2025-26 Post Doctoral Associate at Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis

About the position

The Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis invite applications for two interdisciplinary residential postdoctoral fellowships in the Center's seminar for academic year 2025-2026 on 'Black Power and White Supremacy: The Cyclical Dialectics of Power.' The seminar interrogates the dialectical relationship between Black power and white supremacy over time and across the globe, considering its manifestations from the fifteenth century to the present and from Africa to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and the Americas. We will examine how history is operationalized as people, the state, and movements constantly seek to reposition themselves and advance competing agendas. We aim to better understand how manipulations of historical memory have helped maintain the structural, systemic, and physical violence of white supremacy on an unending loop for centuries. The postdoctoral residential fellows will receive a salary of $60,000 for the year as well as a research allocation of $2,000; they will also receive Rutgers University health benefits. The fellows will pursue research, participate in the weekly seminars and other activities at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. They are also asked to teach or participate in one three-credit course during the academic year.

Responsibilities

• Pursue research related to the seminar's theme.
• Participate in weekly seminars and other activities at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.
• Teach or participate in one three-credit course during the academic year.

Requirements

• All requirements for the PhD or other terminal degree in the relevant field must be completed by August 1, 2025.
• A record of publication and scholarly engagement relevant to the seminar's topic is required.

Benefits

• Annual salary of $60,000.
• Research allocation of $2,000.
• Rutgers University health benefits.