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Cornell University Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship — “Survival” — 2026-27
Deadline: September 22 Length/Track: One year Description: “We invite humanistic engagement on what it means to live in moments that are marked by precarity, fragility, and catastrophe. What might it mean to flourish in a world on the brink of extinction or exhaustion? Survival can be individual or collective, shaped by cultural imperatives, ideological commitments, or…
2025 Deadlines, African American Studies, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Border Studies, Carceral Studies, Caribbean Studies, Communications/Media Studies, Comparative Literature/English, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Disability Studies, Drama/Theater Studies, East Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Film/Media Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Geography, Germanic Studies, Global Studies, Health Studies, History, Human Development, Human Rights Studies, Indigenous Studies, Italian Studies, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Labor/Class Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Postdoc, Public Policy, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, September 2025 deadline, Slavic Studies, South Asian Studies, Spanish/Latin American Studies, Starts in 2026, Urban Studies, Visual Studies -
Smith College Research Fellowship in Reproductive Justice History and Popular Political Education
Deadline: July 1 (review begins) Length/Track: Apparently two years Description: “The Roots of Reproductive Justice History Project seeks a historian of women, gender and sexuality to research and produce content for a website that traces movements for body autonomy across the full span of U.S. history.” The postdoc will be contributing to the “Roots of…
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University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Climate Fellowship at the Center for the Advanced Study of India
Deadline: April 23 Length/Track: One year Description: “For this position, we seek a scholar whose research focuses on one or more of the following areas: environment-society relations, cities and urbanization, and climate change. We are open to applicants from a range of disciplinary traditions, particularly anthropology, architecture, geography, and planning. Candidates who have experience with…
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Hobart William Smith Colleges Fisher Center Postdoctoral Fellowship — “Backlash, (Im)mobility, Reaction”
Deadline: May 1 Length/Track: One year Description: “The theme “Backlash, (Im)mobility, Reaction” captures the world in flux, the world overcome by turbulence, with opposite forces clashing, breaking, turning over. The Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice invites applicants to address the following question: what does it mean to think, to write, to…
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University of Cincinnati Taft Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship in the College of Arts & Sciences
Deadline: May 1 Length/Track: Two years Description: Requirements: a “Ph.D in any field of inquiry in the 15 humanities and social science Taft member units (Africana Studies; Anthropology; School of Communication, Media, and Film Studies; Economics; English & Comparative Literature; German Studies; History; Journalism; Judaic Studies; Mathematical Sciences; Philosophy; School of Public and International Affairs;…
2025 Deadlines, Africana Studies, Anthropology, Communications/Media Studies, Comparative Literature/English, Economics, Film/Media Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, History, Jewish/Judaic Studies, May 2025 deadline, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Postdoc, Public Policy, Romance Languages, Starts in 2025 -
Pennsylvania State University Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Scholar Position in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Deadline: Unstated; posted 3/28 Length/Track: One year Description: “The Postdoctoral Scholar will be appointed to work with the investigators currently leading the Mellon Foundation-funded Sawyer Seminar series ‘Birthing the nation: Gender, sex, and reproduction in ethnonationalist imaginaries’.” “Applicants should have: (1) A proven track record of high quality research in the critical investigation of race,…
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick Wall Postdoctoral Associate Position in African American Literature
Deadline: April 21 Length/Track: One year Description: “We welcome applications from scholars pursuing research in African American and/or African Diasporic literature broadly and are especially interested in scholars engaged in black feminist criticism and theory. Scholarship and teaching intersecting with African American poetics, black ecologies, performance studies, sound studies, black queer studies, or the black…
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Bryn Mawr College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Humanistic Studies
Deadline: April 14 Length/Track: One year, renewable for a second Description: “The Political Science Department seeks a postdoctoral fellow with research strongly rooted in U.S. politics, including (but not limited to) American political development, political culture, power structures, race, or law. Comparative approaches using the United States as a central case would also be welcome.…
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Barnard College Early-Career Faculty Fellowship in Six Fields
Deadline: March 31 Length/Track: Two years Description: Eligible fields: “This is a two-year position beginning on July 1, 2025, with teaching responsibilities during the standard academic year from September through May.” URL: https://barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty/details/Barnard-Early-Career-Faculty-Fellow–Africana-Studies_JR4652 (This link leads to scroll-down job postings for all 6 fields)
2025 Deadlines, Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Border Studies, Caribbean Studies, Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, Comparative Literature, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, March 2025 deadline, Postcolonial Studies, Postdoc, Psychology/Behavioral Sciences, Race/Ethnic Studies, Romance Languages, Starts in 2025
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 