Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars

Category: Discipline

August 12, 2023

WIlliams College Open Rank Professorship in Queer of color Critique

Deadline: October 2 Length/Track: Tenured, tenure track Description: Seeking “a professor of Queer of Color Critique, field open, ideally with interdisciplinary scholarship. We also especially welcome those with additional interests in Disability Studies/Crip Theory, Feminist Technoscience Studies, and/or Migration Studies. Preference will be given to candidates at the level of associate or full professor, but…

2023 Deadlines, Disability Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, October 2023 deadline, Race/Ethnic Studies, Technology Studies, Tenure track
August 12, 2023

National Humanities Center Fellowship

Deadline: October 5 Length/Track: One year (one semester also possible) Description: “Applicants must have a doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Mid-career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. Emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work may also apply. The Center does not support the revision of doctoral dissertations. In addition to all fields…

2023 Deadlines, All/Most Humanistic fields, All/Most Social Sciences fields, October 2023 deadline, Postdoc, Starts in 2024
August 12, 2023

University of Richmond Assistant ProfessorShip in Sociology

Deadline: September 30 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Ideally, candidates should have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Social Movements, Gender, and/or Criminology/Law & Society. We also seek a candidate 1) who can teach sociological theory and contribute to our Theory and Capstone rotation, and/or 2) is global/cross-national in teaching and/or scholarship.” URL:…

2023 Deadlines, Carceral and Criminal Justice Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Human Development, Public Health, September 2023 deadline, Sociology, Tenure track
August 12, 2023

University of Richmond Assistant Professorship in Social Psychology

Deadline: September 11 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Areas of particular interest for teaching and research specialties include, but are not limited to: (a) attitudes and social influence, (b) cultural processes, (c) judgment and decision-making, and/or (d) self and identity. Regardless of subarea, we also plan to give special consideration to those with substantive interests in…

2023 Deadlines, Environmental Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Human Development, Psychology/Behavioral Sciences, Public Health, Race/Ethnic Studies, September 2023 deadline, Starts in 2024, Tenure track
August 12, 2023

University of Minnesota Assistant Professorship in African American & African Studies

Deadline: October 1 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: Inviting “applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Black feminist literary and cultural studies.” “A Ph.D. in English, Literature, African American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, or a related field in the arts, humanities and/or social sciences is required.” (ABDs may be considered.) URL:

2023 Deadlines, African American Studies, All/Most Humanistic fields, All/Most Social Sciences fields, American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, October 2023 deadline, Public Health, Tenure track
August 12, 2023

American University Assistant Professorship in Sociology

Deadline: September 18 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality, theoretically-grounded scholarship on racialization, especially as it intersects with one (or more) of the department’s core areas of empirical research strength: migration/immigration, health, environment, gender/sexuality, and/or social policy.” URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/129621

2023 Deadlines, Border Studies, Environmental Studies, Human Development, Public Health, September 2023 deadline, Sociology, Tenure track
August 12, 2023

University of Alabama-Birmingham Assistant / Associate Professorship in Sociology

Deadline: October 15 Length/Track: Tenured, tenure track Description: “We seek a candidate with demonstrated scholarship in medical sociology, specifically around women, gender, and health. Using funds from a gift to the department, the occupant of this position will play a leadership role in developing programing devoted to raising awareness for gender and women’s health issues.”…

2023 Deadlines, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Human Development, October 2023 deadline, Public Health, Sociology, Tenure track
August 10, 2023

Franklin and Marshall College Instructorship / Assistant Professorship in Modern US History

Deadline: October 9 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: Post-Civil War to the present. “We have a strong interest in candidates who can engage with one or more of the following programs: Africana Studies; Business, Organizations and Society; Economics; Environmental Studies; Government; Latin American and LatinX Studies; Public Health; Public Policy; and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.”…

2023 Deadlines, African American Studies, American Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, October 2023 deadline, Public Health, Public Policy Studies, Race/Ethnic Studies, Tenure track
August 10, 2023

University of California-Los Angeles Assistant Professorship in Social Welfare

Deadline: October 15 (next review deadline) Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We seek a scholar who studies social policy as it pertains to any of the following areas: age, race, income inequality, immigration, social security, child and family welfare, community development, poverty, and/or housing. We welcome scholarship that draws on an intersectional lens and novel empirical…

2023 Deadlines, Gender/Sexuality Studies, October 2023 deadline, Race/Ethnic Studies, Social Work/Welfare Studies, Tenure track
August 10, 2023

Harvard University Assistant Professorship in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Deadline: September 15 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “The Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality whose research focuses on gender in the global south.” URL: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12623

2023 Deadlines, Africana Studies, Gender/Queer/Trans Studies, Latin American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, September 2023 deadline, South Asian Studies, Tenure track