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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 -
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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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 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 -
Yale University Postdoctoral Associate Position in the Humanities Program
Deadline: January 5 Length/Track: Three years Description: “Candidates in any field of the Humanities and humanistic Social Sciences are welcome to apply. The Postdoctoral Associate will also have standing to hold a secondary appointment as a Lecturer and will teach one section of Directed Studies every semester. Additional responsibilities will include organizing Directed Studies colloquia and planning…
2025 Deadlines, Administrative/Teaching, African American Studies, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture Studies, Art History, Asian American Studies, Border Studies, Caribbean Studies, Childhood Studies, Communications/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Digital Studies, Disability Studies, Drama/Theater Studies, East Asian Studies, Film/Media Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Gaming Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Germanic Studies, History, History of Science, Indigenous Studies, Italian Studies, January 2025 deadline, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Linguistics, Music, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Postdoc, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, Romance Languages, Slavic Studies, South Asian Studies, Spanish/Latin American Studies, Visual Studies -
University of Utah Postdoctoral Fellowship in Early British Literature
Deadline: December 2 Length/Track: Two years Description: “The Department of English at the University of Utah seeks a postdoctoral scholar in British Studies working in historical periods before 1800 to begin in Fall 2025. We invite applications from scholars working in any aspect of British Studies, including but not limited to gender and sexuality studies,…
2024 Deadlines, Africana Studies, Art History, Caribbean Studies, Comparative Literature/English, Cultural Studies, December 2024 deadline, Drama/Theater Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, History, Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Postdoc, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2025 -
University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Assistant Professorship in African American Literature and Culture
Deadline: December 1 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “The search is open to all subfields and periods.” “We are especially interested in candidates whose research and teaching interests are positioned in and/or intersects with other genres and fields, such as transatlantic Black studies, gender studies, disability studies, Latinx studies, Caribbean studies, French-phoneme literature, popular culture studies,…
2024 Deadlines, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, Comparative Literature/English, Cultural Studies, December 2024 deadline, Diaspora Studies, Disability Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Native American/American Indian Studies, Race/Ethnic Studies, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2025, Tenure track -
Tulane University Assistant Professorship in Feminist Media
Deadline: November 1 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We seek applicants whose teaching and research center on gender and/or sexuality and their intersections, and engage people-centered research methods, such as critical ethnography, interviews, oral histories, focus groups, and digital methods. We are especially interested in applicants whose research engages the lived experience of BIPOC and/or Global…
2024 Deadlines, African American Studies, Africana Studies, Anthropology, Communications/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Digital Studies, East Asian Studies, Film/Media Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Global Studies, Human Development, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, November 2024 deadline, Political Science, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Sociology, Starts in 2025, Technology Studies, Tenure track -
Georgetown University Assistant Professorship in English/Women’s and Gender Studies — Transgender Studies Approaches to Literatures, Media, and Cultures of the Global South
Deadline: November 15 (if contacted, additional materials and letters due December 9) Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We are looking for candidates whose work is in Trans Studies as it relates to literary, media, and cultural production in or from the Global South. We welcome applicants with a research and teaching focus on transnational and/or diasporic…
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 