Category: Postdocs

Boston College: Postdoc/Visiting Assistant Professor in Justice & the Common Good (USA)

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Postdoc / Core Fellow / Visiting Assistant Professor in Justice and the Common Good, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: 10 March 2025.

The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College invites applications for the position of Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in Justice and the Common Good with a focus on Migration, Diaspora Studies, Ethnic Studies, Peace and Justice, and/or Digital Humanities. The appointment for this one-year postdoctoral visiting assistant professorship will be for the 2025-2026 academic year. Salary is competitive, and the position is renewable upon favorable review for up to three years.

Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university that strives to integrate research excellence with a foundational commitment to formative liberal arts education. Boston College requires all students to complete a liberal arts University Core Curriculum with 15 requirements as the foundation of their undergraduate education. Core Fellows teach signature courses in the Core including interdisciplinary Complex Problem and Enduring Question courses developed for first-year students which are part of an ongoing renewal of the University Core Curriculum. Core Fellows participate in the Core Fellows Program, which is designed to help newly-minted Ph.D. holders in their scholarly pursuits as well as in becoming outstanding instructors through pedagogical training focused on the education of the whole person.

During one semester of the 2025-2026 academic year, the Core Fellow will join a teaching team for a course with lecture, lab, and reflection session components. The Core Fellow will be primarily responsible for hands-on, project-based lab sections associated with the Complex Problem course, “Moving Matters: Migration and Transformation Across the Americas,” co-taught by faculty from the School of Social Work and the History Department. In the other semester, the Core Fellow will teach an Enduring Question course paired with a course designed by another scholar in the liberal arts. There may also be opportunities to teach electives in their field.

Northeastern U: Postdoc at Center for Transformative Media (USA)

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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Transformative Media, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: Open until filled; posted 6 January 2025.

The Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change within the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University invites applications for a fully funded Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to engage in a series of research projects at the intersection of networked urban mobilities and mobile communication, with a particular focus on understanding how marginalized communities creatively appropriate media technologies.

Projects include:

  • Mobile Networked Creativity: An investigation of how marginalized communities around the world creatively engage with networked technologies. The project includes mapping/visualizing how these creative practices occur around the Globe.
  • Retro Mobile Gaming Database: A mobile gaming database of historic mobile games and artifacts to aid researchers in games studies.
    Retro Mobile Gaming Collection: Producing a media art show on the history of mobile communication and mobile games, and contributing to the growth of the retro mobile gaming collection housed in the Center.
  • Micromobilities Justice: Analyzing networked urban mobilities in Global South urban spaces as they relate to mobility justice and social inclusion.

This is a full time position for one year, with potential for renewal based on performance and funding availability.

Birkbeck, U of London: Postdoc on Impact of Immigration on Brazilian Society (UK)

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Postdoctoral Researcher on the Impact of Immigration on Brazilian Society, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Deadline: 2 February 2025.

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join an international and interdisciplinary team working on a project looking at the transformative impact of immigration on Brazilian society. Funded by the British Academy, the research project ‘Globalisation from below: livelihoods, trade and transnationalism in Brazil’s informal economy’, is a collaboration between Birkbeck and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). The project focuses on the informal economy in Belo Horizonte with an emphasis on the role of Chinese immigrants and the everyday cross-cultural and economic practices that produce globalisation from below.

Through three key strands, the research explores:

  • Economic interactions and conflicts between Chinese migrants, Brazilian workers and local street vendors
  • Emerging social relations and forms of belonging, and
  • Socio-cultural and economic transformations in urban spaces

Plus, a collaborative methodology will engage participants in an artistic-cultural process creating spaces for dialogue and cooperation.

The project will produce an exhibition and a Transnational Informal Economy Atlas revealing the ways in which globalisation from below connects and transforms urban livelihoods, spaces and societies with a focus on Brazil-China relations.

Osnabrück U: Postdoc in Futures of Migration (Germany)

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Postdoc in Futures of Migration, Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany. Deadline: 7 January 2025.

As part of the research area ‘Futures of Migration’ (FuturMig) funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Osnabrück University is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher.

The Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, the Center for Global Migration Research (CeMig) at the Georg August University Göttingen, the Center for Educational Integration (ZBI) at the University of Hildesheim, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), Brunswig, and the Friedland Museum are cooperating in the Lower Saxony research area ‘FuturMig’ (2025–2029).

‘FuturMig’ deals with ideas and strategies for shaping the future of societies that are shaped by migration and diversity in political, media, and societal debates, fields of practice and migration research. ‘FuturMig’ is reviewing the academic state of the art, is planning the establishment of an international guest professorship and the development of a follow-up collaborative research initiative. ‘FuturMig’ focuses in particular on educational contexts – early childhood institutions, schools, universities, civil society initiatives, museums and memorials.

U Edinburgh: IASH Postdocs: Making A Nation (UK)

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Postdocs and Early Career Fellowships: Making a Nation, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Deadline: 25 April 2025.

