Postdoctoral Associate, Whitney Humanities Center

The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale is accepting applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 202728. The fellowship is offered to complement and contribute to the Spring 2028 Franke Seminar in the Humanities: Not Made to Scale: Space Form Power and the Geohumanities. This is an upper-level undergraduate seminar in the Humanities Program at Yale. Engaging with interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of geography architecture and the humanities Not Made to Scale will consider how the humanities and the arts have helped us understand our relationship to our surroundingsfrom improvised cities redlined suburbs and contested waterways to landscapes (re)shaped by prisons borders data centers and a rapidly changing so doing we will analyze define and practice a geohumanities for the present. The seminar is accompanied by a series of four public-facing lectures by experts in the field hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center. The Center invites applications from scholars in disciplines like visual studies literary studies film and media studies human geography social-cultural anthropology urban studies and critical studies. The ideal candidate will demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following fields: environmental studies architectural history urban humanities critical geography black geographies or critical race and gender studies. The fellow will contribute to the Franke Lectures in the Humanities and will collaborate with the instructor of the Franke Seminar on course design and teaching. The fellow receives a stipend of $70000 with full benefits a research fund of $2000 and reimbursement of moving expenses. The Center invites applications from candidates who will contribute to a community of scholars in an interdisciplinary setting. The Franke Postdoctoral Fellow will be in residence at the Whitney Humanities Center in New Haven for the full academic year 202728 beginning August 1 2027.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. (degree conferred 2024 or later) involving research centrally related to the theme of the Franke Seminar: Space Form Power and the Geohumanities although disciplinary specialization is open. Applicants must have their Ph.D. in hand by August 1 2027.