Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2016-17

This page is for postdoctoral positions that begin in 2017.

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Upcoming Deadlines

 * 15 July 2016: Tulane University (LA) - Newcomb College Institute - Spring 2017 Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow
 * 22 July 2016: University of Maryland (MD) - Postdoctoral Positions - Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture
 * 18 July 2016: University of Stirling (UK;Scot) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Philosophy (two posts)
 * 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
 * 9 Sept. 2016: University of Oxford, All Souls College (UK) - Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships
 * 12 Sept. 2016: University of Cambridge (UK) - Faculty of Classics - Research Associate
 * 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
 * 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
 * 21 Sept. 2016: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (CAN)
 * 27 Sept. 2016: University of Michigan (MI) - Michigan Society of Fellows
 * 1 Oct. 2016: Cornell University (NY) - Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2017-2018
 * 3 Oct. 2016: Columbia University (NY) - Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities - 2017-2018 Fellowship Competition
 * 14 Oct. 2016: Harvard University (USA:MA) - William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowship
 * 15 Oct. 2016: University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Penn Humanities Forum - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities 2017-18
 * 25 Oct. 2016: European University Institute (ITA) - Max Weber Fellowships 2017-2018
 * 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
 * 1 Nov. 2016: Cornell University (NY) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies (Central Asia)
 * 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
 * 15 Nov. 2016: Bucknell University (PA) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies
 * 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: Washington University in St. Louis (MO) - Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
 * 6 Dec. 2016: Brown University (RI) - Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
 * 15 Jan. 2017: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

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


 * Apply at: https://apply.interfolio.com/35565
 * For full consideration, applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.

Bucknell University (PA) - Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies - Deadline: 15 Nov. 2016
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.
 * Also posted at Ethnic Studies 2016-2017

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

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

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.


 * Deadline: 1 Oct. 2016. Apply at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7386

Dartmouth College (NH) - Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Society of Fellows - Deadline: 19 Sept. 2016
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.


 * Applications are accepted through Interfolio http://apply.interfolio.com/35635 and must be received on or before September 19, 2016.

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

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: www.frias.uni-freiburg.de.

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

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.
 * 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.)

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

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

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities - Deadline: 15 Jan. 2017
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 [mailto:shass-mellon@mit.edu shass-mellon@mit.edu], or call the SHASS Dean's Office at 617-253-0888.
 * Online application will be available November 1, 2016.

Princeton University (NJ) - Princeton Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 15 Sept. 2016
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.

===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.
 * Deadline: Monday, December 5, 2016. Apply at: https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/7643

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

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.


 * Apply via Interfolio (https://apply.interfolio.com/35308) by July 15, 2016.
 * Also posted at Womens/Gender/Queer Studies 2016-2017

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), 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 Maryland (MD) - Postdoctoral Positions - Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture - Deadline: 22 July 2016=== The University of Maryland is offering two Postdoctoral positions in the fields of Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture. Eligible candidates will have completed a doctoral program in African American Studies, Art History, United States Labor History, United States or Global Migration Studies, Digital Media, Historical and Cultural Visualization, or a related field in the past five years. These are full-time, professional-track faculty appointments for two years connected to our Andrew W. Mellon-funded initiative “Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture” ( AADHum). The 12-month salary for these positions is $70,000, including full benefits. Additional funding is available for conference travel and professional development.

The AADHum postdocs in the fields of Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture provide exciting opportunities to contribute to a major interdisciplinary initiative at one of the nation’s highest-ranked public research universities, as well as to gain skills and knowledge related to emerging, innovative areas of research and teaching. Through these positions, the AADHum initiative seeks to advance and expand the fields of digital humanities and African American history and cultural studies, and to develop and diversify the pipeline for the next generation of scholars and professionals who foster engagement at this intersection.

Roles & Responsibilities: With supervision and guidance provided by the leadership of the AADHum initiative, the postdocs will work closely with faculty and researchers in their field of expertise, for example, with the Center for Global Migration Studies, or with the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora. Postdocs will each participate in and help coordinate the Digital Humanities Incubator training sessions for faculty and students; provide mentorship and research leadership to graduate assistants working in support of the project; and design a two-semester course sequence that engages first-year students with research questions involving African American labor, migration, and artistic expression that are tractable to digital tools and methods. These questions will be pursued through use of our testbed collections, including onsite, hands-on work at the Center for Global Migration Studies, the Driskell Center, and the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive.

