a Research Associate/Postdoc (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/in) on the new European Research Council funded project “METROMOD: Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” led by Professor Dr. Burcu Dogramaci and based at the LMU Institute for Art History. Applications from the disciplines of art history, architectural history, urban history, planning history or related research fields are welcome.
  • We are offering one three-year post-doctoral position starting in September 2017 at the earliest. After a positive evaluation the contract can be extended for up to 20 months (until May 2022 maximum).
  • You have a PhD in art history, architectural history, urban history or planning history or related disciplines. You have a background in the history of modern art, photography, architecture or urbanism. You have a special interest in exile studies and history, and you have special language abilities in Spanish or Mandarin. You will be fluent in English and have a working knowledge of German. You will be expected to pursue independent work related to the themes of METROMOD focusing on the objectives of the project (see description above). You will conduct a postdoc project about the exiled/migrated artist community (1900-1950), art institutions, artworks and the urban landscape of Buenos Aires or Shanghai. Research experience in Argentina or China is expected.
  • The successful candidate is expected to work as part of a team based at the LMU Munich and to conduct fieldwork and/or archive visits for the case studies. You are expected to publish the results of your research within the publication programme of the project. You will be expected to be involved in planning and running collaborative project group activities (project meetings, workshops and conferences) as well as in the administrative work associated with the project. Experience with administration and coordination is desirable as well as an interest in archival research and/or the implementation of digital mapping tools connected with the project. Working space, working tools and a travel budget will be provided. Applications from disabled researchers will be considered with priority under equal conditions. We welcome applications from female candidates. This is a full-time position. The possibility of part-time and flexible working hours will be considered.
  • How to apply: Please send the following application materials as a single PDF-document to burcu.dogramaci@lmu.de (please specify METROMOD in your email subject line): 1. Short cover letter (max. 300 words) 2. Short CV (2 pages )plus list of publications 3. A description of your proposed research topic relating to the stated objectives of the METROMOD project (max 1000 words, excluding bibliography) 4. A writing sample (e.g. one chapter of your latest book or an article in a peer-reviewed journal). The writing sample should reflect your current research interests. It does not need to have been already accepted for publication and should preferably be no longer than 5000 words 5. Names and contact details of at least two referees.
  • Applications received by 1 May 2017 will receive full consideration. Review of the applications will continue until suitable candidates are found. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews in May/June. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci.
  • Contact Person:Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci, METROMOD, Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (ERC), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Zentnerstraße 31, 80798 München, E-Mail: burcu.dogramaci@lmu.de

Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs - Fellowships - Deadline: 26 Oct. 2016 - AWARD MADE[]

ACLS invites applications for fellowships offered by the Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs (RJIA), made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation. RJIA is a two-part initiative designed to foster new connections between scholars and journalists covering international affairs. The program offers an interrelated set of awards: programming grants for universities and fellowships for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who study religion in international contexts. More information is available on the program’s overview page.

Luce/ACLS RJIA Fellowships support scholars in the humanities and related social sciences who are pursuing research on any aspect of religion in international contexts and who wish to connect their specialist knowledge with journalists and media practitioners. The ultimate goal of the research should be a significant piece of scholarly work by the applicant and concrete steps to engage journalistic and media audiences. 

In 2017-18 three universities are partnering with ACLS to establish links between their schools of arts and sciences and schools or programs of media and journalism. Fellows may choose to take up residence at one of this year’s three partnering institutions or they may take up the fellowship at any location suitable for pursuing their projects. In addition to providing the fellow with time, space, and resources necessary for conducting research, the partner universities have committed to fostering an environment that encourages connections between scholarship and journalism. A list of the participating partner institutions is available here . All fellows will participate in two program-sponsored symposia during the academic year.

ACLS will award up to six fellowships for the 2017-18 academic year with tenure beginning between July and September 2017. The award carries a stipend of $55,000, plus funds for research costs and related scholarly activities of up to $3,000. Awardees who will relocate to take up residency during the fellowship year at one of ACLS’s three university partners are eligible to receive an additional $10,000 to defray the costs associated with the relocation, for a total maximum possible award of $68,000.

Scholars may apply both for a Luce/ACLS RJIA Fellowship and for other forms of support, including other ACLS fellowship programs. Please note that an applicant may accept only one ACLS award in a given competition year.

Eligible applicants will:

  • be a US citizen or permanent resident as of the application deadline date
  • have a PhD degree that was conferred by the application deadline. (An established scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the PhD in publications and professional experience may also qualify.)
  • be able to attend and participate in two program-sponsored events, a workshop in Fall 2017 (date and location TBD) and a symposium in Spring 2018 (date and location TBD)

Objectives

  • To encourage connections between scholarship on religion and the training and practice of journalism;
  • To provide scholars studying the role of religion in international contexts (from any humanities or social science discipline) the opportunity both to advance their scholarship and to connect their specialist knowledge with journalism and media audiences;
  • To promote greater public understanding of the role of religion in international affairs.

Complete application requirements and instructions are available at www.acls.org

  • Deadline: 26 Oct. 2016.
  • 1/18: Notified that I've been awarded the fellowship
  • 1/24 Notified of alternate status via email

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017 - POSITIONS FILLED[]

Application Process for the 2017-2019 Fellowships. The Mellon Fellowship is for scholarship across boundaries. Thanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences awards two fellowships each year to promising young scholars working at the intersection of humanities disciplines, or between the humanities and other disciplines. This Fellowship is especially intended for scholars who work in more than one specialty within the humanities, or bridging from the humanities with other disciplines.

Terms of Appointment: The School of Humanities, Arts, and, Social Sciences has four departments participating in this search: Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Literature, Global Studies and Languages, Music and Theater Arts. Applicants must designate one of the four academic units in which they would like to be located. Appointments will be for two years, effective July 1, 2017. Fellows will teach one course in Spring 2018 and one per semester the following academic year, and will be in residence at MIT during this time. The salary will be $66,000 per year with standard benefits, and each Fellow will receive a research fund of $1,000 to cover travel and other costs associated with research and professional development.

Eligibility and Selection: To be eligible for the positions, applicants must have received their Ph.D. no earlier than July 1, 2014 and no later than July 1, 2017. If you have not earned your degree at the time you apply for the fellowship, we require an attached Letter of Certification from your institution's Registrar’s Office, Department of Graduate Studies, or your Department Head, to confirm that you are expected to be formally awarded your degree by July 1, 2017. Please make sure that your letter writer specifies the date of your expected conferral date. Applicants who have not been formally awarded their degree by July 1, 2017 will not be considered. Fellows may not hold other appointments throughout the duration of the Fellowship. Applicants must have received their degrees from institutions other than MIT. International scholars will be considered for the position, but fellowships are contingent upon eligibility to legally work within the United States. MIT will offer a J1 visa sponsorship if needed. The Mellon Selection Committee will announce the Fellows in April 2017.

Application Materials: Letter describing the applicant's teaching and research experience, and presenting a brief proposal for a new research project to be completed during the term of the fellowship; Curriculum Vitae; One-page description of an undergraduate class to be offered in Spring 2018; Three letters of recommendation; Letter of Certification from the Registrar’s Office, Department of Graduate Studies, or Department Head, certifying that the applicant will be formally awarded a PhD diploma by July 1, 2017. This requirement is only relevant for applicants who have not yet formally received a PhD at the time the application is due.

  • All applications and attached materials are due no later than Friday, January 15, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Late applications will not be considered.
  • Questions? Please check out the FAQ page. Email shass-mellon@mit.edu, or call the SHASS Dean's Office at 617-253-0888.
  • Online application will be available November 1, 2016.
  • LINK to Apply: http://shass.mit.edu/graduate/mellon_postdoctoral_fellowship_appl
  • if anyone who applied to Global Studies and Languages heard back, could you please give us an update? Thank you! 2/17
  • Any updates here??
  • Nothing here (3/24)
  • Ealrier someone posted that they received a rejection (dated 3/28) -- this post has since been deleted.  Can you please confirm that this was an error and nobody on here has heard from this MIT postdoc? If anybody has heard anything at all, please put us out of our misery. 
  • Nothing here (3/28); nothing here either (03/29), but they say they're going to announce in April (see above), so maybe we'll hear by the end of the week?
  • I haven't heard either (4/2), but I'm assuming that since I haven't been approached about a Skype interview, I'm probably just waiting for a rejection at this point.
  • Nothing (4/4)
  • (4/4) Just received rejection email. Their chosen candidates have already accepted the positions. x5

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (DEU) - Dept. III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof. Dagmar Schäfer, 2 Postdoctoral Scholars - Deadline: 30 Nov. 2016 - OFFER MADE[]

  • The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof Dagmar Schäfer, seeks Two Postdoctoral scholars, starting date: 01 September 2017 for three years, with employment contract.
  • The positions are in close conjunction with the research agenda of Dept. III (https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/departmentschaefer).
  • Outstanding junior scholars with suitable experience in science-, technology-, economic history, STS, anthropology, regional studies or other relevant fields are invited to apply.
  • Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or related field at the time the position begins (PhD achieved in 2015 or later), and be able to show evidence of scholarly excellence in the form of initial international publications. Research projects should relate to the two major projects currently pursued at the Department:
  • Histories of Planning (https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/departmentSchaefer_HistoriesOfPlanning) and The Body of Animals (https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/departmentSchaefer_Animals).
  • The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/index.html). Postdoctoral fellows are expected to participate in the research activities of the Institute, and to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in English. Applications may be submitted in German, English, Chinese or French.
  • The positions are primarily devoted to research, with no teaching. Remuneration is based on the TVöD-Bund pay scales (E13).
  • Candidates of all nationalities are invited to apply; applications from women are especially welcome. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply.
  • Candidates are requested to submit their applications online using the following link:

https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/mpg/mbwg/dep3_postdocs_2016.nsf/application

  • Deadline for submission: 30 November 2016 (23:59 CET)
  • Note that only electronic submissions will be accepted. Only successful candidates will be notified.
  • Your application should contain – uploaded as 1 PDF document: Cover letter, (indicating in which project your are interested), Curriculum vitae including list of publications, research prospectus (maximum 750 words), sample of writing, names and contact details of at least two referees.
  • request for references [DEC 12] x2

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (DEU) - Postdoctoral Associate - Deadline: 31 Oct. 2016[]

The Max Planck Institute invites applications for a full time (39 h/week) fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Associate (m/f) within its Research Group “Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law” beginning November 2016 or later.

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, is one of 83 research institutes of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences e.V. The Institute is dedicated to foundational research, especially in the fields of foreign private and private international law as well as the law of civil procedure. The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it among the top 5 research institutions worldwide according to the Times Higher Education Ranking.

The Max Planck Research Group “Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law” is a research unit carrying out internationally acclaimed comparative research on family and succession law in Muslim jurisdictions, making it one of the very few academic entities dedicated specifically to this field of research. Established in 2009, the unit’s research paradigm is built on three pillars: first, an interdisciplinary approach and a consideration of the law in practice; second, a comparative examination of the law within the Islamic world; and, third, a study of the influence procedural rules have on the shaping of the law. By having regard for these three pillars, a fuller and less distorted picture of family and succession law emerges that reflects the dynamics of legal developments in the examined countries.

Principal duties include:

  • pursuit of the applicant’s own academic research agenda
  • the joint authoring of scholarly articles, chapters and reports
  • assistance in the preparation of expert opinions for German courts
  • contribution to and organization of workshops and conferences

We are expecting the successful candidate to:

  • hold a PhD in Law, Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology or in a related field inclusive of sound research expertise in legal studies or a specialization in family law as found in contemporary Muslim societies
  • present a research project related to family law and having in particular a focus on children in contemporary Muslim societies; proposals related to other areas of family or succession law will also be considered
  • have at least a working knowledge of Arabic (MSA)
  • be in residence and participate actively in the intellectual life of the Institute
  • The acquisition of German language skills is encouraged but is not a precondition for application.

What we offer:

  • reimbursement of field research expenses and financial assistance for language classes
  • financial and editorial assistance for publications
  • access to one of the leading libraries on the laws of the Muslim world

Applications should include: a cover letter and CV with a list of academic publications; a formal transcript documenting completed university courses and performance; a research proposal (3 pages max.); the names of two potential academic referees.

McGill University (CAN) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

One Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship will be awarded for the academic year 2017-2018 to a promising young scholar in the Digital Humanities. The fellowship term will begin on August 1, 2017. The stipend for each Mellon fellow is $52,000 CAD (plus benefits), in addition to a research allowance of $8,500. Relocation expenses are paid up to $1,000, and fellows will have access to up to $2,500 per year to invite a visiting speaker. The fellowship is renewable once. Mellon fellows will be given consideration for teaching one course per year during their fellowship tenure, contingent upon availability. They may be asked to give a public presentation on their research. Fellows will be provided with office space and are expected to be on campus making use of McGill’s resources, particularly during the academic year.

A world-renowned university located in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Montreal, Canada, McGill University has earned an international reputation for scholarly achievement and scientific discovery. Founded in 1821, McGill has 22 faculties and professional schools, which offer more than 300 programs from the undergraduate to the doctoral level. McGill attracts renowned professors and researchers from around the world and top students from more than 150 countries, creating one of the most dynamic and diverse educational environments in North America.

Eligibility: Scholars who received their PhD after June 2014 or who will have completed all PhD degree requirements by June 1, 2017 are eligible to apply. Applicants who do not have the PhD in hand at the time of application must include a letter from their Department Chair specifying the date of the dissertation defense. Successful applicants who do not complete all requirements for their PhD by June 1, 2017 will have their offer of award withdrawn.

The fellow will join the research project Laboratory for Experimental Studies in Culture, Art and Technology (LESCAT), which is a critical digital humanities initiative spearheaded by Prof. Jonathan Sterne (Principal Investigator), Prof. Carrie Rentschler, Prof. Alanna Thain, and Prof. Jenny Burman. One of these faculty members will act as postdoctoral supervisor, and the fellow will teach and be based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. LESCAT, which is in the process of applying for a Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grant, is building a hub for collaboration and experimentation between critical DH scholars, artists, performers, and makers. The lab’s ten core researchers work in the areas of feminist media studies, sound studies, sensory ethnography, disability studies, media history and archaeology, new media, dance and performance studies, moving image research, urban mobile media, race and urban violence, mapping/counter-mapping, and oral history/ digital storytelling. Applicants should have an active research program in critical digital humanities.

McGill University (CAN) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

Two Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded for the academic year 2017-2018 to promising young scholars in the humanities. The fellowship term will begin on August 1, 2017. The stipend for each Mellon fellow is $52,000 CAD (plus benefits), in addition to a research allowance of $8,500. Relocation expenses are paid up to $1,000, and fellows will have access to up to $2,500 per year to invite a visiting speaker. The fellowship is renewable once. Mellon Fellows will be given consideration for teaching one course per year during their fellowship tenure, contingent upon availability. They may be asked to give a public presentation on their research. Fellows will be provided with office space and are expected to be on campus making use of McGill’s resources, particularly during the academic year.

A world-renowned university located in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Montreal, Canada, McGill University has earned an international reputation for scholarly achievement and scientific discovery. Founded in 1821, McGill has 22 faculties and professional schools, which offer more than 300 programs from the undergraduate to the doctoral level. McGill attracts renowned professors and researchers from around the world and top students from more than 150 countries, creating one of the most dynamic and diverse educational environments in North America.

Eligibility: Scholars who received their PhD after June 2014 or who will have completed all PhD degree requirements Iby June 1, 2017 are eligible to apply. While research projects must be based in the humanities, interdisciplinary applications are especially welcome. Applicants who do not have the PhD in hand at the time of application must include a letter from their Department Chair specifying the date of the dissertation defense. Successful applicants who do not complete all requirements for their PhD by June 1, 2017 will have their offer of award withdrawn.

Eligible Departments: Anthropology (humanities-based research only); Art History and Communication Studies; East Asian Studies; English; French; History and Classical Studies; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Philosophy; Political Science (political theory only); Religious Studies.

To Apply: Prior to applying, all candidates must secure support from a full-time faculty member in one of the “Eligible Departments” above, who will act as their supervisor during the fellowship tenure. An application will only be considered if it includes an endorsement letter from a proposed McGill supervisor. Please note that supervisors may only sponsor one candidate.

McGill University (CAN) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities-based Indigenous Studies - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

One Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship will be awarded for the academic year 2017-2018 to a promising young scholar in humanities-based research in Indigenous Studies. The fellowship term will begin on August 1, 2017. The stipend for each Mellon fellow is $52,000 CAD (plus benefits), in addition to a research allowance of $8,500. Relocation expenses are paid up to $1,000, and fellows will have access to up to $2,500 per year to invite a visiting speaker. The fellowship is renewable once. Mellon Fellows will be given consideration for teaching one course per year during their fellowship tenure, contingent upon availability. They may be asked to give a public presentation on their research. Fellows will be provided with office space and are expected to be on campus making use of McGill’s resources, particularly during the academic year.

A world-renowned university located in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Montreal, Canada, McGill University has earned an international reputation for scholarly achievement and scientific discovery. Founded in 1821, McGill has 22 faculties and professional schools, which offer more than 300 programs from the undergraduate to the doctoral level. McGill attracts renowned professors and researchers from around the world and top students from more than 150 countries, creating one of the most dynamic and diverse educational environments in North America.

Eligibility: Scholars who received their PhD after June 2014 or who will have completed all PhD degree requirements by June 1, 2017 are eligible to apply. While research projects must be based in the humanities, interdisciplinary applications are especially welcome. Applicants who do not have the PhD in hand at the time of application must include a letter from their Department Chair specifying the date of the dissertation defense. Successful applicants who do not complete all requirements for their PhD by June 1, 2017 will have their offer of award withdrawn.

Eligible Departments: Anthropology (humanities-based research only); Art History and Communication Studies; East Asian Studies; English; French; History and Classical Studies; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Philosophy; Political Science (political theory only); Religious Studies.

To Apply: Prior to applying, all candidates must secure support from a full-time faculty member in one of the “Eligible Departments” above, who will act as their supervisor during the fellowship tenure. An application will only be considered if it includes an endorsement letter from a proposed McGill supervisor. Please note that supervisors may only sponsor one candidate.

McGill University (CAN) -Postdoctoral Fellowship in North American Jewish Life - Deadline:1 Dec. 2017[]

  • The Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University, invites applications for the Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The fellowship is for the 2017-18 academic year and can be renewed once. This year’s competition is focused on the North American Jewish experience of the last 150 years. Scholars working on any aspect of this experience are invited to apply. The Flegg postdoctoral fellow will teach one course in both fall and winter terms, deliver a public lecture during the academic year, and participate actively in the intellectual life of the department. The successful candidate will receive a stipend of $50,000 CAD (plus benefits), in addition to a research allowance of $8500. Applicants must have received their PhD after June 2013 and have PhD in hand by June 1, 2017.
  • Applications must include:
  • 1) a one-page statement of interest detailing the proposed research project
  • 2) a full curriculum vitae
  • 3) an official copy of university graduate transcripts (if provided by the university)
  • 4) a copy of the doctoral diploma or a letter from the Department Chair specifying the defense date
  • 5) three letters of recommendation, one of which must speak to competence in teaching
  • 6) a writing sample, not to exceed 20 pages
  • 7) a 500 word statement of teaching interests.
  • All materials should be sent electronically to flegg.jewishstudies@mcgill.ca For questions about the postdoc, please contact Prof. Eric Caplan at eric.caplan@mcgill.ca. Electronic letters of recommendation should be attached as PDF documents only or sent directly by the referee. All materials must arrive by December 1, 2016.

McNeil Center for Early American Studies (PA) - Barra Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016[]

  • Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship (24 months, 2017-2019)
  • This award is for a two-year term beginning 1 July 2017. Applicants must have earned the PhD no earlier than 2012 in American History, American Literature, American Studies, or a closely allied field and must have completed all requirements for the degree when the appointment commences. During the term of appointment, the fellow will teach two courses in an appropriate department at the University of Pennsylvania. The remainder of the fellow’s time will be devoted to research and writing. While this fellowship is particularly appropriate for projects designed to turn a doctoral dissertation into a publishable monograph, any proposal falling with in the Center’s area of interest will be considered. Candidates who have received McNeil Center funding for a related project at the pre-doctoral stage are not eligible. The Barra Postdoctoral Fellow will receive a starting stipend of $44,000, health insurance, and modest funds for travel and research.
  • The following items must be prepared for uploading as .pdf files: a curriculum vitae; a proposal not to exceed 1,500 words, double-spaced, describing the general scope of the project and the specific work proposed during the fellowship term; and an unpublished writing sample related to the project, double-spaced, limited to 7,500 words exclusive of notes.
  • Two confidential letters of support should be uploaded separately by the letter writers or submitted by email to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Please ask recommenders to address the specifics of this applications. Do not send generic letters from job placement dossiers.
  • Questions may be directed to: The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531, 215-929-9251,mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
  • Online applications can be submitted through the following website: http://mceas.org/postdoctoralfellowships.shtml
  • The online submission deadline applications is 1 November 2016.
    • [12 Dec] Rejection email received. 80 applicants.

Nanyang Technological University (SGP) - Postdoctoral/Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science - Deadline: 18 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, NTU, invites applications for humanities and social science postdoctoral/research fellowships for the Academic Year 2017. Successful candidates will be affiliated with one or more than one of the constituent schools of the College.
  • Application details: http://class.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Pages/Postdoctoral-Fellowship-Openings.aspx.
  • For information about the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, please visit www.cohass.ntu.edu.sg.
  • Deadline: Jan 18, 2017 (11:59pm Singapore Time).

National Humanities Alliance Foundation (DC) - Post-Doctoral Fellow - The Publicly Engaged Humanities: A Survey of the Field - Deadline: Open Until Filled  (POSITION FILLED 02/05)[]

The National Humanities Alliance Foundation invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow to implement a project entitled “The Publicly Engaged Humanities: A Survey of the Field.” The project will document the full range of publicly engaged humanities work that college and university faculty and students have carried out over the past decade. Working with National Humanities Alliance staff, the Post-Doctoral Fellow will: collect examples of publicly-engaged humanities work; formulate synthetic claims about the state of the field; carry out a comprehensive communications strategy aimed at practitioners and public audiences; and collaborate with a developer to create a visually rich website that features representative project profiles. The project is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Founded in 2013 and located in Washington, D.C., the National Humanities Alliance Foundation is the supporting foundation for the National Humanities Alliance. The National Humanities Alliance is a nonpartisan, non-profit association founded in 1981. Membership in the National Humanities Alliance is open to all organizations with an interest in the humanities. More than 170 organizations are currently members of the NHA, including scholarly societies, humanities research centers, colleges, universities, and organizations of museums, libraries, historical societies, humanities councils, and higher education institutions.

Over the course of the fellowship, the Post-Doctoral Fellow will have the opportunity to develop expertise in the state of the field of publicly engaged humanities work and gain experience in project management and advocacy. This expertise and experience will provide a foundation for subsequent work in both academic and non-academic settings.

Reporting Structure: The Post-Doctoral Fellow reports to the Executive Director.

Term: This is a two-year position.

Job Classification: Exempt

Essential Functions: Conduct research into publicly engaged humanities work based at higher education institutions; Develop in-depth profiles of projects that represent the breadth of the field; Manage development of website that will feature profiles of individual projects and synthetic statements about trends in the field; Represent the project and present its results in a variety of public settings; Additional responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Director.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in a humanities or humanistic social science discipline.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience managing content for large, digital projects; Demonstrated knowledge of and interest in educational and cultural policy; Experience developing and implementing publicly engaged humanities projects; Project management experience; a good ability to choose among alternatives and identify key priorities for work; Excellent writing, interpersonal, organizational, and leadership skills.

Compensation: Salary is competitive. A full benefits package is provided to all NHAF staff members.

To apply: Please submit a substantive cover letter and resume/CV (not to exceed 4 pages) to Stephen Kidd, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance Foundation, at skidd@nhalliance.org. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until someone has been hired. NHAF is an equal opportunity employer.

  • Applications will be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled. [posted 12/21/16]
  • I applied and received an email two days later stating that the position had been filled (02/05/17)

National Museums Scotland (UK:Scot) - Postdoctoral Researcher: Baggage and Belonging, Military Collections and the British Empire (1750-1900) - Deadline: 24 Apr. 2017[]

  • National Museums Scotland is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on the project, Baggage and Belonging, Military Collections and the British Empire (1750-1900). The project is funded by the Art and Humanities Research Council.
  • This is a full-time fixed-term position for three years from the commencement of the project in July 2017.
  • With a background in historical anthropology, material anthropology, imperial history or military history, you will undertake research into collections and archives relating to campaigns in South Asia and Africa (1750-1900) in military museums throughout the UK and at National Museums Scotland. The project is a collaboration between the Departments of World Cultures and Scottish History and Archaeology, and is led by Professor Henrietta Lidchi and Dr Stuart Allan, specialists in museum anthropology and military collections respectively.
  • Your research will support the project objectives: investigating the meaning of these collected artefacts in military organisational culture, and generating new ways of thinking about military collections as material witnesses of encounters between imperial forces and peoples beyond Europe. You will contribute to the academic and wider impact of the project through events, publications and digital dissemination. You will work with our principal project partner the National Army Museum and with the project’s academic Advisory Board.
  • To make an online application for this post and to find further details of this post and of all our vacancies please visit www.nms.ac.uk.
  • If you require further information telephone 0131 247 4094 (answerphone) or email applications@nms.ac.uk, stating reference NMS17/723
  • Closing date for completed applications is Monday, 24 April 2017. It is anticipated that the selection event will take place on/around Wednesday, 31 May 2017
  • The successful candidate would be expected to take up the role on 01 July 2017

New York Botanical Garden (USA:NY) - Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Environmental Humanities, History of Science - Deadline: 13 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Humanities Institute, a division in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden offers a full-time, residential Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for 2017 for current Ph.D. students or recent post-doctoral researchers. Candidates can submit a proposal for research in the environmental humanities that involves interdisciplinary approaches to areas such as landscape design; urban planning; cultural anthropology; history of science; history and philosophy of botany; botanical exploration, arts and illustration. Eligibility: Current Ph.D. candidates and recent post-doctoral researchers (no more than 4 years since graduation), who like to further their studies in an international plant-based research center. Tenure of Fellowship: 9 months (can be activated as early as April 1, but no later than September 6, 2017).
  • The application must be submitted as a single document Microsoft Word or PDF file to: HIfellows@nybg.org.
  • Letters of recommendation, in PDF file format, must be submitted directly from the recommender to the Humanities Institute Research Coordinator, Vanessa Bezemer Sellers, at vsellers@nybg.org All applications will receive an email acknowledgement of receipt.
  • Applications should include
  • Complete curriculum vitae of education, professional experience, honors, awards, and publications
  • Project Proposal, including a 2- 3 page (max. 750 words) statement that provides an overview of the project you plan to include with an explanation of your research’s significance in the field and the manner in which it will contribute to new scholarship in the environmental humanities.
  • Tentative schedule of work to be accomplished during the fellowship
  • Three letters of recommendation to be sent electronically by the recommenders
  • Deadline for materials 13 Jan. 2017
  • Awards will be announced by 24 Feb. 2017.
  • rejection via email 2/24.

