Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies

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Job description

The Program in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Studies.

We seek candidates with a research and teaching profile in critical ethnic studies and/or Indigenous Studies. We are especially interested in applicants whose teaching deploys multidisciplinary perspectives, methods, and approaches to knowledge formation and transfer. As a multidisciplinary program, we welcome candidates from all fields in the humanities and interpretive social sciences; candidates working in histories, popular culture and media studies, environmental studies, arts and activism, war and empire, and other fields are welcome to apply. We especially welcome scholars who implement frameworks of comparative or relational racialization and transnationalism.

The American Culture Studies (AMCS) program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University fosters the multidisciplinary study of the Americas. We promote a pluralistic and transnational view of American historical, social, political, material, and cultural contexts. We offer one major (American Culture Studies) and two minors (American Culture Studies and Asian American Studies) in our undergraduate program, and offer a certificate program for doctoral students from a variety of fields.

Postdoctoral Fellows teach two courses in the program per academic year and actively contribute to the intellectual life of AMCS through participation in the program's interdisciplinary workshops and events. Accordingly, the Fellows are expected to be in residence during the nine-month fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Each Fellow will receive a salary of $63,500 for the nine-month academic year, plus benefits; a $3,000 annual research/travel stipend; and the possibility for a workshop to support the peer review of a polished book manuscript.

The position begins in August for the fall semester of 2025 and has the possibility of renewal for a second academic year (), contingent upon satisfactory performance.

Qualifications

Applicants must successfully defend the dissertation and complete all requirements for their doctorate prior to the start of the fellowship; please include in your cover letter information about the progress of your dissertation as well as the date of completion (completed or expected).

Application Instructions

To apply, please upload a cover letter, cv, a writing sample of no more than 30 pages, and contact information for three references to Interfolio by the application deadline of December 2, 2024. Additional materials, including letters of recommendation, may be requested at a later date.

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