The ideal candidates will have both relevant academic training as well as experience with content management and digital humanities project development. Postdocs will be expected to continue to develop their ongoing research within a field of study compatible with the AADHum initiative. Opportunities to lead, engage, or collaborate in workshops, seminars, presentations, and publications will be strongly encouraged and supported.

Required: Ph.D., or equivalent terminal degree in African American Studies, Art History, United States Labor History, United States or Global Migration Studies, Digital Media, Historical and Cultural Visualization, Cultural Studies or a related field, Terminal degree conferred May 2011 or later, and before start date for this position, Demonstrable strong scholarly research focus on African American history and culture, Practical understanding of the research process and research data lifecycle, Experience or familiarity with using digital media as part of teaching or research, Strong organizational and documentation skills, Ability to engage with people in new settings as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills, Willingness to participate in teaching and training initiatives related to the postdoc or area of research.

Desired: Excellent skills in project management, workflow design and management, teaching and outreach, communication and collaboration with faculty members, Experience designing and implementing databases for scholarly projects, Experience coordinating and promoting programs and/or services, Working knowledge of various content management systems, Familiarity with markup and metadata standards associated with Digital Humanities projects.

Local Guidance and Professional Development Support: Postdocs will work in close collaboration with faculty and staff from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy, the two core centers for the AADHum initiative. One of the premier digital humanities centers in the world, MITH will provide mentoring in best practices for data curation, data modeling, project development, and training, along with working knowledge of advanced methods and tools for data analytics. Launched in late 2013, the Center for Synergy has already been recognized as on the cutting edge of public humanities, successfully conceptualizing and building collaborative projects between Arts and Humanities scholars, other disciplines and external communities. The center received one of the first NEH Humanities in the Public Square grants for its Baltimore Stories project, in which humanists work alongside citizens to examine the roles of narratives in the life of a major American city. The Center for Synergy will provide mentoring in best practices for developing vibrant intellectual communities, both in the form of innovative curriculum and in the form of engaging public programming, from the micro-level of reading groups to the macro-level of a national conference.

Opportunities for archival work in the rich research collections at the University of Maryland will also be key components of the postdoc experience. The archives of the David C. Driskell Collection document the creation and curation of the largest academic holdings of African American art and art from the African diaspora. The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO archives are the official repository for records of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), selected records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and the merged American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).


 * To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three references to [mailto:aadhum-postdocs@umd.edu aadhum-postdocs@umd.edu] . For best consideration, applications should be submitted no later than July 22, 2016. Review will continue until the position is filled. Start date to be negotiated, but no later than February 1, 2017. For complete information about the position, please visit: http://go.umd.edu/AADHumPostDocs

University of Michigan (MI) - Michigan Society of Fellows - Deadline: 27 Sept. 2016
The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. Each year the Society selects outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the social, physical, and life sciences, the humanities, and in the professional schools.

The Society invites applications from qualified candidates who are at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional or artistic degree between June 1, 2014 and September 1, 2017. Applications from degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan will not be considered. Non-US citizens may apply.

The application form will be available July 8, 2016. See full guidelines here: http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/the-fellowship/application-guidelines/
 * The application deadline is Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT.

University of Oxford, All Souls College (UK) - Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships - Deadline: 9 Sept. 2016

 * All Souls College invites applications for up to five Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in the following subjects: Life Sciences; Theoretical Physical Sciences (broadly defined); Classical Studies; Modern Languages; Literature in English; and Philosophy. Those elected will be expected to take up their Fellowships on 1 October 2017 or such other date as may be agreed in advance with the College. The Fellowship are for five years, fixed-term, and non-renewable.
 * The Fellowships are intended to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to establish a record of independent research. But, while the primary duty of a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is the completion of a significant body of independent research for publication, they are also encouraged to undertake appropriate teaching and supervision of research in the University, develop their curriculum vitae, and improve their prospects of obtaining a permanent academic position by the end of the Fellowship.
 * Applicants must have been awarded their doctorates after 1 August 2014 or expect to have been awarded their doctorate by 1 October 2017. (The successful candidates must have completed 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.
 * 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: 9 Sept. 2016 with references due 16 Sept.
 * intend to interview Friday, 13 January and Saturday, 14 January 2017, with election 21 Jan.

