Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2014-15

This page is for postdoctoral positions that begin in 2015.

Last year's page: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2013-14

To keep this page consistent and easy to read, please adhere to the following guidelines (taken from last year's page): For more information and answers to some questions about timing, materials requests, application numbers and fields, offers, etc. see previous years' postdoc wikis at: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2013-14, Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2012-13, Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2011-12 and Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2010-11
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 * For more information on Gender/Sexuality jobs, postdocs, and other opportunities, see blog Gender/Sexuality Academic Funding Opportunities


 * For more information on Race/Ethnic Studies jobs, postdocs, and other opportunities, see blog Race and Ethnic Studies Funding Opportunities

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 * 13 June 2014: University of Adelaide (Australia) - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
 * 13 June 2014: University of Adelaide (Australia) - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Emotional History of Law, Government and Society in Britain, 1700-1830
 * 7 July 2014: University of Melbourne (Australia) - ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of the Emotions, Postdoctoral Fellows - TWO posts.
 * 16 July 2014: University of Cambridge (UK) - Research Associate in the Early Modern Period (History of Science)
 * 1 Aug. 2014: United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) - Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowships
 * 5 Aug. 2014: University of Cambridge (UK) - Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Early Medieval British History
 * 6 Aug. 2014: University of Oxford (UK) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Europe
 * 7 Aug. 2014: Unviersity of Glasgow (UK; Scot) - Research Assistant and/or Associate
 * 11 Aug. 2014: University of Oxford (UK) - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows (expressions of interest)
 * 15 Aug. 2014 (Nominations): Harvard Society of Fellows (Junior Fellowships)
 * 3 Sept. 2014: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies - 1-3 Year Fellowships
 * 12 Sept. 2014: University of Oxford, All Souls (UK) - five year postdoctoral research fellowships
 * 17 Sept. 2014: Australian National University, Australian Centre of China in the World Postdoctoral Fellows
 * 24 Sept. 2014: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (Canada)
 * 24 Sept. 2014: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (Canada)
 * 30 Sept. 2014: University of Michigan - Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships
 * 1 Oct. 2014: Cornell University - Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2015-2016
 * 1 Oct. 2014: Dartmouth College - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
 * 1 Oct. 2014: Princeton Society of Fellows, 2015-2018 Fellowship Competition
 * 1 Oct. 2014: University of Oslo - Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Digital Humanities related to Folklore Archives
 * 6 Oct. 2014: Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 2015-2016
 * 15 Oct. 2014: University of Pennsylvania - Penn Humanities Forum, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities 2015-16
 * 20 Oct. 2014: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (MA) - Visiting Scholars Program (2015-2016)
 * 27 Oct. 2014: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL) - Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 2015–17
 * 1 Nov. 2014: University of Chicago - Harper and Schmidt Fellows
 * 9 Nov. 2014: University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (Jews Beyond Reason: Exploring Emotion, the Unconscious, and Other Dimensions of Jews’ Inner Lives)
 * 14 Nov. 2014: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships (US)
 * 15 Nov. 2014: Huntington Library (CA) - Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships
 * 1 Dec. 2014: Rice University (TX) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Humanities
 * 1 Dec. 2014: Rice University (TX) - Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2015-16 Sawyer Seminar ( "Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds: Production, Participation, and Politics")
 * 3 Dec. 2014: Washington University in St. Louis - Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Program
 * 4 Dec. 2014: Brown University (RI) - Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowships
 * 14 Jan. 2015: Vanderbilt University (TN) - Mellon Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship ("Vernacular Islam beyond the Arab World")
 * 15 Jan. 2015: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, 2015-2017
 * 15 Jan. 2015: Smithsonian Institution (DC) - James Smithson Fellowship Program

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (MA) - Visiting Scholars Program (2015-2016) - Deadline: 20 Oct. 2014
Download the submission guidelines (PDF).

VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2015-2016 for interdisciplinary research on American history, culture, and public policy from the founding period to the present.

The program’s purpose is to stimulate and support promising scholars in the early stages of their careers and to foster exchange between an emerging generation of scholars and Academy members with shared interests. Housed at the headquarters of the Academy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Visiting Scholars may participate in Academy-sponsored conferences, seminars, and informal gatherings. The Academy conducts the Visiting Scholars Program in association with the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, which provides access to the university’s research facilities and works with the Academy to plan joint lectures, seminars, and informal discussions.

A group of 60 academic institutions from across the country have become “University Affiliates” of the Academy, with a special interest in developing and supporting the Visiting Scholars Program.

APPLICATION MATERIALS: An on-line application form is available at the Academy’s website: http://www.amacad.org. For further inquiries, contact the Visiting Scholars Office at (phone) 617-576-5002; (fax) 617-576-5050; or by e-mail: vsp@amacad.org.

ELIGIBILITY: Preference will be given to untenured junior faculty members, but the program is also open to qualified postdoctoral fellows. Candidates who are completing scholarly manuscripts are especially welcome. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or have permanent resident status in the U.S. as of the application deadline date and should have completed their Ph.D., J.D., or equivalent professional training within the last 10 years. Graduate student applicants must complete all degree requirements by August 1, 2015.

TERMS AND STIPENDS: One of the goals of the Visiting Scholars Program is to build a community of research scholars in residence; regular attendance at the Academy facilitates this goal. Research trips, interviews, attendance at scholarly meetings or speaking engagements should be limited to no more than twelve days during the fellowship term, and scholars may not accept any teaching appointment or other major commitments during the fellowship. Faculty can receive up to $65,000 (not to exceed one-half of current salary). Postdocs receive an annual stipend of up to $45,000. The Academy provides office space, computer services, and library privileges; it also assists with information on locating housing. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires that scholars have health insurance before taking up residency.

Additional Requirements: We require that you apply electronically (http://www.amacad.org/vsp/vspApplication.aspx). We do not accept applications by fax. All applications must be written in English.


 * Deadline: Applications must be posted on line and three required letters of reference must be postmarked no later than October 20, 2014.

Australian National University (AUS) - Australian Centre of China in the World Postdoctoral Fellows - Deadline: 17 Sept. 2014
he Australian National University is one of the foremost institutions in the world outside of China for research and teaching about China. The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is a major initiative at the ANU, supported by research intensive funding from the Commonwealth Government. It enhances ANU’s existing capabilities to create an integrated, world-leading institution for Chinese Studies and the understanding of China on a global scale. See http://ciw.anu.edu.au/ and associated The China Story website: www.thechinastory.org

The Centre takes a broad, holistic view and engages multidisciplinary expertise in areas including Chinese thought, culture, history, politics, society, environment, economics and foreign and strategic policy. The Centre is seeking to recruit highly talented, motivated and ambitious Postdoctoral Fellows to join a world-class group of researchers. The successful applicants are expected to contribute towards one or more of CIW’s research themes: China Everyday, China Justice, China Numbers, China Texts, China Time, China Urban/Rural, China Australia and China Global.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will be expected to foster a collaborative agenda with research staff at CIW, other ANU colleges and other early career academics to promote Chinese Studies. In addition, they will also conduct their own research at the highest level and be expected to participate throughout their appointment in all aspects of academic life. This academic position is initially for a two year period, with an opportunity for a further two year extension subject to funding availability and satisfactory performance. The successful candidates will be provided with mentoring and support to develop into international research leaders. To be considered for this position, applicants must address the selection criteria, accompanied by a detailed CV with details of at least 2 referees and a one -page summary of their vision for the research activities that they would undertake at the ANU.


