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The Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University invites applications for one Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position for a one-year term anticipated to begin on September 1, 2025, with some limited flexibility. This appointment may be renewed pending satisfactory performance and funding. Candidates for the PDRA rank are expected to be recent PhDs specializing in the study of religion in any discipline and should display interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion.

Position title: Postdoctoral Scholar

The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Associates. We are hiring postdoctoral associates for Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell's research project Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitment in Society, part of the Princeton Project in Philosophy of Religion (3PR). The candidate will have a Ph.D. in Philosophy or Religion (or related fields) and be prepared to do research on topics related to the project. The initial appointment is for one year with the possibility of renewal for a second year pending satisfactory performance.

The University Center for Human Values invites practitioners, faculty members of any discipline and independent scholars to apply for visiting residential fellowships for 2026-27. Scholars are expected to reside in or around Princeton or demonstrate to the program's satisfaction the ability to be on campus daily. The fellowship is a full-time commitment that typically extends from September 1 to June 1.

The Lee Kong Chian Fellowship is the core of the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, a joint effort established in 2007 by the National University of Singapore and Stanford University to raise the visibility, extent, and quality of scholarship on contemporary Southeast Asia.

The Albert Ottenbacher Fellowship, sponsored by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte e.V. CONIVNCTA FLORESCIT, supports research projects on provenance research in the broadest sense. The fellowship is named in memory of Albert Ottenbacher (1950–2022) and honors his commitment to provenance research at the ZI.

The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) at Saarland University is an institute for advanced study, funded by the German Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) since 2024. Each academic year, a new group of international and interdisciplinary fellows joins the centre to pursue research. For the centre’s third year (October 2026 to September 2027), we are pleased to invite applications for up to twelve fellowships with a duration of ten to twelve months (beginning in October 2026).

The Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) is looking for a temporary position at the Center for Civil Society Research (Head: Prof. Dr. Swen Hutter) to start as soon as possible, limited to three years, subject to approval by the third-party funding provider, a Research Fellow (m/f/d) - Postdoctoral Researcher (100%) (ID 305) for collaboration in the BMBF/BMI-funded Cluster of Excellence Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalization (MOTRA).

The Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for a temporary position at the Department of Migration, Integration, Transnationalization (Director: Prof. Dr.