October 2023 Opportunities Roundup
Our monthly Opportunities Roundup features fellowships, grants, job positions, events/conferences and more of potential interest to our communities. Opportunities may be added to the post throughout the month. If you have something you’d like us to publicize here, please email info@bbqplus.org.
Paid Positions + Fellowships
Ordered by deadline date
Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Digital Publics and Promotional Cultures (Simon Fraser University)
The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Digital Publics & Promotional Cultures. Areas of research and teaching may include, but are not limited to, mediated/networked publics, affective publics, the attention economy, branding & influencer culture, microcelebrity, and the intersections of mass media and social media. We especially welcome scholars who engage with Indigenous studies, Black studies, intersectional feminisms, decolonization and postcolonial studies, queer theory, trans studies, disability studies, critical race/ethnic studies, and transcultural and global studies. We are open to a range of approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, digital methods, and/or applied practices. Review of applications will begin on October 2, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. Learn more and apply.
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History or the History of Sexuality (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
The University of Glasgow seeks a Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History or the History of Sexuality. This position will teach in the online Master’s in Global Gender History and on-campus Master’s in Gender History; and will contribute to the effective operation of the Centre for Gender History. Salary will be Grade 7, £39,347 - £44,263 per annum. Learn more and apply by October 3, 2023.
Assistant/Associate Professor, Global Blackness and African Diaspora Studies (Yale)
The Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration is looking to hire a full-time scholar at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (with tenure), with an initial five-year appointment in Global Black and African Diaspora Studies, beginning July 1, 2024. The Program seeks candidates whose research and teaching focus on the formations and lived experiences of Blackness, with emphasis on global, comparative, indigenous, or transnational perspectives drawn from African, Indigenous, Asian, Middle Eastern, European, or Latin American and Caribbean contexts. Identified areas of interest for this search include: historical formations of race, indigeneity, and Blackness; labor, formal/informal economies, and syndicalism; community building, politics, and social movements; visual and expressive cultures; critical ecologies, climate displacement, and environmental racism; comparative colonialisms and settler states; racial analysis of education, health, and wealth; comparative South-South mobility and solidarities; global anti-Blackness; and African/diasporic queer and feminist activism. The teaching expectation is normally four courses per academic year, plus service to the program, including student advising. Review of applications begins October 15. Learn more and apply.
Tenure track position, Queer/Trans Studies (University of Massachusetts Boston)
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure track assistant position beginning September 1, 2024. This position will support the undergraduate minor in Queer and Transgender Studies. We are seeking a scholar-educator with expertise in Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous Studies, and/or Transnational Feminisms. Initial review of applications will begin October 15 and continue until the position is filled. Learn more and apply.
Assistant Professor, African American History (Drake University)
The History Department at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) is excited to launch this search for a tenure-track assistant faculty member. This is a 9-month appointment beginning in August 2024. We are seeking a dedicated teacher and insightful scholar with expertise in and a passion for African American History. Offering African-American History is essential to the continued social and academic relevance of Drake’s curriculum. Apply by October 15 for full consideration. Learn more.
Teaching and research track position, Medicine, Science and the Humanities (Johns Hopkins University)
The Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Program (MSH) at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) seeks applicants for a Teaching and Research Track (TRT) Faculty at the rank of lecturer in medical anthropology, anthropology of science and technology, STS, or other related or allied fields. The initial appointment will be for three years, starting January 2024. The position is renewable and eligible for promotion. The lecturer will have teaching and administrative responsibilities in the MSH Program: teaching two undergraduate courses per semester, including MSH-required courses, advising undergraduate students, and participating in different program events alongside other faculty. Learn more and apply by October 16.
