The Shrivastava Family Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Immigration Research
The Shrivastava Family Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Immigration Research
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Department: Col of Humanities and Soc Science
Classification: Post Doc 12 month
Job Category:Postdoctoral Faculty
Job Type:Full-Time
Work Schedule:Full-time (1.0 FTE 40 hrs/wk)
Location: Fairfax VA
Workplace Type:Hybrid Eligible
Salary:Salary commensurate with education and experience
Restricted: Yes
Criminal Background Check:Yes
About the Department:
The Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) is a research center at George Mason University. IIR conducts original multidisciplinary research to produce information about the contributions of immigrants and immigration to the United States. It fosters a society where attitudes policies and rhetoric about immigrants and immigration are based on data reason and global contexts.
About the Position:
This position takes leadership and supports IIRs efforts to build an arts culture and storytelling emphasis within the institute. The Postdoctoral Research Fellows areas of specialization includes some combination of immigration forced displacement arts culture storytelling quality of life and the overall issues related to immigration experience and policy. The Fellow works collaboratively to develop innovative and impactful research and programming to further IIRs objective to provide a comprehensive picture of the realities faced by immigrants and a broader view of immigrants vital economic and societal contributions to specific regions within and to the United States as a whole.
Responsibilities:
- Pursues independent research relating to broad IIR mission publishes in academic venues and presents at academic conferences and other professional gatherings;
- An integral part of developing projects writing grants and organizing programing related to migration arts storytelling and culture;
- Mentors and supervises graduate and undergraduate students in skill development research and presentations;
- Represents the IIR with various publics to include collaboration with the Immigrant Learning Center of Malden MA the publication of research in public venues and responding to media inquiries; and
- Plays a vital role in the IIR activities including colloquia programming and networking.
Required Qualifications:
- Terminal degree in a related field;
- Ph.D. completed within the past five years and by August 24 2025 in folklore ethnomusicology anthropology oral history or allied field;
- Considerable qualitative research experience (ideally ethnographic) with immigrants in the U.S. (if experience is abroad demonstrated evidence of knowledge about immigration in the U.S.);
- Extensive experience interacting with people from different cultural linguistic and religious backgrounds;
- Demonstrated understanding of U.S. immigration systems history policies and issues;
- Demonstrated technical competency to learn and adapt to new technologies;
- Some demonstrated ability to manage/oversee projects; and
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Terminal degree in a related field;
- Some experience beyond personal dissertation research with immigration;
- Creative and innovative ideas about how to build arts and cultural focus of IIR;
- Experience programming arts and culture events exhibits or symposia;
- Experience with mentorship and supervision;
- Experience with displaced people/refugees; and
- Proficiency in a foreign language.
Instructions to Applicants:
For full consideration applicants must apply for theThe Shrivastava Family Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Immigration Research at and submit the online application to include three professional references with contact information and provide a cover letter and CV for review.
Posting Open Date: June 10 2025
For Full Consideration Apply by: June 24 2025
Open Until Filled:Yes
Employment Type
Grant
