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University of Pennsylvania Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027-2028 — EMPIRE
Deadline: November 1 Length/Track: One year Description: Applicants should be “no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions whose proposals are interdisciplinary and would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn’s intellectual life.” “Across diverse imperial formations—including but not limited to European…
2027 Start Date, All/Most Humanistic fields, Anthropology, Caribbean Studies, East Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Germanic Studies, Global Studies, Human Rights Studies, Indigenous Studies, Italian Studies, Latin American Studies, Museum/Curatorial Studies, Native American/American Indian/Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, November 2026 deadline, Pacific Islander Studies, Political Science, Postdoc, Religious Studies/Theology, Slavic Studies, South Asian Studies, Spanish/Latin American Studies, Starts in 2027 -
Barnard College Assistant Professorship in Human Rights — Economics, History, or Political Science
Deadline: “Review of applications will begin approximately on December 15, 2025 but applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.” (Posted on H-Net job page 12/13; “closing date 1/15) Length/Track: Apparently tenure track Description: Seeking “an individual whose scholarship and expertise address the topic of human rights and who has a Ph.D. in either Economics,…
2025 Deadlines, 2026 Deadlines, Border Studies, December 2025 deadline, Disability Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Health Studies, History, Human Rights Studies, Indigenous Studies, January 2026 deadline, Political Science, Race/Ethnic Studies, Starts in 2026, Tenure track -
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 -
Georgetown University HR Clinton Research Fellowship in Women, Peace, and Security
Deadline: Unstated; posted on Georgetown site 3/11 Length/Track: One year Description: “The Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellowship is a one-year program that provides unique opportunities to a recent PhD or master’s level graduate to conduct rigorous, policy-oriented research to address key knowledge gaps in the field of Women, Peace and Security (WPS). Fellows should have…
2025 Deadlines, Africana Studies, Caribbean Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Global Studies, Human Rights Studies, Indigenous Studies, Jewish/Judaic Studies, Latin American Studies, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Political Science, Postbac, Postdoc, Public Policy, Slavic Studies, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2025, Unstated deadline 2025 -
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 -
University of Massachusetts-Boston Assistant/Associate Professorship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies — Native/Indigenous Feminisms and Human Rights
Deadline: October 15 Length/Track: Tenured, tenure track Description: “A major focus of the position would be contributing to the growth of the department’s thriving undergraduate minor in Human Rights. Candidates will have opportunities to collaborate with a number of ethnic and global studies programs and departments in the College of Liberal Arts and beyond including the Critical…
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Tulane University Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities — Reproductive Justice and Rights
Deadline: February 15 Length/Track: One year (9 month contract) Description: Our “Mellon Sawyer Seminar [is] titled, ‘The New Green Wave: Reproductive Justice in the Gulf South and Beyond’.” “We seek a scholar whose research focuses on reproductive rights, health, and justice in the humanities and/or the arts and whose focus addresses heteropatriarchy, slavery, colonialism, imperialism, racism,…
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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 