"Postdoctoral Associate, Whitney Humanities Center"

The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale is accepting applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for 2026-27. The fellowship is offered to complement and contribute to the Spring 2027 Franke Seminar in the Humanities, Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration. The Center invites applications from scholars in any humanities field. The ideal candidate will have expertise in one of the following fields: environmental humanities, history of science, history of medicine, or food studies. The fellow will contribute to the Franke Lectures in the Humanities-a series of four lectures related to the seminar-and will have some teaching responsibilities with the Franke Seminar (Spring 2027). This non-renewable fellowship is for ten months (August 1, 2026-May 31, 2027) and carries a stipend of $70,000, research funding, and full benefits. 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 2026-27.

The application can be submitted online via Interfolio and must include a) cover letter; b) curriculum vitae; c) contact information for three references (letters will be requested from finalists at a later stage); and d) a writing sample of no more than 25 pages. Review of applications will begin December 8, 2025. Email inquiries may be addressed to diane.b.brown@yale.edu. Candidates included in the final short list will be interviewed either in person or online.