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Emerging Leaders Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Employer
Rice University
Location
Texas, United States
Salary
Salary Not Specified
Date posted
Feb 23, 2023


About Us

Located in an urban environment on a 300-acre tree-lined campus, Rice University is a private, comprehensive research university located in the heart of the dynamic Museum District in Houston, TX, the most diverse city in the country and home to vibrant Latinx, Asian-American, Black, LGBTQ+, and international communities. Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States, also has an instructive recent history of inclusive, vigorous, justice-oriented politics with top elected positions in the metro area held by a diverse group of officials, including Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ leaders. Rice offers undergraduate and graduate degrees across eight schools and has a student body of approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. The university’s undergraduate population has no racial majority. Rice consistently ranks among the top 20 national universities and the top 10 in undergraduate teaching (US News & World Report); its endowment ranks among the top 20 of US universities.

Annual Salary: $75,000

Job Description

Rice University's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is pleased to invite applications for its Emerging Leaders Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program. The fellowship is open to scholars of exceptional potential who have earned a Ph.D. within the last five years, and whose professional trajectory shows great promise for thoughtfully addressing equity issues in their respective disciplines through their research, teaching, and/or service.

These residential fellowships are for one year and may be renewed for an additional year. In addition to focusing on the completion of a research project, fellows will teach one course during the term of their appointment that meets the guidelines of the university’s Analyzing Diversity general education requirement.

Recent Ph.D. graduates without current university affiliations would be appointed to a Postdoctoral position. Applicants with a current university affiliation intending to take a leave of absence from their position would be appointed as a Research Fellow.

Review of applications will begin on March 13, 2023 and will continue until the positions are filled.

The Emerging Leaders Fellowship program offers:
  • a Research Fellow or postdoctoral position
  • a mentored relationship with one or more Rice University faculty members committed to helping to advance the fellow’s research project and advancing their teaching acumen
  • structured collaborative relationships with the community of professionals and scholars in the Office of DEI and beyond committed to assisting fellows in developing their university leadership capacity
  • membership in the Rice University Academy of Fellows (for postdoctoral positions as applicable)
  • The standard program stipend is $75,000 with benefits. National standard stipends for postdoctoral appointments in a few research areas are above that level. Postdoctoral scholars appointed in such areas may receive augmentation from their department. Fellows on leave from their universities may bring additional fellowship or university support to meet their ordinary yearly salary.
Candidates must submit:
  • a cover letter (maximum two pages)
  • a current CV
  • a research proposal for the period of the fellowship (three pages maximum)
  • a dissertation abstract (one-page maximum)
  • writing sample (either a published piece or a work being prepared for publication, 30-page maximum)
  • a syllabus for a course the applicant would offer as a fellow, designed to meet the guidelines of the university’s Analyzing Diversity general education requirement
  • a statement briefly outlining an equity problem in the applicant’s discipline—either a research problem, or related to the workings of the discipline more broadly—and how the applicant intends to direct their current or future research, teaching, and/or service as a way of addressing the issue in question (five pages maximum)
  • the names of two professional references with their email addresses (the selection committee will request references from finalists)
  • the names of up to two Rice university faculty with whom the applicant would like to work during the fellowship period (applicants are encouraged to contact potential faculty mentors and to secure their permission to list them as potential mentors)
Special Instructions to Applicants : All interested applicants must attach a cover letter and a c.v. in the Supporting Documents section of the application in a PDF format . Please note that the applicant tracking system does not convert attachments in Word format successfully.

*Helpful Tip: You can upload your cover letter and CV as one document, and upload your other documents as separate documents.* If you are having difficulty with your document submission, please email jobs@rice.edu with the subject line "Postdoctoral Research Associate, DEI".

We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who have been historically underrepresented in academia: people of color, LGBTQ+ people, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and people of any age or family status. We strive to actively counter prejudice and to create a working environment that is inclusive and equitable.

Rice University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity at all levels and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.

Faculty and staff are expected (but not required) to have completed a full vaccination series for COVID-19 (currently defined as full course COVID-19 Vaccine (typically two shots of a WHO-approved COVID-19 Vaccine or one J&J) and a COVID-19 booster. Rice does not require documentation for COVID 19 vaccination at this time for faculty and staff. More information can be found here: https://coronavirus.rice.edu/policies​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​

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