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Tulane University Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women’s History
Deadline: January 30 Length/Track: Two years Description: “The Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow will be a historian whose research is intersectional and engages with the history of women and/or gender in the U.S. A research focus on 20th century women’s history in the Gulf South is preferred though not required.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/173263
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Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis Post Doctoral Associate Position — “Ugly: Bodies, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Unpleasant”
Deadline: February 6 Length/Track: One year (2026-27) Description: “The 2026-2028 RCHA seminar interrogates what is socially deemed “unpleasant” and its relations to power, violence, and inequality. We do so through the critical social category of the “ugly” and “ugliness”; that is, as a contested aesthetic site shaped by dynamics of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability,…
2026 Deadlines, Anthropology, Architecture Studies, Art History, Comparative Literature/English, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies, February 2026 deadline, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, History, Human Development, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Postdoc, Psychology/Behavioral Sciences, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Starts in 2026, Visual Studies -
Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship — Inequality in America Initiative
Deadline: Review begins in January Length/Track: One year Description: “The Fellow will be selected based on their potential to make important contributions to the understanding of, and potential solutions to, systemic inequality in the United States. We are particularly interested in scholarship at the intersection of race, gender, family, and opportunity. Ideal candidates will have…
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Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship in Economics — Gender Inequality
Deadline: Review begins “in January” Length/Track: One year with possible renewal for a second Description: “Projects that address change across time or across nations in different stages of development are encouraged. Masculinity and how the norms that constrain men affect their employment and household labor, and interact with those impacting women Women’s labor market participation,…
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Dartmouth Mellon Teaching Fellowship in Transgender Studies
Deadline: February 15 Length/Track: Two years Description: “The successful candidate will complement our existing curriculum by teaching one introductory course in queer studies and one first-year seminar in each of the two years of the appointment, as well as two courses per year in their areas of expertise.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/178648
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Dartmouth College Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender Studies and Public Policy 2026-28
Deadline: February 15 Length/Track: Two years Description: Applicants must have a “PhD in any field by the time of appointment, with a focus on WGSS and Public Policy.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/178487
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Brown University Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Black Queer Studies
Deadline: December 15 Length/Track: Two years Description: “Successful applicants will have a demonstrated track record of teaching and/or research on some aspect of Black Queer Studies from one or more disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to history, political science, sociology, music, economics, performance studies, literature, or anthropology. The successful candidate will be appointed jointly…
2025 Deadlines, African American Studies, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, Anthropology, Comparative Literature/English, December 2025 deadline, Diaspora Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, History, Human Development, Music, Performance Studies, Political Science, Postdoc, Sociology, Starts in 2026 -
Wesleyan University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities: “Monstrosities” — “Monstrous Humans”/”Monstrous Inventions”
Deadline: January 8 Length/Track: Two years Description: Must have received PhD after June 2022 and by 2026. “This year-long theme invites scholars to engage monstrosities as objects, analytics, and methods, positioning monstrosities as a vital site for rethinking scholarly and political engagements with difference, vulnerability, and ethics. We invite proposals for fellowships that engage with…
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Brown University Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs and Department of History Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
Deadline: Janurary 15 Length/Track: Two years Description: “We are seeking a labor historian whose scholarship focuses on such issues as migration, displacement, and human trafficking; automation, technology, and processes of global integration; or gender, sexuality, and the politics of reproductive labor. The position is open to scholars working in any chronological period or geographical area,…
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 