New York University (NY) - Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship - NYU Center for the Humanities - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

New York University and the NYU Center for the Humanities are committed to research and education that address all facets of the human experience. NYU and the Center recognize the value of a diverse community in supporting an intellectually challenging and inclusive environment. To this end, the University actively recruits, supports, and trains scholars and students from a diverse range of backgrounds. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Center seeks to appoint one Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow to diversify the field of scholars in the next generation.

AWARD: The NYU Center for the Humanities will award one in-residence fellowship in 2017. Appointment is not tenure eligible and will be for one year beginning September 2017 and ending May 2018. The Fellow will design and teach a variation of the Center’s key undergraduate seminar, On Being Human, under the mentorship of a senior faculty member assigned by the Center. Teaching at another institution and outside employment during the fellowship is prohibited.

ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for the program, applicants must have: Completed their dissertation in a humanities discipline within the last three years; or be professionals transitioning to academic careers (for those in fields for which the doctorate is not the terminal degree).

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Required application materials include: A cover letter; A statement of research, fellowship goals, and identification of one or more academic departments or faculty mentors, that would represent a good fit for the proposed fellowship (4-5 pages maximum); A personal statement detailing the reasons for applying for the fellowship (2-3 pages maximum); A full curriculum vitae; Three letters of reference; and One of the following: a dissertation abstract (postdoctoral applicants); or a statement of how his or her professional experience prepares him or her for a faculty position (professionals) Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Fellowship recipients must provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. NYU does not sponsor visa for this Fellowship.

  • LINK to Apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/37178
  • All application materials, including letter of reference, must be received by November 14, 2016. Awards will be announced on or about February 27, 2017. Questions can be sent to: info@nyuhumanities.org
  • Rejection letter through Interfolio  3/1

New York University (NY) - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology - Deadline: 1 Mar. 2017[]

  • The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship for one year in the history of science and technology, or a related field, with the possibility for renewal for a second year. The Fellowship, which will begin September 1, 2017, will include a $42,000 annual stipend, a $20,000 housing allowance, full medical benefits and assistance with relocation. The research of the successful candidate should be interdisciplinary in nature and complement the work of historians of science already at Gallatin, as we look to strengthen the history-of-science community within New York University and New York City. The successful candidate will advance their own research project, teach two undergraduate courses a year, assist in the execution and development of the NYC History of Science Group, the NYU Science and Society minor and take part in the academic life of NYU and the Gallatin School. All application materials must be submitted electronically. To apply, please visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/40067
  • Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a research proposal on a topic related to the project (750 words maximum), a sample or samples of writing (i.e., article or book chapter), two course proposals, and two letters of recommendation.
  • All application materials must be received by March 1, 2017.
  • Anyone heard anything?
  • Nothing yet... [April 11]
  • Haven't heard a word. Anyone else? [April 18]
    • Nope, not a thing [April 19]
    • Still nothing? Complete silence here [April 30]
    • Nada [May 10]
    • Emailed HR and was told in response that "The search committee has identified a finalist at this time and an offer has been accepted." [May 10]

New York University (NY) - Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow - Cultural Foundations (Ancient / Medieval) - Deadline: 9 April 2017[]

Liberal Studies at New York University invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching fellowship to begin September 1, 2017, pending administrative and budgetary approval.

Liberal Studies is an interdisciplinary program and we welcome applicants from a broad range of backgrounds in the Humanities. Fellows will teach global great works surveys of the arts (with an emphasis on literature, but significant attention to visual/spatial arts and some attention to music) in the ancient and medieval worlds.

The teaching load for a LS postdoctoral faculty fellow is one course for the first semester and two courses for each subsequent semester. Additional responsibilities include working with a faculty mentor on planning and teaching classes, attending a series of required pedagogy workshops, serving as editors on the program’s pedagogy blog, and submitting for publication work related to their research and scholarly interests. Fellows are appointed for two years, renewable for a third year based on performance and programmatic need; they are non-tenure track and non-renewable beyond the third year.

We seek colleagues in the area of Cultural Foundations

PhD in Classics, English, Comparative Literature, Art History, or related field with an emphasis on ancient and medieval periods.

Minimum qualifications: a Ph.D. in hand by the date of appointment; commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching required. Some college-level teaching experience, and publications or other evidences of outstanding scholarship and relevant professional activity are desirable. Successful candidates will have received the Ph.D. no more than three years before taking up the appointment. Salary is $45,000 p.a. plus University benefits. Fellows will be provided with offices, computers, and professional development funds.

Liberal Studies offers a global liberal arts curriculum at sites around the globe in the context of a leading research university. We seek scholar/educators of the highest caliber who embody global diversity as well as that of the United States itself. Liberal Studies strongly encourages applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, and other individuals who are under-represented in the profession, across color, creed, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual identity, or any other legally protected basis. NYU affirms the value of differing perspectives on the world as we strive to build the strongest possible university with the widest reach. To learn more about the FAS commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, please read here: http://as.nyu.edu/page/diversityinitiative

New York University (NY) - Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity - Deadline: 17 Nov. 2016[]

The Program: A strength of New York University (NYU) is that our scholarly community actively engages in a global world. As such, NYU’s community is enriched by individuals reflecting diverse ancestries, perspectives and experiences. NYU recognizes the value of a diverse community in supporting an intellectually challenging and inclusive educational environment. To that end, NYU has created the NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity fellowship program to support promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other under-represented groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU.

Awards: NYU will award up to five in-residence fellowships in 2017. Appointments are for two years and begin September 2017 and end August 2019. Fellows teach a maximum of one course per semester, participate in school and departmental activities, and have mentorship opportunities to prepare them for an academic career. Teaching at another institution and outside employment during the fellowship is prohibited.

Compensation and Allowances: Fellows will be appointed as “Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow” and will receive a $42,000 nine-month salary; an annual housing allowance ($20,000); a research allowance ($2,000); and reimbursement for one-time relocation fees (up to $3,000). Such compensation will be subject to appropriate taxation. The University also provides a benefits package, including medical and dental coverage.

Eligibility: The fellowship program is open to all areas of study at the University. Individuals who meet one of the following criteria are eligible to apply:

1)Individuals who have completed their dissertation within the last three years or who will have completed their dissertation by September 1, 2017; or

2)Professionals transitioning to academic careers (for those in field for which the doctorate is not the terminal degree)

NYU does not sponsor visa application for this Fellowship. Fellowship recipients must provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.

Priority is given to candidates who do not currently hold postdoctoral fellowships or traineeships. As part of its selection process, our selection committee looks for evidence of superior scholarly achievement (honors, awards, publications), commitment to teaching and research, mention of a clear mentorship plan, and promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers.

Application Procedure: Required application materials include (1) a fellowship application; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) a statement of research and goals (including proposed mentorship plan); (4) a personal statement detailing the reasons for applying for the fellowship; (5) three letters of reference from individuals familiar with your scholarly or creative work; and (6) one of the following: a dissertation abstract (postdoctoral applicants); or a statement of how your professional experience prepares you for a faculty position (professionals). Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to reach out to specific faculty members at NYU who might serve as strong mentors prior to completing the application. Similarly, applicants may wish to include brief mention of one or more departments at NYU that might represent a good scholarly fit in the application.

  • Apply at: https://apply.interfolio.com/38119
  • All materials, including letters of reference, must be received by November 17, 2016. Awards will be announced on or about February 15, 2017.
  • any news?
  • Not on my side [2/15] x2
  • still nothing
  • Haven't heard yet, has anyone else?
  • nada
  • Any news? None yet here (2/22). x3
  • ...they are really taking this "about" figuratively.
  • maybe becuase they extended the deadline they are also extending the date of the announcement.
  • still no news here (3/1) x2
  • Who's the admin contact person at NYU? Has anyone asked when applicants will be notified? (3/2)
  • (3/3) Emailed the Provost's Office and got an answer saying results will be announced the week of March 13 [<-- thank you for doing this but what a joke :( ]
  • THANK YOU BRAVE SOUL!!! (3/6)
  • rejection email 3/7 (x2)
  • So no rejection or acceptance email here. Anyone else on the same boat? (03/22)

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)- Research Fellowships in the Humanities- Deadline November 1, 2016[]

The NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute invites scholars who wish to contribute to the vibrant research culture of NYUAD’s new Saadiyat campus to apply for a one- or two-semester residential fellowship in the Humanities, starting September 2017. The Institute welcomes applications from scholars working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. Both distinguished scholars with an established reputation and promising young scholars who are in the beginning of their career can apply for a – senior, or postdoc - research fellowship.

Each fellow receives a competitive stipend commensurate with experience, housing, work/office space on campus, full access to NYUAD's library facilities (with its close connections to NYU's main library in New York), a personal research allowance, administrative support, an opportunity to host a small workshop funded by the Research Institute, and support for travel to and from Abu Dhabi.

Interested scholars can learn more here: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/research/centers-institutes/research-fellowships-in-the-humanities.html

  • Applications are due November 1st, 2016.
  • Rejection via email 2/27

New York University, Shanghai (CHN), Center for Global Asia, Postdoctoral Fellows - Deadline: 1 Jul. 2017?[]

(advert may have typo, is suggesting deadline is 1 Jul 2016)

  • Two postdoctoral positions for the study of intra-Asian interactions are available at the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai. These fellowships are for a period of up to one year, commencing on or after September 1, 2017. The selection process will be based on academic merit and necessary budgetary approvals.
  • Candidates working on any aspect of pre-twentieth century intra-Asian interactions are welcome to apply, but topics related to Indian Ocean ports and port-cities are of particular interest to the Center.
  • Candidates are expected to hold a PhD, preferably completed within the past five years (2012 and after).
  • Round trip airfare to Shanghai, and monthly compensation combining housing support and stipend will be provided by the Center for Global Asia. In addition to working on individual research and publication, the postdoctoral fellows are expected to assist in the activities of the Center. There is no teaching requirement.
  • The Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai (https://shanghai.nyu.edu/research/cga) serves as the hub within the NYU Global Network University system to promote the study of Asian interactions, both historical and contemporary. The overall objective of the Center is to provide global societies with information on the contexts for the reemerging connections between the various parts of Asia through research and teaching. This includes exploring how the polities and societies of Asia have interacted over time and are now beginning to interact again on broad fronts.
  • The deadline for applications is July 1, 2016 and the position will be open until filled. To be considered, applicants should submit curriculum vitae, a 3-5- page research proposal, a writing sample, and two letters of reference, all in PDF format. Please visit our website at http://shanghai.nyu.edu/about/work/fellowships for instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions, please e-mail postdoc.cga@nyu.edu.

Newcastle University (UK) Humanities Research Institute Post-doctoral Research Fellow Deadline: 26 Sept. 2016[]

  • Posts are offered in the research institutes Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice (NICAP), Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI) and Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal (NISR).
  • We wish to appoint an outstanding postdoctoral researcher for a three-year research fellowship hosted by the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI). The successful candidate will pursue a personal research project, contribute to the work of NUHRI more generally, and enhance the profile of humanities research both within and outside Newcastle University.
  • The NUHRI Fellowships are intended primarily to enable early career researchers to undertake a research project of their own design that will lead to an original and significant piece of publishable work. Applications will be considered from candidates working in all areas of the humanities (broadly defined). Projects that are multi- or interdisciplinary in nature are particularly welcome.
  • The post is full-time for three years, beginning in September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.
  • Applicants must have been awarded a doctoral degree since 1 January 2012, or be in expectation that the award will be made by 30 September 2015. Applicants should not already have held a permanent academic appointment.
  • For more information please contact Professor Matthew Grenby, Director of NUHRI: m.o.grenby@ncl.ac.uk
  • Click here for further details
  • Deadline: 26 Sept. 2016.
  • 6 Oct: rejection email.

Northwestern University (IL) - Critical Race Studies Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 30 Jan. 2017[]

Northwestern University seeks candidates for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Race Studies. Individuals trained in the humanities or humanistic social sciences are encouraged to apply. Areas of specialization are open, and applications from scholars whose expertise furthers connections with Northwestern’s ethnic studies programs, including its emergent Native and Indigenous Studies Program, are especially welcome. The successful candidate will be paired with a senior faculty mentor, offer two courses per year, and offer one public lecture per year. They will also be invited to participate in the planning of events and programming related to Critical Race Studies.

This is a benefits eligible, full-time appointment with research funds, starting September 1, 2017. Ph.D. is required by the start of the appointment. Preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated experience working with diverse student communities.

Application Instructions: Applicants should submit a CV, cover letter, a statement of teaching interests, three letters of reference, and writing sample. All material will be submitted online at http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty-searches.html.

  • Deadline to submit applications is January 30, 2017. Recommendation letters must be submitted by February 3, 2017. Inquiries about the search may be directed to nancy.hickey@northwestern.edu.
  • rejection e-mail March 7. x3

Northwestern University (IL) - Environmental Humanities - Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 6 Jan. 2017 - OFFER ACCEPTED[]

The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Environmental Humanities, to run from September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2019. Applications are welcome from scholars who study the environment from a humanities perspective (analyzing, for instance, environmental history; ecological interface and the built environment; ecological/ecocritical approaches to literature, religion, and/or race; animal studies, green studies, or cultural approaches to water and air; environmental justice and/or ethics and sustainability). The Fellow’s appointment will span the Kaplan Institute and a humanistic department or program in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The Fellow must be prepared to teach courses that reflect expertise both in environmental studies and in another substantive field. Candidates must complete all Ph.D. requirements before September 1, 2017.

The fellow will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty mentor and will teach two undergraduate courses per year. The fellow will also give one public lecture per year and be expected to participate in the events at the Kaplan Institute. This position is a two-year, full-time fellowship with benefits.

Website: http://www.humanities.northwestern.edu/people/open-positions/

  • Applications, which will only be accepted online, are due by January 6, 2017. Application materials include a research statement of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship period, CV, writing sample of approximately 25 pages (or comparable evidence of scholarly accomplishment), a sample syllabus, graduate transcripts, and the names and e-mail addresses of three references—including the dissertation advisor—whom we will contact for letters of recommendation. Inquiries about the search may be sent to thomas.burke@northwestern.edu.
  • any news on this one?
  • Not on my end, unfortunately. (2/20/2017) x2
  • Any news on this?
  • I sent them an email. There was a very nice reply to say that the search is still ongoing and no further information can be divulged. 
  • 03/02: Skype interview request sent via email
  • 03/16: Rejection email - offer has been accepted

Northwestern University (USA: IL) - Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship - Contextual Study of Science, Technology or Medicine - Deadline: 9 Jan. 2017 - OFFER MADE[]

  • The Science in Human Culture Program (SHC) at Northwestern University invites applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships in the contextual study of science, technology, or medicine, to run September 1, 2017 – August 31, 2019.
  • Two Fellows will be selected. Applications are welcome from scholars who study science, technology, or medicine in any region of the world and from any of a range of historical, philosophical, sociological, anthropological, or literary perspectives. Each Fellow will be affiliated with both the SHC program and an appropriate disciplinary department in Weinberg College (History, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, etc.).
  • Fellows will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty mentor. They will also design and teach two undergraduate courses each year, over the course of the three-quarter-long teaching year. (Typically these will be one seminar and one lecture course, to be listed by the affiliated department.) Fellows will also help organize and run the SHC visiting lecturer series. They are expected to be active participants in intellectual activities in both SHC and their affiliated departments and to deliver one public lecture each year.
  • Applicants with a Ph.D. (or equivalent doctoral degree) must have completed it after September 1, 2012. Applicants without a Ph.D. (or equivalent doctoral degree) must complete all the requirements for the degree before September 1, 2017. At time of application, the applicant must be available for the full two-year term. The stipend is $56,500 in the first year of the fellowship. In addition, the Fellow is eligible for $3,500 per year to fund research and conference travel, and up to $1,500 for allowable relocation expenses in the first year. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position.
  • In order to ensure full consideration, all application materials other than letters of recommendation must be received by January 9, 2017. Letters of recommendation are due no later than January 16, 2017. Because your references will not receive submission instructions until you submit your completed application, we recommend that you submit your application well before the deadline.
  • received kind email saying they received over 175 applications and if you have heard nothing by March 1, you are unlikely to be in the running. x2
  • ^^did everyone receive this? I assume so. I did and I don't think I'm very competitive for this since I come from an English program instead of HMed.
  • ^^ yes, it was a nice email.  There was probably a pile of immediate discards--incomplete apps, obviously unqualified apps, or apps that didn't address the program in any discernible way.  The 175 is everyone left after this 1st clean-up of the application pool, I bet.  Anyone know how many positions are open:1 or 2??
  • "Two Fellows will be selected."
  • So, we're a week away from 3/1 now. Has anyone been contacted about finalist/semi-finalist status?
  • Not yet (as of 2/22)
  • ...anyone? (2/27) x2
  • I wrote to Northwestern last week and was told that there is a long short-list (which I didn't make) but that finalists wouldn't be selected "for another ten days or so." That was on the 22nd... Hope that helps... Good luck to everyone else!
  • Thank you for updating us! Do you know if the long short list was announced by email to whoever is still being considered, or is everyone still waiting for the finalists? 3/1
  • As of last night they are still in "the final stages of the selection process," according to a very kind reply I got when I asked about my status (which is not on the long short-list). [3/1]
  • Okay, thank you for updating us and good luck on the other applications! <3 3/1
  • Has anyone been contacted? [3/7]
  • Still nothing. Wrote to inquire about status but have not received reply. [3/10]
  • Has an offer been made? 3/15
  • Radio silence here. - [3/20]
  • Offer made [3/20]

Novo Nordisk Foundation (DEN) - 4 Post-doctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 18 Jan. 2017 - OFFER MADE[]

  • The Novo Nordisk Foundation calls for applications for Mads Øvlisen Postdoctoral Fellowships within art history, practice-based artistic research and art & natural sciences. Four fellowships in total are available for funding. Applicants must be anchored at a university, museum or other knowledge institution in Denmark during the grant period. The fellowships run for two years and amount to DKK 1.2 million covering salary, operational costs and administrative fee.
  • Applications must be completed and submitted using the foundation's application system, which can be accessed via the foundation's website.
  • Deadline for applications is 18 January 2017.
  • More information, guidelines for the application process and eligibility can be found on the foundation's website.
  • Contact: Henriette Balslev, Grant Administrator, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, E-mail: hbe@novo.dk, Phone: +45 35276622
  • 24/03 Offer made

Oregon State University (OR) - Research Associate (Post Doc) in Film Studies - Deadline: 1 March 2017[]

The School of Writing, Literature, and Film and the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University invite applications for a 9-month, one-year Research Associate (Post Doc) positThe School of Writing, Literature, and Film and the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University invite applications for a 9-month, one-year Research Associate (Post Doc) position in film studies, with particular emphasis in any of the following: (a) postcolonial, global, and/or transnational approaches; (b) TV, digital, and/or convergence media; (c) critical race theory. The position provides a $43,002 salary, with an additional $3000 allocated for research travel and $2000 for moving expenses. OSU provides full medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as a comprehensive retirement plan.

Housed as a fellow within the Center for the Humanities, the incumbent will conduct independent research and participate in scholarly exchange with the other scholars in a variety of humanities fields, also in residence at the Center. In the School of Writing, Literature, and FIlm, the incumbent will teach one course for each of three ten-week terms, including FILM 220 (Topics in Difference, Power, and Discrimination), FILM 265 (Films for the Future), and FILM 480/580 (Studies in Film, Culture, and Society). Over the course of the year, the incumbent will attend meetings of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film as well as of the Film and Visual Studies area.

Oregon State is a leading research university located in Corvallis, 90 miles south of Portland and an hour from the Cascades or the Pacific Coast in the heart of Western Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Founded in 1868, Oregon State is the state’s Land Grant university and is one of only two universities in the U.S. to have Sea Grant, Space Grant and Sun Grant designations. Oregon State is also the only university in Oregon to hold both the Carnegie Foundation’s top designation for research institutions and its prestigious Community Engagement classification.

Complete applications include:

1. Cover letter describing research to be pursued at OSU and describing teaching experience

2.Current C.V.

3.Transcript of Graduate Work

4. Three Letters of Recommendation (uploaded directly by referees according to instructions on website). When applying, you will be asked to provide the email address and telephone number for (3) referees who will be sent a secure quicklink that will allow them to upload the requested letters of reference on your behalf.

For additional information please contact: Jon Lewis at jlewis@oregonstate.edu

OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences (CZE) - Researcher, Japanese History and Society - Deadline: 13 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of the East Asia, is offering a position for researchers in the field of Japanese history and society.
  • Eligibility: This position is open to researchers with a PhD degree in Japanese Studies, Japanese History, History of Far Eastern Regions, or related fields. The candidates must hold their PhD degree at the time of applying for the position or guarantee that they will receive it before the beginning of the position. Currently, we are NOT looking for specialists on literature, religion, philosophy or art history.
  • Research focus: History of Japan – pre-modern, modern or contemporary.
  • We expect candidates with experiences in grant activities, a proven publishing record, an ability to work with relevant sources based on the sound knowledge of Japanese and fluent English as a prerequisite for both working in an international environment of the institute as well as publishing. Terms: The opening of the position is scheduled for the first or second quarter of 2017 (the details can be negotiated). The duration of the position is 3 years with a possibility of extension. The Institute will provide an office space, computer, proofreading services, library services (including a modest amount for books purchase), and funding for conference or research trips abroad. Researchers are expected to be in residence at the Oriental Institute in Prague. During their residence, researchers are required to produce academic publications and participate in Oriental Institute seminars and other events. This is a non-teaching position. The selected candidate may expect a gross monthly salary of 1,200-1,700 EUR, depending on experiences. We reserve the right not to fill this position.
  • Application: Please submit all of the following materials:
  • 1) CV including Publication List;
  • 2) Project proposal: In three to five pages, double spaced 12 pt. font, please explain the project you would undertake in the starting stage of your residence. In addition, please include a separate bibliography of works to demonstrate how this project relates to the current state of research.
  • 3) Writing Samples: a. Please include a writing sample of no more than 20 pages; b. Please include a Dissertation Abstract of no more than 2 pages.
  • 4) Two letters of Recommendation: a. Please list the names, addresses and occupations of the two persons, not related to you, who will submit letters of recommendation on your behalf. Letters of recommendation must be submitted by the deadline for the application to be complete.
  • Deadline for applications: January 13, 2017
  • Notification: January/February 2017

Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciencees (CZE)- Researcher, Korean History and Society - Deadline: 13 Jan. 2017[]

  • The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of the East Asia, is offering a position for researchers in the field of Korean history and society.
  • Eligibility: This position is open to researchers with a PhD degree in Korean Studies, Korean History, Far Eastern History, or related fields. The candidates must hold their PhD degree at the time of applying for the position or guarantee that they will receive it before the beginning of the position. Currently, we are NOT looking for specialists on literature, religion, philosophy or art history.
  • Research focus: History of Korea – pre-modern, modern or contemporary.
  • We expect candidates with experiences in grant activities, a proven publishing record, an ability to work with relevant sources based on the sound knowledge of Korean and fluent English as a prerequisite for both working in an international environment of the institute as well as publishing. Terms: The opening of the position is scheduled for the first or second quarter of 2017 (the details can be negotiated). The duration of the position is 3 years with a possibility of extension. The Institute will provide an office space, computer, proofreading services, library services (including a modest amount for books purchase), and funding for conference or research trips abroad. Researchers are expected to be in residence at the Oriental Institute in Prague. During their residence, researchers are required to produce academic publications and participate in Oriental Institute seminars and other events. This is a non-teaching position. The selected candidate may expect a gross monthly salary of 1,200-1,700 EUR, depending on experiences. We reserve the right not to fill this position.
  • Application: Please submit all of the following materials:
  • 1) CV including Publication List;
  • 2) Project proposal: In three to five pages, double spaced 12 pt. font, please explain the project you would undertake in the starting stage of your residence. In addition, please include a separate bibliography of works to demonstrate how this project relates to the current state of research.
  • 3) Writing Samples: a. Please include a writing sample of no more than 20 pages; b. Please include a Dissertation Abstract of no more than 2 pages.
  • 4) Two letters of Recommendation: a. Please list the names, addresses and occupations of the two persons, not related to you, who will submit letters of recommendation on your behalf. Letters of recommendation must be submitted by the deadline for the application to be complete.
  • Deadline for applications: January 13, 2017
  • Notification: January/February 2017

Pennsylvania State University (PA) - Richards Civil War Era Center - Postdoctoral Fellowship - African-American History - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016[]

The Richards Civil War Era Center and the Africana Research Center invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in African-American history, beginning August 2017. All research interests spanning the origins of slavery through the Civil Rights movement will receive favorable consideration. Proposals that mesh with the Richards Center’s interests in slavery, abolition, and emancipation, as well as comparative or Atlantic history, are especially welcome. During their residency, the fellow will have no teaching or administrative responsibilities. He or she will be matched with a mentor, attend professional development sessions and other relevant events, and will be expected to take an active part in Penn State’s community of Africana researchers. The fellow also will invite two senior scholars to campus to read and comment on the fellow’s project. Successful applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. within the previous four academic years. Salary/benefit package is competitive. To be considered for this position, submit complete application packets including a cover letter describing your research and goals for the fellowship year, a curriculum vita (6 page maximum), and a writing sample of no more than 30 double-spaced pages.

  • Review of materials will begin November 15, 2016 and continue until the position has been filled. Apply online at https://psu.jobs/job/66440 Three letters of reference should be addressed to the attention of the ESSS Selection Committee and submitted as email attachments to richardscenter@psu.edu. Please direct questions about the process via e-mail to richardscenter@psu.edu.

Pennsylvania State University (PA) - Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016 - SHORTLISTING[]

The Africana Research Center invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in any aspect of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, beginning August 2017. During their residency, fellows have no teaching or administrative responsibilities, though they may request a teaching assignment. They will be matched with a mentor, attend professional development sessions and other relevant events, and be expected to be active in Penn State’s community of Africana researchers. Successful applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. within the previous four academic years. Salary/benefit package is competitive. To be considered for this position, submit complete application packets including cover letter describing your research and goals for the fellowship year, a curriculum vita (6 page maximum), and a writing sample of no more than 30 double-spaced pages. Apply online at https://psu.jobs/job/66446.

Three letters of reference should be addressed to the attention of the ESSS Selection Committee and submitted as e-mail attachments to africanacenter@la.psu.edu. Please direct questions about the process via e-mail to africanacenter@la.psu.edu.

  • Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2016, and continue until the position is filled.
  • 12/13 Shortlisted candidates notified for a February campus visit x1

Pennsylvania State University (PA) - Visiting Fellowships at the Center for Humanities and Information - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017[]

The Center for Humanities and Information at The Pennsylvania State University seeks up to four visiting fellows for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years.

Focusing on critical and theoretical approaches to information, the Center aims to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars who read and think widely across fields, geographical space, and historical time. Fellowships are awarded at two levels: Senior Fellowships, appropriate for scholars employed in tenure-track positions at any level, are for one year, and carry no teaching obligation; Junior (postdoctoral) Fellowships are for two years, and require fellows to teach one course per year. Salaries for both Senior and Junior Fellows are $50,000; support also includes research/travel funding and a benefits package. Fellows have access to research design support, as well as to grant-writing and job market workshops, career mentoring, and archival/library support and research consultation. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Penn State’s University Park campus and to participate in the Center’s colloquia and other events.

Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent scholarly credentials (obtained by July 30, 2017) and a record of peer-reviewed work. Emerging scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply. CHI welcomes co-applications from groups of two or more people working on a single project. The fellowships are also open to projects oriented towards library and information science; for such projects a master’s degree in library/information science qualifies as “equivalent scholarly credentials.”

To apply, upload a letter of application, a CV (please include names/emails of three references), and a writing sample of 25-30pp.  Applicants for Junior Fellowships should also upload a one-page description of an undergraduate course they might teach in their field of expertise. Visit the CHI website at http://chi.la.psu.edu/

Apply online at https://psu.jobs/job/66462

Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. 

  • Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2017, and continue until the positions are filled.
  • 2/15 kindly worded rejection email (2/16 - same)
  • I haven't heard anything; neither accepted nor rejected. Anyone else in the same boat? (2/16 -- rejection came this morning, 2/17) Yup, in the same boat. Maybe they haven't finished making their selections yet. Nothing here (2/20).
    • It's roughly 11:30 EST, and I have not heard anything, either. Has anyone heard good news? [2/17]
  • 2/17 rejection e-mail
  • Any updates? (3/28)

Princeton University (NJ) - Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) - Visiting Research Scholar or Postdoctoral Research Associate - Deadline: 30 Nov. 2016[]

Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) seeks visiting scholars and/or post-doctoral or more senior research associates for the 2017-2018 academic year. The Center supports empirical research on democratic political processes and institutions. Applications are welcome from political scientists and scholars in related social science disciplines at any career stage, but any applicant who has yet to complete the PhD must have turned in a final draft of the dissertation by July 1, 2017.

Each scholar will pursue research and contribute to the intellectual life of the Center, the Department of Politics, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. CSDP scholars must be in residence at Princeton during the academic terms, and are expected to participate in the weekly CSDP seminars and related weekly research seminars in the Department of Politics, as well as occasional lectures, conferences, and other events. Successful candidates will receive a competitive salary (those who hold faculty appointments at other academic institutions normally receive one-half their academic-year salaries for the appointment period, but this may vary depending on level of support from the home institution), applicable Princeton University benefits, a taxable moving allowance, and a research allowance.

Please note that (only) candidates who currently hold faculty appointments and are applying to visit CSDP for 2017-2018 while on leave from their current institution must apply directly to CSDP at http://www.princeton.edu/csdp/apply/ . All others must apply online at https://jobs.princeton.edu -- Requisition #1600740 and submit a cover letter (optional), CV, a 3-5 page (double-spaced) statement of research interest/research proposal, a writing sample, and the names and email addresses of two references.

  • The deadline for receipt of complete applications, including letters of recommendation from those references, is November 30, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Questions? Email csdp@princeton.edu or phone Michele Epstein, Assistant Director of CSDP, 609-258-6493.
  • Rejection via email  (Feb 6)

Princeton University (NJ) - Center for Digital Humanities - Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: March 1 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Princeton University invites applications for a two-year Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, starting in July 2017. As a member of the CDH team, the Digital Humanities Fellow will devote 50% time to participating in the life of the Center, which includes: collaborating with faculty, graduate students, librarians, programmers, and designers on DH projects, providing consultations, offering workshops, and attending regular staff meetings and CDH events. The successful candidate will be required to teach at least one but no more than two digital humanities courses during the two year term of their fellowship, subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, and will carry the title of lecturer when teaching. The Digital Humanities Fellow will have 50% time to develop his or her own research project during non-teaching terms and will have CDH staff guidance on the project. The successful candidate is an innovative scholar who will bring theoretical, methodological, and technical expertise to the CDH community. Demonstrated experience working on digital humanities projects, as well as familiarity with the main DH trends, research tools and technologies, is required. Expertise in data visualization and/or network analysis is preferred. The Fellow must show excellence in teaching, and must have skill and interest in advising students and colleagues in Digital Humanities work. The Fellow must have the ability to work collaboratively, and have excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Untenured scholars who received a PhD within the last three years are eligible to apply. The Digital Humanities Fellowship is a 12-month position, with the second year renewed upon satisfactory performance. The salary is $60,000 per year. Fellows are eligible for up to $3,000 in relocation expenses which is considered taxable income. In addition to salary, the Digital Humanities Fellow receives reimbursement (up to $2,000 per academic year) for research travel expenses. Before their departure, the Fellow is required to submit a report on their scholarly activities at Princeton.

  • Applications submitted by March 1, 2017 will receive priority. All applications should include (1) cover letter with title and summary (200 words) of proposed digital humanities research project; (2) curriculum vitae; (3) a sample syllabus for an undergraduate-level introduction to digital humanities course; and (4) names and contact information of three referees.
  • 3/15 contacted for initial interview

Princeton University (NJ) - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP) - Deadline: 9 Dec. 2016[]

Princeton University and Harvard University jointly founded the fellowship program for the advanced study of China's international relations, the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP), in 2005. The program's co-directors are Thomas J. Christensen of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Alastair Iain Johnston of Harvard's Government Department. The China and the World Program supports research that integrates theoretical innovations in the field of international relations with the rigorous study of China's interactions with countries, regions, institutions, and non-state actors.

In 2017-2018, the program will award several one-year postdoctoral or more senior research associate positions. Scholars should have defended their dissertations in the past five years. Preference will be given to scholars who are currently working on revising their Ph.D. thesis for publication as a book, or who are just beginning a second major project. Fellows are expected to participate actively in the intellectual life of the institution of residence. This position is subject to the university's background check policy.

Application Process: Applicants must apply online and submit the following: - 1-2 page cover letter that briefly states your interest in the program, your background, and a summary of your research project - CV - project description - 2 scholarly writing samples - Unofficial transcripts from all graduate-level degrees - Contact information for two references.

Successful applicants will be notified of the outcome of their applications in January/February 2017 and a public announcement will be made by March/April 2017.

For more information about the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, please visit its website at http://www.princeton.edu/cwp or email cwp@princeton.edu.

Essential Qualifications: A PhD is required before starting the fellowship. The university will not be able to hire anyone for this position without a PhD. Only applicants working on some aspect of China's relations with the outside world that supports CWP's mission need apply.

Princeton University (NJ) - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS): “Migration: People and Cultures across Borders” - Deadline: 9 Jan. 2017[]

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) invites applications for 1 to 2 postdoctoral research associate appointments for the 2017–18 year (12 months), beginning September 1, 2017. Postdoctoral associates would participate in the activities of the PIIRS research community “Migration: People and Cultures across Borders.” The research community, which consists of a multidisciplinary group of Princeton faculty and graduate students, aims to advance the scholarly study of migration as a global, many-faceted phenomenon. The group studies fundamental political, legal and demographic issues (and solutions sought), focusing primarily on contemporary concerns, although historical perspectives are also welcome. Among the themes of interest are migration and the politics of nationhood (including identities, race, gender issues, and borders); statelessness and refugees; language, culture, and the arts. For more information on the research community and its activities, see the PIIRS website at http://piirs.princeton.edu/research-community/migration-people-and-cultures-across-borders.

We seek candidates from a mix of disciplines who would be expected to participate regularly in the activities of the intellectual community and to be engaged in scholarly or creative work on a topic related to the community’s broader theme. Candidates must have completed their doctoral degree by the beginning of the appointment. All postdoctoral positions are subject to the University’s background check policy.

To apply, please link to https://jobs.princeton.edu, position requisition number 1600897. Applications must include: (1) A cover letter; (2) A statement of plans for work and their relation to the community’s theme (under 1,000 words); (3) A current curriculum vitae; (4) Names and contact information for two references; and (5) A representative sample of recent work (under 25 written pages or equivalent in the candidate’s professional medium; for artistic work, links within a PDF preferred). The work sample need not be directly related to the theme of migration.

  • Application deadline: January 9, 2017. For more information on PIIRS, see http://piirs.princeton.edu/. Questions about the application process for these positions may be directed to Beate Witzler (bwitzler@princeton.edu).
  • Rejection email:  2/10 (x3)

Princeton University (NJ) - Princeton Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 15 Sept. 2016 - CAMPUS INTERVIEW STAGE[]

Online Application Form Opens August 15, 2016. Application postmark deadline: September 15, 2016.

The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for the 2017-2020 Fellowship competition.

Four three-year Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded this year. The stipend for each of the three years of the fellowship will be approximately $84,500. In addition, fellows are provided with a shared office, a personal computer, a research account of $5,000 a year, access to university grants, benefits and other resources. Fellows are expected to reside in or near Princeton during the academic year in order to attend weekly seminars and participate fully in the intellectual life of the Society.

If you have already applied to the Princeton Society of Fellows, you may not apply a second time. All candidates will be informed of the status of their application by the end of January, 2017. Interviews will take place in early February. The Society will reimburse the cost of travel and lodging associated with the interview. Names of fellowship winners will be posted on the Society of Fellows' website in July 2017.

Applicants may apply for one or more fellowship(s) pertinent to their research and teaching.

1. Open Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (OPEN): Open to all disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows (see list in section below). The fellowship’s responsibilities include both teaching (one course each semester for two years, one course in the third year) and research. The Fellow will either participate in a team-taught course or offer a self-designed course, in the host department or in an interdisciplinary Program. In addition, the Fellow normally does some advising in his/her specialty or related areas.
2. Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (HUM): This fellowship is sponsored jointly by the Humanities Council and Society of Fellows, and is open to candidates in humanities disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows (see list in section below). The fellowship’s responsibilities include both teaching (one course each semester for two years, one course in the third year) and research. In the fall semester of the first two years, the Fellow will join faculty from various fields in the humanities to teach "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture (Antiquity to the late Middle Ages). In the spring semester of the first year, the Fellow will offer a self-designed course in the host department or interdisciplinary Program. In the spring semester of the second and third years, the Fellow will offer an interdisciplinary undergraduate course in Humanistic Studies. This course might take a more intensive look at materials from “Approaches to Western Culture,” or offer an interdisciplinary approach to the Fellow's own area of humanities expertise. The Fellow will be called upon to lead or contribute to occasional activities designed to build a sense of community among undergraduates in the Humanistic Studies Program—the Program offers local and international field trips, an undergraduate society, workshops and other opportunities.
3. Fellowship in LGBT Studies (LGBT): Fund for Reunion (the LGBT Alumni Association of Princeton University) and the Society of Fellows are co-sponsors of a fellowship to be awarded to a scholar working on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender issues in any of the disciplines represented in the Society (see list below), and particularly in new and emerging fields. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to pursue research in any scholarly areas that will make a positive contribution toward public discourse around contemporary LGBT issues. In each of the first two years, the successful candidate pursues research half-time and teaches one course each semester, either team-taught or self-designed, in the host department or an interdisciplinary Program. In addition, the fellow normally does some advising in his/her specialty or related areas. In the third year, the fellow teaches only one course and devotes the final semester to full-time research. The LGBT fellow is also encouraged to share research interests with the wider campus community, with the aim of creating a sustained dialogue on issues related to LGBT equality.
4. Fellowship in Race and/or Ethnicity Studies (RACE): The Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Study of Race and/or Ethnicity is sponsored jointly by the offices of the President and Dean of the Faculty of Princeton University, and the Society of Fellows. The Fellow will be expected to pursue research that explores the discursive forms and meanings of concepts of race and ethnicity in one or more selected disciplines in the humanities and affiliated social sciences (see list below). The selection committee particularly welcomes applications from candidates whose scholarship is driven by innovative, interdisciplinary, and historical ways of thinking, including interests in pre-modern and non-western cultures. In each of the first two years, the successful candidate pursues research half-time and teaches one self-designed course each semester, either in the host department or an interdisciplinary Program. In addition, the fellow normally does some advising in his/her specialty or related areas. In the third year, the fellow teaches one course in the fall semester and devotes the final semester to full-time research.

Please note the Society's dates of degree eligibility. These are firm dates with no exceptions:

a) Candidates already holding the PhD degree at time of application: You must have received your degree between January 1, 2015 and September 15, 2016. The receipt of the PhD is determined by the date on which you fulfilled all requirements for the degree at your institution, including the defense and filing of the dissertation.

b) Candidates who are ABD (All But Dissertation) at time of application: If you will not meet the September 15, 2016, deadline for receipt of PhD but are expected to have fulfilled all conditions for the degree, including defense and filing of dissertation, by June 15, 2017, you may still apply for a postdoctoral fellowship provided you have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation (approximately half). We ask that you include in your dossier a letter confirming your “progress to degree” from either your Department Chair or your Director of Graduate Studies (see details of letter below).

Please note that candidates awarded a fellowship will be asked to provide a document from either the Registrar or Dean of their Graduate School by June 15, 2017, to confirm completion of all requirements for the PhD. Recipients of doctorates in Education (Ed.D. or Ph.D. degrees), doctorates of Jurisprudence, and holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University are not eligible to apply. If you have already applied to the Princeton Society of Fellows, you may not apply a second time. We therefore recommend that candidates wait until they have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation (approximately half) before applying.

Priority will be given to candidates who have received no more than one year of research-only funding past the Ph.D. degree. Fellowships will be awarded to candidates at the beginning of their academic career. Candidates must have already demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and excellence in teaching. Their work should also show evidence of unusual promise. The Society has a particular interest in fostering innovative interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities and social sciences. US citizens and non-US citizens, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability, are eligible to apply. The Society of Fellows seeks a diverse and international pool of applicants and especially welcomes candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. Fellows must reside in or near Princeton during the academic year of their fellowship term in order that they can attend weekly seminars and other events on campus.

Application Procedures: Candidates should review carefully the following guidelines before completing the online application form and mailing the dossier materials. (We do not accept dossiers submitted electronically.)

Applicants may apply for one or more fellowship(s) pertinent to their research and teaching by checking the relevant boxes on the Application Form. It is not necessary to submit separate applications for each fellowship.

Candidates who have previously applied for the Society of Fellows' postdoctoral fellowships may not re-apply.

Please mail the following dossier items, single-sided, on 8.5 in. x 11 in. paper, in the order listed below. Number and staple pages for each item, and include your name and title of the item at the top of the first page of each. Please submit only the requested items (without binders or folders). Transcripts of courses and grades are not necessary.

Please note that we are not able to accept any substitutions of dossier components after the postmark deadline. However, if you need to make small updates to your current CV (e.g. new publication, change of referee), please email these changes only to fellows@princeton.edu and we will add the message to your dossier.

Checklist of dossier items (See below for Details)

Confidential letters of recommendation should be emailed directly to the Society by three referees, or by a dossier service, on or before the postmark deadline.

The following dossier items (single-sided) should be mailed by the candidate: Completed application form (print-out of online form); Cover letter; Curriculum vitae; For ABD (All But Dissertation) candidates only: letter of “Progress to Degree” from either Department Chair or Director of Graduate Studies (see text below); Dissertation abstract; Writing sample: one chapter of the dissertation or one published article; Research proposal; Two course proposals. In addition, confidential letters of recommendation should be emailed or mailed directly to the Society by three referees, or by a dossier service, on or before the postmark deadline.

  • Mail the complete dossier by September 15, 2016 (postmark deadline) to: Princeton University, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Attention: Search Committee, 10 Joseph Henry House, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. Candidates outside the USA must use a trackable mail service to ensure prompt delivery. We recommend that candidates within the USA also ask for a tracking number when they mail their dossier.
  • Has anyone heard anything yet?
  • FWIW, last year, interviews were not invited until mid-January. So there is probably more time to wait on this.... [12/12]
  • Any news?  At this point no news means ... ?!?  If anyone has heard it would be really appreciated! [01/17]
  • Back in November they sent a confirmation that they had received my application and said then that candidates selected for interview would be informed by the end of January [01/17]
  • Received email notifcation of finalist status. Campus interviews being scheduled. [01/18]
  • Let me guess -- they're not going to bother notifying non-finalists that they've been rejected?
  • Given how many applications they receive, I'll expect my rejection letter to arrive sometime next week. 
  • Rejection letter received by email [x2]. From 776 applications the committee had selected a number of possible candidates for the four postdoctoral fellowships. Good luck for semi-finalists. [01/23]
  • Received email saying that finalists had been chosen, but deliberations are not yet complete. Sounds like a long list/wait list. They say deliberations will not finish until 02/24. [01/25]
  • Received rejection e-mail, explaining that there were 56 semifinalists. Judging from the above, looks like some of the seminfinalists are still on a waitlist. Good luck to all! [1/25]
  • Wonder how many of the 56 semifinalists (!) they invite for campus interviews. Does anyone know?
  • 24 finalists, presumably 6 for each spot.

Purdue University (IN) - Tecumseh Scholars - Postdocs for 2017-2018 - Open Until Filled[]

Purdue University invites applicants for two postdoctoral positions for the 2017-2018 academic year. A second year of funding could be available depending upon discipline specific interests of the applicant. We seek candidates who will have completed their PhD program before August 2017, with demonstrated potential for scholarly contribution including publications. Potential college placements include: Agriculture, Engineering, Health and Human Sciences, Krannert School of Management, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Science, or Veterinary Medicine. The Tecumseh Postdoctoral program was established to support Native American participation in the University at all levels. Scholars in this program will be expected to interact with our vibrant community of Native and Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students, including participating in ongoing programs coordinated through the Purdue Native American Educational and Cultural Center (http://www.purdue.edu/naecc/). A current initiative of the NAECC is developing and strengthening existing partnerships with Native communities to better serve their students and their practical concerns. Postdoctoral scholars will be expected to mainly conduct research to address fundamental questions in their area of expertise, but also to participate in the above programs by, for example, presenting and participating in seminars, and mentoring students.

The Tecumseh Scholars program was created through the Provost’s Diversity Transformation Awards, an initiative aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion at Purdue University. The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnerships at Purdue (funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) has produced 21 alumni who are now actively engaged in academia, industry, and tribal affairs across the United States. Purdue has a wide range of networking, professional development, and community engagement opportunities for postdoctoral scholars, and successful applicants will be based in a collaborating department appropriate to their disciplines. We are especially interested in candidates who are considering academic careers and who could later apply for a faculty position. Applications should include a pdf file comprised of a cover letter, CV, copies of recent publications, names and contact information of individuals for 3 reference letters, a titled statement of proposed research interests, identification of home department and potential faculty collaborators at Purdue, and a statement describing participation in diversity initiatives, and involvement in Native American communities. Salary is $50,000 plus benefits. All materials should be emailed to Professor Dawn G. Marsh (dmarsh@purdue.edu).

  • Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Purdue University is an EOE/AA employer. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

Queen Mary, University of London (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Deadline: 23 Jul. 2017[]

  • A two-year Postdoctoral Research Assistant post is available at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.
  • The post is a full time, fixed term appointment for 2 years, with an expected start date of October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. Consideration will be given to applicants wishing to work on a part time basis.
  • The Postdoctoral Research Assistant will work with Dr. Manuela Perrotta and her research team on the project “Remaking the Human Body: Biomedical Imaging Technologies, Professional and Lay Visions”. This is a Wellcome Trust funded research project (2016/2020) concerning the development and diffusion of biomedical imaging technologies in the field of reproductive technologies. Placing biomedical imaging within a cultural, social, political and organizational context, this project engages with significant questions related to the current understanding of the human body for both professionals and lay people.
  • The post holder will participate in an ongoing investigation on biomedical imaging in IVF. In particular, the case of Time Lapse Photography in IVF is explored by taking a performative and processual approach, which includes the exploration of its uses in situated context. The case study takes a qualitative approach, using mixed methods. These include face-to-face and focus group interviews with both IVF professionals and patients, documentary analysis, and observations in NHS sites and private clinics. The post holder will be responsible, under the general guidance of the Principal Investigator (Dr. Manuela Perrotta), for conducting part of the data collection (especially observations and interviews with IVF professionals and tool developers) and analysis, drafting and submission of original research article, and contributing to the development of public engagement activities.
  • The successful candidate will have completed a PhD (or have a doctorate under examination) in a relevant social science subject (Sociology, Organisation Studies, Science and Technology Studies, History of Science/Medicine, Anthropology of Medicine, or a related field) or equivalent research experience. We are seeking an outstanding interdisciplinary researcher, preferably with experience relevant to professional vision in a healthcare setting. They will have experience in conducting qualitative research, and ideally of undertaking case studies in a healthcare setting. A high level of communication and writing skills are also essential. Applications should include:
  • a CV;
  • a brief outline of how the candidate intends to contribute to the project;
  • a writing sample (journal article or thesis chapter).
  • For more information about the project please visit [1].
  • Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. Where required this may include entry clearance or continued leave to remain under the Points Based Immigration Scheme.
  • Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Manuela Perrotta at m.perrotta@qmul.ac.uk or on +44 (0) 020 7882 6542.
  • Deadline: 23 Jul. 2017
  • Interviews are expected to be held in September 2017.

Queens University Belfast (UK:NI) - Research Fellow - Performing Restoration Shakespeare - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

  • This post is available for three years to be an active member of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’, assisting the Principal Investigator (Professor Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast) and the International Co-Investigator (Professor Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, USA) in the planning, delivery and evaluation of research and impact activities.
  • Anticipated interview date: Wednesday 7 December 2016
  • Apply online at www.qub.ac.uk/jobs. For further information or assistance contact the Personnel Department, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 9097 3044 or email on personnel@qub.ac.uk.
  • Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016.

Queens University Belfast (UK:NI) - Research Fellow, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics - Deadline: 7 Apr. 2017[]

  • The post holder will conduct archival research on the transnational dimensions of Irish nationalism as part of the AHRC funded project ‘A Global History of Irish Revolution, 1916-1923’. He/she will also assist the research team based at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh in delivering the publication, impact and Knowledge Exchange outputs identified as part of the project. This post is for 3 years starting in September 2017.
  • Anticipated interview date: Tuesday 16 May 2017
  • Apply online at www.qub.ac.uk/jobs. For further information or assistance contact the Personnel Department, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 9097 3044 or email on personnel@qub.ac.uk.
  • The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability.
  • Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

Rice University (TX) - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Architecture and the Humanities - Deadline: March 3, 2017[]

Rice University's Humanities Research Center, in association with the School of Architecture and the Department of Art History, is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow with a terminal degree in the history or theory of modern or contemporary architecture, including urban history. Aside from developing or continuing individual or collaborative research projects, the fellow will play a pedagogic role in the School of Architecture and/or the Department of Art History, participate in core history/theory courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in architecture as well as teach and informally advise both graduate and undergraduate students in art history. Total teaching obligations will not exceed one course per semester in addition to occasional participation in collaboratively taught courses. Selection of the fellow will be made on the basis of his/her scholarly record and career trajectory.

This is a full-time, benefits eligible, one-year appointment, renewable for a second year, with an annual salary of $55,000 and allowances for research and relocation to Houston.

Applicants from any humanistic, architectural, or urban design discipline are eligible to apply and must have received their Ph.D. no earlier than July 1, 2009. The fellow will be expected to reside in or near Houston during the academic year in order to fully engage in the broader Rice University community.

Rice University (TX) - 2017-18 Rice Seminar (Forgery and the Ancient: Art, Agency, Authorship) - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows - Deadline: 5 Dec. 2016[]

The Humanities Research Center hosts yearlong residential postdoctoral fellowships at Rice University for outstanding junior scholars. The program is designed to encourage interdisciplinary teaching and research, facilitate new research communities at Rice, and prepare junior scholars for future faculty positions.

The Rice Seminars are designed to promote humanistic research, broadly understood. They bring together a select group of Rice faculty members, visiting scholars, and Rice graduate students to study a common theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Funding is also available to bring in outside speakers to present public talks, provide feedback, meet with the seminar participants, participate in a year-end conference, and otherwise engage with seminar participants and the broader Rice community. The most visible goal of the seminars is a scholarly publication to which all participants will contribute. Equally important but less visible is the creation of international and interdisciplinary scholarly communities that will outlive the seminars themselves. The topic of the Rice Seminars changes each year.

For a description of the 2017-18 Rice Seminar, go to: http://hrc.rice.edu/rice-seminars/node/38

2017-18 | Forgery and the Ancient: Art, Agency, Authorship: As an activity and a concept, forgery is immediately controversial. It calls to mind illegal, unethical, and dishonest practice, and it stirs debates over authenticity, value, authorship, and meaning. The growth of scholarship on forgery in recent decades means that a host of new questions can be applied to its study, a longstanding and crucial branch of humanistic research.
How, for example, can fresh perspectives on intentionality and meaning shift discourse on the perceived intellectual and financial value of a forged work of art? What might theories of culturally and historically determined authorship change about our understanding of the origin, creation, and function of a forged text? When is a perceived forgery not, in fact, a forgery – fraudulent, diminished, even tainted – and instead a creative act of impersonation?
This Rice Seminar will investigate these and other issues as they relate to the topic of forgery and the ancient. Scholarship on forgery touches nearly every age of history and every part of the globe, and it inevitably deals with the culture-period that the forgery references, the culture-period in which it is produced, and the culture-periods over which it is received. Consequently, the field is vast and requires an expertise that reaches across traditional scholarly boundaries of time, geography and field. We anticipate a Rice Seminar that is robustly interdisciplinary, bringing together art historians, literary critics and historians, working in a wide range of specializations.
A central part of this seminar is the role that notions of antiquity play in the drive to create, reproduce and pass works of art and text for ancient treasure and testimony. In different parts of the world, the antique begins and ends at different times, and it has diverse meanings for those who secretly recreate it. Consequently, the Seminar will cast a wide net, and it will have within its compass over three thousand years of ancient history on five continents. Furthermore, because the study of forgery necessarily involves the study of the reception of forgery, the Seminar will extend into the present. We expect that readings, invited lectures, and Seminar conference papers will reach into times, places, and fields as diverse as Ancient Mediterranean artistic production, Medieval Christian, Chinese and Islamic manuscripts, pre-Columbian and modern Latin American art, Renaissance and Neo-Classical sculpture, museum and cultural heritage studies and more.

The position is for August 15, 2017 through May 15, 2018. Fellows receive a $55,000 salary, benefits eligibility, and an allowance for research and relocation to Houston. Primary obligations include active participation in all aspects of the Rice Seminar, developing or continuing individual or collaborative research projects, and giving a presentation to colleagues at Rice. Fellows will also design and teach (or co-teach) two semester-long undergraduate courses, the topics of which will be determined in consultation with the HRC and/or appropriate department.

Application Materials: -Cover Letter, outlining applicant’s interest in the topic of the seminar -Two page CV -Research Statement (i.e., a 200 word abstract of the research project) -Research Proposal (i.e., a 1000 word description of the research project) -Course Proposal for a one-semester course for undergraduate students -Three letters of recommendation

Education Required: PhD or other Doctoral Degree Applicants from any humanistic discipline or interdiscipline are eligible to apply and must have received a PhD between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2017.

  • 1/13: Any interviewees have news? Much appreciated by all.
  • 4/13: Have people been notified?

Rutgers University - New Brunswick (USA:NJ) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Gender History - Deadline: 15 Mar. 2017[]

  • The Department of History at Rutgers University announces a post-doctoral fellowship for scholars pursuing research in race and gender studies. The successful applicant must have the doctorate in hand at the time of application, be no more than six years beyond the Ph.D., and be able to teach history courses.
  • The fellowship of $60,000 is for one year and includes benefits and a $5,000 research stipend. The recipient will teach at least one small course in the history department and participate and present in the “Black Bodies” seminar series at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Consult http://rcha.rutgers.edu/black-bodies for details.
  • Applications should be addressed to Professor Deborah Gray White, Post-Doc Search Chair, and submitted electronically to Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/33604 . Applications should include the following: letter of interest, C.V., research proposal, writing sample, and at least three letters of reference. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2017.

Rutgers University (NJ) - 2017-18 Postdoctoral Associates - Center for Cultural Analysis - Medical Humanities - Deadline: 9 Jan. 2017 - OFFER MADE[]

The Medical Humanities is an emerging field that explores the relationship between culture and society, on the one hand, and medical science and clinical practice, on the other. For the 2017-18 CCA seminar, we plan to gather those who share our interest in exploring what becomes possible when the realms currently governed by “the medical” and “the humanities” are allowed to intersect and overlap: faculty and graduate fellows, medical professionals, artists, writers, and distinguished guests.

The seminar will meet approximately once every two weeks for three hours on Wednesday afternoons over the course of the 2017-18 academic year. We will read and discuss scholarship related to the medical humanities, and members will circulate and present works-in-progress. In addition, distinguished guests will visit the seminar to discuss current projects and share insights and expertise.

APPLICATION DETAILS: In 2017-18, the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University will sponsor two external postdoctoral associates. Postdoctoral Associates will receive a $45,000 salary, health benefits, and a private office in the new Rutgers Academic Building on the College Avenue campus. During the course of the academic year, Postdoctoral Associates teach one undergraduate course in a relevant department within the School of Arts and Sciences, which is arranged through the CCA. Since the CCA Postdoctoral Associate position is considered a residential appointment, candidates must agree to establish residency within a forty mile radius of the New Brunswick campus during the 2017-18 academic year.

To apply, please visit https://apply.interfolio.com/36344 and submit: Cover letter; CV; Three confidential letters of recommendation; A 250-400 word abstract of your research project; A research statement (no more than 4 single-spaced pages total); A detailed proposal for an advanced undergraduate course that you would like to teach (1-2 pages). Applicants who have not yet completed the PhD must fulfill all degree requirements by August 1, 2017.

  • All materials must be uploaded to the Interfolio system by Jan. 9, 2017. Apply online at https://apply.interfolio.com/36344. Please direct any inquiries about this search to admin@cca.rutgers.edu.
  • Offer made 2/15
  • Named as alternate 2/15
  • Rejection 2/15 x1

Rutgers University (NJ) - RCHA 2017-2019 Project: Black Bodies (2 Postdoctoral Associates) - Deadline: 1 Feb. 2017 - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

The Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis invite applications from all disciplines for two positions as post-doctoral associates participating in the Center’s seminar for academic year 2017-2018 on “Black Bodies,” directed by Professors Marisa Fuentes and Bayo Holsey, Rutgers Department of History.

With vital urgency and new technologies of story-telling, we daily witness black bodies in peril. From histories of slavery and discrimination to more present modes of state violence, black bodies have been figured as disposable and resistive, silenced and demanding. This RCHA Seminar, “Black Bodies,” seeks to pull together several interdisciplinary frames of inquiry about ‘black bodies’ in various times, spaces, and geographies. Attentive to the intersections/assemblages of race, gender and sexuality this seminar asks and invites questions concerning the many ways in which black bodies are subject to epistemic, historical, archival, state/non-state, biopolitical, and praxes of violence and erasure in global configurations. We will also consider how we remember, grieve, represent, signify, and reclaim black bodies and lives in a variety of contexts.

Our project pursues several questions to attend to and address black embodiment from interdisciplinary perspectives. These questions include but are not limited to: How do ‘black bodies’ come into our frames of view? In what historical and geographic contexts are black bodies legible? How does “blackness” travel globally? How do we account for systems of racialization that mark a range of non-white bodies? What are the structures, ideologies, systems, and forms of power that subject black bodies around the world to different practices and forces of violence? How can we assess the negative health outcomes, psychological traumas, and increased mortality rates that accompany racism?

This RCHA project explores how various communities of color have reckoned with the trauma of/on black bodies. It also asks: what alternative visions of black selfhood have they constructed? How do empowering experiences of embodiment involving sexuality, procreation, and physicality challenge the widespread devaluation of black bodies? What strategies, methods, and paradigms are adequate to understanding how conditions of precarity continue to threaten black bodies in public and private—in material, structural, and theoretical ways? We recognize the urgency of these questions given the increased visibility of state and other forms of violence against black bodies around the world, represented in images of gunshot-riddled African American bodies left dying on U.S. streets, victims of police violence, and African migrant bodies that wash up on European shores, the casualties of political crises and neo-liberal economic policies. We also recognize the powerful responses to this violence by activists, artists, and scholars who have reimagined black bodies in creative and meaningful ways.

Postdoctoral associates will receive salary of $48,000 for the year as well as a research allocation of $2,000; they will also receive Rutgers University health benefits. Associates will pursue research, participate in seminars and other activities at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and will teach one three-credit course during the academic year. Applications consisting of a CV, a project abstract of about 150 words, a three-page description of your research project and its significance to the theme of “Black Bodies,” and 3 letters of recommendation should be submitted electronically via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/39220

  • Applications must be received by February 1, 2017. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2017.
  • invited for skype interview 3/10 (3/1)
  • 03/24: Any updates?
    • none here - they said 2 wks after skype intvw.
    • awarded alternate status

Simon Dubnow Institute (DEU) - Post-Doc Research Fellowship - Deadline: 30 Apr. 2017[]

  • The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University seeks applications for a Post-Doc Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will commence effective from 1 June 2017.
  • The Post-Doc Fellowship hereby advertised is anchored within the research project Recht und Erfahrung – Jüdische Juristen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Law and Jewish Biography – 19th and 20th Century Legal Theorists). This project investigates the biographies, work and theoretical conceptions as well as impact of select Jewish lawyers and legal experts, viewed through a methodological lens that combines approaches in the history of experience and the history of ideas. The successful applicant for the Fellowship will conceive, develop and implement an independent sub-project, publish its research findings and be actively engaged in the project as well as in ongoing cooperation in the broader context of the DI.
  • Allocation: This is a full-time Fellowship amounting to € 2,900 per month.
  • Duration of Fellowship: 3 years, with the possibility of an extension for 2 further years
  • Sub-Project Description: Jews and Jurisprudence
  • In the framework of the Fellowship, a study of comprehensive character for the cohesion and context of the broader project is to be developed. Central in this research is the question of the underlying sociopolitical and cultural factors driving the high level of attraction which the realm of jurisprudence had for the modernizing Jewries in Europe since the mid-nineteenth century. The aim is to better clarify and elucidate, in the form of a history of emancipation and secularization, to what extent the struggle for participation in society was also waged by Jews through their entry into the legal profession. This could also refer to the question whether elements of the traditional Jewish attachment to the religious law and rabbinical practices of textual interpretation were transferred into the sphere of jurisprudence and have encouraged a particular affinity for the realm of the law.
  • The research will seek to show – by examining a select group of individuals, if possible representing different generations, coupled with a corresponding analysis of their publications and work as legal experts – from what point in time, in what form and with what motives numerous Jews in the Central and Eastern European areas turned toward the legal professions and jurisprudence, imprinting their stamp and distinctive profile in particular on specific fields (i. e. legal theory, international law, commercial law). A comparison with other geographical areas is of course also possible.
  • Eligibility: The applicant should hold the doctorate, achieved at a high level of excellence, in one of the subject disciplines relevant for the DI, in particular history, Jewish Studies or the cultural sciences. He/She should also have acquired research experience in an international context. In addition, the successful candidate should have proven knowledge of jurisprudence and legal history, coupled with a knowledge especially of East European foreign languages requisite for carrying out the project.
  • Application Deadline: Applications must be completed until 30 April 2017
  • Documentation to be Submitted: Cover letter, CV, list of publications, copy of final diplomas, certificate of doctoral degree (and copies of other relevant diplomas, transcripts and assessments). Outline of the proposed research project, oriented to the frame of content sketched above (max. 5 pp.), and the copy of one significant publication (essay of some 20–30 pp.).
  • Applications and supporting documentation should be sent by post or email to: Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture e. V., Prof. Dr. Raphael Gross/Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Goldschmidtstraße 28, 04103 LEIPZIG, GERMANY. Electronic submission by email to: fitzpatrick@dubnow.de
  • Further questions regarding the structure of content of the project can be directed to Dr. Elisabeth Gallas: gallas@dubnow.de - Any other queries applicants may have can be sent to Ms. Mandy Fitzpatrick: fitzpatrick@dubnow.de
  • The Simon Dubnow Institute attaches great importance to professional gender equality. The DI thus welcomes in particular applications from qualified female candidates. Persons with disabilities are given preferential treat­ment if other qualifications are equal.
  • If you would like your documentation as submitted with the application returned, please include a large, pre-stamped envelope for that purpose. Otherwise the supporting documentation submitted will be destroyed two months after submission or subsequent to the conclusion of the selection process.

Southern Methodist University (USA:TX) - Center for Presidential Histories, Post Doctoral Fellow - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016 - AHA INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • The Center for Presidential History invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, to begin in September 2017. Applicants from all fields, time-periods and topics pertaining to the American presidency, executive power, or the federal government are welcome, but are anticipated to derive from disciplines such as history, political science, sociology, literature or communications. The Center defines “Presidential History” in the broadest terms possible.
  • The successful candidate will couple their own research and publishing agenda with their contributions to the Center’s Collective Memory Project, a wide ranging filmed oral history of the George W. Bush Presidency. Fellows are appointed for one year with expectation of renewal for a second year in residence.
  • Essential Functions: Individual research within the fellow’s own area of interest leading to publications in scholarly and/or public history venues; Contribute to Collective Memory Project of the George W. Bush Presidency; Participate in the academic life of the Center.
  • Fellows must be in residence at SMU during the term of the fellowship and must have successfully defended their doctoral dissertation before the appointment begins. Preference will be given to applicants for whom additional time and resources will culminate in the completion of a publishable book-length manuscript. Fellows seeking additional teaching experience may have opportunity to offer courses in their field of expertise. Applicants from all fields and topics pertaining to the presidency, executive power, or the federal government are welcome, but are anticipated to derive from the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, or communications.
  • For full consideration, applicants must submit the following: CV, letter of interest outlining applicant's research agenda and proposed contribution to the Collective Memory Project, chapter-length writing sample, and three letters of reference. All documents should be combined and submitted through the website of SMU’s Department of Human Resources at www.smu.jobs. Click on "Staff Career Opportunities" and apply.
  • Fellows receive an annualized salary, plus benefits and funds to support independent research and travel.
  • If the writers of the applicants’ recommendation letters prefer, they may email letters directly to the Center for Presidential History at CPHinfo@smu.edu.
  • Further information on the CPH and this fellowship can be found at www.smu.edu/CPH.
  • Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016.
  • [13 Dec] AHA interview scheduled

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (CAN) - Deadline: 21 Sept. 2016[]

  • To apply to this funding opportunity, the applicant must: be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada (by the application deadline)
  • For updates, see SSHRC 2017-2018

Stanford University (USA:CA) - Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies/Religious Studies/CCSRE, 2017-19 Postdoctoral Fellowship on Islam in North America - Deadline: 20 Feb. 2017[]

  • Stanford University’s Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and Department of Religious Studies invite applications for a two-year postdoctoral position on Islam in North America. We seek intellectually ambitious candidates with interdisciplinary aptitude. Possible areas of specialization include but are not limited to:
  • Islam and slavery in North America and the Atlantic World
  • material culture and religious expression of Muslims in North America
  • social/political experience of the Muslim diaspora in North America
  • co-constitution of religion, race, gender, and class in North American Muslim identity and representation
  • The postdoctoral fellow will teach two undergraduate-level courses each year in the Religious Studies Department, pursue his/her own research agenda, and organize a set of academic events in the 2nd year. Ideally, one of the courses each year will provide an introduction to some of the most important features of Islam through an analysis of major theories and methods in the academic study of religion. The fellow will actively contribute to the intellectual life on campus, and collaborate closely with the colleagues at the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
  • A Ph.D. in Religious Studies or in a related field (such as Anthropology, History, Sociology, Ethnic Studies, American Studies) is required by the time of appointment on September 1, 2017. The recipient may not be more than five years beyond the receipt of doctoral degree on September 1, 2017. Compensation includes an annual salary of $65,000, health insurance coverage, a $1,500 research fund per year, and a $5,000 programming fund.
  • Application materials should be submitted online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/8717 . Please submit a cover letter, CV (highlighting your educational background, teaching experience, publications), 2-page description of your research plans, two draft course syllabi, and a writing sample of no more than 30 pages. Applicants should also arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted directly to AcademicJobsOnline.
  • For full consideration, materials should be received by February 20, 2017. Further inquiries shall be addressed to Dr. Burçak Keskin-Kozat (Associate Director of the Abbasi Program) at burcak@stanford.edu
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  • has anyone heard back yet? (March 16)

Stanford University (CA) - Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016 - OFFER MADE[]

Stanford University invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships in the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, a unique opportunity for the best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities to develop as scholars and teachers. Up to five fellowships will be awarded for a two-year term (with the possibility of a third). Fellows teach two courses per year (or the equivalent) in one of Stanford’s fifteen humanities departments or through an interdisciplinary program or project. They are also expected to participate in the intellectual life of the program, which includes regular meetings with other fellows and faculty to share work in progress and to discuss topics of mutual interest. Fellows will also be affiliated with the Stanford Humanities Center and will have the opportunity to be active in its programs and workshops.

The Mellon Fellowship provides postdoctoral fellowships in all the fields represented by Stanford's fifteen humanities departments. Program admissions focus on selected fields of scholarship in each application year (on a rotating basis).

Eligible fields for the 2016 competition (for fellowships beginning autumn 2017):

Comparative Literature
Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
French and Italian
German Studies
Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Religious Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures

We invite applicants for these fellowships from any fields where their work has demonstrable relevance to teaching and research in the designated Stanford department, program, or project. Please specify in the cover letter the primary eligible field or interdisciplinary area in which they would like to be considered.

Candidates for this competition must have received their Ph.D. between January 1, 2014 and June 30, 2017. Fellowships will begin on September 1, 2017.

The stipend for 2017-18 will be $77,000, and compensation will include additional support for computer equipment, research, and relocation expenses, depending on the needs of individual fellows.

You will be asked to electronically submit:

Cover letter (circa 1 page) describing your research and teaching interests to an interdisciplinary search committee
CV
Dissertation abstract (up to three pages).
A sample of written work (no longer than 40 pages)
A separate description of teaching experience and interests (up to 3 pages)

Note: Courses will be offered through standing Stanford departments or programs; applicants should familiarize themselves with recent course offerings and curricula.

Three confidential letters of recommendation (or the applicant’s active graduate school dossier)

Stanford Ph.D.s and employees are not eligible for consideration.

  • Someone in the Spanish and Portuguese 2016-2017 wiki for this academic year indicated that they will be interviewed at MLA in early January for this postdoc position. Has anyone else heard that this is happening? Is it possible that sub-committees (Spanish, for example) are interviewing finalists there? 
  • [Dec. 28] Applying for German Studies. Haven't heard anything.
  • Any word on this? Have people been interviewed? Received any type of notification? 
  • [Jan 30] Nothing here, just waiting anxiously! [x3]
  • According to the wiki, last year finalists were notified Feb 10th. Maybe next week?
  • Was told that Stanford has a tendency to offer positions to internal candidates, anyone else hear this?
  • The website says "THE ANDREW W. MELLON FELLOWSHIP OF SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES PROGRAM CANNOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM SCHOLARS WITH PHDS FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY" and none of the current fellows are from Stanford, so I have no idea where you are getting this information.
  • Anyone notified that they're a finalist? Based on past years, finalists ought to be notified by the end of this week, and anyone who has experienced radio silence has likely been a rejected...
  • [Feb 10] Nothing here. I guess that's it, then...:(. Best wishes to the lucky finalists!
  • Nobody's come forward as a finalist. Stanford may be behind schedule. 
  • File this under meaningless speculation, but fwiw the school's calendar would suggest that a later decision might come our way this year.  This year's spring quarter started 5 days later than last year's. So, maybe this week is the week...finger's crossed! 
  • [Feb 16] Any news?
  • nothing here. $10 to anyone w/ the nerve to call and ask (2/16)
  • nothing here either...they seem to have been pretty consistent in previous years with their schedule, so I suspect that the finalists either don't check this wiki, or are sitting quiet. Would love to be wrong, of course. (2/16)
  • There are seven eligible fields this year, compared to five last year and three the year before. Who knows if that's made a difference, but I thought it worth mentioning.

[Feb 27] Any word on finalists?

  • nothing here. one of two things is happening for the first time in the history of this wiki: either (1) they're announcing finalists really late/skipping the finalist stage and just making offers; or (2) no one that's named a finalist is on this wiki.  not sure whether one of those is more likely than the other, but i suppose we'll find out at some point soon...
  • 3/2 Email alerting me of finalist status. (I emailed to ask though so am not sure whether other finalists would have also heard.) x2
  • Wait, did the second finalist on here also have to email Stanford to find out, or did they send out a status update to all finalists?
  • --I received notification without asking, so it seems that finalists have all been notified (although who knows? I never like to make general statements, since the way these things work seems more and more mysterious to me). They did say that they should let winners know around the 14th of March. 
  • [March 14] Have people received offers on this one as yet?
  • No word here as of 6:46pm eastern on 3/14...
  • If anyone has received an offer, could you please put the rest of us out of our misery? (3/16)
  • Friend of a friend got an offer: 3/21
  • 3/28 rejection email, well over 600 applicants x4

Stanford University (CA) - Digital Humanities Asia Postdoctoral Fellowship - Deadline: 17 Feb. 2017[]

The Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia) program at Stanford University invites applications for a 12-month Postdoctoral position during the 2017-2018 academic year. This position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar program, with further support provided by Stanford University. The successful applicant is expected to begin on or by October 1, 2017.

Stanford University is a globally recognized leader in the fields of Digital Humanities, GIS, text analysis, social network analysis, Text Technologies, and natural language processing. The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), the Literary Lab, and more attract scholars from around the world who are eager to learn from our experiences and implement our methods. Flagship projects, such as Mapping the Republic of Letters, the Çatalhöyük Living Archive, Kindred Britain, the ORBIS Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World have all begun to reshape not just the methods that we as Humanists bring to bear on our questions, but the very questions we ask.

At home within this rich DH ecology at Stanford, Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia) seeks to advance a new era in Non-Western Digital Humanities, with a focus on East, South, Southeast, and Inner-Central Asia. We seek energetic and creative applicants who demonstrate innovative thinking and a proactive approach to the questions that digital humanities methods, approaches, tools, and theories raise in their academic disciplines.

STIPEND & BENEFITS: • Stipend & Benefits: The 12-month stipend for this position is $51,600, including full benefits • Office Space/Workstations: The DHAsia Postdoctoral Associate will enjoy two (2) dedicated workstations, one in the History department and one in the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) • Undergraduate RA Support: the Postdoctoral Fellow will assist in the hiring of a Stanford undergraduate Research Assistant, who will work under their research direction for up to 5 hours per week during the Fall, Winter, and Spring terms; and then on a full-time basis during the Summer term • Career Development Assistance: The Postdoctoral fellow will have access to Stanford’s extensive repertoire of career development workshops, to help assist in the candidate’s broader job search process, as relevant

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Postdoctoral Fellow will be affiliated with the Department of History, mentored by Professor Thomas S. Mullaney. Applicants need not hold a PhD in History, however. The Fellow should expect to focus on her/his own research, but also to be well-integrated into the Stanford community and engaging with interested faculty, students, archivists, librarians, and digital technologists. Responsibilities include: • Pursuit of independent research project within Asian Digital Humanities • Participation in the intellectual life of DHAsia@Stanford, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, and the 2017-18 Mellon-funded Seminar Series on Asian Digital Humanities [Note: This seminar will bring to Stanford campus many of the world’s leading scholars of DH working on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central Asia.] • Co-development of DHAsia White Paper, assessing needs, current capacity, and future uses of Asian Digital Humanities • Interaction with visiting technologists from Silicon Valley and beyond, to help provide input on the development of next-generation DH tools tailored for the particular requirements of Asian Studies research ELIGIBILITY • Applicants must provide evidence of successful completion of their PhD degree by June 30, 2017, and may not be more than three years beyond the receipt of their PhD at the start of the fellowship. Stanford University doctoral degree recipients are not eligible for this fellowship • Applicants must have experience in conducting original academic research in Digital Humanities • Applicants must have relevant/advanced language experience in a Non-Western/Asian language • Fellow is expected to be in residence at Stanford University during the term of their appointment

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants will be asked to submit the following material electronically (faxed or emailed application materials cannot be considered): • Cover Letter (2 pages max) describing your research interests to an interdisciplinary search committee • Dissertation Abstract (3 pages max) • Research Plan for Fellowship Period (5 pages max) • CV (5 pages max) • Sample of Written Work (article length/40 pages max) • Two Confidential Letters of Recommendation (from faculty members or other appropriate sources)

Only complete applications submitted through the online system will be considered. All applications will be acknowledged. Finalists may be interviewed. Questions about the application process should be directed to DHAsia Director, Thomas S. Mullaney (tsmullaney@stanford.edu) with the email subject line ‘DHAsia PostDoc Inquiry’.

  • Anyone receive news on this yet? 3/22

Stanford University (USA:CA) - Fellow, Stanford Centre for Law and History - Deadline: 28 Feb. 2017[]

  • This fellowship is intended for people who have completed (or will soon complete) their training in law and history and who seek to pursue an academic career at the intersection of the two fields.
  • The Stanford Center for Law and History, directed by Professor Amalia Kessler, brings together faculty and students from across Stanford University’s many schools and departments (and beyond) to participate in a broad range of conferences, workshops, and lectures devoted to examining the multifaceted interrelationships between law and history (without geographic, temporal, or other subject-area limitations).
  • The Stanford Center for Law and History is a residential fellowship that provides an opportunity to conduct research in the dynamic environment of Stanford University. We prefer two-year fellowships to help the fellow complete a significant body of independent scholarship, but we are willing to consider one-year terms. We expect that fellows will dedicate most of their time to pursuing their proposed research projects but will also devote some time to organizing and implementing other Center activities, including an ongoing workshop series and an annual conference. Fellows are encouraged to become part of a lively law-school-wide community of individuals with an interest in academia by attending weekly faculty lunch seminars and by participating in activities with the other fellows at Stanford Law School to learn more about one another’s scholarship and about academic life more generally. In addition, fellows are encouraged to attend and participate in the broad range of lectures and workshops available within the broader university, including inter alia, the History Department and the Stanford Humanities Center.
  • For the 2017-2018 fellowship, we will provide a workspace, a competitive salary, and a generous benefits package. Applicants who have completed (or are soon to complete) both a J.D. and a Ph.D in history are strongly preferred.
  • All applicants should apply through the Stanford Careers website, Job Number 73767, and should include the following: (1) a CV; (2) a sample of academic writing; (3) a research proposal of no more than five double-space pages (briefly outlining past work but focused primarily on research to be undertaken during the fellowship); and (4) official transcripts of all academic work pursued in college, as well as in graduate programs. In addition, (5) applicants should provide two letters of recommendation, to be emailed directly by the recommenders themselves to Molly Pahkamaa at mpahkama@law.stanford.edu.
  • Deadline: 28 Feb. 2017.

Stanford University (USA:CA) - Thinking Matters Fellowship - Deadline: 31 Jan. 2017 - PHONE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

Thinking Matters Fellowship. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for recent recipients of doctoral degrees to teach in an innovative liberal education program with a cohort of like-minded colleagues from a wide variety of different disciplines. Thinking Matters fosters the development of intellectual curiosity and critical inquiry skills in a student-centered environment designed to help students in their transition to college-level learning. Fellows who will thrive in this program find professional gratification in providing support for student learning in a collaborative exchange with peers about effective strategies for freshman pedagogy. About 25 fellows each year create a vibrant interdisciplinary community dedicated to liberal arts education. Thinking Matters Fellows will continue the long tradition of providing discussion seminars led by post-doctoral scholars, which was established at Stanford in 1919 for the pioneering “Problems of Citizenship” required course for all freshmen.

The appointment begins August 1, 2017 for a two-year term that is renewable for one additional year depending on programmatic need and job performance. Fellows are typically released from teaching responsibilities for one quarter during the second year. Annual starting salary will be at least $64,000 with a supplemental stipend of $2,000 for research and scholarship. In addition to their salary, Fellows are eligible for a full package of employee benefits.

QUALIFICATIONS: We invite applications from candidates with relevant background in any of the following: American Studies, Biology, Environmental Science, Literature (with the exception of British), Music and Film Studies, Political Philosophy, and Physics.

Eligible candidates will have earned a doctorate in a relevant field, conferred no earlier than 2011 and no later than June 2017. Applicants must provide evidence of teaching excellence and proof of intellectual flexibility as well as a strong record of scholarship. Other desired qualifications are: experience teaching first-year university students; familiarity with team teaching, and demonstrated experience with developing students' skills in critical thinking, writing, discussion, and analysis.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: In the application process all candidates must identify the courses that fit their teaching experience and training, preferably one each in the Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters. For information on selecting courses for 2017-18 and instructions on completing an application through Interfolio, go to:

https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/thinking-matters/teach/open-fellowship-positions/thinking-matters-fellowship

  • Applications open December 15, 2016 and close February 15, 2017 (EST). Offers of employment are made contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and ability to demonstrate eligibility to work in the US.
  • Stanford website lists due date as January 31, 2017, at 5 PM PST. I'm assuming this is correct, but does anyone have other information?
  • This caught me completely off-guard. I had it in my calendar for Feb. 15th. Did they push the date up earlier?
  • No, it appears that the Wiki has been wrong the whole time. Anyone relying on it (this writer included) missed out, I guess.
  • Question: Does anyone know the appropriate length for the teaching statement? Five pages max is specified for the evaluations, but I'm not sure what would be considered too long or too short for "examples of how you would teach a text or topic from as many courses in your clusters as relevant to your candidacy."
  • (3/29) Received an email through Interfolio saying that my application is now under faculty review.  Based on the wiki from last year it looks like this email is basically the same one they sent out last year as they started to narrow down the applicant pool.
  • (3/29) Received the 'you're no longer being considered' version of this email today.
  • (4/17) Anyone receive anything beyond "under faculty review" yet? Been about three weeks since those emails...
  • nothing here since the 3/29 email (x3)
  • based on the wiki page from last year, it looks like phone/skype interviews took place shortly after the "under faculty review" email.  has anyone called for an update? or perhaps know someone who has been contacted for an interview? Would be very helpful to know....
  • (4/24) Contacted for phone interview taking place this week. Applied for the American Studies and Music or Film Studies clusters.
  • any further information since last week?
  • Interfolio-generated rejection after the faculty review - over 300 applicants for 10 spots (5/4)

Swansea University (UK:Wales) - Research Assistant (Medieval History) - Deadline: 5 Oct. 2016[]

  • This is a fixed term post until 31 December 2017.
  • The post holder will undertake research on women’s experience of legal system(s) operating in late Medieval Britain and explore a variety of legal records in order to investigate the extent to which women were able to defend their interests in medieval courts, and whether this differed according to ethnicity, place, time, or life cycle stage etc.
  • You should have a degree in Medieval History or equivalent together with the requisite language and palaeographic skills to read and interpret records produced in medieval Britain and Ireland. You should also have the ability to actively engage in and contribute to writing and publishing 3* or 4* research papers, particularly for refereed journals.
  • Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Deborah Youngs, at d.youngs@swansea.ac.uk.
  • To apply on line please go to: http://uwsweb.swan.ac.uk/jobs/en/details.aspx?nPostingId=3715&nPostingTargetId=6308&id=QN2FK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NZ5&LG=UK&mask=suint
  • Deadline: 5 Oct. 2016.

Tulane University (LA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities - Deadline: Open Until Filled (posted 12/2/16) - OFFER MADE[]

The English Department of the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for a one-year position as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, beginning July 1, 2017, for the academic year 2017-2018. Candidates must have received the PhD by June 30, 2017 and not before September 1, 2014. They must show remarkable promise as researchers and teachers. Fellows will devote much of their time to strengthening their research profiles. The remainder of their time will be spent teaching one course per semester. Fellows will teach mid-and upper-level courses in their field of expertise, and these courses will be cross-listed with one or more of eighteen Tulane interdisciplinary programs. Fellows must be in residence at Tulane during the tenure of their fellowship. Preference may be given to applicants who intend to make use of Tulane’s and New Orleans’ rich cultural and archival resources, such as the Amistad Research Center, The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, the Hogan Jazz Archive, the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the archives of the New Orleans Public Library. The stipend is $45,900 per year, with some funding also available for research and travel.

Tulane University is a privately endowed institution located in New Orleans. The University holds membership in the Association of American Universities and is a Carnegie Extensive Research University. Tulane is composed of nine academic divisions and home to over ten thousand graduate and undergraduate students. The mission of the School of Liberal Arts is to nurture and promote innovative scholarship, transformative research, and creative inquiry within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Based on a distinctive vision comprised of our interdisciplinary approach, dedication to place-based creativity, and commitment to service learning, the school provides students with an outstanding education founded on close working relationships with distinguished faculty. Additional information on the School of Liberal Arts and its departments and programs can be accessed at http://www.liberalarts.tulane.edu/.

Applicants should provide a one-page summary of their dissertation and three sample titles with brief course descriptions of courses they would like to teach. Electronic submissions only, including cover letter, curriculum vitae, dissertation summary, sample courses, and three letters of recommendation.

  • Applications will be reviewed as they arrive and the position will remain open until filled. To apply please visit: http://apply.interfolio.com/39513. For information, contact Mike Kuczynski, Chair, English Department at mkuczyn@tulane.edu.
  • 3/6 was told in email I sent asking about status that they won't be interviewing before mid-April at the earliest
  • Contacted for skype interview via email, 4/7.
  • Anyone hear back after the interviews last week? They wanted to let people know right away, but I haven't heard anything. [17 April]
  • Rejection email after interview 4/18; said an offer had been made.

Tulane University (LA) - Newcomb College Institute - Spring 2017 Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 15 July 2016[]

The Newcomb College Institute is seeking a postdoctoral fellow in women’s history for the spring 2017 semester (January 1 – July 31, 2017). We invite applicants whose research is intersectional and engages with women and politics, women and second-wave feminist organizations, women and social movements, women’s higher education, women’s health, or Southern women’s organizing within national organizations. A research focus on 20th century women’s history in the Gulf South is preferred though not required. The fellow will do his or her academic research, present his or her work at a public lecture, and join the interdisciplinary intellectual community at the Newcomb College Institute and Tulane University. We also ask the fellow to work closely with one to two undergraduate research assistants.

Required qualifications: Ph.D. in History, American Studies, or closely related field. Demonstrated research interests that take a historical and intersectional approach to gender, reflecting how race, class, sexual, ethnic, community, and national identities interact Preferred qualifications: Research focus on 20th century women’s history in the Gulf South. Tulane University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.

Tulane University (LA) - Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellows in Latin American Studies - Deadline: 15 Feb. 2017 - OFFER MADE[]

The Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellows in Latin American Studies are intended to foster the professional development of gifted scholars, to enrich the Stone Center for Latin American Studies’ vigorous research environment, and to foster intellectual exchange among the Center's research community. We seek candidates in the humanities and social sciences engaged in scholarly or creative work on topics related to existing areas of institutional strength. Fellows are expected to participate in the full intellectual life of the Center and to offer an advanced interdisciplinary seminar on a subject of their choice during the spring of the fellowship year.

The Stone Center, which includes a core community of 70 faculty across a broad spectrum of disciplinary and professional fields, invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. To promote new innovative interdisciplinary research clusters, the Stone Center solicits applications from scholars whose research and career objectives would benefit from collaborating with the Center’s staff and Executive Committee in identifying and shaping a new series of thematic research clusters that will foster collaborative inquiry outside normal disciplinary structures and address some of the most pressing issues in the field of Latin American Studies. The Fellow would first help identify these themes and then would work with one or more of these collaborative groups to structure an initial program of visiting scholars, seminars, and research outcomes for future implementation.

Fellows will be selected following two criteria: (1) intellectual merit and (2) the potential impact that their research, teaching, and experience would have on the strategic advancement of Latin American Studies at Tulane. The ideal candidate’s research will complement areas of strength represented by current Tulane faculty. Successful candidates should also have strong organizational and interpersonal abilities, excellent written and oral communication skills, a demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively, and experience in managing multiple projects.

Fellowships are one-year, residential, full-time appointments with a stipend of $47,500 plus benefits. Travel and moving expenses are not supported. Applicants who are ABD must complete their Ph.D. by June 2017 and absolutely must have the Ph.D. in hand by the start of the Fall 2017 semester. Preference will be given to those who have not had recent access to Tulane University’s resources and whose research would benefit from such access.

Application must be submitted via Interfolio by visiting http://apply.interfolio.com/39764 and must include (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a cover letter describing research interests and your particular capacity to contribute to this Center initiative; (3) a graduate transcript; (4) two recommendation letters; (5) a writing sample; (6) a detailed proposal for at least one content course or seminar; and (6) teaching evaluations if available. For additional information on the Stone Center and its programs, please visit our website: http://stonecenter.tulane.edu .

  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning on February 15, 2017, until the position is filled.
  • Rejection via e-mail 4/19 
  • Offer made 
  • I have not received a rejection or offer. Anyone else in this boat, or understand how the rolling process works? 4/25
  • Wait list is my guess. Idk about rolling deadlines, but I applied prior to the deadline so that is all I can figure.

United States Military Academy (USA:NY) - Postdoctoral Fellowship, American History and Diversity Studies - Deadline: 25 Apr. 2017[]

  • The Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point is seeking applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in American History and Diversity studies. The term appointment, beginning on or about 1 July 2017, is for thirteen months and may be renewed for an additional year. Applicants must be committed to college-level research and teaching. Expertise in American social/labor history from 1890-1950 with a focus on issues pertaining to ethnicity and immigration is required. The fellow will develop three primary source digital course packets for use by 1000 cadets a year for the American Division writing program, educating cadets on the diverse experiences of ethnic minorities and immigrants. The fellow shall develop historical questions to accompany the primary source packet, providing cadets with prompts for scholarly paper topics. The fellow will train faculty on how to integrate the themes of ethnicity and immigration into American History. The fellow will also teach a course in American history and possibly an advanced undergraduate seminar in their area(s) of specialty.
  • Applicants will be evaluated on the following criteria: 1) academic accomplishment (a Ph.D. in American History by time of appointment is preferred), 2) demonstrated scholarly potential, 3) ability to teach an elective or survey in American history, 4) demonstrated proficiency in student-centered and active-learning instruction, 5) familiarity with digital history sources, and 6) demonstrated potential to contribute to cadet development. To receive full consideration, applicants should send their letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, and a sample of scholarship to Benjamin Flores, Department of History, Thayer Hall, Bldg 601, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996. All materials may be sent electronically to benjamin.flores@usma.edu. Applications must be received by 25 April 2017. The fellowship includes a $65,232 salary and benefits.
  • Please refer to the vacancy announcement listed on the website: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/467061400 for official information. The United States Military Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
  • Deadline: 25 Apr. 2017

University of Amsterdam (NDL) - Postdoctoral researcher 'Gender and Urban Space in Edo (c 1600 - 1850)' - Deadline: 4 May 2017[]

  • This postdoctoral project is one of four closely-related projects, which together aim to systematically analyse the gendering of urban space in pre-modern Asia and Europe. It is widely held that between 1600 and 1850, women gradually withdrew from the public sphere of the street and moved to the private sphere of the home. This powerful narrative, linked to theories of modernisation, has created a conceptual stranglehold that sees public space as exclusively male and private space as entirely female, thereby obscuring the actual workings of gender in pre-industrial urban societies.
  • Based on extensive visual and textual sources, a postdoctoral project and a PhD project will provide in-depth studies of Edo and Amsterdam, two major pre-modern cities with distinct cultures, architecture, and governance. Another postdoctoral project digitally visualises gendered movement in these two cities, thereby providing a complementary spatial analysis, as well as an important tool to engage with wider audiences. Building on the work of the PhD candidate and Postdoctoral researchers, the Principal Investigator will analyse how the access of women to pre-industrial streets was shaped in contrasting European and Asian urban communities.
  • This postdoctoral project will reconstruct women’s use of urban space in the biggest city in the early modern world: Edo. It aims to enlighten the gendering of urban space during Edo’s transformation from a castle town to Ō-Edo, the Great City of commoners. This development significantly changed the physical and social makeup of Edo as large-scale immigration undermined the planned geography and transformed Edo from a warriors’ city into a city dominated by merchants. The postdoctoral researcher will work closely with the research group of Professor Takeshi Ito (Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo).
  • The postdoctoral project will make use of a wide range of sources, including guide books and surveys, prints and popular fiction, historical maps, records on the governance and day-to-day use of urban space, such as the Edo Machibure Shûshei (1648-1858) and Senyo Ruishu (1716-1853). The materials for this project are held in libraries and museums in the Netherlands (including the Library of the University of Leiden and the Rijksmuseum) as well as in collections and archives in Japan (the National Archives of Japan, the National Diet Library and Tokyo Municipal Archives). It is expected that the postdoctoral researcher will travel to Japan regularly and spend at least two extended stays in Tokyo.
  • Tasks of the postdoctoral researcher will include: construction of a project database with observations of gendered movement in Edo; contribution towards a project database of visual materials; presenting (intermediate) research results at national and international workshops and conferences; delivering a number of publications directly related to the Freedom of the Streets project in international journals and/or as chapters with leading presses; both individually as well as in cooperation with other project members; participation in meetings of the project research group; assisting with organizational matters connected to the project, such as conference and workshop organization.
  • The successful applicant must have: a PhD in Japanese History or Japanese Studies, or other relevant field in the Humanities (maximum of 4 years of experience post PhD); demonstrable experience in working with Edo-period archival sources; a thorough command of Japanese and English; a track record of publishing in high-ranking journals and/or with leading presses or a demonstrable capacity to develop such a record; strong willingness to assist with organizational duties; strong cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research.
  • Desirable qualities: An interest in interdisciplinary approaches to historical research; enthusiasm for communicating academic research to non-academic audiences.
  • For further information, please contact: Dr Danielle van den Heuvel
  • The postdoctoral researcher will be appointed for 26.6 hours per week (0.7 FTE) for a period of 36 months at the Department of History, European Studies & Religious Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. The intended starting date of the contract is 1 October 2017. The gross monthly salary (on full-time basis) will range from €3.193 to €3.899, depending on experience and qualifications, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
  • Applications should include the following information, in one PDF file (not zipped): a letter of motivation; a full academic CV; a full list of publications (please provide an English translation if the publication is not in English or Dutch); (do not send publications or theses as part of your application); the names and contact details of two referees who may be approached by the selection committee.
  • Applicants must have completed their PhD before the start of this postdoctoral project.
  • Please submit your complete application no later than 4 May 2017 to solliciteren2017-FGW@uva.nl. Only complete applications submitted as one PDF file to this email address will be considered. Please state vacancy number 17-165 in the subject line of your application.
  • Interviews will take place in late May 2017. For candidates living abroad interviews may be held via Skype.

University of Antwerp (BEL) - Postdoctoral assistant in the area of History - Deadline: 2 Mar. 2017[]

  • The Faculty of Arts is seeking to fill a full-time (100%) vacancy in the Department of History for a Postdoctoral assistant in the area of History
  • Job description
  • You pursue research and support grant applications with other researchers in the field of medieval, early modern or modern history.
  • You will compete to obtain externally funded research grants.
  • You will be assigned lecturing duties in the Historical Workshop (6 credits / 45 hours).
  • Profile and requirements
  • You hold (or get during the application period) a doctorate degree (PhD) in history.
  • You have a very strong research profile with the potential to apply autonomously for research funding and to play a role in the international scientific debate.
  • Your research fits into one of the research groups of the Department of History (Centre for Urban History and Power in History: Centre for Political History).
  • Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the university’s policy.
  • The focus in your teaching corresponds to the educational vision of the university.
  • You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative.
  • We offer
  • an appointment as a doctoral assistant for a period of three years, with a possibility of renewal for a further three-year period after positive evaluation;
  • the date of appointment will be 1 October 2017;
  • a full time gross monthly salary ranging from € 3.974,32 - € 6.195,65;
  • a dynamic and stimulating work environment.
  • How to apply?
  • Applications may only be submitted online, until the closing date 2 March 2017.
  • Your application contains a research plan (max 2000 words).
  • A pre-selection will be made from amongst the submitted applications. The remainder of the selection procedure is specific to the position and will be determined by the selection panel.
  • The interviews of the candidates, preselected by a selection panel, will take place on 25 April 2017.
  • More information about the application form can be obtained through vacatures@uantwerpen.be.
  • For questions about the profile and the description of duties, please contact Prof. Luc Duerloo, + 32 3 265 42 89 or luc.duerloo@uantwerpen.be.

University of Basel (Switzerland) - Three Postdoctoral Nomis Fellowships at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image - Deadline: 10 April 2017[]

Eikones invites applications from postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences for three one-year Nomis Fellowships beginning 1 September 2017.

Since 2005, eikones has served as a center for graduate and postgraduate research on images. The Center is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of images as instruments of human knowledge and cultural practices. It investigates the functions and effects of images throughout our history and in our contemporary society from analytical and systematic perspectives.

The Nomis Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports groundbreaking research projects related to how images act as models or paradigms in scientific and aesthetic contexts. We are interested in the fundamental ways that images serve as instruments for making complex structures visible and accessible to interpretation. In both aesthetic and experimental settings, images often assume an exemplary character, aiding epistemic and learning processes. They fulfill evidential, didactic, and symbolic functions, and thereby produce different forms of knowledge. Relevant topics of research might consider, for example, the history and theory of imaging techniques in the natural sciences; the ideals and stereotypes that shape social contexts and political discussions; or the formation and dissolution of canons, icographies, character types, and styles in the arts.

Methodologically, the projects should be rooted in a specific research field, and reflect on the relation between their individual discipline and image studies.

The fellowships will allow outstanding young scholars and scientists to pursue their research free from teaching and administrative obligations. They provide a generous salary, travel funds, and access to excellent academic infrastructure. Applications will be selected based on scholarly achievement and relevance to the topic of images as models. Fellows are expected to be in residence at eikones in Basel and to participate in select institutional events.

Application materials:

  • cover letter
  • cv
  • proof of most recent degree
  • contact details for two references
  • project outline (2–3 pages) and bibliography
  • writing sample

Application details:

  • Applications submitted by 10 April 2017 will receive full consideration.
  • Applications may be submitted in either English or German.
  • Applicants must possess a doctoral degree by 1 September 2017.
  • Applicants from all academic fields whose research relates to images as models are invited to apply.

Please send inquiries regarding the fellowships and applications to malika.maskarinec@unibas.ch.

  • 4/28: Rejection received

University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - BRIHC Global Challenges Research Fellow - Deadline: 19 Apr. 2017[]

  • The Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) wishes to appoint an outstanding early career scholar to a two-year 2017 Fellowship. The period and topic of study is open, but candidates must clearly show how their proposed scheme of work relates to research currently undertaken within the School of History and Cultures (SHaC) – which includes African Studies, Archaeology, History, and Classics.
  • 24 Month position
  • The appointee is expected to undertake independent research, and to produce research papers, manuscripts, or other outputs. Additionally, and more importantly, the appointed candidate will be expected to participate in and contribute substantively to the School’s Global Challenges Research strategy, under the mentorship of a senior colleague and in collaboration with the director of BRIHC. A good knowledge and/or experience of the Global Challenges Research Fund, evidence of experience in research leadership, a track record in obtaining funding, and a project developable for early submission to any of the funding bodies administering Global Challenge money, will be important considerations in the appointment process. Further, they will be expected to spend a portion of their time supporting the activities of BRIHC, working with the Institute’s Director or other members of staff within SHaC.
  • The Research Institute is a newly founded umbrella organisation supporting and promoting the research and outreach activities undertaken within the School of History and Cultures. Formed in December 2015, BRIHC encourages and enables research work that crosses traditional boundaries of chronology, geography, and methodology within History and associated disciplines. It coordinates and supports research dissemination to public as well as academic audiences, and provides researchers in SHaC, both students and staff, with career development opportunities. BRIHC Research Fellows play a core role in the Institute’s activities by their organisation of research projects and events around engaging themes, and their intellectually innovative contribution to the life of the School.
  • For further details, please contact Dr Simon Yarrow, Director, Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, School of History and Cultures, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT. Email: s.s.yarrow@bham.ac.uk
  • To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button; please quote Job Reference 56796 in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs
  • Deadline: 19 Apr. 2017

University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - BRIHC Research Fellow - Deadline: 19 Apr. 2017[]

  • Fixed term for 24 months
  • The Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) wishes to appoint an outstanding early career scholar to a two-year 2017 Fellowship. The period and topic of study is open, but candidates must clearly show how their proposed scheme of work relates to research currently undertaken within the School of History and Cultures (SHaC) – which includes African Studies, Archaeology, History, and Classics.
  • The appointees are expected to undertake a significant piece of independent research, and to produce research papers, manuscripts, or other outputs. During the Fellowship they are also expected to propose and write, with collaborators if necessary, grant application(s) for future and/or follow-on projects. Further, they are expected to spend a portion of their time supporting the activities of BRIHC, working with the Institute’s Director or other members of staff within SHaC.
  • The Research Institute is a newly founded umbrella organisation supporting and promoting the research and outreach activities undertaken within the School of History and Cultures. Formed in December 2015, BRIHC encourages and enables research work that crosses traditional boundaries of chronology, geography, and methodology within History and associated disciplines. It coordinates and supports research dissemination to public as well as academic audiences, and provides researchers in SHaC, both students and staff, with career development opportunities. BRIHC Research Fellows play a core role in the Institute’s activities by their organisation of research projects and events around engaging themes, and their intellectually innovative contribution to the life of the School.
  • For further details, please contact Dr Simon Yarrow, Director, Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, School of History and Cultures, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT. Email: s.s.yarrow@bham.ac.uk
  • To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button; please quote Job Reference 56798 in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs
  • Deadline: 19 Apr. 2017

University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - BRIHC Research Impact Fellow - Deadline: 19 Apr. 2017[]

  • Fixed term for 24 months
  • The Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) wishes to appoint an outstanding early career scholar to a two-year 2017 Fellowship. The candidate will have knowledge and preferably some experience of impact activities and outcomes as they relate to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). In addition to undertaking their own significant piece of independent research, and producing research papers, manuscripts and similar outputs, where appropriate, the candidate will be engaged with colleagues across the School of History and Cultures (SHaC) – which includes African Studies, Archaeology, History, and Classics, in the support of impact activities. This will involve acquainting themselves with the School’s existing impact case studies, promoting and participating in impact activities and assisting in measuring and recording impact outcomes.
  • During the Fellowship they are also expected to propose and write, with collaborators if necessary, grant application(s) for future and/or follow-on impact projects. The candidate will be managed by the School’s impact lead, but will be expected to spend a portion of their time supporting the activities of BRIHC, working with the Institute’s Director or other members of staff within SHaC.
  • The Research Institute is a newly founded umbrella organisation supporting and promoting the research and outreach activities undertaken within the School of History and Cultures. Formed in December 2015, BRIHC encourages and enables research work that crosses traditional boundaries of chronology, geography, and methodology within History and associated disciplines. It coordinates and supports research dissemination to public as well as academic audiences, and provides researchers in SHaC, both students and staff, with career development opportunities. BRIHC Research Fellows play a core role in the Institute’s activities by their organisation of research projects and events around engaging themes, and their intellectually innovative contribution to the life of the School.
  • For further details, please contact Dr Simon Yarrow, Director, Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, School of History and Cultures, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT. Email: s.s.yarrow@bham.ac.uk
  • To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button; please quote Job Reference 56797 in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs
  • Deadline: 19 Apr. 2017

University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - Research Associate (Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England) - Deadline: 15 Apr. 2017[]

  • Fixed term for 15 months, starting 1 June 2017
  • Grade 7 - Full time starting salary is normally in the range £29,301 to £38,183. With potential progression once in post to £40,523 a year.
  • The School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham has secured AHRC funding for an exciting new project entitled “Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England”. This multi-strand project, undertaken in partnership with the British Library and the Historical Association, aims to chart the manuscript political literature of pre-Revolutionary England. Working closely with the principal investigator, Dr Noah Millstone, and supported by the project’s small interdisciplinary team of historians, literary critics and technical specialists, the RA will play a leading role in developing a digital database of early modern pamphlet texts; organizing a symposium involving an international group of early modern researchers; and helping conducting events with archival staff and history instructors across the UK.
  • Please contact Dr Noah Millstone (noah.millstone@bristol.ac.uk) with informal enquiries about the position.
  • To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button; please quote Job Reference in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs
  • Deadline: 15 Apr. 2017

University of Birmingham (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow (History of Climate Change), School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences - Deadline: 2 Mar. 2017[]

  • Fixed term until Dec. 2019
  • A Research Fellow position is available for a fixed term duration to work on the project entitled “Soviet climate science and its intellectual legacies”. This postdoctoral position is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project consists of two partner universities (University of Manchester and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia) and will also work closely with the UK’s Royal Geographical Society as a collaborating partner organisation.
  • The overarching aim of this research project is to explore the development of Soviet climate science post-1945, with a particular focus on the debates concerning humankind’s influence on climate systems and on Soviet contributions to related international initiatives. The project will also examine the intellectual legacies of these debates for Russia’s positioning in post-1991 climate discussions. The research will involve extensive archival and library-based work in Russia (primarily St Petersburg and Moscow) and also a series of oral history interviews with former Soviet scientists involved in climate change work.
  • The successful applicant will play a leading role in developing the Russian-based fieldwork (archival, secondary data, oral history interviews/interviews) to include an extended stay (up to 18 months over the course of the project) working in the country. The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the intellectual output from the project as well as its expansive impact agenda working collaboratively with other members of the research team. Furthermore, they will be expected to contribute to project steering group meetings (UK, Norway, St Petersburg) and assist in the organisation of two UK-based workshops and a conference to be held in St Petersburg.
  • To qualify for the post applicants must have a PhD degree in an appropriate discipline (e.g. historical geography, history of science, environmental history). The candidate must also possess excellent Russian language skills as the fieldwork will involve working within a Russian-language context.
  • Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Jonathan Oldfield, j.d.oldfield@bham.ac.uk
  • Applicants should complete an application form, available from the website, and provide an up-to-date CV and letter of motivation, together with the names of two scientific referees.
  • Please note that due to this post being a limited research funded post the starting salary will be at the minimum point on the grade.
  • To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button  ; please quote Job Reference in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs
  • Deadline: 2 Mar. 2017

University of Birmingham (UK) - Research Fellow, School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music - Deadline: 18 Sept. 2016[]

  • Fixed term for 24 months
  • The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham is involved in a three-year research project funded by The Leverhulme Trust on ‘Inner and Outer Exile in Fascist Germany and Spain: A Comparative Study’.
  • The Research Fellow will conduct archival and library research to help compile a translated anthology of writings by German inner and territorial exiles, comprising short prose works, poems and extracts from longer works. Besides translating the chosen texts into English, they will provide a critical apparatus, including textual notes, information on the genesis and, where applicable, reception of individual works, and biographical data. The post holder will collaborate on a common critical introduction to the jointly edited two-volume anthology, including a sketch of the censorship framework in Nazi Germany and the way censorship shaped and influenced literary activity in the two settings.
  • Informal enquiries may be addressed to the Project Leader Professor John Klapper (j.m.klapper@bham.ac.uk), from whom a more detailed project description can also be obtained.
  • To download the details and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button; please quote Job Reference in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000 or visit http://www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs

University of Bristol (UK) - Research Associate in the History of Medicine (Life of Breath) - Deadline: 21 May 2017[]

  • The Life of Breath project is a Wellcome Trust funded project, headed by Prof Havi Carel (Bristol) and Prof Jane Macnaughton (Durham). Life of Breath examines breathing and breathlessness, suggesting that these can only be understood fully by drawing not only on physiological and physiopathological data, but also on cultural, historical and phenomenological sources. For more information on the project see www.lifeofbreath.org (see also job description via link below).
  • The successful applicant for this position will pursue a two-year project of research within the medical history research strand of the project. The project proposal outlines a possible direction of research for this strand (see below), but the PIs remain open to proposals of other research. Therefore, we ask that you submit with your application a research proposal explaining what research you are interested in doing and how it will link to the project’s other strands. Please read the project description (available on www.lifeofbreath.org) carefully before writing your proposal.
  • The Life of Breath proposal suggests that the postdoctoral researcher examine the recent history of COPD, which has not so far been the subject of major historical study. COPD’s defining symptom is breathlessness, and it provides an important and prevalent standard to focus clinical attention. Historical texts pertaining to breathing problems, including bronchitis and emphysema, texts documenting advances in pathology and medical diagnostic tools, and more recent clinical guidelines for COPD, could be analysed in this postdoctoral research project. However, we are happy to discuss other ideas for research relevant to the project.
  • The successful applicant will be expected to work independently at a postdoctoral level, and to publish and present work in academic and non-academic contexts. They will be mentored by a multidisciplinary team, consisting of Prof Tim Cole (Bristol, history), Prof Gareth Williams (Bristol, medicine and medical history), and Prof Havi Carel (Bristol, project PI).
  • Applicants should have a PhD in medical history, and should have research experience in the field. It is not essential that your work is in the specific field of the project, although prior research on breathing and breathlessness would be an advantage. Candidates considering applying for this post are encouraged to contact Professor Havi Carel to discuss their ideas and the post.
  • For person specification and further details about the post please access the job description via the link below. Please read the job description carefully before submitting your application.Please address the person specifications and provide a detailed research proposal in your application.
  • The start date for this post is 1 September 2017. Closing date for applications is 21 May 2017.