Assistant professor of trans studies (Northwestern University)
The Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSS) Program at Northwestern University seeks a full-time, tenure-line Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests strongly rooted in transgender studies, to begin September 1, 2024. We conceive this field broadly so as to encompass a range of identities, concepts, politics, and lived experiences that apply to trans*, nonbinary, genderqueer, and otherwise gender-nonconforming people and communities. We invite compelling applications that reflect principally historical or largely present-focused approaches to transgender or gender nonconformity. Likewise, the work may be centered in any national or cultural contexts and may employ whatever trans* or trans-adjacent vocabularies (two-spirit, hijra, kathoey, etc.) are most apt to its subjects, environments, and findings. This position will be structured as a permanent joint appointment across the GSS Program and a tenure-granting department within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences that best reflects the new colleague’s scholarly training and ongoing investments. Learn more and apply by October 23, 2023.
Assistant professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies (Columbia University)
The Department of English and Comparative Literature seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in African American and African Diaspora studies, beginning July 1, 2024. Candidates must hold a PhD by the time of appointment. We welcome applications from emerging scholars whose work touches on African American literature of any period, or across periods. We are interested in innovative approaches to the field that will complement existing departmental strengths. While the position is open with regard to genre and area of focus, we are especially looking for candidates whose scholarship offers expertise in a related subfield, including (but not limited to) gender and sexuality studies, poetry and poetics, environmental and ecological criticism, comparative or diasporic studies, media studies, and Black critical theory. The successful candidate would be expected to contribute to courses for the department and Columbia’s Core curriculum. Review of applications will begin October 31, 2023. Learn more.
Assistant professor of Africana Studies (Southern Illinois University)
The Africana Studies Program in the School of Africana and Multicultural Studies is accepting applications for one position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is a 9-month, continuing, tenure track appointment. The Africana Studies Program is interested in complementing its existing focus on intersectional and interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching and developing its strengths in new areas. Doctoral degree in Africana Studies or a related discipline is required. Specialization in one area of the African diaspora beyond the United States, including but not limited to Africadia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, is required. Learn more and apply by November 1, 2023.
Three tenure-track positions (cluster hire) in race, ethnicity, and social justice (Stonehill College)
Stonehill College (Easton, MA) is doing a cluster hire in race, ethnicity, and social justice (in Sociology, Political Science, and English). These lines are to build and expand the scholarship and teaching in ethnic studies and indigenous studies at Stonehill College while creating a new major in race and indigenous studies. Review of applications begins November 6, 2023. Please see the three job postings for more information:
Pembroke Center postdoctoral research fellowships, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Brown University)
Postdoctoral research fellows play a critical role in the Pembroke Center's intellectual community. In residence for one year, postdoctoral fellows undertake original research, teach undergraduate courses of their own design, participate in the Pembroke Seminar's rigorous interdisciplinary scholarly community; collaborate on research and programming, and develop professionally through faculty mentorship. For the 2024-25 academic year, the Pembroke Center is awarding one-year residential postdoctoral research fellow positions to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of the seminar, "Unwriting the Anthropocene: A Call to Experiment."
The term of appointment is July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025. Postdoctoral Research Fellows are eligible to participate in the Brown University health and dental benefit plan. Salary for the position is approximately $56,000.00 For full consideration, applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on Monday, November 20, 2023. Selections will be announced in February. Learn more and apply.
Postdoctoral fellowship, Center for Africana Studies (Johns Hopkins University)
The Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to be held during the 2024-2025 academic year. The Fellow will have a one-year appointment (with the possibility of renewal), interact with a vibrant and growing faculty in Black Studies who are appointed across the disciplines, and will have a faculty mentor from within the Center. We seek applications from candidates working in Black Studies and across the disciplines, especially those working in black feminisms, sexuality, and/or black queer studies, and scholars working on Africa. The fellow is expected to engage full-time in their research, deliver a public lecture, and participate in the Center’s intellectual life. The fellow is also expected to be in residence in the Baltimore area during the fellowship year. The successful candidate must have their Ph.D. in hand by August 2024. Salary: $65,000 + benefits. Review of applications begins November 20. Learn more and apply.