===University of Oxford, New College (UK) - Weston Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy - Deadline: 19 Sept. 2016===
 * The college invites applications for this post, which is tenable for a fixed period of three years from 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter based in New College, Oxford. The person appointed will be expected to undertake advanced research in Philosophy and will have completed his or her PhD/DPhil or be in the last year of doctoral work at the time of taking up the post, and may not previously have held a Junior Research Fellowship or comparable appointment.
 * The formal selection criterion for the post is scholarship that demonstrates a substantial contribution to the subject, or potential for such, with an ability to communicate ideas.
 * This junior research fellowship is intended for researchers at an early stage in their career who show outstanding ability and potential in their chosen field. Applicants will be expected to have a first degree in a subject area appropriate to the fellowship, normally at First Class honours level, and to have completed his or her PhD/DPhil or be in the last year of doctoral work at the time of taking up the post.
 * The fellowship carries a stipend of £21,050 p.a. (subject to review). The appointment will be pensionable under the USS scheme, the fellow contributing 8% of the stipend and the college 18%.
 * Fellows are entitled to a housing allowance (currently £1,950 p.a.) or to live in college if suitable rooms are available. Fellows are entitled to free lunch and dinner at the common table when this is available, a research and book allowance (£1,275 p.a.) and an entertainment allowance (£215 p.a.).
 * Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the college’s website at http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/weston-junior-research-fellowship-philosophy, or from the Academic Registrar, New College, Oxford OX1 3BN (tel: 01865 279596; email: tuition@new.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00pm on Monday 19 September 2016.

===University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies - Jewish Culture and the Natural World - 2017-18 Fellowship - Deadline: 31 Oct. 2016=== During the 2017–2018 fellowship year, the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies seeks to ask new questions about the history of science, medicine and technology from the perspective of Jewish culture.

This year will explore the theories, institutions, and paradigms that shaped how Jews have studied nature, and the ideas, applications, and cultural and religious consequences that emerged from such study. The fellowship is open to scholars working on particular thinkers, texts or theories, as well as research projects that frame the subject in relation to Classical, Christian, Muslim, or secular approaches.

This theme spans the entirety of Jewish history, and encompasses the history of science, the anthropology of science, philosophy, philology, and environmental studies, among other potentially relevant fields. This theme shall embrace an interdisciplinary and comparative approach and encourages projects within fields of inquiry that bear on how Jews have understood, interacted with, or sought to intervene into nature. This could include but is not limited to: astrology, magic and other esoteric forms of knowledge, medieval and early modern natural philosophy, Zionism and its impact on scientific and medical practice, contemporary research in genetics, as well as mathematics and technology. Among the larger questions that fellows might address are:
 * How have Jews conceived, studied, and talked about nature and the natural world in different historical periods?
 * In what ways has Jewish scientific engagement in nature been shaped by religious belief and practice?
 * What is the relationship between science and Halakhah, or between science and Jewish religious thought?
 * What can be learned by reframing Jewish engagement in nature within a broader context? What insights can be gleaned by comparing Jewish scientific interest with Islamic, Christian, or modern secular science? To what extent has science or medicine served as a medium of interaction and exchange with non-Jewish communities?
 * What can one learn about Jewish engagement in science by attending to the practices and institutions of scientific culture (e.g., universities, medical schools) or by examining the social and discursive practices of science?
 * How has Zionism shaped Jewish medical and scientific activity or vice versa?

ELIGIBILITY. 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 who will have received their Ph.D. before the start date of the fellowship.

AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS. Fellowships are awarded either for a full academic year or one semester (fall or spring). Stipend amounts are based on financial need and academic standing.
 * The deadline for applications is OCTOBER 31, 2016.
 * The Katz Center is currently upgrading its application portal. Applications will be accepted beginning in mid-July 2016. Please check back at that time or direct questions to Carrie Love, program administrator, at carrielo@upenn.edu.
 * Also posted at Jewish Studies 2016-2017

===University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Penn Humanities Forum - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities 2017-18 (Theme: AFTERLIVES) - Deadline: 15 Oct 2016=== Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are available for the 2017-2018 academic year on the general theme of AFTERLIVES. Open to untenured junior scholars holding a PhD (no more than eight years out of doctorate, with degree between 12/2008 and 12/2016). Research proposals from all humanistic disciplines and allied areas (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are eligible, except for educational curriculum-building and the performing arts (scholars of performing arts are eligible). Fellows teach one undergraduate course during the year in addition to conducting their research and must be in residence during fellowship year: August 1 - May 31. Stipend: $53,000 plus single-coverage health insurance and a $3000 research fund.

Applications are accepted via secure online webform only. Please do NOT email your application, c.v., or questions about whether proposed topic is viable. The committee cannot comment on the appropriateness of proposals in advance, and those submissions and questions will not be considered. A careful reading of the topic description and the application form itself generally answers most questions. Please also note that if you will defend your graduate thesis any time after December 2016, you are NOT eligible to apply, and NO exceptions will be considered.

Downloadable application form (required), full fellowship guidelines, and 'AFTERLIVES' topic description: http://phf.upenn.edu.
 * Application deadline: October 15, 2016.

University of Pennsylvania (PA) - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Price Lab Fellowship in Digital Humanities - Deadline: 30 Oct. 2016
The Price Lab invites applications for the 2017–2018 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Awards are available to untenured scholars in the humanities whose PhD must have been received between December 2008 and December 2016. The DH Fellow is required to spend the ten-month academic year (August 2017 – May 2018) in residence at Penn.

The PhD is the only eligible terminal degree. MFAs and other doctorates such as EdD are ineligible. In addition to scholars from the core humanities disciplines, those in related fields such as anthropology and the history of science are eligible to apply. Additional educational background in programming, library sciences, computer graphics, computational linguistics, or other fields relevant to digital humanities research is desirable but not required.

The Mellon Fellow will be affiliated with both the School of Arts and Sciences and the Penn Libraries, and will participate in the biweekly Price Lab Mellon Seminar. The fellow will pursue his or her own research project, presenting this work at the seminar, while also contributing to team-based projects at the Lab, and teaching one DH course during the year in the undergraduate College. (While the application requires a brief course description, actual specifications of the class will be worked out next spring with the Price Lab’s Managing Director.)

The Mellon DH Fellowship carries an annual stipend of $55,000 plus single-coverage health insurance (fellows are responsible for coverage of any dependents). Applicants from outside the US must be eligible for appointment under a J-1 visa (Research Scholar status); no exceptions will be made, and the Price Lab reserves the right to revoke a fellowship if the recipient is unable to meet this condition.

The fellowship will in some cases be renewable for a second year.


 * Application Instructions: https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/how-apply
 * Deadline: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 11:59pm EST

University of Wisconsin - Institute for Research in the Humanities (WI) - Kingdon Fellowship - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016
Robert M. Kingdon, a distinguished historian of early modern Europe, generously donated funds for two to three Kingdon Fellowships to scholars outside UW-Madison who are engaged in historical, literary, and philosophical studies of Judeo-Christian religious traditions and their role in society from antiquity to the present, broadly understood. Projects may focus on any period from antiquity to the present, on any part of the world, and in any field(s) in the humanities; can range widely or focus on a particular issue; and can explore various forms of Jewish and/or Christian traditions; the interaction of one or both of these religious traditions with other religious traditions; and/or the relationship of one or both of these religious traditions to other aspects of society such as power, politics, culture, experience, creativity, nationality, cosmopolitanism, gender, and sexuality. Projects that incorporate consideration of religion's interaction with society are especially welcome.

Fellows must be in residence throughout the academic year (except for short research trips) and may extend their residency through the following summer on a non-stipendary basis. Fellows are expected to present their work at an Institute seminar and participate in the weekly seminars. Applicants must be in possession of the doctorate at the time of application. For the 2017-2018 fellowship year, the award provides a stipend of $55,000, office space, support services, and access to all university facilities.


 * Applications are due November 1. Notification of awards will be in mid to late March.