IASH is pleased to offer a range of postdoctoral and early-career Fellowships for recent graduates. Closing dates for application are late February and late April each year for visits in the following academic year. The theme for 2025-26 will be Making A Nation. This will be a year-long exploration of independence and nation-making, culminating in the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the US Declaration of Independence on 4 July 2026.

The theme of nation-building raises deeper, more critical questions about the nature of legitimacy and the politics of identity: for whom and by whom nationhood is claimed. It also raises questions of land use and (dis)possession and the intricate relationship between territoriality and (de)coloniality. In a world beset by conflict, what might we learn from past examples of nation-making that enable a more positive and just vision of what it means to belong?

It is important to note that they still welcome applications on all topics and in all areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences to continue IASH’s traditional interdisciplinary work across CAHSS schools, alongside Making A Nation.

CUHK: Postdoc at Centre for Cultural Studies (Hong Kong)

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Deadline: 4 January 2025.

The Centre for Cultural Studies invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Inter-Asia Decolonial Epistemologies. Preferred areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, Environmental Humanities, Critical Humanities, Public Humanities, Cultural Studies, Digital and Interactive Media, and Science and Technology Studies.

Applicants should have a PhD in Cultural Studies, Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, or related disciplines received within the past five years. Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously enjoyed the resources at CUHK, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to CUHK’s intellectual life. Applicants who can contribute to the intellectual and cultural diversity of the Centre are especially welcome to apply.

U Tübingen: Postdoc in Peace & Conflict Studies/International Relations (Germany)

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PostDoc Position in Peace and Conflict Studies/International Relations, Universität Tübingen, Germany. Deadline: 18 October 2024.

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, University of Tuebingen is seeking to fill one vacancy in the research cluster on Peace and Conflict Studies/International Relations from 1 February 2025 one PostDoc Position in the area of Peace and Conflict Studies. The PostDoc will contribute to research within the areas of conflict analysis and post-conflict peace building. S/he will also be given the opportunity to develop and pursue her independent research and contribute to teaching. The teaching load is 4 hours per semester and includes introductory modules in International Relations as well as seminars in conflict research and quantitative methods. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the administration of the research cluster.

Smithsonian Institution Fellowships 2024 (USA)

FellowshipsThe Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Deadline: 15 October 2024.

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers opportunities for independent research or study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff. Fellowships are offered to graduate students and predoctoral students as well as postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct independent research and to utilize the resources of the Institution with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff serving as advisors and hosts.

Parts of the Smithsonian that might be of specific interest to CID followers include: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Office of International Relations, and there are Fulbright-Smithsonian Awards for those outside the US to travel to work with the Smithsonian collections.

Northwestern U Qatar Global Postdoctoral Scholar (Qatar)

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Northwestern University  Qatar Global Postdoctoral Scholar, Qatar. Deadline: 1 November 2024.

This Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar is seeking outstanding candidates for one postdoctoral fellowship focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. #IAS_NUQ Postdoctoral Scholars integrate primary sources and linguistic and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal, and transnational scholarship and mediamaking focused on the Global South. Candidates incorporating non-Western theories, sources, and contexts, are especially welcome.

They are currently accepting applications related to any of our current research themes (Genealogies and Epistemologies of the Global South; Arab Media, Culture, and Politics; Southern Digitalities; Critical Security Studies) and are particularly interested in scholars 1) conducting comparative or transnational research on media, culture, and/or politics in or between the Arab world and Latin America, 2) working on “theory from the South,” particularly by African or Arab authors or 3) focused on environmental communication in the Global South.

Postdoctoral Scholars work on their own research, collaborate with members of the community, and contribute to program development. They may be asked to teach one undergraduate course per year depending on needs and interests. They present and publish a piece of scholarship or mediamaking with #IAS_NUQ_Press. Fellows are provided a competitive stipend and research fund, housing, health insurance, a workspace, a computer, and library access. In addition, #IAS_NUQ will subsidize relocation expenses.

All the postdocs are residential fellowships.

U Mass Amherst: Postdoc in Relationality and Ethics (USA)

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Relationally and ethics postdoctoral research associate, CBIKS, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 20 August 2024.

This postdoctoral position is with the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center. CBIKS is an interdisciplinary center that utilizes community-based research to examine how to effectively and ethically braid Indigenous and Western science research, education, and practices related to the urgent and interconnected areas of climate change, care of cultural places, and food sovereignty.

CBIKS activities include conducting place-based research in regional Hubs worldwide while documenting and promoting ethical community-based practices of braiding Indigenous and Western science. The person who holds this position will assist two CBIKS thematic working groups (TWGs): the Ethics TWG and the Relationality & Research Development TWG.

This is an on-site position at CBIKS Central on the UMass Amherst campus in Amherst, MA with the expectation of some remote work. This is a one-year position with the possibility of renewal in a second year.