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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 -
University of Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: April 20 Length/Track: One year Description: “The successful candidate will be expected to pursue a program of independent research and participate in the scholarly life of the faculty. Over the course of the academic year, the candidate is expected to organize and host one formal academic event. This may take the form of a…
2026 Deadlines, Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, April 2026 deadline, Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature/English, Creative Writing, Drama/Theater Studies, East Asian Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Germanic Studies, History, Italian Studies, Latinx Studies, Linguistics, Music, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Postdoc, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies/Theology, Sociology, Starts in 2026 -
University of Guelph Assistant Professorship in the History of the Middle East
Deadline: January 16 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “he position is open to candidates with a variety of geographic or temporal areas of emphasis within that broadly defined region. Preference will be given to candidates whose research expertise aligns with one of the following broad thematic areas: 1) Gender and sexuality; 2) War, revolution, and society;…
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American University of Beirrut Assistant Professorship in Arabic Literature
Deadline: January 15 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We particularly welcome applicants specializing in Pre-modern Arabic Literature (including pre-Islamic, Umayyad, Abbasid, Mamluk, or Ottoman periods) and Modern Arabic Literature (including the Nahḍa, modern and contemporary poetry and prose, thematic studies, modern Arab thought, gender studies, and related fields.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/178777
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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 -
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 -
Hunter College Open Rank Professorship in Palestinian Studies (2) — Social Sciences and Humanities
Deadline: April 21 Length/Track: Tenured, tenure track Description: Two lines. “The Social Sciences hire would join one of the following departments: Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Science, or Women’s and Gender Studies. The Humanities hire would join one of the following departments: Art and Art History, Classics/Arabic, English, Film and Media Studies, and/or Music.” “We are…
2025 Deadlines, Anthropology, April 2025 deadline, Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature/English, Film/Media Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, History, Human Development, Near Eastern/MIddle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Race/Diasporic/Indigenous Studies, Sociology, Starts in 2025, Tenure track
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 