Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship

Wesleyan University, United States

Updated: over 2 years ago
Job Type: FullTime
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Position Information
Job Posting Number F00303
Position Title Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department Center for the Humanities-1049
Job Category Faculty Posting
Position Type Full-Time
Position Details
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree after June 2018 in any field of inquiry in the humanities or humanistic social sciences – broadly conceived – are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship, made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Wesleyan University.
The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide scholars who have recently completed their Ph.D.’s with free time to further their own work in a cross-disciplinary setting, and to associate them with a distinguished faculty. 
Two Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows will be appointed to the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities for the academic year 2022-2023 with the possibility of reappointment for 2023-2024 based on performance. Each fellow will be awarded an annual stipend of $58,000 (with an additional $2,000 of research funding) and will teach a one-semester undergraduate course; participate in the collegial life of the Center for the Humanities, which sponsors conferences, lectures, and colloquia; and give one public lecture. The Fellows will be provided with an office at the Center for the Humanities, and will be expected to work there on weekdays while the university is in session, and to reside locally.
The Center’s 2022-2023 themes are “Pay Attention!” (Fall) and “Take Care” (Spring); please click 
here for full theme descriptions. 
Please check our website http://www.wesleyan.edu/humanities/fellowships/mellon.html for application instructions and for updates. 
Minimum Qualifications
Candidates do not need to have their PhD in hand at the time of application, but will need to have it by June, 2022; candidates without a PhD in hand will be appointed as a predoctoral fellow until the PhD has been officially awarded. 
Management Competencies
Competencies
Special Instructions To Applicants
You will be asked to upload electronic versions of the items we require, which are (1) a cover letter of application, including a statement of current research interests and a brief proposal for a one-semester undergraduate course related to the Center for the Humanities themes (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) a writing sample of published work, extracts from the dissertation, or drafts of work in progress (not to exceed 25 pages). In the cover letter, applicants should describe how they will embrace the college’s commitment to fostering an inclusive community, as well as their experience working with individuals from historically marginalized or underserved groups. 
You will also be asked to provide the email addresses of three references from whom we may obtain confidential letters of recommendation (please double-check the accuracy of the email addresses of the references you name to ensure that you have the most up-to-date email addresses for each one). 
After you have submitted all of the required documents, you will see a confirmation number. At that point, each of the three references whose email address you provided will receive an automatically-generated email requesting a letter of reference for you. 
Additional Information
We regret that we cannot reply to individual inquiries concerning the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities. All information that applicants may need is available at this website. 
There is no official application form. Interviews will be held via Zoom during late February or early March of 2022. 
Note for Interfolio users: 
We gladly accept letters of recommendation from Interfolio. From your Interfolio account, please use the “web delivery” method to upload your letters directly to our online application. 
For further instructions, look here: http://help.interfolio.com/entries/24062742
Quick Link https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/8328

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