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The Harriman Institute invites applications for two-year Postdoctoral Research Scholar positions, starting July 1, 2026. Postdoctoral Research Scholars are expected to concentrate on their own research and writing; to teach a course of their own design in the spring semester of each of the two years; to give a public seminar/lecture on their research and to be active participants in the Institute's scholarly community. The Institute provides opportunities to organize conferences and other public events around their particular interests.

We are accepting applications.

The Science in Human Culture Program (SHC) at Northwestern University invites applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships in the contextual study of science, technology, or medicine, to run September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2025.

Since its inception, The International Institute for Holocaust Research has sought to encourage and support worldwide scholarly research on the Holocaust, and foster a new generation of scholars. As part of this endeavor, the Research Institute is pleased to offer two-to-four-month fellowships to support research on the Holocaust, its antecedents, and aftermath. Our program is open to those who have received a PhD, JD, MD, or a Licentiate in Theology.

The Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with a start date of September 1, 2024. Candidates with PhDs granted between 2022 and the start date are encouraged to apply. Candidates can be from any (inter-) discipline, but should have a commitment to the field of Black Studies, and have a research and teaching profile in Black histories in the Americas, addressing environmental studies and/or health. This is a residential fellowship.

This programme is not currently accepting applications

The American University of Beirut invites applications for its Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities, which begins in September 2019. The duration of appointment will be 10 months. Appointees will be attached to a relevant department and will be expected to remain in residence for the duration of the academic year.

The position is open to recent recipients of the PhD degree whose research and teaching interests involve one or more of the following disciplines:

This programme is not currently accepting applications

The one-semester in-residence fellowship appointments seek to facilitate the completion and/or publication of academic work related to the Society of Jesus. Preference will be given to applications that propose publication projects for the Institute of Jesuit Sources and IJS Studies during their fellowship at the Institute. Applications are now welcomed from scholars in the fields of history, spirituality, and pedagogy, among others. The submission deadline is January 1, 2026.

The Johan Huizinga Fellowship welcomes outstanding candidates to submit proposals for historical research into objects in the Rijksmuseum collection.

The Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) invites applications for five (5) research fellowships for the Academic Year of 2026-2027, some with program administration duties and others with light teaching. Applications from the social sciences in the fields of international relations, international political economy, comparative politics, political sociology, and policy studies are preferred. Latin American expertise and Spanish or Portuguese fluency required.