University of Bristol (UK) - Vice Chancellor's Fellowships in Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities and/or Digital Innovation and Well-Being - Deadline: 31 March 2017[]

Vice-Chancellor's Fellowships are aimed at early-career researchers with normally one-to-three years' experience post PhD or equivalent, but exceptional PhD graduates and researchers from non-traditional backgrounds are also encouraged to apply.

We are looking for the highest quality candidates with relevant research in one of our priority areas who will seize the development opportunities provided and become future research leaders in their field.

Requirements

Suitable candidates will have:

  • a PhD in a relevant field or equivalent;
  • started to establish a reputation for top quality research with normally one-to-three years of postdoctoral research experience or equivalent;
  • strong leadership qualities and an enthusiasm for developing skills in teaching, leadership, impact development and engagement;
  • excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Eligibility: We welcome applications from internal and external candidates, including individuals who have taken a career break due to maternity, paternity, adoption leave, illness or other exceptional circumstances.

Candidates with an existing permanent academic position are considered to have achieved the aims of the scheme and will not be eligible to apply.

University of California (USA:CA) - President's and Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2017 - OFFERS ACCEPTED[]

The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at UC.

All applications submitted to the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will automatically be included in the competition for Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs if there is one at the UC campus where the proposed UC faculty mentor is located. Applicants may apply to only one University of California campus.

The following UC campuses sponsor chancellor's fellowships:

UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
UC Irvine Chancellor's ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
UC Irvine Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Criminology, Law & Society
UC Los Angeles Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
UC Merced Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
UC Riverside Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
UC San Diego Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

2017-18 Call for applications

APPLICATION. Apply online at: http://ppfp.ucop.edu

  • DEADLINE: November 1, 2016.
  • 11/22: Is anyone having trouble with letter uploads? The website didn't accept PDFs from some of my referees. I emailed (ppfpinfo@berkeley.edu) and called, but no response for either. Any suggestions? Thank you all.
  • 2/7: Anyone heard anything? Last year people heard back by this week. Just curious! Thanks
  • Haven't heard anything yet 2/13 x3
  • 2/13: Received a phone call confirming award but no email confirmation. 854 applicants, 20 were selected. I'm guessing they are still waiting to see who'll accept before they send out emails. There will be 2 weeks from receipt of the letter to accept at which point it gets shifted to the waitlist. 
  • 2/13: Any idea if people for all universities have been notified?
  • 2/14: Not sure if everyone has been notified. I was awarded the President's. There may be a different timeline for the Chancellor's.
  • 02/21: Has anyone heard about the Chancellor's at this point?
  • 02/23: I second the above question. Also, has anyone heard anything about finalist or alternate status for the President's fellowship?
  • 02/24: Official rejection via email "over 850 applicants."
  • 02/28: Haven't received a call or heard a rejection yet. Anyone else?
  • 02/28: I haven't received either x7
  • it's 03/06 and I haven't heard anything. What does that mean? x2
  • I would call the UCOP Office for details. When I talked to them, they said that those shortlisted for the Chancellor's are forwarded to individual campuses. Each campus makes the final decision about that. Those on the shortlist will know by March 31st.
  • 3/22 Received an acceptance email for Chancellor's from Riverside. Formal appointment letter to follow. (x2, 3/28)
  • Congrats! Out of curiosity, did you get the rejection email from Mark Lawson back in February for the President's Fellowship? 3/22
  • No, I didn't receive any emails/phone calls in February.  
  • 3/24 Congratulations! If I may ask, what was your field or department for the Chancellor's?
  • Thank you! My field is musicology. Good luck to all the other applicants! 
  • 3/23 Anyone hear anything from U.C. Davis or U.C. Berkeley by any chance?
  • 3/29 I just received an email stating that I did not receive a President's Postdoc but am a finalist and that my application may still be considered for a Chancellor's.  What exactly does that mean to be a finalist?
  • 3/29 Did you recieve this e-mail from a particular school or was it from the President's office?
  • If I may ask, at which UC campus is your application being considered for a Chancellor's postdoc?
  • I received an email this week from UCOP that my application has been shortlisted for a Chancellor's at UCLA.  Has anyone heard anything new?
  • 3/31 I still haven't received any emails or calls -- anyone else in the same situation?  I called the UCOP Office but only got through to voice mail x3.
  • (Keep in mind 3/31 was Cesar Chavez day which is an official UC holiday, so nobody was in the office to answer phone calls or send emails.)
  • I was informed this week that I am an alternate for the President's postdoc.
  • 4/3: To the President's postdoc alternate: is there a difference btw finalist and alternate, i.e. is an alternate someone on the short shortlist & a finalist on the long shortlist? Basically, I'm wondering if your email designated you as an alternate; mine just said finalist. Thanks.
  • I am not the OP but also received an email that specifically said alternate. Did your email say that you were a finalist for the President's or the Chancellor's? Did it offer any additional information about what that entails?
  • Just finalist for the President's and that some applications will be forwarded to the UC campuses for Chancellor's consideration. It didn't specifically say that mine would be one of these forwarded applications...
  • I'm also a finalist for the President's and same as above happened with me (forwarded to UC campuses for chancellor's consideration, no specification about whether mine would be or not). No response to any of my emails or phone calls, either. A bit frustrating, to say the least. Fingers crossed something comes through.
  • Has anyone heard anything new about the Chancellor's Fellowships?
  • 04/07: Yes, all UCR fellowships have been announced and accepted.
  • 04/10: Any news from UC Merced?
  • 04/11: Or UCLA? Put a poor soul out of her misery.(x2 lol)
  • 04/13: Put my neck on the line and called UCLA. Their campus deadline timeline "was extended." They anticipate making decisions over "the next week or two."  Hang in there, folks.  
  • 04/13 Bless your heart.  Thanks for the update on UCLA.
  • 04/11: how about Berkeley or Davis?
  • 04/11: I was an alternate/ forwarded for consideration for the Chancellor's at UC Berkeley. I called and was told all offers have been made and are expected to be accepted. I still have not received an official rejection or any other email update.
  • 05/02: Still haven't heard anything from UC Davis; no emails or calls.  Anyone in the same boat? (x2)
  • 05/09: Still have't heard anything from UC Davis.
  • 06/19: I just got a rejection letter from UC Davis today. I already knew I was out of the running because I had called their office three weeks earlier, but it takes three weeks to send an e-mail.
  • 04/17: Received an email from Kim Adkinson stating that all awards for the President's and Chancellor's fellowships have been made.
  • Do you mean all Chancellor's postdocs from all UCs or just all the Chancellor's postdocs from UC Berkeley?
  • The email said all of them for the 2017-2018 AY. I applied for UCLA, and had written earlier inquiring about my application.
  • Thanks for the update. Has anyone recieved a rejection e-mail from the Chancellor's postdoc yet?
  • 04/25  just got a rejection e-mail from UC Berkeley this afternoon.

University of California, Berkeley (CA) - Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 31 Jan. 2017[]

The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite applications for a one-year fulltime postdoctoral fellowship. The term of the appointment is August 1, 2017 to July 31, 2018.

The Fellowship is intended to foster the academic careers of recent Ph.Ds and to allow the revision of the dissertation for publication, or for research on a new project. The Postdoctoral Fellow will give a public lecture on their research as part of the Center for Chinese Studies Colloquium Series, and they are expected to take part in regular Center for Chinese Studies events and workshops. The Fellow will be provided with office space, library privileges and a salary that starts at $48,216 but may vary depending on experience, plus benefits.

Applicants must have their Ph.D. or equivalent degree in hand by their start date. At the time of application, the basic minimum qualification is the completion of all degree requirements except the dissertation in Chinese studies or a closely related field.

For more information and to complete the online application: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/postdocs_application.html

  • The deadline to apply is January 31, 2017.

University of California, Berkeley (USA:CA) - Postdoctoral Fellowship - Public Theology - Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion - Deadline: Open until filled - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE[]

  • The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholar to join its Public Theology Program at 100 percent time with an expected start date of July 1, 2017.
  • Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, the Berkeley Public Theology Program brings together a group of scholars from fields across the humanities and social sciences, with specializations in a wide array of religious traditions. Our three-year initiative is dedicated to exploring the place of theology in public life, past and present. Theology is here meant broadly as the constellation of conceptual commitments and modes of inquiry that together enable communities to investigate and understand the world in religious terms. We propose to open this subject up to varied disciplinary approaches. Subjects might include, but are not limited to: theology and the institutions of secular life; theological aspects of politics; theology and law; art, literature, and theological inquiry; theology and social formations, and so on. We will consider applicants from all relevant disciplines whose work promises to advance the research aims of the Berkeley Public Theology Program.
  • The postdoc is expected to participate in the Luce initiative, including its annual workshop. The postdoc may also elect to teach a course in a relevant UC Berkeley department. The postdoc also is expected to reside in or near Berkeley in order to participate fully in the intellectual life of the Center and the campus.
  • Minimum/Basic Qualifications Required (By the time of application) To be considered for this position, applicants must have completed all degree requirements except the dissertation for receipt of their Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
  • Additional Required Qualifications (By the start date)The successful applicant must complete all degree requirements for the Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
  • The appointment is 100 percent time for one year. The salary for the fellowship is $51,250 annually. Generous benefits are included (http://vspa.berkeley.edu/postdocs). In addition, postdocs are provided with access to university libraries and research funds.
  • To Apply: http://apptrkr.com/928119
  • Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, updated curriculum vitae, a description of the project to be pursued while in residence (1,500 words maximum), and two letters of recommendation. All application documents should be submitted as PDFs. All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality (http://apo.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html) prior to submitting their letters.
  • Please direct questions to: postdoc.bcsr@berkeley.edu
  • The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct. The program is interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their work.
  • This position will remain open until filled.
  • no word at this end. i think they made decisions in the beginning of april last year.....

University of California, Berkeley (CA) - Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism, 2017-2019 - Deadline: 16 Feb. 2017[]

With the generous support of the Sheng Yen Educational Foundation, the Center for Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite applications for a two-year full-time postdoctoral research-teaching fellowship. The term of the appointment is July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2019.

The Fellowship is intended to foster the academic careers of recent Ph.D.'s whose area of research is Chinese Buddhism; the Fellowship will provide them with time and funding to pursue their research along with the opportunity to gain teaching experience. Fellows are expected to teach one course per year in the Lecturer title under the auspices of the Group in Buddhist Studies. In addition, Fellows will give a public lecture on their research as part of the Center for Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series, and they are expected to take part in regular Center for Buddhist Studies events and workshops. Fellows will be provided with office space, library privileges, an annual salary of approximately $55,000, health benefits, and research/travel funds of $5,000. Funding and administrative support is also available for Fellows to convene workshops and conferences in their area of research.

Applicants must have their PhD or equivalent degree in hand by their start date. At the time of application, the basic minimum qualification is the completion of all degree requirements other than the dissertation, in Chinese Buddhism or a closely related field.

Additional Required Qualifications: Candidates may have no more than three years of post-PhD research experience prior to the appointment start date. A certified copy of the Ph.D. certificate is required before the appointment can go into effect.

Preferred Qualifications: University-level teaching experience in a relevant field.

Applicants should submit the following materials: Curriculum vitae, listing degrees, any publications, and teaching experience; Graduate school transcripts; A personal statement of no more than 2000 words outlining previous research (including dissertation), the research the applicant will undertake during the term of the fellowship, future professional goals, as well as any other information deemed relevant to the application; A writing sample; A two- to four-page statement of teaching interests, along with two brief course proposals (with optional syllabi) of courses they propose to teach for the Group in Buddhist Studies (Note: UC Berkeley courses normally meet a total of three or four hours per week throughout a fourteen-week semester). Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2017, should supply a letter from their home institution confirming their schedule to completion. Applicants should request three letters of recommendation.

  • All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be submitted through AP Recruit at https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01214. The position is open until filled. Review of applications will begin February 16, 2017. Hardcopy, faxed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Please direct any questions to Sanjyot Mehendale at sanjyotm@berkeley.edu.

University of California, Davis (CA) - Mellon Visiting Assistant Professorship in Racial Capitalism - Deadline: 17 Feb 2017[]

  • The University of California, Davis is pleased to announce a two-year Visiting Assistant Professorship for 2017-2019 in Racial Capitalism supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We welcome research specializations addressing any aspect of the genealogies of racial capitalism in the U.S. and the Americas. We welcome but do not require candidates in research areas including race and ethnic studies, environmental studies, geography, gender and sexuality studies, popular cultures and media, historiography, or intersections of economics and legal policy. We are particularly interested in applicants whose research profile builds upon existing work in the field of racial capitalism and pushes it in new directions.  The specific field is open, but interdisciplinary orientation in humanities and qualitative social sciences is preferred.
  • Our new three-year Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism focuses on the historical relationship between race and capitalism, from the 15th century colonization of the Americas to the present. Sometimes explicitly, often only implicitly acknowledged, it shapes fundamental questions about inequality, value, life, bondage, and freedom, among others, across the disciplines of race and ethnic studies, literary studies, law, economics, sociology and anthropology. We directly address methodological and archival issues throughout and emphasize the workings of gender and sexuality throughout since the current field of work grouped under "racial capitalism" often subsumes gender and sexuality within supposedly larger, more encompassing categories such as "labor." This initiative is organized around three major themes: 1) culture; 2) space; 3) debt. “Culture” begins to think through the ways that economic truths are often not derived from fact but from affect and from cultural production. “Space” foregrounds how the effects of capitalism unfold unevenly across geographic space. “Debt” interrogates debt’s deeply racial history. We will consider junior scholars including recent PhDs and ABDs (the degree must be completed by July 1, 2017).
  • The Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor will participate in the activities of the Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism. Duties include teaching three courses per year, and serving as co-organizer of colloquia and other events involving faculty and graduate students.  The appointment will be housed in an appropriate department or program in the humanities or social sciences, in accordance with the background of the successful applicant (fields may include African and African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian American studies, Chicana/o studies, Economics, English,, History, Native American studies, Sociology, among others).
  • The Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor will receive an annual stipend of $57,600, plus health benefits, research funding, and relocation funds.
  • To apply, please send a cover letter, research statement, c.v., statement of contributions to diversity, and three (3) letters of reference through the online application form found at https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF01430 For full consideration applications must be received by February 17, 2017. The position is open until filled.
  • The University of California is an equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty and staff.

University of California, San Diego (USA:CA) - Economics Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Deadline: ~31 Dec 2016 [see detail][]

  • The Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is pleased to announce a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the “Payments and Governance Research Project” for 2017-2019. The successful candidate will work with Professors Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, and Sandip Sukhtankar (UVA) to design and initiate new randomized control trials (RCTs) evaluating reforms to the design and delivery of India’s subsidy programs leveraging new biometric payments infrastructure to replace commodity subsidies with income transfers. The position offers the opportunity to join a research partnership with a strong track record of high-quality publication and policy impact; is likely to lead to several co-authored papers; and is designed to help the selected candidate launch a successful academic career with a strong research pipeline.
  • The position is open to a candidate who has earned a PhD in Economics, Public Policy or another quantitative social science field with a focus on development, public, or labor economics. The candidate should have demonstrated ability to produce high quality research papers. Significant applied econometrics skills are expected. In addition to candidates with a background in field experiments, and program evaluation, we also encourage applications from candidates with strong training in structural modeling and estimation techniques who are interested in embedding experiments in structural models for better out of sample predictions and welfare estimation. We also highly value strong organizational and people management skills. Experience in developing countries and impact evaluation is a plus.
  • The two-year position will be based at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Based on mutual agreement, the duration can be as short as 15 months or as long as 3 years. The target start date for the position is summer 2017, with some flexibility on the exact start date.
  • Offer terms will be competitive and designed to attract candidates considering faculty offers at leading research universities. The successful candidate will be based at UCSD and be a fully integrated member of the UCSD economics community; with travel to India as required.
  • HOW TO APPLY: Applicants are requested to submit the following materials:
  • A cover letter applying for the position
  • Full CV and list of publications
  • Your job market paper and other papers (if relevant)
  • Academic transcripts (unofficial versions are fine)
  • Request reference letters to be directly uploaded through UC Recruit.
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, but it is highly recommended that you apply before December 31, 2016 for full consideration. If possible, applicants will be interviewed at the American Economic Association meetings in Chicago on January 6 and 7, 2017.
  • Applications are accepted through UC Recruit only. Please follow the direct link to apply https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01309.

University of Cambridge (UK), Christ's College - Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship - Deadline - 27 Oct. 2016[]

  • The College invites applications for a stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship open to those whose research is principally in one or more of the following subjects areas: Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic; Anthropology; Archaeology; Classics; Economics; English; Geography; Law; Philosophy.
  • The Fellowship is tenable for four years, normally from not later than 1st October 2017, and is not renewable. Open to candidates who hold a first degree or a higher degree or who are studying for a higher degree. Candidates are advised that a Junior Research Fellowship is intended for a researcher early in their career. A successful applicant is expected to be either a graduate student, probably in the latter stages of research leading to a PhD Degree (or equivalent), or a post-doctoral research who has completed their PhD Degree after 1st January 2016.
  • The stipend for a Junior Research Fellow is currently £21,605 pa (with a PhD) and £17,703 (without a PhD) and the successful candidate will be afforded the full privileges of a Fellow of the College.
  • Applications and referees' reports must be submitted through the College web site and received by 12:00 noon on Thursday 27th October 2016. Selected candidates may be invited to the College for interview on or around Thursday 12th January 2017.
  • Details of the award and of the competition are provided on the website at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/jrf
  • It should be noted that applications submitted for Archaeology or English will be considered for this and the A H Lloyd JRF but History or Modern and Medieval Languages applications will only be considered for the A H Lloyd Junior Research Fellowship.
  • rejection email, 8 Nov x3

University of Cambridge (UK), Christ's College - AH Lloyd Stipendary Junior Research Fellowship - Deadline: 27 Oct. 2016[]

  • The College invites applications for an A H Lloyd stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship open to those whose research is principally in one or more of the following subject areas: Archaeology; English; History; Modern and Medieval Languages. The Fellowship is tenable for four years, normally from not later than 1st October 2017, and is not renewable.
  • Open to candidates who hold a first degree, or a higher degree or who are studying for a higher degree. Candidates are advised that a Junior Research Fellowship is intended for a researcher early in their career. A successful applicant is expected to be either a graduate student, probably in the latter stages of research leading to a PhD Degree (or equivalent), or a post-doctoral researcher who has completed their PhD Degree after 1st January 2016.
  • The stipend for a Junior Research Fellow is currently £21,605 pa (with a PhD) and £17,703 (without a PhD) and the successful candidate will be afforded the full privileges of a Fellow of the College.
  • Applications and referees' reports must be submitted through the College web site and received by 12:00 noon on Thursday 27th October 2016. Selected candidates may be invited to the College for interview on or around Thursday 12th January 2017.
  • Details of the award and of the competition are provided on the website at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/jrf
  • It should be noted that applications submitted for Archaeology or English will be considered for this and the Stipendiary JRF, however History or Modern and Medieval Languages applications will only be considered for the A H Lloyd Junior Research Fellowship.

University of Cambridge (UK) Churchill College - Junior Research Fellowship - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016 - ADDITIONAL MATERIALS REQUESTED[]

  • Applications are invited for a Junior Research Fellowship in arts and social science subjects. These will normally be tenable for three years from 1 October 2017. The Fellowships are open to graduates, men or women, of any University, with no age limit, but will normally be awarded to candidates who have recently completed their PhD or are close to completion. The function of this Fellowship is as an initial (normally) post-doctoral position appropriate to the start of an academic career.
  • The prime duty of a Research Fellow will be to pursue research and they will be expected to provide a written report on the progress of their research each year.
  • Salary will be in the range £20,624-£21,843 with a PhD (10% reduction if pre-PhD).
  • Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College, Selwyn College and Trinity Hall operate a Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships. Applications will be considered by all Colleges offering Fellowships in the relevant subject. A total of seven Fellowships is offered but candidates are advised that competition is likely to be intense; last year over 1000 applications were received.
  • Candidates are warned that they are responsible for checking their eligibility to take up the post under UK immigration rules.
  • Full information regarding the Fellowships on offer, further particulars and registration details will be available at the Joint Application Scheme website w/c 10 October 2016: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/applying/fellows/jrf/
  • All applications to be submitted online by Monday 14 November 2016
  • Invited to submit written work for assessment (10 Jan)
  • Rejection email, 11 Jan

University of Cambridge (UK:Eng), CRASSH, Senior Research Associate - Deadline 8 Feb. 2017[]

  • CRASSH is seeking to appoint a Senior Research Associate to lead the new Andrew W Mellon funded project 'Religion, Diversity and the University'. The four-year project aims to respond to one of the most pressing contemporary problems: how to understand and respond to the current toxic combination of religion and politics.
  • Duties and Requirements of the Role: The successful applicant will hold a PhD in a relevant area. As well as conducting their own research in one or more of the areas of the project, the Senior Research Associate will act as the academic co-ordinator of the project under the guidance of the PI, Professor Simon Goldhill. She or he will be a scholar with advanced knowledge of at least two of the four strands of the project, and experience of organizing interdisciplinary scholarly events. She will be expected to publish research in at least one of the relevant areas, and to manage the overall work programme including the regular international meetings, visits of senior scholars, a publishing programme and summer school. Using their own contacts and networks, s/he will help build and develop the existing team of senior scholars associated with the individual strands. The project requires considerable organizational and intellectual skills and it is expected that the successful candidate will already have held a postdoctoral fellowship or the equivalent.
  • Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 March 2021 in the first instance.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12520. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact jobs@crassh.cam.ac.uk. Start date is from 1 April 2017. Interviews are planned for the week of 6 March 2017
  • Please quote reference VM11092 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Deadline: 8 Feb 2017

University of Cambridge (UK), Darwin College - Adrian Research Fellowship in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine- Deadline 13 Nov. 2016[]

  • The College is prepared, thanks to a generous original donation from Trinity College, Cambridge, to elect a stipendiary Adrian Research Fellow, if a suitable candidate applies.
  • Candidates should be at a relatively early stage in their research careers. The Fellowship is open to men and women from any university, irrespective of age. Candidates should have been awarded the PhD or an equivalently recognised degree, and be able to present to the electors substantial amounts of written work of outstanding quality, published or unpublished. No candidate should have completed in total more than seven years of postgraduate research by 1 October 2017. The function of the Fellowship is to provide a formal, supported starting point for an academic career. Candidates should be engaged in research within the field of The History of Science Technology and Medicine.
  • The Adrian Research Fellow will engage in research in his/her own special subject. In addition, the Fellow may have the opportunity to undertake, during Term, up to six hours a week of undergraduate/graduate teaching in his/her own subjects at Trinity College, or another College, or in a relevant university department at the standard rates of pay. The Research Fellow would also be encouraged to make use of the opportunities provided by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and to participate in its research activities. Apart from this, an Adrian Research Fellow is not normally permitted to hold another post. The Fellow will be a member of the Governing Body of Darwin College and will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the College, which may be seen on the College website or on request to the Bursar. The Statutes include the obligation to reside in or near Cambridge for at least two-thirds of each University term, unless excused by the Governing Body.
  • The Fellowship will run for three years from 1 October 2017. The Fellowship is renewable for one further year to a maximum of four years after that period at the discretion of the Fellowships Committee.
  • The starting stipend for the Adrian Research Fellow with a PhD will be set at not less than Point 27 on the Darwin College Single Salary spine (currently £20,874), subject to an annual cost-of-living uplift and to annual increments (the third year stipend at current rates would be £22,421). The stipend will be subject to a 10% reduction for any pre-PhD appointee. Membership of the Universities’ Superannuation Scheme is optional. It may be possible to provide limited rented accommodation, subject to availability, for which a charge at normal (subsidised) college rates will be made. A non-pensionable additional allowance of £2,000 per annum (subject to annual review) will be paid to any Adrian Research Fellow not resident in College. In addition, the Adrian Research Fellow will be entitled to dine and lunch free of charge at the normal College table whenever meals are served (up to a limit of seven meals in each week. Guests, not normally exceeding two in number on any one occasion, may be entertained at lunch or dinner, ten of them free of charge within any quarter (note termly guest nights with a special menu are subject to charge). An allowance of up to £1,000 a year will be available for receipted travel and research expenses. A further £500 a year available as a subsidy for conferences mounted in the College (paid at the discretion of the Fellowships and Finance Committees).
  • Applications should be submitted ... by 13 November 2016 and must include (a) curriculum vitae; (b) an account, in not more than 500 words, of the proposed research and the background to it; (c) an assurance that, where necessary, appropriate research arrangements have been made; (d) the names and emails of two referees who will also need to submit a reference online by 13 November 2016, and (e) a list of published or unpublished work that would be available for submission if requested.
  • Selected candidates may be invited not later than the end of December 2016 to submit copies of written work and may be called for interview on 30 January 2017. Election will be made as soon as possible thereafter.

