Engaged Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Engaged Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Job #: 077279
Location Syracuse, NY
Pay Range: $60,000 - $63,000
Hours: Standard University business hours are as follows:

• Academic Year: Monday through Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm
• Summer: Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm

Job Type: Full-time

Job Description:
The Syracuse University Humanities Center [humcenter.syr.edu], in partnership with the Engaged Humanities Network, or EHN [thecollege.syr.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. These 2-year appointments (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2026) combine publicly-engaged research, programming, curriculum development and teaching: they are not remote/virtual and the residency period may not be deferred.
Compensation will include a salary of $60,000 to $63,000 annually; $2,000 in professional development funds each year; office space, computing, and full SU libraries access. As exempt 12-month employees, Fellows are eligible to enroll in benefits, including medical insurance.

Qualifications:
Applicants must hold a (disciplinary or interdisciplinary) humanities PhD from between 2021 and no later than June 2024.

Job Specific Qualifications:
Applications welcome from scholars, including international 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.

Preference given to applicants who:

• 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:
Fellows will advance their research and teach one Engaged Humanities course each 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. Each Fellow will also contribute to, and in their second year, help co-lead, one of five EHN initiatives:

1. Engaged Communities teams of faculty, students, and community partners collaborating on research and creative projects across Syracuse and Onondaga County.
2. Engaged Courses faculty cohorts developing community-engaged curricular opportunities.
3. EHN Undergraduate Research team documents and assesses community-engaged projects and collaborates on project design and implementation.
4. EHN Graduate Student Research: research assistants, and winter and summer fellows, bridge their own research with action-based humanistic inquiry via partnerships with local organizations and the communities they serve.
5. Environmental Storytelling Series of Central New York events, programs, and courses assembling scholars, teachers, students, artists and community leaders to deepen understandings of, and strengthen responses to, climate crises.

About Syracuse University:
Syracuse University is a private, international research university with distinctive academics, diversely unique offerings and an undeniable spirit. Located in the geographic heart of New York State, with a global footprint, and nearly 150 years of history, Syracuse University offers a quintessential college experience.

The scope of Syracuse University is a testament to its strengths: a pioneering history dating back to 1870; a choice of more than 200 majors and 100 minors offered through 13 schools and colleges; nearly 15,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students; more than a quarter of a million alumni in 160 countries; and a student population from all 50 U.S. states and 123 countries. For more information, please visit www.syracuse.edu.

About the Syracuse area:
Syracuse is a medium-sized city situated in the geographic center of New York State approximately 250 miles northwest of New York City. The metro-area population totals approximately 500,000. The area offers a low cost of living and provides many social, cultural, and recreational options, including parks, museums, festivals, professional regional theater, and premier shopping venues. Syracuse and Central New York present a wide range of seasonal recreation and attractions ranging from water skiing and snow skiing, hiking in the Adirondacks, touring the historic sites, visiting wineries along the Finger Lakes, and biking on trails along the Erie Canal.

Application Deadline:
Full Consideration By:
Open Until Filled: Yes

To apply, visit https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/101736

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