Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships

Syracuse University • Syracuse, NY

41d • $64,000 - $64,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Syracuse University Humanities Center [humcenter.syr.edu], in partnership with the Engaged Humanities Network, or EHN [https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/engaged-humanities/], which facilitates publicly engaged projects and coursework in partnership with community arts, education, civic, and cultural organizations, invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships. Fellows will join a vibrant scholarly and public engagement community at the Humanities Center, University, and in Central New York. This two-year appointment (July 16, 2026 - July 15, 2028) combines publicly engaged research, teaching, programming, and creative work: it is not remote/virtual and the residency period may not be deferred. Compensation will include salary of $64,000; $2,000 in professional development funds each year; and office space, computing and full SU Libraries access. As exempt 12-month employees, Fellows are eligible to enroll in benefits, including medical insurance.

Requirements

• Must hold a (disciplinary or interdisciplinary) humanities PhD from between 2023 and no later than June 2026.

Nice To Haves

• Applications welcome from scholars interested in combining research, teaching, and publicly engaged programming; working with diverse audiences (including, but not limited to, students, historically marginalized populations, and wider publics); and pursuing tenure-line as well as professional trajectories.
• Demonstrate scholarly excellence in the humanities, broadly conceived;
• Have experience fostering reciprocal campus-community partnerships to advance the humanities as a public good (e.g., with a library, community organization, archive, gallery, social justice project, or school setting);
• Engage in work (research, pedagogy, programming) that attends to social differences and structural disparities.

Responsibilities

• Advance their research agenda (via publications, grants, presentations, etc.) and offer an annual workshop or presentation about their work to the wider University community.
• Teach one Engaged Humanities course a year, incorporating participatory, digital, and/or public engagement humanities methods. The course may also contribute to a humanities department (African American Studies; Art & Music Histories; English; Philosophy; Religion; Women's & Gender Studies; Writing Studies, Rhetoric, & Composition) or interdisciplinary program in Arts and Sciences. As part of their teaching contribution, fellows will participate in EHN's Engaged Courses cohort.
• Mentor EHN-connected students and help administer core opportunities supporting student-led public scholarship in conjunction with EHN's Undergraduate Research initiative and the new EHN/Graduate School Public Scholarship Certificate.
• Participate in key Humanities Center research support offerings and in EHN's Engaged Communities initiative, focused on public projects in partnership with community organizations and arts, educational, and cultural centers.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• salary of $64,000
• $2,000 in professional development funds each year
• office space
• computing
• full SU Libraries access

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree