Rice University – Humanities Research Center
The Humanities Research Center hosts yearlong residential postdoctoral fellowships at Rice University for outstanding junior scholars. The program is designed to encourage interdisciplinary teaching and research, facilitate new research communities at Rice, and prepare junior scholars for future faculty positions. Mellon postdocs will participate in the Rice Seminar, a yearlong research seminar designed to study a particular topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. The position is for July – June. Fellows receive a $55,000 salary, benefits eligibility, and an allowance for research and relocation to Houston.
Primary obligations include an active participation in all aspects of the Rice Seminar and collaborating on spatial humanities projects currently underway at Rice. In addition, fellows will develop or continue their own research projects and give a presentation to colleagues at Rice. Fellows will also design and teach (or co-teach) two semester-long undergraduate courses, the topics of which will be determined in consultation with the HRC and/or appropriate department.Applicants from any humanistic discipline or interdiscipline including, but not limited to, art history, architecture, computer science, geography, history, legal studies, library science, literary studies, or philosophy and whose research and teaching interests focus on issues related to spatial humanities are eligible to apply. Applicants must have received a PhD between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2019.
- Humanities
Adriana Chiaramonti
Email: acc14@rice.edu