 * LINK to Apply: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=4045
 * Deadline: 17 September 2014.

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (CAN) - Deadline: 24 Sept. 2014
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research‑based growth.

The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is to:
 * attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally
 * develop their leadership potential
 * position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is unique in its emphasis on the synergy between the following:
 * applicant – individual merit and potential to launch a successful research-intensive career
 * host institution – commitment to the research program and alignment with the institution's strategic priorities

An applicant to the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program must complete their application in full collaboration with the proposed host institution.

Value & duration: $70,000 per year (taxable); 2 years (non-renewable)

Eligibility
 * Citizenship: Canadian citizens; Permanent residents of Canada; Foreign citizens.
 * Areas of research: Health research; Natural sciences and/or engineering; Social sciences and/or humanities

For more details, see: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.html
 * Application deadline for the 2014-2015 competition: September 24.

Brown University (RI) - Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 4 Dec. 2014
In 2015-16, the Pembroke Center is awarding one-year residential postdoctoral fellowships to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of “Fatigue”. Fellows are required to participate weekly in the Pembroke Seminar, teach one undergraduate course, and pursue individual research.

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 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. Brown University is an EEO/AA employer. The Center strongly encourages underrepresented minority and international scholars to apply.

The term of appointment is July 1, 2015-June 30, 2016. The stipend is $50,000, plus a supplement for health insurance and $1,500 for research expenses. The deadline for application submission is 11:59 pm on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Selections will be announced in March.

Questions should be directed to [mailto:donna_goodnow@brown.edu Donna_Goodnow@brown.edu] or phone 401-863-2643.

Beginning in August, 2014, please submit application materials through Interfolio.

Complete applications must include:
 * One page document including title and 250-word abstract of proposed research project
 * Project statement of five typed pages (double-spaced)
 * Separate representative bibliography
 * Curriculum vitae
 * Course syllabus with a course description and schedule of topics and assigned readings for weekly class meetings.*
 * Three confidential recommendation letters
 * 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.


 * Applications for the 2015-16 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowships will be accepted via Interfolio beginning in August 2014. Applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm on Thursday, December 4, 2014.
 * See also posting at Chronicle Vitae on 7/17/14.

Columbia University (NY) - Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 2015-2016 - Deadline: 6 Oct. 2014
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 2015-2016. We invite applications from qualified candidates who have received their PhD between 1 January 2013 and 1 July 2015. Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as Postdoctoral Research Fellows. The fellowship is renewable for a second and 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 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 year, Fellows teach one course: either a Core course (if only one of the two first-year courses was in the Core) or a departmental course. This will leave one semester in the second year free of teaching responsibilities. In the third year, Fellows again teach one course, either a Core course or a departmental course (to be decided jointly by the Fellow and the Fellow’s department), leaving one semester again free of teaching responsibilities. Please note that all teaching—whether a Core class or a department one—is to be arranged by the Fellow through the Fellow’s home academic department. Please also note that at least two of the three courses taught in the first two Fellowship years must be in the Core.

In addition to teaching and research, the duties of Fellows include attendance at the Society's lectures and events as well as active participation in the intellectual life of the Society and of the department with which the Fellow is affiliated. The annual stipend will be $61,000. Each Fellow will also receive a research allowance of $6,000 per annum.

Application Materials for 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellowships: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the following forms.
 * Online Application Form
 * Application Materials 2015-16 (includes announcement, instructions, and checklist)
 * Frequently Asked Questions
 * NOTE: "$30.00 application processing fee"
 * Application Deadline: postmark 6 October 2014.

Cornell University (NY) - Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2015-2016 - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2014
The focal theme for 2015-2016 is “TIME.” 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 Cathy N. Davidson, Director, Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, City University of New York and CoFounder HASTAC, Tejumola Olaniyan, Louise Durham Mead Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

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, 2014. 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.

Fellowships: Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. The fellowships are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow will receive $45,000. Applicants living outside North America are eligible for an additional $2,000 to assist with travel costs.

Fellows spend their time in research and writing, participate in the weekly Fellows Seminar, and offer one seminar related to their research. The seminars are generally informal, related to the Fellow's research, and open to graduate students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members. Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the content and the method of their courses.
 * Application Procedures: Candidates should inform the Society of their intention to apply by returning the Fellowhip form immediately.
 * To apply, go to: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4086
 * Awards will be announced by the end of December 2014.
 * Deadline: October 1, 2014.

Dartmouth College (NH) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2014
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 2015 to the end of Spring 2017. 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.

Applicants must focus on materials customarily associated with research in the humanities or employ methods common in humanistic research. We are currently NOT accepting applications for Anthropology, Philosophy, Religion, Russian, and Theater.

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 2013-2015 fellows received an annual stipend of $54,600 plus benefits, an annual research allowance of $2,000, and a first-year-only computer allowance of $2,500. The terms for the 2015-2017 fellows will be similar.

Applicants for the 2015-2017 fellowships must have completed a Ph.D. no earlier than January 1, 2013. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2015 should supply a letter from their home institution corroborating such a schedule.

Applications for the 2015-2017 fellowship must be received on Interfolio on or before October 1, 2014. 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, and official 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, 2014.

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. Should you have questions, please direct them to [mailto:humanities.center@dartmouth.edu humanities.center@dartmouth.edu].
 * You can apply for this position online at http://apply.interfolio.com/25045
 * Deadline: 1 Oct. 2014.

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships (US) - Deadline: 14 Nov. 2014
The 2015 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship competition online application is scheduled to open in early September 2014. This year the program will award approximately 18 postdoctoral fellowships. The postdoctoral fellowships provide one year of support for individuals engaged in postdoctoral study after the attainment of the Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree. Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

The tenure of a postdoctoral fellowship will be no less than 9 months and no more than 12 months, with tenure beginning no earlier than June 1, 2015 and no later than September 1, 2015. Postdoctoral fellowships may not be deferred or delayed.

For full details on eligibility, criteria for selection, stipends and benefits, etc., see: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_047960.htm


 * The application deadline date for the 2015 postdoctoral fellowship is November 14, 2014.

Harvard University (MA) - Society of Fellows: Junior Fellowships - Deadline for Nominations: 15 Aug. 2014
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, complete contact information for the candidate, including current residential addresss 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 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. (This is why full and accurate email addresses are necessary to process the nomination.) Full instructions for uploading letters will be provided to each referee, along with a password to enter the secure site.


 * Our communication with the candidates will request that written materials be submitted both electronically through a link to our submission portal and by mail or express mail. 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., Junior Fellows 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 which begin July 1, 2015, is Friday, August 15, 2014. 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. 617-495-2485.

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (FI) - 1-3 Year Fellowships - Deadline: 3 Sept. 2014
The premises of the Collegium in the centre of Helsinki offer facilities for a multidisciplinary community of some 50 fellows. Applicants must be committed to working at the Collegium for Advanced Studies in Helsinki. The Collegium awards annual grants for conference trips and other relevant research expenses, and offers the opportunity to use the services of research assistants.

Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree by the end of the application period (3 September 2014)


 * The application must be submitted electronically. The link to the application form can be found under the “Fellowships” tab at http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium. The application form will be posted online on Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 9.00 local Helsinki time. The applications must be submitted by Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 15.45 local Helsinki time; after this time, the website will close and no more applications can be submitted.

Huntington Library (CA) - Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2014
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships (Long-Term Award)

Eligibility: Non-tenured faculty.

Tenure of fellowship: Nine to twelve months.

Amount of award: $50,000.

Fellowship is designed to support non-tenured faculty who are revising their dissertation for publication. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to the Huntington's collections and must have received their PhD between 2010 and 2012.

There is no application form. An application consists of items 1 through 4:
 * 1) Cover sheet with the following information: Name; mailing address to be used for notification of results in March; email address; telephone number; present rank and institution name; date PhD received or expected; citizenship status; type of fellowship you are applying for (short-term, long-term, Dibner, or Travel Grant) and number of months of support you are requesting; title of project; history of fellowships and grants received during the past five years.
 * 2) A project description of no more than 1,500 words. This should consist of two parts, divided approximately as follows: Description of the project and its significance (approximately 1,000 words); description of the specific Huntington materials to be consulted and an outline of the plan of work for the fellowship period (approximately 500 words). Applicants for travel grants should describe the materials to be consulted in Great Britain. This document should be single-spaced, font size 11 (approximately three pages). The description will be considered by a panel of scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines, so should be written for non-specialists.
 * 3) Curriculum vitae of no more than three pages.
 * 4) Letters of recommendation sent directly to the Committee on Fellowships: TWO letters for short-term awards and travel grants; THREE letters for long-term awards. Letters should speak to the proposed project as well as to the qualifications of the applicant. It is the applicant's responsibility to contact referees and supply them with a description of the project. Please do not send letters from your job dossier.

Please do not submit any materials in excess of the items listed above.

Submission Guidelines

The APPLICATION must be submitted as a single document in PDF file format only to [mailto:fellowships@huntington.org fellowships@huntington.org]. LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION—in PDF file format only—must be submitted directly from the recommender to [mailto:letters@huntington.org letters@huntington.org]. Please reference applicant’s name in SUBJECT line. Letters should be no more than three pages in length.


 * APPLICATIONS AND LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY NO LATER THAN NOV. 15, 2014.

===Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, 2015-2017 - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2015=== 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, Foreign Languages and Literatures, 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, 2015. Fellows will teach one course in Spring 2016 and one per semester the following acadmic year, and will be in residence at MIT during this time. The salary will be $63,000 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, 2012 and no later than July 1, 2015. 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, 2015. 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, 2015 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 2015.
 * Questions? Please check out the FAQ page. Email [mailto:shass-mellon@mit.edu?subject=Mellon%20Question shass-mellon@mit.edu], or call the SHASS Dean's Office at 617-253-8962.
 * Online application will be available September 15, 2014. Link: http://shass.mit.edu/graduate/mellon_postdoctoral_fellowship_apply
 * All applications and attached materials are due no later than Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Late applications will not be considered.

Princeton University (NJ) - Princeton Society of Fellows, 2015-2018 Fellowship Competition - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2014
The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for the 2015-2018 Fellowship competition.

Four three-year Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded this year. The salary for each of the three years of the fellowship will be approximately $80,000. In addition, fellows are provided with a shared office, a personal computer, a research account of $5000 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 applications by the end of January 2015. 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 2015.

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


 * Two Open Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences (OPEN)
 * Open to all disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows. 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 in 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.


 * Targeted Fellowships
 * Fellowship in the Study of Race and/or Ethnicity (RE)
 * 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 Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. The postdoctoral 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 social sciences. 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 course of his/her design 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.


 * Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (HUM)
 * This fellowship is sponsored jointly by the Humanities Council and Society of Fellows, and is open to candidates in all relevant disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows. The Fellow pursues research half-time.
 * In each of the first two years, she or he will join faculty from various fields in the humanities to teach the interdisciplinary year-long sequence "Approaches to Western Culture" in either the Fall semester (Antiquity to the late Middle Ages) or the Spring semester (Renaissance to Modernism).
 * In the second and third years, building on the readings of the humanities sequence, the Fellow will offer an advanced undergraduate course in the humanities. This course might take a more intensive look at materials from the first-year sequence or offer an interdisciplinary approach to the fellow's own area of humanities expertise. Such advanced courses may be cross-listed with the host department. The final semester is devoted to full-time research without teaching.
 * The Fellow will also 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.

Complete dossiers should be mailed to: Search Committee, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, 10 Joseph Henry House, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. See http://www.princeton.edu/sf/fellowships/ for full eligibility guidelines and application details.


 * Application Postmark deadline: October 1, 2014. Online application form available August 30, 2014.

Rice University (TX) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Humanities- Deadline: 1 Dec. 2014
The Humanities Research Center (HRC) will award one postdoctoral fellowship for a one-year appointment in Spatial Humanities. The fellow will consult and collaborate on spatial humanities projects underway at Rice, offering technical and intellectual expertise. Therefore, the fellow should have experience working with geospatial technologies or 3D modeling software and preferably knowledge of geospatial data sources, database design, and metadata standards. In addition, the fellow will develop or continue his or her own research project in spatial humanities, give a presentation on this research to colleagues at Rice, and lead a workshop on spatial humanities methods at Rice.

The fellow will also design and teach (or co-teach) one semester-long undergraduate course on spatial humanities and one semester-long graduate course on spatial or digital humanities.

The fellow will receive a $50,000 salary, benefits eligibility, and an allowance for research and relocation. The position is for July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.

The fellow must have received a PhD on or after July 1, 2012 or will have a PhD in hand by June 30, 2015.

Special Instructions to Applicants: Materials sent by applicants by any means other than a RiceWorks application (link forthcoming) will not be accepted. Applications must include all items below:

1. Letter of interest 2. Two page CV; please also list the three references who will submit recommendation letters 3. 1000-word research project proposal 4. 500-word statement outlining applicant’s active participation (theoretical or practical) in spatial humanities 5.  Course proposal for a one-semester undergraduate course on spatial humanities


 * Applications will be accepted September 1 – December 1, 2014.

Rice University (TX) - Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2015-16 Sawyer Seminar ("Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds") - Deadline: 1 Dec. 2014
The Humanities Research Center (HRC) will award one postdoctoral fellowship for a one-year appointment to participate in the 2015-16 Sawyer Seminar working group on "Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds: Production, Participation, and Politics." This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff and students that will explore, critique, and experience digital knowledge platforms (e.g., programmable computing environments that support knowledge creation and transmission, such as learning, collaborative research, crowdsourcing, and publishing). The fellow will research ideas about expertise, control of access to information, the relationship of quantification/metrics with humanistic knowledge/wisdom, the power exchange between educational institutions and profit-seeking companies, and changes in academic autonomy and diversity.