University of Cambridge (UK) Department of History & Philosophy of Science - Teaching Associate, Modern Sci & Tech - Deadline: 3 Jan. 2017[]

  • Applications are invited for a 3-year post in the history of modern science and technology with an emphasis on the period after 1900. The successful candidate will have completed a PhD (and will hold a PhD certificate) before taking up the post.
  • The role holder will help support and maintain the Department's national and international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. The role holder will be expected to continually update their knowledge and understanding in the field and to write up work for presentation, publication and lecturing. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the lecturing, supervising, examination and administration of courses for both undergraduate and graduate students in the Department. The candidate should be prepared to deliver lectures and supervise written work on a broad range of topics in the history of technology from 1900 until the present. The position will start on 1 September 2017, and will include an initial 6-month probation period.
  • Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12249. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • Applicants are able to upload a maximum of three documents. These should be arranged as follows:
  • 1.) cover letter, curriculum vitae and full list of publications combined into one document. Please include weblinks or doi's for your publications, where possible,
  • 2.) details of teaching experience and research interests,
  • 3.) two samples of original written work. If you are unable to upload your work samples, please email these as attachments to hpsjobs@hermes.cam.ac.uk, ensuring that you include your surname in email subject line and in the file names.
  • Please provide the names and contact details of three referees in the space provided. We will contact the referees of longlisted candidates directly to request references (unless you advise that you do not wish us to do so). Referees will be asked to comment specifically on the candidate's ability to undertake this role in the Department.
  • Shortlisting: mid January 2017 & Interviews: early February 2017
  • Enquiries may be made to the Departmental Administrator, Tamara Hug (tel: 01223 334540, email: hpsjobs@hermes.cam.ac.uk).
  • Please quote reference JN10844 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Deadline: 3 Jan. 2017.

University of Cambridge (UK) Department of History & Philosophy of Science - Research Associate, History of Biology - Deadline: 4 Nov. 2016[]

  • Applications are invited for a post-doctoral Research Associate in history of biology, to contribute to the multi-centre project 'Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test', which is contextualizing, clarifying and evaluating recent calls for extensions to the 'Modern Synthesis' in evolutionary biology.
  • The successful candidate will have the ability to work reliably and efficiently to deadlines and targets. Candidates should have an outstanding record in the history of biology; an excellent knowledge of diverse approaches to evolution from a historical perspective; completed their doctorate by the time of taking up the appointment
  • Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11526. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • Applicants are able to upload a maximum of three documents, which should be arranged as follows:
  • 1.) Cover letter, an up to date curriculum vitae and full list of publications combined into one document
  • 2.) Two samples of original written work in a related area (c. 10,000 words in total)
  • 3.) A description of your research plans and an explanation of how your research will contribute to the project. This should not exceed 1,000 words
  • Please provide the names and contact details of two referees in the space provided. We will contact the referees of shortlisted candidates directly to request references (unless you advise that you do not wish us to do so). Referees will be asked to comment specifically on the candidate's ability to undertake this role in the Department.
  • If you are unable to upload your documents, please email these as attachments to hpsjobs@hermes.cam.ac.uk, ensuring that you include your surname in the email subject line and in the file names.
  • Interview Date: Mid-November 2016
  • Start Date: 1 January 2017 (or as soon as possible thereafter)
  • Any further queries regarding this position can be addressed to the Administrator at hpsjobs@hermes.cam.ac.uk, please quote reference JN10179 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

University of Cambridge (UK:Eng), Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Research Associate - Deadline: 1 May. 2017[]

  • The Faculty is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on an AHRC funded project, 'Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae: The Latin Lives of the Welsh Saints', a collaborative project between the University of Cambridge and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth. The post holder will be based in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge from 1 October 2017.
  • The Research Associate's primary role will be to be involved in the editing and translating of the texts. He/she will also be expected to give papers based on their work for the project at a number of conferences spread over the three years, including the Leeds International Medieval Congress, the International Congress of Celtic Studies, and the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. The Research Associate will also be involved in a range of public-engagement activities, and in organising an international conference in September 2019.
  • The post-holder should have a PhD in a relevant field of research, excellent organisational skills and the proven ability to work to deadlines without close supervision. Excellent written and oral communication skills and a close familiarity with common IT packages including MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint are also essential, as is the ability to work as a team. A detailed knowledge of medieval Latin is essential; familiarity with medieval hagiography and the medieval Welsh context are desirable.
  • Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 December 2019 in the first instance.
  • Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13310. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • Two references are required and applicants should ask their referees to send their reports to appointments@english.cam.ac.uk by the closing date.
  • Enquiries concerning the work of the project and the specifics of the job role may be directed to the Principal Investigator, Professor Paul Russell (pr270@cam.ac.uk) Enquiries concerning the appointments procedure and related matters may be made to the Faculty Administrator at administrator@english.cam.ac.uk).
  • Please quote reference GH11815 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Deadline: 1 May 2017

University of Cambridge (UK), Emmanuel College - Research Fellowships - Deadline: 6 Oct. 2016[]

  • The Governing Body of Emmanuel College invites applications for three stipendiary Research Fellowships in any subject and one stipendiary Alan Wilson Research Fellowship in the biological or medical sciences; all four Fellowships are for a three-year fixed term, and will commence on 1 October, 2017.
  • Applications will be accepted from any graduate of a university within or outside the United Kingdom. Eligibility is restricted to those for whom the Research Fellowship would be their first substantial paid academic or research appointment (other than as a doctoral student).
  • These Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers early in their careers: successful candidates are likely to be in the latter stages of their research leading to a PhD degree, or post-doctoral researchers who have been awarded their PhD degree after 1 October, 2015. Candidates should note that these Fellowships are extremely competitive.
  • For further details please visit resfell.emma.cam.ac.uk/rf_2017
  • Applications must be submitted online and received by 17.00 BST on Thursday 6 October, 2016. Incomplete or late applications will NOT be accepted after this date.

University of Cambridge (UK) - Faculty of Classice - Research Associate (Archaeology) - Deadline: 23 Sept. 2016[]

  • Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 18 months in the first instance.
  • The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a Research Associate (Archaeology) from 01 November 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.
  • The post is to provide assistance to Professor Martin Millett during his tenure as Head of the university's School of Arts and Humanities. It is open to those with a primary research interest in the landscape archaeology of Roman period.
  • The successful applicant will benefit from the world-class facilities offered by the University and the generous support of research and teaching provided by the Faculty. The Faculty currently teaches approx. 250 undergraduates reading Classics (all of whom study both Greek and Latin language to degree level) and almost 100 graduate students (reading for Masters and doctoral degrees). It is one of the leading international centres in Classics, with some 40 teachers in Faculty and College posts. The successful candidate will be expected to work with Professor Millett on a series of fieldwork and other archaeological publication projects.
  • Candidates will need to show evidence of the following qualifications, skills and experience:
  • PhD in archaeology or a closely related subject.
  • Knowledge and experience of academic publication.
  • Ability to handle archaeological texts in modern western European languages.
  • Ability to use computer graphics (eg. Illustrator, CAD) and GIS programs (eg. ArcMap).
  • Experience of archaeological excavation and post-excavation analysis.
  • Experience of archaeological survey (geophysics and topography).
  • Willingness to develop skills using new survey equipment and software
  • UK driving license.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11307. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • For further information about this post please click on the 'Further particulars' link below. Further particulars may also be obtained from www.classics.cam.ac.uk or from the Faculty Administrator, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (tel: 01223 735193 or e-mail: administrator@classics.cam.ac.uk).
  • You will need to attach a CV, cover letter and a sample of written work to your application. Referees should be asked to write directly to the Faculty Administrator to reach the Faculty by the closing date.
  • Please quote reference GE09990 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Closing date: Noon of Friday 23 September 2016
  • Planned interview date: Friday 14 October 2016

University of Cambridge (UK) - Faculty of Classics - Research Associate - Deadline: noon 12 Sept. 2016[]

  • The funds for this post are available for 4 years in the first instance
  • Applications are sought for a Research Associate who will be one of four postdoctoral researchers on the ERC funded 'Impact of the Ancient City' project led by the Principal Investigator Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. The project will re-examine the impact of the ancient, Greco-Roman city on subsequent urban history in Europe and the Islamic world, investigating both the urban fabric and urban ideals. Bringing together researchers trained in historical, archaeological and literary analysis, the project spans the entire Mediterranean region from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. The research team will investigate case histories in the western and the eastern Mediterranean, and pose a set of questions about how urban forms responded to changing social needs. A full description of the project is available
  • This Research Associate will examine the resilience of the urban fabric through the selection of case studies in the western Mediterranean, especially North Africa, Spain and southern France, a region in which the post-antique development became highly complex with the progressive divorce between a Christian northern Europe and an Islamic North Africa, with Andalusia as a contested frontier zone
  • The successful candidate is expected to work as part of a team based in Cambridge, discussing findings and problems with the other members of the project team. The successful candidate will be expected to spend up to three months in each of the first three years of research on fieldwork visits for the case studies, as well as taking part in regular meetings and seminars in Cambridge, and the three annual conferences. They will publish the results of their research within the publication programme of the project.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/10934. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • For further information about this post please click on the 'Further particulars' link below. Further particulars may also be obtained from www.classics.cam.ac.uk or from the Faculty Administrator, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (tel: 01223 335193 or e-mail: administrator@classics.cam.ac.uk).
  • You will need to attach a CV, cover letter and a sample of written work to your application. Referees should be asked to write directly to the Faculty Administrator by the closing date.
  • Please quote reference GE09650 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Deadline: noon 12 Sept. 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK), Faculty of Divinity - Research Associate - Deadline: 12 Nov. 2016[]

  • Research Associate to the Project on Theology and Science (2 year fixed term)
  • The Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a Research Associate to this project on Theology and Science. This will be subject to the Templeton Fund providing the grant and the appointment will not proceed without this funding. The Faculty of Divinity will select a research associate to nominate to the Templeton Foundation who will then consider whether or not to fund the post and approve the appointment. This will be a 2 year fixed term appointment (salary £28,982-£37,768 with a start date of 1 September 2017. Candidates, whose research specialism may be in any field Religion and Science, should have a degree in a relevant discipline and a doctorate in the field, and will be expected to undertake research, and some teaching for the Tripos and MPhil on the relationship between Science and Religion. The postholder will be based in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11744. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • To submit an application for this vacancy, please click on the 'Apply online' button at the bottom of this page. This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter, in the Upload section of the online application. In addition, the applicant should provide an outline on one page for a new module for the MPhil, on a topic or topics in science and religion. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.
  • Please quote reference GF10381 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Further particulars are available from the Administrative Officer in the Faculty of Divinity (tel: (01223) 763002; e-mail: faculty-office@divinity.cam.ac.uk), and on the Faculty of Divinity (Cambridge) website, where additional information on the Faculty is available: http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/ . Enquiries about the post can also be addressed to him. Applications should be sent via the on line system to the Administrative Officer (details as above) by 12 November 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK), Jesus College - Junior Research Fellowship - Deadline: 23 Aug. 2016[]

  • Applications are invited for three Research Fellowships, one to be held in Sciences, including scientific studies in the fields of Geography, Archaeology and Anthropology, and two in the Arts and Social Sciences. The Fellowships are fixed-term three year Research Fellowships normally commencing on 1 October 2017, though there may be grounds for a different starting date as described in the further particulars posted on http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/fellows-staff/vacancies/.
  • The Fellowships are intended for researchers early in their careers. Successful candidates are expected to be either graduate students, probably in the latter stages of their research leading to a PhD Degree, or post-doctoral researchers who have recently been awarded their PhD Degree. Candidates who have undertaken more than four years of full-time research are unlikely to be considered. The College is prepared to consider exceptions to these criteria and candidates have the opportunity to present a case for this during the application process.
  • Remuneration for a Research Fellow is set by reference to the Cambridge general stipend and salary scale and will start from £20,989. The College is able to assist in the provision of housing, subject to availability.
  • The application process is available online at https://jrf.jesus.cam.ac.uk from Tuesday 26 July 2016. Applications must be received by 1pm on Tuesday 23 August 2016. Short-listed candidates will be asked to submit one copy of written work up to a maximum of 40,000 words by Monday 10 October 2016. Candidates will not normally be called for interview. The College is an equal opportunities employer.

University of Cambridge (UK) -King's College, Junior Research Fellowships - Urban Studies, Gender Studies - Deadline: 15 Sept. 2016 - OFFER ACCEPTED[]

  • Gender Studies - OFFER MADE
  • King’s College invites applications from individuals who are completing or have completed a relevant doctorate for one or more four-year Junior Research Fellowship/s in interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Candidates may come from any disciplinary background but will be expected to propose future projects that engage with issues of gender in ways that transcend any individual discipline.
  • Human security, liberty, political voice, economic status, education, health, freedom of expression, access to markets and public spaces, institutional practices (for example) as well as all forms of interpersonal relations and representation, are fundamentally shaped by gender. The pace of technological development in the last twenty years has transformed human relations in every context – public, institutional, workplace, and private – raising old issues in heightened ways and creating issues not previously anticipated. All of this has made fresh methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding the place of gender in human behaviour and societies both possible and urgent. Yet it continues to be the case that much work on gender is hampered by disciplinary isolation. Those who pioneer more sensitive analysis of gendered representation in, for example, art or literature often work apart from those whose work lies in philosophy or international relations – while the very real implications of such relations within STEM subjects for the advancement of science are frequently studied by scholars who work apart from each of these.
  • The ideal candidate for these Junior Research Fellowships will have a strong background in a particular discipline within the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences but will be proposing to develop their research by engaging with work outside their own home discipline. There is great and varied interest in Gender Studies throughout the College community, from undergraduates through graduate students to the Fellowship. The successful candidate/s will be expected to engage broadly with the whole college community and with the University’s Centre for Gender Studies, which will provide a link into the wider University network of interested researchers.
  • A Junior Research Fellowship is a postdoctoral position tenable for up to 4 years. Applications are welcome from graduates of any university. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD, and must not have undertaken more than 2 years of postdoctoral work by 1st October 2017 (i.e. your PhD cannot have been granted before 30th September 2015).
  • The closing date for applications is 9 am on Thursday, 15th September.
  • writing sample requested 10/28
  • rejection email 11/1
  • Has anyone heard anything since writing samples were requested? (12/12)
  • Nothing here-anyone else? 1/20
  • Invitation for an interview received by email 1/20
  • Offer accepted 2/1/17
  • Urban Studies
  • King’s College wishes to appoint with effect from 1st October 2017 one or more Junior Research Fellow/s with a research interest in the social and cultural life of cities and intellectual curiosity concerning the synergies between socio-cultural anthropology, human geography and architecture.
  • The competition is not limited to any region of the world. Possible themes, which are not exclusive, include: migration and emerging patterns of socio-demographic change; inequality and exclusion in cities; urban social movements and enclaves; religiosity and post-secular urbanism; new and emergent urban spaces; different modes of infrastructure provision; informal economies and their possibilities for innovation; the articulation and inscription of urban myths; network-oriented studies of connectivity / discontinuity among urban residents; bio-political dimensions to urban life; human subjectivity and changing patterns of intimacy in everyday life.
  • For several years King’s has invested in the study of cities. Several Fellows, especially in Anthropology, Architecture and Human Geography, have an interest in urban research and there have been recent appointments to a Junior Research Fellowship in urban history and a College Research Associate position on urban ecology and environments. A Junior Research Fellowship in social and cultural aspects of the contemporary city provides an exciting opportunity to complement and expand research in this field.
  • A Junior Research Fellowship is a postdoctoral position tenable for up to 4 years. Applications are welcome from graduates of any university. Candidates should have completed a PhD in social anthropology, human geography, sociology, politics, architectural theory or a cognate field, and must not have undertaken more than 2 years of postdoctoral work by 1st October 2017 (i.e. the PhD cannot have been granted before 30th September 2015).
  • The closing date for applications is 9 am on Thursday, 15th September.
  • Oct 19: rejection email.
  • December 20: Rejection email.

University of Cambridge (UK) - Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) - Research Associate - Deadline: 18 Nov. 2016[]

  • The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) invites applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate in the study of intelligence. The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.
  • CFI is a new, highly interdisciplinary research centre addressing the challenges and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence (AI) in both the short and long term. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 10 years, CFI is based at the University of Cambridge, with partners in the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and UC Berkeley. The Centre also has close links with industry partners in the AI field, with policymakers, and with many academic disciplines.
  • This is a new Research Associate post within CFI's Kinds of Intelligence project, based in central Cambridge. This project, led by Dr Marta Halina and involving partners at Imperial College, draws on psychology, neuroscience, computer science, cognitive robotics, and philosophy to further develop and critically assess notions of general intelligence used in the field of AI. It aims to map the space of possible intelligences -biological, artificial, and hybrid - in order to enable more accurate predictions of AGI development and improved assessments of its benefits and risks. This post is an opportunity for a talented individual to make a major contribution to the development of this field of research.
  • Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant field and should provide strong evidence of potential for research and publication at the highest level, as well as strong interest in engagement with philosophy, science, and technology communities. The appointee will also play an important role in CFI's interdisciplinary activities, including discussion groups, workshops, and an annual conference. He or she will also be affiliated with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
  • To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11824. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the 'Apply online' button and register an account with the University's Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
  • Please upload in the Upload section of the online application (1) your Curriculum Vitae (CV); (2) a Covering Letter of no more than 1,500 words, outlining a proposed research direction, and explaining how this proposal and your skills would contribute to this project in particular and CFI more broadly; and (3) a Sample of Writing of no more than 8,000 words that demonstrates your suitability for this project. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.
  • The closing date for applications is 18 November 2016. If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process or procedure, please contact Susan Gowans at skg41@.cam.ac.uk. Please quote reference GA10453 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
  • Deadline: 18 Nov. 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK) - Magdalene College - Junior Research Fellowships - Deadline: 8 Nov. 2016[]

  • The Governing Body of Magdalene College expects to elect two stipendiary (Junior) Research Fellows with tenure for three years from 1 October 2017. (The Nevile Fellowship, endowed through the generosity of Trinity College, Cambridge, will be in the Sciences; the Lumley Fellowship, endowed through the generosity of H R L Lumley, will be in the Humanities).
  • Applications are invited from graduates, from any university. Candidates should normally have completed two or three years of research and may have written a PhD dissertation. The current gross stipend (2016-17) for a Research Fellow is £21,377 p.a. (subject to annual cost of living award). A reduced scale of stipend will apply to Research Fellows who are full-time students.
  • The deadline for applications is noon GMT on Tuesday 8 November 2016.
  • For additional information and further details on how to apply please visit the Magdalene College website at www.magd.cam.ac.uk
  • Does anyone know what date the shortlist is scheduled to be announced? I forgot to write down the date (which I think they listed on the FAQ), but vaguely remember '15 December'-ish.
  • Has anyone heard anything about this? I thought we were supposed to hear awhile ago about whether one's been long-listed. Did they just not send out notifications to those that didn't make the cut? [5 Jan.]
  • Since interviews are to be held February 1, 2017, I'm assuming they will send out both invitations (to finalists) and rejections (to everyone else) within the next 10 days or so.
  • Rejection email. [x3] [1/23]
  • Is it just me or are all the rejection emails extraordinarily apologetic? 
  • Has anyone been asked to interview? I was put on the longlist and still haven't heard from them. [2/1]

University of Cambridge (UK) - Murray Edwards College - Stipendary Research Fellowship - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016 - ADDITIONAL MATERIALS REQUESTED[]

  • Applications are invited for one stipendiary Research Fellowship in Arts/Humanities or Mathematics, which will normally be tenable for three years from 1 October 2017. The Fellowships are open to graduates, men or women, of any University, with no age limit, but will normally be awarded to candidates who have recently completed their PhD or are close to completion. The function of these Fellowships is as initial (normally) post-doctoral positions appropriate to the start of an academic career.
  • The prime duty of a Research Fellow will be to pursue research and they will be expected to provide a written report on the progress of their research each year.
  • Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College, Robinson College and Trinity Hall operate a Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships. Applications will be considered by all Colleges offering Fellowships in the relevant subject. A total of seven Fellowships is offered but candidates are advised that competition is likely to be intense; last year over 1000 applications were received.
  • Candidates are warned that they are responsible for checking their eligibility to take up the post under UK immigration rules.
  • Full information regarding the Fellowships on offer, further particulars and registration details will be available at the Joint Application Scheme website from w/c 10 October 2016: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/applying/fellows/jrf/
  • All applications to be submitted online by Monday 14 November 2016.
  • 1/10 email notifying that selected to submit writing sample [x2]
  • 1/11 rejection email.
  • Anyone have a sense of what it means if I haven't heard anything one way or the other? I applied for this Joint-Scheme w/ Murray Edwards and Trinity Hall. [11 January] [Same here, no notification, applied to Murray Edwards and Trinity Hall.]
  • 2/6 received email asking me to let them know if I've been extended or accepted another offer. Did other people get this, too? (x2)
  • 3/21 rejection email saying my app reached the final round and that over 1000 applied (x2 - applied for Trinity Hall)
  • Anyone else there with no word whatsoever--no rejection, no additional materials requested, nothing?

University of Cambridge (UK) - Newnham College - Research Fellowship, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Deadline: 28 Oct. 2016 - FINALISTS NOTIFIED[]

  • Newnham College, Cambridge invites applications from women graduates of any university for a Research Fellowship in subjects falling within the general field of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, tenable for three years from 1 October 2017.
  • The Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fellowship is a stipendiary or non-stipendiary research fellowship, open to graduates working in a field covered by one of the following Faculties of the University of Cambridge: Architecture, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Divinity, History, History of Art. Further information about these Faculties may be obtained from the University of Cambridge’s Website: www.cam.ac.uk. Newnham research students in the whole field of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences may apply, regardless of the subject listing.
  • Application information may be obtained from the College’s website: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/research/research-fellowships/ and applications must be submitted on-line via the Application Information document to be found there.
  • Deadline: 28 Oct. 2016.
  • 12/1 longlisted
  • 12/1 generic rejection email  (x2)
  • Feb 8 - invited for interview.

University of Cambridge (UK) - Peterhouse College, Research Fellowships - Deadline: 19 Sept. 2016[]

  • The Governing Body of Peterhouse, applying the benefactions of the late William Stone, former Scholar of the College, and others, intends to elect a number of Research Fellows, who will enter upon their tenure on 1 October 2017.
  • Candidates must by 1 October 2017 have passed all examinations required for a first degree at a university and would be expected to have gained at least a 2.i classification or equivalent. They should be capable of performing unsupervised post-graduate research. Candidature is also restricted to those who commenced full-time research work on a Ph.D. degree no earlier than 1 October 2013. Furthermore, candidates must be graduates of, or current students at, universities in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.
  • The electors will make a shortlist of candidates who will be invited to submit dissertations or other written work. Some of these candidates will subsequently be invited for interview.
  • The annual remuneration of a Research Fellow is at present £23,631 (non-resident in College) or £20,923 (resident), with an annual research allowance of up to £1,328. Stipends will be subject to deductions in consideration of emoluments from other sources. In the case of a Research Fellow who has not yet taken the Ph.D., the College may pay certain approved University fees. Research Fellows are expected to engage in full time research, but may be permitted to teach for up to six hours a week and will be paid for this. All Research Fellows are allowed seven free meals a week at the Common Table. There is an entertainment allowance in kind. The tenure is three years and in certain circumstances may be renewed. Up to one year’s absence may be granted.
  • Full details of the salary, benefits and applications procedure can be found at www.resfell.pet.cam.ac.uk.
  • The closing date for receipt of electronic applications is 19 September 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK), Robinson College - Stipendary Isaac Newton Trust/Robinson College Research Fellowship - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

  • Applications are invited for a stipendiary Isaac Newton Trust/Robinson College Research Fellowship in the following subjects: Anglo-Saxon, Architecture, Classical Literature and Linguistics, English, Linguistics, Modern and Medieval Languages or Music, which will normally be tenable for three years from 1 October 2017. Fellowships are open to graduates, men or women, of any University, with no age limit, but will normally be awarded to candidates who have recently completed their PhD or are close to completion. The function of these Fellowships is as initial (normally) post-doctoral positions appropriate to the start of an academic career.
  • The prime duty of a Research Fellow is to pursue their own independent research and scholarship.
  • The stipend of a Research Fellow is at point 30 on the University scale of stipends equating to £22,249 (at August 2016) with a 10% reduction for an appointee who has yet to complete a PhD. The post is pensionable with USS.
  • Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College, Robinson College and Trinity Hall operate a Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships. Applications will be considered by all Colleges offering Fellowships in the relevant subject. A total of seven Fellowships is offered but candidates are advised that competition is likely to be intense; last year over 1000 applications were received.
  • Candidates are warned that they are responsible for checking their eligibility to take up the post under UK immigration rules.
  • Full information regarding the Fellowships on offer, further particulars and registration details will be available at the Joint Application Scheme website w/c 10 October 2016 http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/applying/fellows/jrf/
  • All applications to be submitted online by Monday 14 November 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK), St John's College - Research Fellowship in Historical & Philosophical Studies - Deadline: 30 Sept. 2016[]

  • Applications are invited for Research Fellowships in Historical & Philosophical Studies and related fields intended for outstanding researchers early in their careers. The Fellowships offer an opportunity to carry out independent research in a stimulating and supportive academic environment. Applications will be accepted from any graduate of a university within or outside the United Kingdom.
  • All candidates should note that these Research Fellowships are extremely competitive and typically less than one candidate in 100 is successful.
  • Successful candidates are expected to be either graduate students, probably in the latter stages of their research leading to a PhD Degree, or post-doctoral researchers who have been awarded their PhD Degree after 1 October 2015. Candidates who do not fulfil these criteria are unlikely to be considered.
  • For details please see http://research-fellowships.joh.cam.ac.uk
  • Applications must be submitted online and received by 17.00 BST on Monday 3 October 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK), St John's College - Research Fellowship in History of Art - Deadline: 30 Sept. 2016[]

  • Applications are invited for Research Fellowships in History of Art and related fields intended for outstanding researchers early in their careers. The Fellowships offer an opportunity to carry out independent research in a stimulating and supportive academic environment. Applications will be accepted from any graduate of a university within or outside the United Kingdom.
  • All candidates should note that these Research Fellowships are extremely competitive and typically less than one candidate in 100 is successful.
  • Successful candidates are expected to be either graduate students, probably in the latter stages of their research leading to a PhD Degree, or post-doctoral researchers who have been awarded their PhD Degree after 1 October 2015. Candidates who do not fulfil these criteria are unlikely to be considered.
  • For details please see http://research-fellowships.joh.cam.ac.uk
  • Applications must be submitted online and received by 17.00 BST on Monday 3 October 2016.

