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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 -
California State University-Fullerton Assistant Professorship in American Studies
Deadline: October 1 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We seek a specialist in the interdisciplinary study of the body (for example: medicine, health, disability, trans experiences). Scholarly focus could be on any time period.” URL: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/873/fl/en-us/job/551148/assistant-professor-american-studies
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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 -
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 -
American Academy of Learned Societies Fellowship in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences 2025-26
Deadline: September 25 Length/Track: Six months to one year Description: “The fellowship is open to scholars at all postdoctoral career stages, working on or off the tenure track, who have earned a PhD in the humanities or interpretive social sciences by the application deadline.” URL:
2024 Deadlines, African American Studies, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Asian American Studies, Border Studies, Carceral Studies, Caribbean Studies, Childhood Studies, Classics, Communications/Media Studies, Comparative Literature/English, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Digital Studies, Disability Studies, Drama/Theater Studies, East Asian Studies, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Film/Media Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Gaming Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Germanic Studies, Global Studies, Health Studies, History, History of Science, Human Development, Human Rights Studies, Indigenous Studies, Italian Studies, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Labor/Class Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Legal Studies, Linguistics, Music, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Postdoc, Public Health, Public Policy, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, Rhetoric, Romance Languages, September 2024 deadline, Slavic Studies, Sociology, South Asian Studies, Spanish/Latin American Studies, Starts in 2025, Technology Studies, Urban Studies, Visual Studies -
Cornell University Postdoctoral Associate Position 2025-26 — “Scale”
Deadline: September 20 Length/Track: One year Description: “The Society for the Humanities invites applications from scholars and artists who are interested in participating in a productive, critical dialogue concerning the topic of [Scale] from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.” “Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2024.” URL: https://apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/facultyview.cfm?posting_id=_JOB_POSTING-3-84023
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University of North Carolina School of the Arts Assistant Professorship in Cultural Studies/Humanities
Deadline: February 29 Length/Track: Continuing: “UNCSA utilizes a multi-year contract system in lieu of tenure.” Description: “The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Humanities, Literature, Rhetoric, Cultural Studies or a closely related field before or by the contract start date, August 1, 2024; teaching experience and a record or demonstrated potential for creative, scholarly,…
2024 Deadlines, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Border Studies, Caribbean Studies, Communications/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Disability Studies, Environmental Studies, February 2024 deadline, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2024, Term/VAP -
Wesleyan University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities/Humanistic Social Sciences
Deadline: January 8 Length/Track: Two years Description: “Candidates do not need to have their PhD in hand at the time of application, but will need to have it by June, 2024.” URL: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10147
2024 Deadlines, African American Studies, Africana Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Asian American Studies, Border Studies, Carceral Studies, Caribbean Studies, Childhood Studies, Classics, Communications/Media Studies, Comparative Literature/English, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Digital Studies, Disability Studies, Drama/Theater Studies, East Asian Studies, Education, Environmental Studies, Film/Media Studies, French/Francophone Studies, Gaming Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Germanic Studies, Global Studies, Health Studies, History, History of Science, Human Development, Human Rights Studies, Indigenous Studies, Italian Studies, January 2024 deadline, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Labor/Class Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Linguistics, Music, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Postdoc, Psychology/Behavioral Sciences, Public Health, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, Rhetoric, Romance Languages, Slavic Studies, South Asian Studies, Spanish/Latin American Studies, Starts in 2024, Technology Studies, Urban Studies, Visual Studies
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 