Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
- Employer
- Rutgers University, Inst. Global racial Justice
- Location
- New Jersey, United States
- Salary
- $55,000.00 - $55,000.00
- Date posted
- Feb 4, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Humanities, American Studies, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Other Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Employment Level
- Post-Doc
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, with generous support from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is pleased to launch its inaugural
postdoctoral program for the 2021–2022 academic year. Our
postdoctoral fellowships provide focused support for both research
and concrete engagement with global racial justice issues and
campaigns. These humanities-centered fellowships will support
scholars whose academic research demonstrates a deep investment in
the areas of inquiry related to anti-racism and social inequality,
at home and abroad. These fellowships foster the academic careers
of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by
permitting them to pursue their research while also receiving
guided mentorship.
The program supports five postdoctoral scholars engaged in
full-time research and writing for a one-year term starting
September 1, 2021 (with the possibility of renewal). Fellows in the
program are supported by the institute and are provided with $5,000
for research funds, a $55,000 annual salary, and further support
including faculty mentor(s), office, computer, and health benefits.
In addition, fellows will have opportunities to access, review,
and/or collaborate with existing anchor institution equity
activities that are happening within the Rutgers University
community. This cohort of fellows will participate in meetings and
workshops structured for the purposes of networking, social
interaction, and supporting professional development for fellows
within the program. Applicants may request to be affiliated with a
particular campus across the Rutgers corridor and will teach one
class over the course of the academic year. In deciding placements,
the ISGRJ will consider the postdoc’s campus preference and the
teaching requirements/needs of each campus.
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers
University is committed to the idea of the humanities as a
discipline that travels beyond the university and engages the
public sphere. The institute will fuel and amplify the scholarship
of researchers who are based in the humanities or lean on
humanistic methods and whose work has consequences in applied
spaces such as policy reform, K–12 education, social justice work,
public health, and the carceral state. The institute is also
committed to the creation of spaces for scholars to be in
conversation with communities, as both an aspect of scholarly
inquiry but also for the purpose of mutual sharing of knowledge
between the university and its surrounding communities. The ISGRJ
draws from a range of fields, including: visual, language and other
creative arts; traditional humanities disciplines; new fields such
as the digital and environmental humanities; the humanistic social
sciences; and research in law, public policy, and behavioral
health.
Eligibility and Criteria
Applicants must have completed and been awarded their Ph.D. in a
humanities-related field no more than five years prior to the date
of application.
All U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents
(holders of a Permanent Resident Card); individuals granted
deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals Program;* Indigenous individuals exercising rights
associated with the Jay Treaty of 1794; individuals now eligible to
apply for DACA under the new reopening of the program; individuals
granted Temporary Protected Status; political asylees; and
refugees, regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender,
age, disability, or sexual orientation.
*Eligibility includes individuals with current status under the
DACA Program, as well as individuals whose status may have lapsed
but who continue to meet all the USCIS guidelines for DACA.
Application Guidelines
• All application materials are due by March 15, 2021. Materials
should be addressed to Michelle Stephens, Founding Executive
Director, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and
submitted electronically. For further inquiries and information
about applying to the fellowship, please write to
isgrj@oq.rutgers.edu.
• Project description not to exceed 1,500 words. Document should be
single-spaced, 12 pt. font (approx. three pages). The project
description will be considered by a panel of scholars from a
variety of humanities disciplines and should be written for
non-specialists.
• Curriculum vitae of no more than three pages.
• Three letters of recommendation.
• Writing sample not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages.
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