Associate professor of gender and sexuality, Department of African American Studies (Emory University)
The Department of African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in gender and sexuality at the rank of Associate Professor, to begin July 1, 2024. Exceptional candidates with a demonstrated record of working across departments, programs, and disciplines are of particular interest and encouraged to apply. We are seeking scholars whose work is rooted in African American, African Diasporic/Transnational Black Feminist, Black Queer, or Black Trans Studies and whose scholarship will complement our graduate program cognate fields: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Social Justice and Social Movements, or Expressive Arts and Cultures. We are also open to scholars whose intersectional work blends qualitative and quantitative methods or touches on fields such as digital humanities and AI. Our new colleague will be expected to teach two courses per semester, including departmental surveys, specialized upper-level undergraduate seminars, and graduate courses for our new doctoral program. Learn more and apply by December 10, 2023.
Ph.D. for research on the histories of science, medicine, and/or the environment in the Global South, Department of History (University of California Santa Cruz)
The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is recruiting up to two PhD students to begin in the fall of 2024 to pursue research on the histories of science, medicine, and/or the environment in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, East Asia, or indigenous communities across the globe (including North America). Applicants may – but need not – be from the geographies that fall within the broad category of the Global South as long as their research agenda is focused on the geographies described.
In addition to university support, successful applicants will receive additional funding intended to support for language training and research from a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation on the theme of “The History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns,” whose Principal Investigator is Jennifer L. Derr (History). Read the full announcement to learn more. Apply by December 10th, 2023.
Assistant Professor – U.S. Colonial Era, Department of History (Illinois State University)
The Department of History at Illinois State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in early American history, beginning August 16, 2024. Specialization is open, but candidates should be able to teach courses on the revolutionary and early national periods. Candidates with a focus on the trans-Appalachian West are encouraged to apply. Application open until filled. Learn more.
Coming soon: Stony Brook University launching initiative in Native American and Indigenous Studies (Stony Brook, NY)
This inter-departmental initiative will come with a new Minor and five new hires. The initiative is in the early stages of development, but please read more here and follow director Dr. Joseph Pierce for updates on the process. Three positions will be posted this year.
Conferences
Ordered by deadline date
Call for papers/proposals: Devil 2024 Conference
May 15-18, 2024 at University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (in person)
The Devil 2024 conference explores the nature, significance, and operation of demonism and demonization across the western tradition. The conference will bring together scholars interested in the social and cultural construction of the devil and the impact of demonism across different chronological periods and from diverse methodological backgrounds. It aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that addresses challenging questions about how notions of the demonic are shaped by cultural priorities and anxieties, by professional discerners and the media, and by discourses of fear and safety. Devil 2024 will investigate why these images repeat through the ages and why they continue to have still have resonance in the modern world.
The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers, for panels (generally consisting of three papers), and workshops or round-tables dealing with any aspect of demonism and its manifestation in the western tradition. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by October 15th, 2023. Learn more and submit proposals.
Other Opportunities
Designing Feminist Research: Free 10-Week Online Seminar, Fall 2023 (The New School)
This 10-week seminar is designed for students who want to begin research within a feminist theoretical framework. While this course focuses on research techniques, it also hones in on the theoretical background of feminist research, including various epistemologies, critiques, and feminist standpoints. Learn more and sign up.
October 10, 2023: Community movement session + panel/Q&A at Barnard College (New York, NY)
Barnard College invites all who are interested to two connected events on October 10, 2023 on the Barnard Campus.
3:00pm: A community movement session on the Barnard Quad, organized by Rooted Resistance, a nonprofit dedicated to reclaiming public spaces for trans and nonbinary communities through movement. Learn more.
5:00pm: Panel and Q&A featuring the editors of the new book, Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex. Books will be available for sale. Food will be provided. 10 books will be given away to the first 10 Barnard students who have RSVPed and ask for a copy at the event. Learn more.