Category: Urban Studies

2018 Deadlines, Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Family Studies, Gender/Women's Studies, Geography, History, Human Development, International studies, Jewish diaspora, Jewish Studies, October 2018 deadline, Postdoc, Religious Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies

University of Pennsylvania Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: October 31

Length: 1 year

Comments: Theme is “The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In.” “Relevant topics may include the history of domestic architecture and material culture, anthropological research into kinship, parenting, gender roles, and master-servant relationships; literary instantiations of the home as an object of memory and imagination; representations of Jewish domesticity in the visual arts, including theater, film, and television; the analysis of Jewish law as it relates to family life and sex; the economics of consumption and display; the ritual study of the life cycle as it plays out in domestic contexts; and urban studies that approach the home as part of neighborhoods or larger social contexts.”

URL: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/fellowship-program/next-year

2017 deadlines, African American Studies, African origin, African-American, American Indian, American Indian Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Asian American, Asian American Studies, Borderland Studies, Canadian indigenous peoples, Cinema/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, December 2017, Demography, Economics, English/Comparative Literature, Ethnic studies, Gender/Women's Studies, Geography, History, Human Development, Indigenous Americas, International studies, Latin American/Caribbean, Latina/o, Latina/o/Hispanic Studies, Law/legal studies, Multiple ethnicities, Pacific Islander, Political Science, Public Policy, Religious Studies, Sociology, South Asian diaspora, Tenure-track, Urban Studies

Indiana University Open Rank Professorship in Race, Migration and Indigeneity

Deadline: December 8 “for best consideration” (posted on Higher Ed Jobs 12/8)

Length: Tenure-track

Comments: “Candidates should be innovative scholar-teachers who conceptualize race/ethnicity, migration, and indigeneity in intersectional ways and who work to cross-pollinate ideas among various fields of inquiry. Candidates working on topics such as social movements; intersectional feminism(s); border politics (US-Mexican and US-Canadian); citizenship; Latino/a, Asian American, and Afro-Indigenous communities; Asian American and/or Pacific Islander literature, religion, and media representations are particularly urged to apply.”

URL: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/5165

2018 Deadlines, American Indian Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Borderland Studies, Cultural Studies, Demography, Disability Studies, Economics, Education, English/Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies, Ethnic studies, Family Studies, Gender/Women's Studies, Geography, History, History of Science, Human Development, International studies, January 2018 deadline, Latin American Studies, Latina/o/Hispanic Studies, Law/legal studies, Mediterranean Studies, Multiple ethnicities, Pan-African Studies, Political Science, Postdoc, Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Religious Studies, Sexuality/Queer Studies, Sociology, South Asian diaspora, Sustainabliity Studies, Urban Studies

Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship — Inequality in America

Deadline: January 16

Length: 2 years with possible renewal for a 3rd

Comments: Seeking recent PhDs working in one of the following research areas.

URL: https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/postdoctoral-program

2018 Deadlines, African American Studies, African origin, African-American, American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Cinema/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Studies, English/Comparative Literature, French/Francophone Studies, Gender/Women's Studies, History, Human Development, International studies, January 2018 deadline, Latin American Studies, Music, Pan-African Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Postdoc, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Theater, Urban Studies

Princeton University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in African Humanities

Deadline: January 31

Length: 1 year, possible renewal for a 2nd

Comments: Seeking “scholars working in any field of the humanities dealing with Africa or the African diaspora. Consideration will be given to candidates working in all disciplines in the humanities broadly defined, including anthropology, art and archeology, comparative literature, English, film and video history, literatures in other languages, music, philosophy, religion, and women and gender studies.”



URL: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=4261

		


		

			






	

					

				

					
2018 Deadlines, African origin, American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Cinema/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, English/Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies, Ethnic studies, February 2018 deadline, French/Francophone Studies, History, Human Development, International studies, Latin American Studies, Latin American/Caribbean, Linguistics, Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Postdoc, Romance Languages, Theater, Urban Studies
Bowdoin College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Africana Studies
				

			

		
		

			
Deadline: February 1


Length: 1 year


Comments: Must have completed PhD no earlier than January 1, 2015. Seeking candidates who work on “(Sub-Saharan West Africa) or African Diaspora Studies (West Africa and some area, or areas, of the Atlantic World, excluding the US) to begin July 1, 2018. The field is open to applicants from any academic discipline.”


URL: https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/4603

		


		

			






	

					

				

					
2017 deadlines, All humanistic fields, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Borderland Studies, Cultural Studies, East Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnic studies, History, History of Science, Human Development, Human Rights, International studies, Latin American Studies, Latina/o/Hispanic Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Multiple ethnicities, November 2017, Pan-African Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, South Asian diaspora, Sustainabliity Studies, Tenure-track, Urban Studies
Michigan State University Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities/Digital Rhetorics
				

			

		
		

			
Deadline: November 22


Length: Tenure-track


Comments: “We favor candidates whose work engages with issues of rhetoric, culture, and environmental justice (such as rhetoric & food sovereignty, migration/immigration, environmental racism, land-based social justice issues, or culturally relevant environment rhetorics).”


URL: http://www.careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/498071/assistant-professortenure-system