The fellow will also help organize a campus-wide speakers series, design and teach one semester-long undergraduate course related to the Seminar topic, give two presentations at Rice University, and actively participate in the Seminar.

The fellow will receive a $50,000 salary, benefits eligibility, and an allowance for research and relocation. The position is for July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.

The fellow must have received a PhD on or after July 1, 2012 or will have a PhD in hand by June 30, 2015.

Special Instructions to Applicants: Materials sent by applicants by any means other than a RiceWorks application (link forthcoming) will not be accepted. Applications must include all items below:  1. Letter of interest  2. Two page CV; please also list the three references who will submit recommendation letters 3. 1000-word research project proposal 4. 500-word statement outlining applicant’s active participation (theoretical or practical) in the development or analysis of digital platforms and potential contribution to the Seminar  5. Course proposal for a one-semester undergraduate course on platforms of knowledge
 * Applications will be accepted September 1 – December 1, 2014.

Smithsonian Institution (DC) - James Smithson Fellowship Program - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2015
The James Smithson Fellowship Program was created to offer early career opportunities for scholars interested in gaining experience in both scholarship and practice through a Smithsonian lens. While this fellowship provides an immersion experience working with Smithsonian scholars and relevant collections, it also affords fellows a hands-on opportunity to see how scholarship informs practice, and practice informs scholarship, through direct interaction with Smithsonian leaders, and with leaders throughout the Washington, DC network.

The program is designed for a new generation of leaders, who seek a experience that leverages both scholarly and practical expertise in an environment of innovation like no other. Among the goals of the James Smithson Fellowship are to provide fellows with the opportunity to:
 * Conduct scholarly research at the Smithsonian
 * Gain an understanding of the interface between scholarship and practice
 * Gain skills at leveraging scholarly expertise towards the establishment of best practices

The James Smithson Fellowship Program is open to post-doctoral students in the fields of science, the humanities and the arts. Fellowship applicants submit proposals to pursue independent research that make use of Smithsonian experts, facilities, and/or collections – that align with one of the subject areas defined by the Smithsonian strategic plan’s four grand challenges: Understanding the American Experience, Valuing World Cultures, Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, and Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe.

As part of the their proposal, applicants must identify a Smithsonian expert listed in the Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study guide to serve as their scholarly advisor during the fellowship. Before submitting a proposal in application to the Smithson Fellowship, applicants should make contact with a potential scholarly advisor to verify that the expert they have identified is a good fit for their proposed research project, and also available to serve as a scholarly advisor during the applicant’s proposed fellowship tenure.

If selected for the fellowship, an applicant will be assigned a policy advisor. Depending on a fellow’s focus of study, a policy advisor is selected from the Institution’s senior leadership or policy making units. In agreeing to serve as a policy advisor, the policy advisor makes a commitment to provide their fellow with numerous opportunities  to see how scholarship informs practice and practice informs scholarship (through meetings, events, one-on-one conversations, review of documents, strategy sessions, introduction to key figures, access to networks, etc)  relevant to their field of study during the course of their fellowship. The program provides opportunities for fellows to meet with leaders of all kinds. They may engage with leaders at government agencies; members of Congress; ambassadors; experts at nonprofit organizations and think-tanks, and others.

At the same time, the Smithson Fellow works with their scholarly advisor on the research aspects of their proposed project so that they may reflect on their practice track from the research perspective, and visa-versa, during the course of their entire Smithson Fellowship experience.

As the fellow reaches conclusions through the course of the fellowship through the empirical research they conduct, they are also expected to make conclusions about aspects of their area of expertise as it is conducted practically.

To support independent research and study, the fellowship includes a stipend of $50,000.

Program Elements: The James Smithson Fellows will have two Smithsonian advisors:
 * The scholarly advisor, listed in the Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study guide, makes a commitment to provide a Smithson fellow with advice related to their independent research proposal related to Smithsonian experts, people, are collections. Through this research, the fellow is expected to make conclusions about empirical research.
 * The policy advisor, selected for a fellow after they are awarded the Smithson fellowship, makes a commitment to provide a Smithson fellow with opportunities to better understand how practice related to the fellow’s field of study is conducted. Through this experience, the fellow is expected to make conclusions about best practices.

Eligibility: Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and not more than five years beyond receipt of their doctorate degree by December 31, 2014. Candidates with terminal professional degrees are also eligible to apply.

Who is Ineligible? No employee or contractor of the Smithsonian Institution may hold a Smithsonian fellowship during the time of his/her employment or contract. A fellowship may not be awarded to any person who has been employed by or under contract to the Institution in the previous year without the prior approval of the Office of Fellowships.


 * Applications must be received by January 15, 2015 through the Smithsonian Online Academic Appointment System (SOLAA)

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (CAN) - Deadline: 24 Sept. 2015

 * Link to Overview
 * See full details and updates on the dedicated SSHRC 2015-2016 wiki page

United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) - Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 1 Aug. 2014
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright commission for Israel, plans to offer 8 fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support of work to be carried out at Israeli universities during the course of the 2015/2016-2016/2017 academic years. The US Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program is open to candidates in all academic disciplines. Holders of tenure track positions are not eligible to apply. Individuals who have already begun research activities in Israel prior to the application date are not eligible. Program grants total $40,000, $20,000 per academic year. Program Fellows must be accepted as post-doctoral researchers by Israeli host institutions, which agree to provide them with a standard post-doctoral grant, which they will receive in addition to their Fulbright Fellowship. Thus, the total financial support received by Program Fellows is likely to be in the range of at least $35,000-$40,000 per year.


 * Applications for 2015/2016-2016/2017 Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowships must be submitted to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars by August 1, 2014. The full Program announcement is available at http://bit.ly/1gQPnZX. Potential candidates may contact Ms. Judy Stavsky, Deputy Director, USIEF (jstavsky@fulbright.org.il; +972-3-517-2392) for advice and assistance.

University of Adelaide (AUS) - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 - Deadline: 13 June 2014 - DEADLINE PASSED
The University of Adelaide is seeking to appoint two three-year post-doctoral research fellows. These appointments will focus on the ‘Change’ Program, investigating the drivers of change in society-wide emotional regimes, and the power of collective emotions to produce major cultural, social, political and economic change.

Research Fellowship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 (Ref 492357)

Focusing on Early Modern Europe (excluding Britain) this Postdoctoral Research Fellowship will be awarded to an individual with proven capacity for research in this area and strong potential to contribute to the ‘Change’ program generally. Applicants for this position are invited to submit a brief (i.e. two-page) proposal for the research they would carry out under the fellowship.

Working under the leadership of Professor David Lemmings, you will have a PhD in History or a related discipline (awarded within the last five years) and relevant publications. You will be expected to participate in the full range of activities of the University of Adelaide Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). If you are an innovative enthusiastic individual with a demonstrated track record in early modern or eighteenth-century studies and a capacity to engage in interdisciplinary research you are strongly encouraged to apply.