University of Cambridge (UK) Trinity Hall - Research Fellowship - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2016[]

  • Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship in Ancient History & Classical Archaeology, Archaeology, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Geography (arts), History, History of Art , History of Science or Social Anthropology, which will normally be tenable for three years from 1 October 2017. The Fellowship is open to graduates, men or women, of any University, with no age limit, but will normally be awarded to candidates who have recently completed their PhD or are close to completion. The function of Fellowships is as initial (normally) post-doctoral positions appropriate to the start of an academic career.
  • The prime duty of a Research Fellow is to engage in research; Research Fellows are also welcome to undertake supervision teaching, if they wish, within a limit of six hours per week. Research Fellows are not expected to undertake any additional administrative duties within a College, but should attend twice-termly meetings of the College’s Governing Body.
  • The pensionable stipend of post-PhD Research Fellows is currently £21,685 (pre-PhD £19,241).
  • Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College, Robinson College and Trinity Hall operate a Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships. Applications will be considered by all Colleges offering Fellowships in the relevant subject. A total of seven Fellowships is offered across all Colleges in the scheme, of which one is offered at Trinity Hall, but candidates are advised that competition is likely to be intense; last year over 1000 applications were received.
  • Candidates are warned that they are responsible for checking their eligibility to take up the post under UK immigration rules.
  • Full information regarding the Fellowships on offer, further particulars and registration details will be available at the Joint Application Scheme website w/c 10 October 2016: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/applying/fellows/jrf/
  • All applications to be submitted online by 14 November 2016.
  • Rejection email. [12 Jan]

University of Chicago (IL) - Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor - Deadline: 17 Mar. 2017[]

The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago invites applications for one-year Postdoctoral Researchers at the Rank of Instructor, to begin on July 1, 2017. Postdocs will join a community of leading scholars from across the university to study the process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present day and, in correlation, to explore how this history shapes our modern world.  Applicants must demonstrate current research interests tied to SIFK's 2016-18 multidisciplinary approach to Comparing Practices of Knowledge (http://sifk.uchicago.edu/research-theme ). In particular, we seek applicants working on the formation of medical, economic, or legal knowledge, the sociology of scientific knowledge, or indigenous knowledge practices. We are also interested in candidates studying public knowledge, the "post-truth era," misinformation, and propaganda within the US context. We will evaluate applicants on the quality and quantity of publications, recommendations, and undergraduate teaching, and a demonstrated ability to work beyond disciplinary constraints.  The successful candidate must have a PhD in hand before the start of the appointment. Postdocs will conduct individual research and collaborate with graduate students and faculty in investigating approaches, methodologies, and outcomes of this research agenda. The position offers a salary of $60,000, benefits, office space, pedagogical training, reimbursement of up to $2,500 for moving expenses, and a research allowance of $2,500.  SIFK Postdocs are expected to: 

  • conduct their own research towards a book or other project; 
  • teach three undergraduate 10-week courses per year (UChicago is on the quarter system) designed to appeal to a wide group of students; 
  • hone and document their teaching skills through engagement with the Chicago Center for Teaching (CCT); 
  • participate in the year-long SIFK workshop series on Comparing Practices of Knowledge (meeting 3X per quarter) and present their work in one of the workshop sessions; 
  • submit an article based on research conducted at SIFK to Know: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge

SIFK will arrange for a faculty mentor and opportunities to forge personal and academic relationships across the university. Successful candidates will be appointed in SIFK and the College, in addition to being affiliated with a relevant academic department(s). An office space will be provided and there is an expectation that it will be actively utilized and postdocs will participate in the life of the Institute, such as its conferences, discussions, workshops, dinners, social hours, and other activities taking place. 

  • Please submit the following application materials online at (http://tinyurl.com/sifkpostdoc17-18) for posting number 03236: (1) a one-page cover letter explaining how your research relates to the 2016-18 SIFK research theme and listing three examples of undergraduate courses that you would be most interested to teach, (2) an up-to-date c.v., and (3) a writing sample consisting of a chapter, essay, or article.
  • And please arrange to have three letters of recommendation, with at least one attesting to the quality of undergraduate teaching, sent directly to sifk-apps@uchicago.edu . Any questions may be addressed to sifk-apps@uchicago.edu
  • All recommendation letters and application materials must be submitted by the deadline of March 17, 2017.
  • Candidates who make the shortlist will be interviewed via Skype and can expect to receive notice of the final decision within a month.
  • Anyone heard about Skype interviews? (4/11)
  • Rejection email (4/11)

University of Chicago (IL) - Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow - Deadline: 17 Jan. 2017[]

The Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago, in coordination with the Office of the Provost, invites applications for one or more Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow position(s) from junior scholars who engage issues of race and/or ethnicity within established social sciences disciplines or emergent disciplines such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, American Studies, Latina/o Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies, Human Rights, or Justice Studies. This search is division-wide. Successful candidates will be appointed in one of the following departments: Anthropology, Economics, History, Comparative Human Development, Political Science, Psychology, or Sociology. A goal of the search is to increase the diversity of scholars and scholarship in the Division of Social Sciences, and we therefore welcome applicants who come from groups that are historically underrepresented in the disciplines noted above, such as black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Successful candidates will be appointed as Provost's Fellows with an initial two-year faculty appointment at the rank of Instructor. This initial period is intended to serve in lieu of a postdoctoral appointment for the same period, during which Provost's Fellow will engage in mentored research, pursue advanced training, participate in quarterly professional development programs, teach one class per year, and more, as detailed on the website https://provostpostdoc.uchicago.edu/. Instructors will be reviewed for promotion to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the end of their initial term.

Appointments may begin as early as July 1, 2017. Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. prior to the start date, and they must be no more than three years beyond receiving that degree by the start of the appointment.

  • Review of applications will begin on January 17, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed; early submission is encouraged. Applications must be submitted through the University of Chicago's Academic Career Opportunities website, http://tinyurl.com/h58nj9m.

University of Chicago (IL) - Society of Fellows - Harper and Schmidt Fellows - Deadline: 14 Oct. 2016 - OFFERS MADE (HUM / SOC)[]

The University of Chicago Society of Fellows is now accepting applications for four-year postdoctoral teaching appointments as Harper and Schmidt Fellows who hold the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor. The Fellows are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the general education (Core) program.

Core courses in the Humanities typically deal with fundamental issues and texts in history, philosophy, and literature. Currently, the Core is organized into seven year-long sequences: Readings in World Literature; Human Being and Citizen; Greece and Rome: Texts, Traditions, Transformations; Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities; Media Aesthetics; Reading Cultures; and Language and the Human. For a description of these sequences see: https://societyoffellows.uchicago.edu/page/humanities-course-descriptions

Core courses in the Social Sciences explore, on the basis of significant works, the fundamental concepts and the different modes of inquiry that have defined the social sciences in the modern period. Currently, Fellows teach in four of the year-long sequences into which the Core is organized: Self, Culture and Society; Classics of Social and Political Thought; Power, Identity, and Resistance; and Social Science Inquiry. Some Fellows also teach in the History of European Civilization Core sequence. European Civilization is taught on the basis of intensive readings of significant primary source documents.

For a description of these sequences see: https://societyoffellows.uchicago.edu/page/social-sciences-course-descriptions

The positions are open to scholars in all disciplines and areas of specialization who will have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. degree no later than August 31, 2017. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in their original scholarship as well as in teaching.

In most years, Fellows teach two courses (usually of identical preparation) for each of three quarters. Each Fellow also has the opportunity to design an independent course and each is eligible for one quarter of research sabbatical in the third year of residence. The annual salary for 2017-18 will be $67,650. The effective date for these teaching appointments is September 1, 2017.

To apply for these positions, please see our web site at http://fellows.uchicago.edu. The web site will be available to accept applications beginning August 31, 2016.

  • On line application deadline: 11:59:59 PM CDT, Friday, October 14, 2016. Deadline for receipt of letters of recommendations: 11:59:59 PM CDT, Friday, October 28, 2016. This includes letters of recommendation from your three recommenders or those received from a dossier service.
  • Does anyone know if the "description of the dissertation project or most recent major research project" is a de facto cover letter, or if it's a pure abstract? 
  • Has anyone heard from them? 
  • Yes [Add'l materials requested for HUM, 16 Dec] x3
  • Has anyone from SOC received requests for additional materials, or only HUM?
  • Last year apparently SOC received requests at the beginning of February...
  • Any update for SOC folks?
  • 1/6: Have any HUM people heard about campus interviews? Many thanks for any info.
  • 1/8 nothing here (as a HUM person who sent additional materials). Anyone have an idea when they'll let us know if we get a campus visit?
  • 1/8 I bet they will invite campus visitors this week, if they didn't already. It'd be great if people could post once they have word, as the email said that invitees would be notified, but not necessarily everyone.
  • 1/8 No word here yet either (HUM who sent additional materials). 
  • 1/9 Email request for on-campus interview (HUM) x3.
  • Any word from the HUM-side of things? 
  • I was told they've made their initial offers. [posted 3/13]
  • Received offer today for HUM. 3/24.
  •  About SOC: I just called to know when they will ask for additional materials and I was told it won't be before at least two weeks... [2/3]
  • Has anyone from SOC received requests for additional materials? [2/22]
  • 2/24 SOC: Email requesting further materials and interview.
  • 3/2: SOC: Email requesting further materials but no interview so far (I applied to PIR) [x2 - I applied to Self & PIR] [X3 I applied to Self]
  • 3/8: SOC: has anyone who applied for the CIV sequences heard anything?
  • 3/17: Email request for on-campus interview (SOC-PIR) x 2 (Soc - Self)
  • Does anyone know how many people they interview for each spot?
  • I was told 2-3 per spot. FYI, they received around 1,400 applications this year (HUM+SOC)
  • Has anyone heard anything from SOC? Aren't we supposed to hear in early May? (I have not heard yet - I applied to self) --> still nothing? this is quite painful (5/9) --> Still nothing here (self). Good luck!
  • I haven't heard anything either but they told me the last interview was May 3rd so maybe we won't hear before next week. 
  • 5/9 I haven't heard anything since the interview either. Every day I think: this has to be the day! They can't possibly drag this out for so long!
  • Any word? Still nothing here :(
  • [5/14] I heard from someone in the society that chosen candidates had been notified. :( 
  • Can anyone confirm the above? If you have an offer and plan to decline it, please don't delay

University College London, Institute of Advanced Studies (UK:Eng) - Junior Research Fellows 2017-18 (FOUR positions) - Deadline: 25 May 2017[]

  • The Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities established a UCL Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2015. The IAS is a research-based community of scholars comprising colleagues and doctoral students from across UCL, as well as visiting fellows and research collaborators/interlocutors from the UK and internationally. It is committed to critical thinking and engaged enquiry both within and across conventional disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and aims to provide a creative and generative context in which to question and dislodge habitual practices and modes of thought.
  • The IAS is seeking to appoint four Junior Research Fellows (JRFs) starting on 1 October 2017. Candidates should have recently completed a PhD in one of the subject areas of either the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences. The post-holders will carry out research and collaborate with academic colleagues in the relevant field and complete an ambitious but feasible research programme. They will develop and organise specific activities relating to their particular research theme (see job description) with which they are associated. They will also participate and contribute to seminars aimed at sharing research outcomes and public engagement activities appropriate to their research topic.
  • These appointments are funded for 12 months each in the first instance.
  • Key Requirements: Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent with expert knowledge within their chosen area of research and the ability to contribute to one of the research themes stated in the job description, which should be reflected in the authorship of one or more high quality publications. They will be required to conduct their own research but also facilitate wider disciplinary research on the theme, and be able to demonstrate how their research fits into a broader understanding of the theme. Candidates should also have the ability to give public presentations, work collaboratively, and have previous experience of active involvement in research at a university level.
  • Please upload the following documentation as PDF files: A CV of no more than two pages, including the contact details of two referees; A research proposal of no more than 500 words outlining the project, its relationship to the recently completed PhD, and the envisaged outcomes (conceivably a couple of articles, OR a significant and well-grounded research application in a new area of research, OR a book of the thesis, OR other relevant outcome such as an edited volume); A 250-word statement on how the candidate's research relates to their chosen theme, plus a proposal for activities based in the Institute of Advanced Studies that the JRF will generate: ideas for a series of seminars/workshops that will continue throughout the fellowship; an idea for one conference/event that will take place towards the end of the fellowship; one public engagement activity that will attract new publics/audiences
  • Applications will be assessed on the quality of the research proposal AND the nature of the research based activities proposed.
  • [If] you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Catherine Stokes (e: c.stokes@ucl.ac.uk or t: +44(0)20 7679 3596).
  • 6/21 rejection by email

University College London (UK:Eng) - School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow - Deadline: 5 Feb. 2017[]

  • The appointment will be made at Grade 7, currently in the range of £34,056- £41,163 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance).
  • The currently advertised post-doctoral Mellon research fellowship, focused on ‘Critical Area Studies and the Production of Knowledge’, is funded for one year and is embedded within a six-year themed research programme established at UCL in 2012, entitled New Horizons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A New Vision through Language-Based Area Studies. This one-year strand will focus specifically on the production of knowledge with respect to academic practices in Area Studies.
  • The Fellowship is suitable for someone who has recently completed a PhD in a discipline related to the Fellowship and relevant to the UCL context, and who is seeking to develop an academic career. UCL Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows benefit from a thorough, structured training in teaching as well as being part of a vibrant and constantly self-examining research community.
  • Fellows are appointed after an open, international competition. Applications are welcome from early career scholars across disciplines whose research proposals engage with the questions posed in this year’s strand.
  • Although Fellows will be able to devote most of their time to research, they are expected to teach up to 5 hours per week not only within their own departments but also within Faculty-wide programmes.
  • It is expected that Fellows will be keen to disseminate their work widely by, for example, organising (interdisciplinary) public events related to her or his main research theme, such as: seminars, study days, exhibitions, conferences, performances. It is also expected that individual publications will come from each Fellowship.
  • A full job description and person specification can be accessed through the SSEES Mellon Programme webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/current-vacancies. Please follow the link to the "Job Specification" and read the criteria carefully before applying.
  • Candidates will be expected to provide the following 6 documents, written in English. There are two spaces in which you will be able to upload your documents. Please upload your CV into the first space provided as one document and then merge the remaining 5 documents into a single Word/PDF document, when you make your online application.
  • 1. Your CV and:
  • 2. Containing
  • a. a personal statement
  • b. the abstract of your PhD
  • c. a sample of written work (no longer than 50pp)
  • d. a short research proposal for the Fellowship (ideally no more than 3pp)
  • e. a description of teaching experience and interests
  • We aim at nothing less than a fundamental re-conceptualisation of Language-based Area Studies whereby disciplines are brought together with geographical regions and language in order to facilitate awareness and engagement across the Social Sciences and Humanities and beyond. The formulation of such a re-conceptualisation is the starting point of this latest UCL Mellon Post-Doctoral Research programme.
  • Deadline: 5 Feb. 2017

University of Edinburgh (UK:Scot), Research Fellow in Irish History - Deadline: 10 Apr. 2017[]

  • The School is seeking to appoint an experienced researcher who will conduct archival research on the transnational dimensions of Irish nationalism as part of the AHRC funded project ‘A Global History of Irish Revolution, 1916-1923’.
  • This position is fixed term and tenable for a three-year period. This post is full time, 35 hours per week.
  • Salary: £32,004 - £38,183 per annum, pro rata
  • Closing Date: 5pm (GMT) on Monday 10th April 2017
  • For further particulars and to apply for this post please click on the apply button

University of Exeter (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Deadline: 28 Aug. 2017[]

  • The College wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in developing a programme of interdisciplinary research into the historical, social and cultural factors shaping stress and burn-out among doctors and medical students. This Wellcome-Trust funded full-time, fixed term post is available from 1st October 2017 to 31st December 2018 (15 months). The successful applicant will contribute to the development of the project, identify appropriate sources and methods, build networks with academics and health practitioners nationally and internationally, and author high-quality publications in peer-reviewed journals.
  • The successful applicant will be able to develop research objectives, projects and proposals; identify sources of research funding; contribute to the process of securing funds; and make presentations at conferences and other events.
  • Applicants will possess a relevant PhD or equivalent qualification/experience in a related field of study. The successful applicant will be a nationally recognised authority in the medical humanities and/or social sciences and possess sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop research programmes and methodologies relating to the project. The successful applicant will also be able to work collaboratively (particularly with colleagues in the Medical School), supervise the work of others, and act as team leader as required.
  • Applications should be made via our website. For more information and to apply online please press the apply button. Please quote reference number P57891 in any correspondence.
  • Deadline: 28 Aug. 2017.

University of Exeter (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Associate (Centre for Medical History) - Deadline: 10 July 2017[]

  • The College wishes to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the work of Professor Jonathan Barry and Dr Peter Elmer on the project "The Medical World of Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland c.1500-1715". This full-time Wellcome Trust funded post is available for twelve months from 1st September 2017 to 31st August 2018. The successful applicant will be responsible for developing the Microsoft Access database associated with the project (containing information on over 30,000 medical practitioners), to enable it to answer the project’s research questions and to provide a publicly accessible resource at the end of the project, as well as conducting some archival research and historical analysis associated with the database.
  • The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes; communicate complex information orally, in writing, and electronically; and help to prepare proposals and applications to external bodies.
  • Applicants will possess a relevant PhD obtained or submitted by the date of commencing the post, or possess an equivalent qualification/experience in a related field of study, and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes. Applicants will be able to work with early modern archival and published sources; prepare, enter, and analyse data in a complex database; and offer support to the project investigators in developing quantitative measures to answer complex research questions using the database material; as well as developing the database for public access. A familiarity with early modern medical and social history would be highly desirable. There will be an opportunity to conduct and publish your own research on the database materials and related subjects. There is no expectation of teaching during this post. Applicants will be expected to be based largely in Exeter, although some time may be spent at the IHR in London, where technical support for the database is available.
  • The University offers some fantastic benefits including 41 days leave per year, options for flexible working, numerous discounts at leading retailers, an onsite gym, free yoga and pilates, a cycle to work scheme, and a stunning campus environment in the heart of Exeter. If you are not currently in Exeter please have a look at our website (www.exeter.ac.uk/thesouthwest) for some further information on what a beautiful part of the country we are based in.
  • For further information please contact Prof. Jonathan Barry (email: J.Barry@ex.ac.uk).
  • Interviews are expected to take place in mid-July.
  • Applications should be made via our website. For more information and to apply online please go to www.exeter.ac.uk/jobs. Please quote reference number R43273 in any correspondence.

University of Exeter (UK) - Postdoctoral Research Associate (Dept. of Archaeology) - Deadline: 13 Dec. 2016[]

  • The College wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Tropical Archaeobotany and Archaeology to support the work of Professor José Iriarte (Exeter). This full-time European Research Council funded post is available on a fixed term basis from 1st March 2017 to 30th June 2018. The successful applicant will work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for a new four-year project entitled PAST ‘Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformations’.
  • This is an international, interdisciplinary project integrating a range of state-of-the-art techniques in archaeology, archaeobotany, paleoecology, soil science, botany, landscape ecology and remote sensing to investigate the influence of the late pre-Columbian (1000-1492 A.D.) land use on Amazonian forests, the impact of the 1492 Columbian Encounter (CE) and its modern legacy through the comparative study of pre-Columbian land uses in different regions of Amazonia. The post will include participating and/or directing archaeological excavations directed at recovering plant remains and plant processing tools with the project’s collaborators; undertaking phytolith, starch grain and charcoal analyses from archaeological sites and soil-depth profiles in vegetation plots; writing archaeological reports and submitting results for publication in several leading international journals; liaising close with the Exeter-based palaeoecology and remote sensing/botany PDRAs to closely integrate palaeoecological, remote sensing and archaeological data. The project also entails assisting with the supervision of undergraduate, MSc and PhD student projects, as well as teaching classes in Paleobotany, laboratory and forensic practical sessions, in addition to the contribution to other modules. The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes and communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically.
  • Applicants will possess PhD (or nearing completion) or equivalent in a related field of study and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of appropriate research methods and techniques.
  • For further information please contact Professor José Iriarte, e-mail J.Iriarte@exeter.ac.uk or telephone (01392) 264513.
  • Applications should be made via our website. For more information and to apply online please go to www.exeter.ac.uk/jobs Please quote reference number P54937 in any correspondence.

University of Exeter (UK) - Postdoctoral Research Fellows - P54630 (Two Posts) - Deadline: 8 Nov. 2016[]

  • The above full-time posts are available from 1st March 2017 to 28th February 2019 in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS) at the University of Exeter.
  • The College wishes to recruit two Postdoctoral Research Fellows to participate in the Law and Learning in Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) ERC Advanced project, awarded to Professor Robert Gleave. Based in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, the project team members will examine the development of Imami Shi’i legal thinking from the earliest times to the present day, placing them in the context of the wider development and elaboration of Islamic law. The two post holders will research in one of the research themes “Legal Theory/Legal Doctrine” or “Fatwas and Fiqh”.
  • The starting salary will be from £33,943 up to £38,183 on Grade F, depending on qualifications and experience.
  • For further information please contact Professor Robert Gleave, e-mail r.gleave@exeter.ac.uk or telephone (01392) 264025.
  • apply online
  • Deadline: 8 Nov. 2016.

University of Exeter (UK:Eng) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Humanities - Deadline: 27 Apr. 2017[]

  • We are looking for a research leader with an international reputation to shape and direct the strategic development of digital humanities at Exeter. Applicants will be instinctive innovators in this fast-expanding research area, with a proven record of excellence in funded projects and field-leading publications. In addition to an outstanding research portfolio, you must be a skilled and committed teacher with a vision for the integration of digital approaches and applications in the student experience. You should also have an established profile in the appropriate professional networks and organisations, and a demonstrable capacity to develop collaborations with a variety of non-HE partners.
  • The post-holder will be based at Exeter's Streatham campus in one of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics and Ancient History, Drama, English, Film Studies, History, Modern Languages, and Theology and Religion.
  • For further information please contact Professor James Clark, Associate Dean for Research in Humanities and Chair of the College's Digital Humanities Strategy Group (email: j.g.clark@exeter.ac.uk or telephone: (01392) 725684).
  • You may also wish to consult our web site at http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/ for further details of the College.
  • Deadline: 27 Apr. 2017

University of Glasgow (UK:Scot) - Research Associate, International Economic History (2 Posts)- Deadline: 17 Apr. 2017[]

  • Job Purpose: To make a leading contribution to the project: The Making of a Lopsided Union: Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992 (EURECON) led by Dr Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (See the file entitled ‘Project explanatory document’ for guidance on the application process, as well as http://e-mourlon-druol.com/eurecon/). Specifically, the job requires expert knowledge in the area of post-war international/European economic history. The post-holder will also be required to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help manage and direct this complex and challenging project as opportunities allow.
  • Salary will be on the University’s Research and Teaching Grade, level 7.
  • This position is funded from 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2019.
  • New entrants to the University will be required to serve a probationary period of 6 months.
  • The successful applicant will be eligible to join the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Further information regarding the scheme is available from the Superannuation Officer, who is also prepared to advise on questions relating to the transfer of Superannuation benefits.
  • All research and related activities, including grants, donations, clinical trials, contract research, consultancy and commercialisation are required to be managed through the University’s relevant processes (e.g. contractual and financial), in accordance with the University Court’s policies.
  • Deadline: 17 Apr. 2017

University of Glasgow (UK:Scot) - Research Associate, Jewish Lives Scottish Spaces - Deadline: 13 Dec. 2016[]

  • To join the AHRC research project, "Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces: Jewish Migration to Scotland, 1880-1950", in order to carry out archival research along with the PI (based at the University of Edinburgh) and the Co-I (based at the University of Glasgow). The RA will be based in Glasgow and play a key role in analysing, publicising, and presenting relevant materials on twentieth-century Scottish Jewish life and culture, both available at the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre (SJAC) and related repositories in the UK. The RA will contribute their own research, including conference papers, and articles, under the thematic umbrella framed by Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces.
  • Main Duties and Responsibilities
  • To contribute to the organisation and analysis of archival resources for Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces.
  • To develop the project’s information website and social media presence in order to advertise the project’s research.
  • To take day-to-day responsibility under the supervision of the Co-I to coordinate and monitor the delivery schedules of the project and identify problems which may cause consequential delays.
  • To take a lead role in contributing to the direction of the public-facing activities of the project.
  • To identify and carry out appropriate avenues for public dissemination of the project outputs with a specific emphasis on resources for education.
  • To contribute to the Project Colloquium in April 2017 in Glasgow and assist with the organisation of the British Association for Jewish Studies Conference in 2017 in Edinburgh on the conference theme.
  • In order to carry out these tasks, to liaise regularly with the PI, Co-I, and project partners.
  • To arrange, attend, and take minutes of project meetings, both in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and elsewhere.
  • To assist the PI and Co-I in ensuring that the project is running within the timelines laid down in the project plan, and in highlighting elements that need attention in advance.
  • To produce and disseminate their own research relating to the project themes.
  • To take a lead role in the drafting of subsequent applications for funding with the PI and Co-I.
  • Salary will be on the University’s Research and Teaching Grade, level 7. This post is open ended with a funding end date of 31 August 2018. New entrants to the University will be required to serve a probationary period of 6 months.
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University of Glasgow (UK:Scot) - Research Associate, School of Social & Political Sciences - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016[]

  • Job Purpose: To make a leading contribution to the project: “Uses of the Past in International Relations (UPIER)”, within the School of Social and Political Sciences in the College of Social Sciences. Specifically, the job requires expert knowledge in the area of international economic relations and/or international history, including publishing work and the capacity to act with a degree of independence to determine the direction of the research project. The post-holder will also be required to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help to manage and direct this complex and challenging project as opportunities allow.
  • Salary will be on the University’s Research and Teaching Grade, level 7. New entrants to the University will be required to serve a probationary period of 6 months.
  • This post is funded until 9 January 2019.
  • The successful applicant will be eligible to join the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Further information regarding the scheme is available from the Superannuation Officer, who is also prepared to advise on questions relating to the transfer of Superannuation benefits.
  • All research and related activities, including grants, donations, clinical trials, contract research, consultancy and commercialisation are required to be managed through the University’s relevant processes (e.g. contractual and financial), in accordance with the University Court’s policies.
  • Deadline: 15 Nov 2016.

University of Hertfordshire (UK:Eng) - Research Fellow: Conflict, Memory and Legacy - Deadline: 21 Aug. 2017[]

  • Duration of Contract: 5 years from October 2017
  • Qualifications required: The successful candidate will have a d