University of Wisconsin - Institute for Research in the Humanities (WI) - Solmsen Fellowship - Deadline: 1 Nov. 2016
Through a generous bequest from Friedrich and Lieselotte Solmsen, the Institute offers five to six Solmsen Fellowships each year to scholars outside UW-Madison working in the humanities on European history and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods before 1700. Fellows are expected to be in residence throughout the academic year (except for short research trips, lectures, conferences, etc.) and may extend their residency through the following summer on a non-stipendary basis. Fellows are expected to present their work at an Institute seminar and participate in the weekly seminars. Applicants must be in possession of the doctorate at the time of application. For the 2017-2018 fellowship year, the award provides a stipend of $55,000, office space, support services, and access to all university facilities.


 * Applications are due November 1. Notification of awards will be in mid to late March.

===University of Stirling (UK;Scot) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Philosophy (two posts) Deadline: 18 Jul. 2016===
 * Two Fixed term 33 month postdoctoral fellowships: from 1 March 2017 to 28 November 2019.
 * The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling is offering two full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Philosophy. The Fellows will work in collaboration with Prof. Crispin Wright (Principal investigator) and others of the Stirling philosophers (details below), together with Prof. Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins and Prof. Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa of the University of British Columbia, on a John Templeton Foundation-funded research project entitled ‘Knowledge Beyond Natural Science’. The project will involve a two-stream, interactive investigation of philosophical problems presented by knowledge a priori and ordinary psychological self-knowledge, and of certain analogies between them.
 * The Research Fellows will be two early-career philosophers at postdoctoral level, of demonstrated high research achievement and outstanding research potential. Both will have a strong general background in core areas of Philosophy, especially in Epistemology, and developed research interests in one or both of the two project streams. Each Fellow will be expected to work to support both project streams. The Fellow appointed to the current post will in addition be assigned special responsibilities in connection with project’s stream investigating the A Priori, and the duties of this Research Fellowship are described more fully below. (Details of the second Fellowship, associated with the project’s Self-Knowledge stream, are given in a separate advertisement on the University’s website.)
 * Since the funding from the John Templeton foundation is of fixed term, there is no flexibility with the start or end dates. Please note the maximum salary point at appointment, depending on experience, is £33,574 p.a (Grade 7, Spine Point 32) due to finite external funding.
 * The appointees to the postdoctoral fellowships will be expected to: Conduct and publish original research within the remit of the project; Attend and participate fully in the weekly project seminars and oversee the production of online minutes; Maintain up-to-date online bibliographies and online information about project seminars and outcomes; Take responsibility for the organisation of workshops and assist the project leaders in organising conferences and other events and in editing associated anthologies; Foster informal philosophical discussion within the project, especially among the graduate students, and support the latter to feel fully at home in the project collaboration; Contribute fully to the public engagement activities of the project; Undertake up to thirty hours of teaching per annum for the Division.
 * It merits emphasis that the funding from the John Templeton Foundation comes with a commitment on the part of all members of the team to an extensive and demanding programme of research and writing, of specialised workshops, and of public engagement activities. A willingness and enthusiasm to work within a team ethos to ensure success on all three fronts is essential.
 * For further information, including essential criteria and details on how to apply, please see www.stir.ac.uk/jobs
 * Deadline: 18 Jul. 2016
 * Intend to interview 22-26 Aug.

Washington University in St. Louis (MO) - Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline: 5 Dec. 2016
Washington University announces the seventeenth year of Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, a postdoctoral fellowship program endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils, or D.F.As (in hand by June 30, 2017, and, no earlier than June 30, 2012) for a position as Fellow. In September 2017, the newly 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 $54,152 per year. Postdoctoral Fellows pursue their own continuing research in association with a senior faculty mentor at WU. They will 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.

Applicants should submit, through Interfolio, a cover letter, a description of their research program (no more than 1800 words and accessible to those in other fields), a brief proposal for an interdisciplinary seminar in theory and methods, and a curriculum vitae. Applicants who have not completed their doctoral work should indicate, in their cover letter, how many chapters of their dissertation are complete and how complete the remaining chapters are. Applicants should also arrange for the submission of three confidential letters of recommendation, also via Interfolio. Please email us at [mailto:mii@wustl.edu mii@wustl.edu] with additional questions.


 * Submit materials (starting on September 1, 2016) to Interfolio at the following link by December 5, 2016: http://apply.interfolio.com/35890
 * See also: https://pages.wustl.edu/mii