This fixed-term, full-time position is available for three years, commencing by the beginning of 2015.

Salary: AUD $75,111 per annum (Level A, Step 6).

Superannuation: An employer contribution of 17% applies.


 * Online applications can be made via the University of Adelaide Website: http://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/492357/research-fellowship-in-early-modern-europe-15001700
 * Closing date: 5pm, Friday 13 June 2014.

===University of Adelaide (AUS) - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Emotional History of Law, Government and Society in Britain, 1700-1830 - Deadline: 13 June 2014 - DEADLINE PASSED=== The University of Adelaide is seeking to appoint two three-year post-doctoral research fellows. These appointments will focus on the ‘Change’ Program, investigating the drivers of change in society-wide emotional regimes, and the power of collective emotions to produce major cultural, social, political and economic change.

Research Fellowship in the Emotional History of Law, Government and Society in Britain, 1700-1830. (Ref 492361)

Focusing on the role of Emotion in the English Criminal Courts, 1700-1830, this Postdoctoral Research Fellowship will be awarded to an individual with strong aptitude for research in this area and the potential to contribute to the ‘Change’ program generally. The successful candidate will contribute substantially to a collaborative project focussing on the emotional styles of English criminal trials during a period when the incursion of lawyers transformed their culture.

Working under the leadership of Professor David Lemmings, you will have a PhD in History or a related discipline (awarded within the last five years) and relevant publications. You will be expected to participate in the full range of activities of the University of Adelaide Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). If you are an innovative enthusiastic individual with a demonstrated track record in early modern or eighteenth-century studies and a capacity to engage in interdisciplinary research you are strongly encouraged to apply.

This fixed-term, full-time position is available for three years, commencing by the beginning of 2015.

Salary: AUD $75,111 per annum (Level A, Step 6).

Superannuation: An employer contribution of 17% applies.


 * Apply at: http://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/492361/research-fellowship-in-the-emotional-history-of-law-government-and-society-in-britain-1700-1830
 * Closing date: 5pm, Friday 13 June 2014.

===University of Cambridge (UK) - Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Early Medieval British History - Deadline 5 August 2014===
 * Two year Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Early Medieval British History with an emphasis on the material culture and coins of Great Britain and Ireland. It has been made available through the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme, from 1 October 2014 until 30 September 2016.
 * The post will be located in central Cambridge, at the Faculty of History, in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, the Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic and the Division of Archaeology.
 * The new appointee will be expected to contribute specialist lectures and classes for the Historical Tripos and the relevant MPhil in Medieval History course. The appointee's lectures and classes would also be available to undergraduates and graduate students taking ASN&C and Archaeology. The appointee's research interests would complement and benefit from the  Fitzwilliam Museum’s existing expertise in medieval numismatics and contribute expertise to the Early Medieval Corpus Single finds of coins in the British Isles project.
 * The postholder will be required to examine at all levels, to take his or her share of Faculty administration. The appointee must hold a PhD (or equivalent). Research of international standing will be expected. More information is available in the Further Particulars for this post:  http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/4374/
 * Informal enquiries may be made either to the Chair of the Faculty, Professor David Reynolds ([mailto:histchr@hermes.cam.ac.uk histchr@hermes.cam.ac.uk]), or to the Faculty's HR Clerk, Mrs Joanne Pearson (e-mail: [mailto:jobs@hist.cam.ac.uk jobs@hist.cam.ac.uk], telephone: 01223 335350). Please quote reference JJ03760 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
 * Deadline: 5 Aug. 2014.

===University of Cambridge (UK) - Research Associate in the Early Modern Period (History of Science) - Deadline 16 July 2014===
 * Five year post: The funds for this post are available until 30 June 2019 in the first instance
 * "CRASSH is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral Research Associate to join the ERC Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science (based at CRASSH) and led by Dr Alexander Marr (History of Art, Cambridge) The successful applicant will join two researchers who are working on France in the Grand Sicle and Spain (1550 - 1700).  The RA will research across the project's four strands, while simultaneously working towards their own monograph on aspects of early modern ingenuity.  Fifty percent of the RA's time will be spent on research tasks directed by the PI, the remaining fifty percent will be spent on the individual monograph project. "
 * "The RAs will be expected to participate in weekly work-in-progress meetings and in all project events.  They will assist the PI and Senior Research Investigator (Dr Richard Serjeantson) in the organisation of project activities such as conferences, colloquia, hosting visitors, and the exhibition.  They will be expected to share in the responsibility of editing project outputs, to contribute relevant content for the project's website and databases, and to have completed a draft of their monograph by the project's end date."
 * Applicants must possess: A good first degree and a PhD in history of science, which must have been awarded by the start of the post; Research experience with early modern texts and/or archives, and/or visual and material culture is required; Research specialism in history of the book and advanced skills in palaeography; Familiarity with current digital humanities research and technology is desirable; Expertise is the period ca. 1450-ca. 1600 is desirable; Fluency in English and excellent reading proficiency in at least one modern language relevant to the project's research (German, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish); Reading proficiency in Latin is essential; Evidence of ability to organise and participate in collaborative research initiatives/projects; Evidence of ability to present research findings to a scholarly audience.
 * Applications should be made via the online system by 12pm midday (BST) 16 July 2014, and should include: Curriculum vitae, Proficiency in languages must be indicated; Monograph Proposal on an aspect of early modern ingenuity; Sample of writing, CHRIS 6, two references.
 * Deadline: 16th July 2014.

University of Chicago (IL) - Harper and Schmidt Fellows - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2014
Harper-Schmidt Fellows at the University of Chicago teach in the College's core courses in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Western Civilization. These Junior Fellows receive four year appointments as Collegiate Assistant Professors.

Every year the Society welcomes new members that were selected in a highly competitive process. Successful candidates demonstrate excellence not only in their original scholarship but also in their teaching. Applications for Junior Fellowships are accepted each autumn.

Applicants must submit applications to be considered in one of the two program areas listed below. Please make sure you review these options carefully before beginning your application.
 * Core courses in the Humanities
 * Core courses in the Social Sciences/History of European Civilization Core Sequence

Online Application website: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/


 * The application for 2015-16 will be available in September 2014 with a deadline of November 1, 2014.

===University of Glasgow (UK; Scot) - Research Assistant or Associate (2 positions) - Deadline 7th August 2014===
 * You will conduct core qualitative research on the Leverhulme funded project 'Housing, Everyday Life and Wellbeing over the Long-Term: Glasgow c.1950-1975', particularly organising, conducting and evaluating oral history interviews with present and former residents of post-war social housing; recording and evaluating qualitative data relating to high flats and new towns; conducting, presenting and publishing research relating to the project; helping in the carrying out of other project activities
 * Positions funded until Sept 2016 [possibly to start in 2014]
 * There are two positions available, at either Research Assistant or Research Associate level. One position will be based in the College of Arts, and one in the College of Social Sciences.
 * Apply online at www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs
 * Deadline: 7 Aug. 2014
 * intend to interview 26 Aug.

