"Chicane & Latine Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in Puerto Rican Studies"

Job Details

Salary:
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Job Category: Employees in Training

Employment Type: Terminal (Fixed Term)

Job Profile: Postdoctoral Fellow

Job Summary:

The Puerto Rican Studies Hub (PRSH) is an initiative that seeks to foster collaborations between Puerto Rico and its diaspora. We understand our initiative as a hub because it catalyzes and enables interactions, dialogues, and solidarities on multiple scales. It brings together a range of voices, intellectual ecosystems, and practices to foster intellectual, cultural, and artistic production. We envision the PRSH as fertile ground for innovative partnerships and as a site for emergent and groundbreaking modes of knowledge production.

Because of the new migration patterns that Puerto Ricans have charted in the last two decades, the Midwest is an ideal region to decentral traditional spaces of Puerto Rican Studies and to jumpstart the conversation on a regional, national, and transnational scale. We do so while expanding the field of Puerto Rican Studies in diverse disciplines through fellowships, workshops, symposia, the arts, and lecture series.

The PRSH seeks a postdoctoral fellow who will advance their scholarly projects with opportunities to participate in the vibrant intellectual community at UW–Madison and fostering cross-campus exchange.

Fellows will be appointed for a fixed two-year term and are encouraged to expand their scholarship and research in Puerto Rican Studies.

We seek applicants with a PhD received within the last five years who are actively engaged in Puerto Rican Studies and committed to a career producing scholarship in the field. The fellowship welcomes research that explores themes including—but not necessarily limited to—disability, environment and sustainable futures, debt and corruption, cultural sustainability and resilience, community and economic development, mapping and digital storytelling, and/or Black Puerto Rico studies. We are interested in projects that engage with Puerto Rican life on the archipelago as well as in the United States, especially those that expand the scope and methodologies of Puerto Rican Studies through innovative, interdisciplinary, and socially engaged approaches.

The successful candidate will be required to teach one course during the second year of their fellowship. Fellows will have access to UW–Madison’s libraries, dedicated office space, and health benefits. The fellowship begins in August 2026 and ends in July 2028.

Responsibilities

• Assist with PRSH programming.
• Participate in weekly Solidarity Ecosystem meetings with other fellows.
• Meet biweekly with a faculty mentor to support scholarly productivity.
• Teach one Puerto Rican Studies focused course during the second year of the fellowship.

Department:
College of Letters & Science, History, Puerto Rican Studies Hub

Compensation:
Year 1: $80,000
Year 2: $82,400

Required Qualifications:
Candidates must have earned a PhD from an accredited PhD granting institution by the start of the fellowship or within the last 5 years.
Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

How to Apply:
Qualified applicants should submit:
• Statement of Interest (2 pages maximum, single-spaced) describing how your research aligns with the mission of the Puerto Rican Studies Hub.
• Postdoctoral Project Narrative (3 pages maximum).
• Curriculum Vitae.
• One-page course proposal focused on Puerto Rican Studies suitable for the curriculum in the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program (including references).
• Contact information for three potential references.
Click the "Apply" button to start the application process. Note: there is only one attachment field. Please compile all materials into a single PDF and upload in the attachment field.
The deadline to apply for this position is January 8, 2026 at 11:59PM.

Contact:
Félix A. Rodríguez, Project Coordinator, prstudies.hub@wisc.edu.