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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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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 -
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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Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow Position 2026-27
Deadline: November 21 (letters due December 5) Length/Track: One year Description: “The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for several one-year postdoctoral fellowships in the environmental humanities, drawn from any humanistic discipline. We interpret the environmental humanities in the broadest terms, to include all parts of the world and historical eras. Topics may include (but are…
2025 Deadlines, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, American Studies, Anthropology, Border Studies, Carceral and Criminal Justice Studies, Caribbean Studies, Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, Communication/Media Studies, Diaspora Studies, East Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, European Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Global/International Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, Near Eastern/Middle Eastern Studies, November 2025 deadline, Pacific Island Studies, Pacific Island/Islander Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Postdoc, Race/Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, Rural Studies, Slavic Studies, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2026 -
Brown University Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Research Associate Position for 2026-27 — “The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge”
Deadline: November 24 Length/Track: One year Description: The “seminar will consider how ideas about intellectual value and expertise – in other words, myths of merit – are entangled with divisions of labor and categories of difference. While gender will take a central place in our discussions, we will also explore how the creation of knowledge…
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities — 2026-27 Theme ‘Practice’
Deadline: November 2 Length/Track: One year Description: Theme is Practice: “Join us for a year of thought and creation about the practice of practice, about practice and joy, about the relationship between practice and change, about practice and solidarity, about practice and survival, and about practice and failure. In fellowship and in community, we will…
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 