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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 -
Princeton University Lewis Center Hodder Fellowship 2026-27
Deadline: September 9 Length/Track: One year Description: ” Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, translators, writers, or other kinds of artists or humanists who are selected more “for promise than for performance” and have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts” as traditionally defined.” Note: “humanists” are eligible; no teaching;…
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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 -
Spelman College Visiting Professorship in Art History and Curatorial Studies in the Atlanta University Center Art Collective
Deadline: April 21 Length/Track: One year Description: Apparently open rank. “The ideal candidate brings theory, both historical and contemporary, into dialogue with art histories of the global south and of the African Diaspora. Preference will be given to applicants who have a research program that engages with global migration studies and/or decolonial theory.” “Applicants are…
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State University of New York-Old Westbury Assistant Professorship in Spanish Language Media and Film Creation
Deadline: March 1 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “This faculty member will also serve as a liaison between the Modern Languages Department and the American Studies and Media & Communications Department, facilitating collaboration and the integration of Spanish-language media creation within the broader media curriculum. The ideal candidate will have professional experience in the media professional…
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University of California-Los Angeles Assistant Professorship in Latinx Art
Deadline: January 15 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “We seek a critically-engaged scholar in any area of Latina/o/x/e visual art and culture, either historical (19th-20th centuries) or contemporary (or both). We will consider all specializations within the field, including Chicana/o/x, Central American, Afro-Latinx, Latinx indigeneities, global Latinidades, etc. as well as a wide range of theoretical…
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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 Kentucky Assistant Professorship in Art History and Visual Studies — The Global South
Deadline: January 10 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “The successful candidate will teach two courses per semester in art history, visual and material culture, and curatorial studies of the global south and mentor both undergraduate and graduate students in Art History & Visual Studies.” “The scholarly focus of the successful candidate will be the arts of…
2025 Deadlines, Africana Studies, Art History, Caribbean Studies, Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, East Asian Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Global/International Studies, Indigenous Studies, January 2025 deadline, Latin American Studies, Museum/Curatorial Studies, Near Eastern/Middle Eastern Studies, Pacific Island Studies, Pacific Island/Islander Studies, Race/Ethnic Studies, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2025, Tenure track, Visual Studies -
William and Mary Assistant Professorship in American Studies and Art History — Visual Studies
Deadline: October 1 (review begins) Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Specializations might include, among others, photography, screen cultures, graphic arts, painting, and vernacular art, artifacts, and landscapes including their production and circulation. Historical and/or contemporary perspectives of visual culture are welcome. Scholars working on the LatinX, Latina/o, and/or Ibero-American diaspora, or on Indigeneity in the Americas,…
2024 Deadlines, Africana Studies, American Studies, Art History, Caribbean Studies, Communication/Media Studies, Diaspora Studies, Film/Media Studies, Gaming Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, October 2024 deadline, Performance Studies, Race/Ethnic Studies, Starts in 2025, Technology Studies, Tenure track, Visual Studies -
University of Oregon Assistant Professorship in Contemporary Art and Architecture –- Decolonizing Perspective
Deadline: December 15 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Preference will be given to scholars whose research and teaching foreground communities that are historically underrepresented and/or marginalized in the field and demonstrate a profound understanding of the effects of globalization, migration, and racism on contemporary artistic or architectural practices. Ideally, the successful candidate will strengthen the department’s…
2024 Deadlines, Architecture Studies, Art History, Art/Design, Caribbean Studies, Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, December 2024 deadline, East Asian Studies, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Global/International Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, Pacific Island Studies, Pacific Island/Islander Studies, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Studies, Starts in 2025, Tenure track, Visual Studies
Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars 