Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, African & African American Studies
Posted: 6/29/2019 (Employment)
*Review Date Extended*
The Program in African & African American Studies (AAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for its Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows Program.
This is a one-year fixed term position for the 2019-2020 academic year. Fellows are welcome to reapply for a second year, given satisfactory performance and available funding.
As an interdisciplinary academic program, AAAS welcomes applications from scholars who have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching within the broad, multi-disciplinary fields of African-American, African, Caribbean, or Diaspora Studies. The goal of the postdoctoral program is to augment current curricular offerings and to continue building a robust intellectual community while supporting the research and growth of emerging scholars. We are especially interested in applicants whose work aligns with the main thematic emphases and scholarly pathways of our undergraduate major. These thematic emphases include:
- Art and Cultural Expression (including inquiry and practice that engages language, literature, performance studies, art and visual culture, philosophy, religious studies, ethnomusicology, etc.)
- Historical Inquiry Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Media, Science, and Technology (including journalism and communications, digital studies, science, technology, and society, environmental studies, etc.)
- Social Science Inquiry (including education and education policy, linguistics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.
- Politics and the Law (including public policy, government, international relations, etc.)
- Race, Health, and Medicine (including biotechnology, medical sociology/anthropology, etc.)
- Social Impact and Entrepreneurship (including social movements, community-based research, etc.)
Location: Stanford University