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Duke University Postdoctoral Associate for Mellon Sawyer Seminar: “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom and the Future of the University”
Deadline: January 15 Length/Track: Nine months Description: “The Humanist-in-Residence will participate in the seminar meetings while also developing a year-long project on the theme of “Sharing Ground”: how the humanities have conceptualized academic freedom and imagined and preserved democracy within the university, and how they might continue to shape these ideals in the years ahead.…
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Duke University Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Deadline: December 15 Length/Track: Two years Description: Inviting “applications for a two-year residential postdoctoral fellow. We seek a scholar whose research agenda is committed to feminist intellectual history with a focus on the 1980s as a distinct era of feminist theoretical innovation. Responding to the recent outpouring of scholarship on the feminist 1970s and the…
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University of Rochester Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: January 10 Length/Track: Two years with possible one-year extension Description: “Applicants may be in any field of humanistic study, including anthropology, art and art history, classics, English, history, modern languages and cultures, music, philosophy, or religion. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand by the start of the fellowship.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/176104
2026 Deadlines, All/Most Humanistic fields, Anthropology, Art History, Art/Design, Classics, Comparative Literature/English, Cultural Studies, Drama/Theater Studies, Film/Media Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Germanic Studies, History, Italian Studies, January 2026 deadline, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Linguistics, Music, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Postdoc, Religious Studies/Theology, Romance Languages, Sound Studies, Spanish/Latin American Studies, Starts in 2026 -
University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Fellowship in Trans Studies
Deadline: December 15 Length/Track: One year with the possibility of a one-year extension Description: “We seek an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher with a demonstrated commitment to inclusive pedagogy and feminist, queer, and trans studies. We welcome expertise disability studies, black studies, trans of color critique or transnational/global approaches.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/176322
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Cornell University 2026-28 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies
Deadline: January 15 Length/Track: Two years Description: “The geographical area of research is open; we are particularly interested in those working in the period between 1900 and the present. Open to scholars with PhDs in Science and Technology Studies and related fields whose research engages with both the social and epistemic dimensions of science and…
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Duke University Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies — Black Feminist Studies
Deadline: November 1 Length/Track: Unstated in description on Duke site Description: Seeking “a postdoctoral fellow with an interdisciplinary training in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Black Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and/or related fields, with expertise in Black feminist studies.” “The fellow will have two primary responsibilities: 1. to help conceptualize, plan, and organize the…
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Princeton University Davis Center and the Institute for Advanced Study Postdoctoral Fellowship in History — “Property and Poverty”
Deadline: January 11 Length/Track: Two years Description: Inviting “applications from historians studying the intellectual, legal, religious, cultural, and economic histories of property and poverty, and from social historians who explore the world of the impoverished, the practices of poor relief, the causes of poverty, and the mechanisms of dispossession. All approaches are welcome, including but…
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University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-2028
Deadline: October 31 Length/Track: Two years Description: “Each of the following units will host one fellow each: Department of Anthropology, Department of Music, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Department of Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies. For more information about each unit and potential areas of study within them, see the Program’s…
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 