===University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL) - Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 2015–17 - Deadline: 27 Oct. 2014=== The Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities will spend the two-year term in residence at Illinois, will conduct research on the proposed project, and will teach two course per year in the appropriate academic department. The Fellow will participate in the IPRH Fellows Seminar, a yearlong interdisciplinary workshop, and will be encouraged to participate in activities available through IPRH, in the teaching department, and on the Illinois campus. The Post-Doctoral Fellow will give a public lecture on his or her research. The search for Mellon Fellows is open to scholars in all humanities disciplines, but we seek applicants whose work falls into one of the following broad subject areas:
 * Race and Diaspora Studies
 * History of Science/Technology
 * Empire and Colonial Studies
 * Memory Studies

Eligibility: Applicants should have received their Ph.D. in a humanities discipline between January 1, 2012 and no later than May 31, 2015. Only untenured scholars who have not held the title of “assistant professor” are eligible. PhDs are the only terminal degree accepted. Please note that these are external fellowships; current full- and part-time faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as scholars who received their doctorates from the Urbana campus, are not eligible for these awards. Scholars who cannot legitimately anticipate the conferral of their degrees by May 31, 2015, should not apply. Terms: The appointment will begin on August 16, 2015, and the successful applicant must be on the Illinois campus by that date (or nearest prior business day if it falls on a weekend) for employment processing and orientation. The Post-Doctoral Fellows will be required to live within 20 miles of Champaign-Urbana during the academic years of the appointment.

The fellowship carries a $45,000 annual stipend, a $2,000 research account, and a comprehensive benefits package. (Foreign nationals’ benefits eligibility is contingent upon meeting a “Substantial Presence Test,” as determined by IRS Rules, available at http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Substantial-Presence-Test.)
 * Applications must be submitted online at this URL: https://my.atlas.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=809. Applicants will be asked to create a password-protected account, to which they can return multiple times. The application system opens September 1, 2014 (and will not be accessible before then). No paper or emailed applications will be accepted. The application portal closes by midnight Central Time on October 27, 2014.
 * See also H-NET ad (posted 07/14/14)

===University of Melbourne (AUS) - ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions - Postdoctoral Fellows (Trigg) - Deadline: 7 July 2014===
 * The Faculty of Arts seeks to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to contribute to research projects in the history of emotions (Europe 1100 - 1800). This is a full-time fixed term position for three years.
 * Working together with Professor Stephanie Trigg the successful candidate will develop a project exploring the representation and expression of emotion on the human face, in literature, drama, art, or sculpture, or in early scientific discourses, between 1100 and 1800. Preference may be given to projects that range over several centuries, across different media, or across different languages. There would also be scope for projects that drew connections between pre-modern Europe (pre-1800) and later forms, especially in a colonial setting.
 * In addition to publishing his or her own research in this area, the Fellow will collaborate in publications and be involved fully in the life of the Centre. The Fellow will also assist with the co-ordination of relevant symposia and engage in public outreach. There is an expectation that the postdoctoral fellow will be involved in some Honours/ postgraduate supervision or teaching, but this is primarily a research-only position.
 * For position information and to apply online go to http://hr.unimelb.edu.au/careers, under ‘Job Search and Job Alerts’ click on the relevant option (Current Staff or Prospective Staff), and search under the job title.
 * SHORT Deadline: 7 Jul. 2014.

===University of Melbourne (AUS) - ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions - Postdoctoral Fellow (Zika) - Deadline: 7 July 2014===
 * In collaboration with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, the Centre seeks to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to contribute to research projects in the history of emotions (Europe,1100-1800). Working together with Professor Charles Zika the successful candidate will develop a project exploring the field of emotions and visual culture, c.1450–1750. The project might focus on such topics as: the impact of religious and political change on the emotional deployment of visual objects in the devotional, ceremonial and festive life of European communities; the passions of iconoclasm as a motor of religious, social or political change; the emotional rhetoric of visual media in advancing propaganda and polemic, legitimating religious and political authority, or stereotyping religious, ethnic or social groups; the emotional use and power of the visual in the missionizing and colonizing of societies, within Europe or abroad.
 * In addition to publishing his or her own research in this area, the Fellow will collaborate in publications and be involved fully in the life of the Centre. The Fellow will also assist with the co-ordination of relevant symposia and engage in public outreach. There will the opportunity to be involved in research and activities related to an exhibition on art and emotion to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017. There is an expectation that the postdoctoral fellow will be involved in some Honours/ postgraduate supervision or teaching, but this is primarily a research-only position.
 * The successful applicant would commence the appointment on 1 December 2014, or as soon as possible after that date.
 * For position information and to apply online go to http://hr.unimelb.edu.au/careers, under ‘Job Search and Job Alerts’ click on the relevant option (Current Staff or Prospective Staff), and search under the job number 0033380.
 * SHORT Deadline: 7 Jul. 2014.

University of Michigan (MI) - Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 30 Sept. 2014
Each Fellow has a three-year appointment as Assistant Professor in an affiliated department of the University and a three-year appointment as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Society of Fellows. This appointment is not tenure-track. The current annual stipend is $55,000. Fellows are eligible for participation in the University health, dental and life insurance programs. Each fellow is expected to teach the equivalent of one academic year, i.e., a total of two terms during the period of the fellowship. Any subsequent appointment of a Fellow to a position at the University of Michigan would be subject to the rules governing new appointments.

Fellows are expected to be in residence in Ann Arbor for the academic years of appointment (September to May) and to participate in the activities of the Society of Fellows. Off-campus research leave during academic terms will be permitted only in rare cases, only for brief periods of time, and only upon written application to the Chair of the Society well in advance of the proposed leave. Any leave granted will count as part of the fellowship tenure.

From Application Guidelines:
 * The application form will be available July 8, 2014.
 * The application deadline is Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 1:00PM EDT
 * NOTE: "$30 Application fee"
 * Announcement of fellowships posted at Chronicle Vitae on June 18 2014.

University of Oslo (NOR) - Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Digital Humanities related to Folklore Archives - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2014
A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo. The Research Fellowship is based in Cultural History and Museology and dedicated to digital humanities and folklore collections/ archives.The successful candidate is expected to become part of the research environment of the department and contribute to its development, especially in relation to Norsk Folkeminnesamling (Norwegian Folklore Archives), a national archive for cultural history and folklore hosted at IKOS.

The main purpose of post-doctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines. The appointment is for a period of three years (2015-2017) and the position entails a 10% compulsory workload of teaching and supervision duties.

