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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 -
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 -
University of Notre Dame Arts and Letters Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships — MANY DISCIPLINES
Deadline: March 31 Length/Track: One year with option to renew for a second Description: “Each of the following departments will host one fellow each: Department of Art, Art History, and Design; Department of Film, Television, and Theatre; Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies; Medieval Institute; Department of Sociology; Department of History. For more information…
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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 Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professeorship in Yiddish Literature and Culture
Deadline: December 2 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: Must be able to teach Yiddish. “We welcome applicants working across the field of Yiddish literature/culture in areas that complement current departmental strengths. We especially encourage applications from those with research profiles in such areas as 1) East Central European studies; 2) folklore studies and ethnography; 3) media…
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Duke University Open Rank Professorship in Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Deadline: November 11 Length/Track: Tenured, tenure track Description: “We are seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and productive scholar and teacher with a strong focus on research in the Humanities. Area of specialization may be in 19th, 20th or 21st century literature and culture. While the area of specialization is open, candidates whose research involves comparative, multilingual,…
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 