Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025-2026
Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025-2026
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The Wolf Humanities Center awards five 5 oneyear Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions whose proposals are interdisciplinary who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penns intellectual life.
The programs of the Wolf Humanities Center are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For theacademic year our topic will be TRUTH.
TheFellowship appointment is twelve months (July 1 2025June 30 2026 and carries a minimum stipend of $66300 plus a $3000 research fund and discounted singlecoverage health insurance.
During their appointment Wolf Humanities Centers Postdoctoral Fellows are required to teach one course rostered in one or more of the humanities departments or programs in Penns College of Arts & Sciences (not the Wolf Humanities Center) and must participate in the Centers weekly Mellon Research Seminar (Tuesdays 12:001:30. Fellows also collaborate on the planning of a public symposium on the Centers annual topic participate in professional development workshops and are appointed a faculty mentor.
- The PhD (and its international equivalent such as the DPhil) is the only eligible terminal degree and applicants must be humanists or those in such allied fields as anthropology or history of science. Ineligible categories include an MFA or any other doctorate such as EdD social scientists scholars in educational curriculum building and performing artists (note: scholars of performance are eligible).
- Scholars who received or will receive their PhD (or DPhil) between May 2020 and September 2025 are eligible to apply.
- Scholars who received or will receive their PhD from the University of Pennsylvania during our noted window of eligibility are welcome to apply.
- The fellowship is open to all scholars national and international who meet eligibility requirements. International scholars outside of North America are appointed under a J1 visa (Research Scholar status). The Wolf Humanities Center reserves the right to revoke the offer if the recipient is unable to meet this condition.
- Upon receiving the award finalists who have not received their PhD must provide a letter from their department confirming that they have completed or will complete all requirements (i.e. dissertation defense) by June 30 2025. A finalists failure to meet this deadline will result in the offer being withdrawn.
- Fellows are required to be in residence for the term of the fellowship.
Employment Type
Grant