Requirements The doctoral dissertation must have been submitted for evaluation before the application deadline.
 * PhD in cultural history, folklore studies or related areas.
 * The applicant is expected to develop a project in cultural history using approaches from the field of digital humanities. The project should connect to Norsk Folkeminnesamling (Norwegian Folklore Archives): http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/tjenester/kunnskap/samlinger/norsk-folkeminnesamling/
 * Personal suitability and motivation for the position

In the evaluation of the applications, emphasis will be placed on: Applicants must submit the following attachments with the electronic application form, preferably in pdf format: Please note that all documents must be in English or a Scandinavian language.
 * the project’s scientific merit, research-related relevance and innovation
 * the applicant’s estimated academic and personal ability to carry out the project within the allotted time frame an contribute to the main project
 * good co-operative skills, and the ability to successfully join in academic collaboration within and across disciplines.
 * Application letter
 * Curriculum Vitae with grades listed
 * List of published and unpublished works
 * Project description (approximately 3-5 pages). The project description must present a feasible progress plan. It is expected that the applicant will be able to complete the project during the period of appointment

The short-listed candidates will be invited to an interview at the University of Oslo or we will arrange for an interview on Skype.

See also http://www.hf.uio.no/for-ansatte/arbeidsstotte/personal/rekruttering/regler-tilsettinger/#postdocENG


 * Application deadline: 1 October 2014.

University of Oxford, All Souls College (UK) - Five-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships - Deadline: 12 Sept. 2014

 * 'up to' six 5-year postdoctoral research fellowships, to start 1 Oct. 2015
 * "Successful candidates will be expected to undertake a programme of independent post-doctoral research as agreed with the College and, if they so wish, a limited amount of University lecturing and teaching. The Fellowships are open to candidates in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics; the College intends to allocate at least two Fellowships specifically to Mathematics/Natural Sciences."
 * "The Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships are for five years, fixed-term, and non-renewable. They are intended to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to establish a record of independent research and teaching, develop their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent academic posts by the end of the Fellowship. The primary duty of a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is the completion of a significant body of independent research for publication. Fellows are also encouraged to undertake appropriate teaching and supervision of research in the University."
 * "The College will accept on-line applications from those who are, or have been, registered for a doctorate at any recognised university. It is expected that applicants will have completed their doctorate or be close to completion. Successful candidates must complete their doctorates by the time they take up their Fellowships. Candidates must be able to demonstrate both through their thesis and other work published or submitted for publication, their capacity to undertake original publishable academic research in their chosen field. Where they have been working as part of a team, the College will wish to understand the significance of the candidate’s particular contribution to jointly authored papers. The College will not normally accept applications from applicants who were first registered for a higher degree prior to 1 August 2007."
 * For further particulars and to complete the on-line application, see the Appointments section of the College’s website: http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk.
 * Deadline for applications: 4pm (UK time) 12 Sept. 2014
 * Deadline for references: 4pm (UK time) 19 Sept. 2014
 * Intend to interview 16 & 17th Jan, with final decision 24 Jan.

University of Oxford (UK) - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows - Deadline: 11 Aug. 2014

 * "[T]he Humanities Division invites Expressions of Interest for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship competition for the next application round (2014-2015). The BA PDF scheme is an annual competition and open to postdoctoral students who are working within the Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences and can demonstrate a strong prior association with the UK academic community. Please see also the British Academy’s guidance here: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/Postdoctoral_Fellowships_FAQs.cfm"
 * The application deadline for the scheme itself will be in Autumn 2014; Oxford has its own internal deadlines and applicants interested in applying through a faculty in Oxford’s Humanities Division should follow the link here to the relevant deadlines and forms: http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/research/applying_from_outside_oxford/british_academy_postdoctoral_fellowships
 * The Division supports applications in any of the subject disciplines of the faculties as listed above (*for Music and Art subjects, please note that the British Academy does not support practice-led research, although practice can form one element of a larger research project. In addition to practice-led research, the Ruskin School of Art also supports postdoctoral scholarship in the history and theory of contemporary art). To express an interest for this scheme, please fill in the form and send this to the following email address [mailto:BApostdocs@humanities.ox.ac.uk BApostdocs@humanities.ox.ac.uk]. You will need to identify a mentor from your chosen faculty/discipline, who will need to send a short statement (c. 250 words) in support of your application directly to us. The mentor statement should reach us by the specified deadlines (see above link).
 * NB: Please note that a successful outcome of this Expression of Interest phase does not constitute the offer of a fellowship; applicants will still need to apply to the British Academy who will make awards according to their own criteria.
 * Deadline: 11 Aug. 2014.

University of Oxford (UK) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Europe - Deadline: 6 Aug. 2014

 * Applications are invited for a fixed-term 2-year postdoctoral fellowship within the HERA-funded international research project ‘Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities 1500 - 1800’, led by Professor Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly. The post is tenable from 1 September 2014 to 30 September 2016.
 * Further details about the project are available on the project’s website at: http://www.marryingcultures.eu.
 * Applicants must have completed doctoral degree in a relevant discipline relating to early modern Europe (e.g. history, art history, modern languages and literatures, history of music, cultural history), have excellent communication skills, knowledge of another European language and good organisational skills. The successful applicant will undertake independent research on a relevant foreign queen consort of the appointee’s own choosing, to be agreed with the Project Leader, and will assist the Project Leader in the administration of the project
 * Deadline: noon (local time) 6 Aug. 2014
 * Intend to interview week starting the 18 Aug.

===University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship ("Jews Beyond Reason") - Deadline: 9 Nov. 2014=== The mind, as the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria recognized two thousand years ago, is not guided by rationality alone; it is also driven by appetite and by the passions, and from his age until our own, Jewish thinkers and producers of culture have recognized something nonrational at the core of being human. Ancient rabbinic sources speak of the yetser, an inclination or impulse, as a driver of human behavior, and source of creativity and destructiveness. The medieval philosopher Maimonides subordinated imagination to philosophy, and yet without imagination, he also realized, there would be no prophecy. And the world owes the discovery of the unconscious to the Jewish physician Sigmund Freud. Jewish thought, history, and culture offer many opportunities to explore those aspects of the mind that lie beneath reason, that go beyond it, that resist it.

During its 2015–2016 fellowship year, the Katz Center will focus on those aspects of internal life that lie beyond reason—emotions and feelings, the unconscious, sensation, imagination, impulse, intuition, and the nonrational dimensions of reason itself. The topic can be explored through various disciplinary perspectives such as history, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, art, and musicology. Relevant fellowship proposals might address any of the following topics:
 * Emotions and feelings. Though rooted in neurological and physical responses, scholars recognize that emotions—like love, anger, anxiety, joy, fear, empathy, sympathy, sadness, desire, pain, and pleasure—are shaped by culture. What is there to be learned about emotions in Jewish cultural contexts?
 * Sensation. Another area of research that engages fields such as art history, film studies, ethnomusicology, ethics, and literature is sensation, a topic that includes sight, sound, touch, or scent within Jewish cultural or artistic contexts.
 * The unconscious. Interest in psychoanalysis continues to thrive, as does the deployment of psychoanalytic approaches to analyze literature and understand behavior. The Center welcomes proposals that bridge Jewish studies and the study of psychoanalysis and its history.
 * Mental illness. The idea of “madness” or mental illness in Jewish contexts approached from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
 * Imagination. What is the history of imagination in Jewish culture? How is the imagination understood within specific periods of history or by particular thinkers, and how does that history relate to the broader history of imagination? Also potentially relevant are studies of Jewish artists and their engagement with movements that emphasize the non-rational (Romanticism, Expressionism, etc.).
 * The nonrational within rationality itself. One of the projects associated with post-modernism is a critique of rationality, the exposure of its metaphysical foundations and blind spots. The year is open to research that explores nonrational dimensions of Jewish philosophy or other modes of rationality, including that which draws on new methods or theories to challenge the distinction between reason and nonrational dimensions of subjectivity/cognition.

The Katz Center invites applications from scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts at all levels, as well as outstanding graduate students in the final stages of writing their dissertations. Stipend amounts are based on academic standing and financial need with a maximum of $50,000 for the academic year. Fellowship recipients will be notified by February 6, 2015.

Applications are available on our website: http://katz.sas.upenn.edu
 * More details are available at: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/fellowship-program/next-year
 * Application Deadline: November 9, 2014.
 * Also posted at Jewish Studies 2014-2015

===University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Penn Humanities Forum, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities 2015-16 - Topic: SEX - Deadline: 15 Oct. 2014===

Five (5) one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for the 2015-2016 academic year for untenured scholars in the humanities who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2006 and December 2014. The PhD is the only eligible terminal degree.

The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet application terms. Please refer to full Application Guidelines. International scholars, please note carefully the final paragraph in that section concerning visa terms (only J-1 visas will be granted).

The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For the 2015–2016 academic year, we have set Sex as the theme. Humanists and those in related fields (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are invited to submit research proposals on any aspect of this topic. Exclusions are projects in social science disciplines, educational curriculum building, and work by performing artists (n.b., scholars of performance are eligible).

Fellows teach one undergraduate course in addition to conducting their research. The stipend is $46,500. Health insurance is provided for fellows but not for family and dependents. Fellows also receive a research fund of $2500. Fellows are required to be in residence during their fellowship year (September 1–May 31).


 * Application instructions: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/applications/postdoc/howtoapply.shtml
 * Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Applications will be accepted via online webform only. Awards will be announced by the end of December 2014.

===Vanderbilt University (TN) - 2015/2016 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship ("Vernacular Islam beyond the Arab World") - Deadline: 14 Jan. 2015=== Program co-directors: Tony K. Stewart (Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities, Religious Studies), David J. Wasserstein (Eugene Greener, Jr. Professor of Jewish Studies, History), and Samira Sheikh (Associate Professor of History)

The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities will host a year-long interdisciplinary Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on the theme "When the Fringe Dwarfs the Center: Vernacular Islam beyond the Arab World" during the 2015/2016 academic year. Seminar participants will trace the historical processes that have led to the development of local or vernacular Islams.

The myriad forms of vernacular Islam often develop in uneasy relationship to the projected authority of the Arab center, and to those who propose that Islam is singular, exceptional, and inherently transnational. How and why these tensions develop will be the focus of the seminar. We argue that as most Muslims live in the "fringes," we need to problematize the notions of center and periphery, the relationship of the symbolic core to its ever-expanding outlying majority, and the latter's creative adaptations of Islam. Mapping and interrogating the growth of the huge variety of vernacular forms of Islam is the necessary first step towards determining what is deemed variable and what (if anything) essential in these formations. We have identified three critical interlocking factors that should allow us to trace more effectively the historical trajectories that have encouraged successful vernacularization: adaptation by the many and varied languages of Islam, the changing nature of authority in Islam, and the expanding material environments of Islam. Each of these three will be the focus of a six-week module, with each building on the previous one, and the series will culminate in a fourth and final module that should serve as a pragmatic test case by tracing the histories of these three interrelated factors into the current growing tensions in the fringe that parallel in significant ways, but also diverge from, the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa. This last module will also examine some of the surprisingly innovative strategies that have served to offset or mitigate that series of shocks. The decision to tease out the key threads of expanding linguistic variation, the changing nature of political authority, and the oft-neglected importance of material culture in the practices of Islam should enable us to understand better the new developments across the Islamic world that have caught many people by surprise. It is not clear if we will be able to discern a pattern or patterns to this sea change, but the three threads identified here, wound together, reflect that Islam is varied, that its variety comes both from within and from contact with the world outside, and that such contact continues in the post-colonial period to affect and help shape political and cultural change everywhere in the world of Islam. Examined systematically, the strategy should provide a reasonable and common framework by which vernacular forms of Islam can be fruitfully compared.

In addition to the three seminar co-directors, the seminar will consist of six Vanderbilt University faculty members, two Vanderbilt University graduate students, and one Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from an institution other than Vanderbilt. Scholars selected for participation will also be appointed as Warren Center Fellows for the 2015/2016 year. Fellows will receive individual research funds for participation in the program. Funds will also be available to the seminar to host an array of visiting speakers during the year that the seminar is meeting as well as a follow up program that will be planned by members of the seminar for the next academic year.

We invite applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship from young scholars in all disciplines whose lively presence will help to focus our work and stimulate discussions. An applicant's Ph.D. must have been awarded between December 30, 2009 and December 30, 2014. The seminar meets weekly and will allow the Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow ample time to pursue a major research project. The combined interests of the Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow and the Vanderbilt faculty fellows will determine the exact form and content of seminar discussions.

The Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow is provided with a spacious office within the Center's own building. The fellowship pays a stipend of $50,000 and provides a research fund of $3,000 for the academic year in residence. The fellowship also provides up to $1,500 in moving expenses.

APPLICATION MATERIALS AVAILABLE HERE


 * Complete applications must be submitted by January 14, 2015.

Washington University in St. Louis (MO) - Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Program - Deadline: 3 Dec. 2014
Washington University announces the fifteenth year of Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, a postdoctoral fellowship program endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. We invite applications from recent Ph.D.s for the position as Fellow. In September 2015, the selected Fellow will join the University’s ongoing interdisciplinary programs and seminars. The Fellow will receive a two-year appointment with a nine-month academic year salary beginning at $51,665 per year. Postdoctoral Fellows pursue their own continuing research in association with a senior faculty mentor at Washington University. Over the course of their two-year appointment, they will also teach three undergraduate courses and collaborate in leading an interdisciplinary seminar on theory and methods for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

There is no application form, but further information on Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry is available on the web at http://mii.wustl.edu/. Applicants should submit a cover letter, a description of their research program (no more than 1800 words), a brief proposal for a seminar in theory and methods of interest and use for students in a range of subfields, and a curriculum vitae. Applicants who have not completed their doctoral work should indicate, in their cover letters, how many chapters of their dissertation are complete and how complete the remaining chapters are. Cover letters should include all relevant contact information and the applicant’s name should appear on each page of all application materials. Applicants should also arrange for the submission of three confidential letters of recommendation.


 * Submit materials by email, post, or online document handler by December 3, 2014 to Joseph Loewenstein ([mailto:mii@artsci.wustl.edu mii@artsci.wustl.edu]). The mailing address is: Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University, Campus Box 1029, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. (For express mail, please send materials to: Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University, Umrath Hall, Room 231, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899.)