"Spanish & Portuguese Postdoctoral Fellow in Puerto Rican Studies"

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 seeks to catalyze and enable 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 that address the most pressing concerns of Puerto Ricans in the archipelago and diaspora.

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

The PRSH seeks a postdoctoral fellow that will work on their scholarly projects with opportunities to participate in the vibrant intellectual communities at UW-Madison, fostering cross campus exchange.

Fellows will be appointed for a fixed-term two-year (2) appointment and welcomes applicants eager to expand their scholarship and research on Puerto Rican Studies.

We seek applicants with a PhD in the humanities received within the last 5 years who are actively working in Puerto Rican Studies and committed to a career producing scholarship in the field. 

The successful applicant will be required to teach one course during the second year of their fellowship. They will have access to UW-Madison’s library and a dedicated office space. Fellows will be provided with health benefits. The fellowship year begins in August 2026 and ends July 2028.

Responsibilities also include:

• Assisting with PRSH programming.
• As a residential Post-Doctoral Fellowship, fellows are required to attend the weekly Solidarity Eco-System meetings with all other fellows.
• Fellows will also be required to participate in biweekly one-on-one meetings with a faculty mentor to establish and assure their scholarly productivity during their fellowship tenure.
• Fellows will teach an undergraduate course in either literary or cultural studies at the 400-level (upper division) in Spanish, during the second year of their 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 in the humanities from an accredited PhD granting institution by the start of the fellowship.

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: 

1. Cover letter that includes Statement of Alignment and Interest that addresses how their research interests align with the Puerto Rican Studies Hub (2 pages maximum, single-spaced). 
2. Writing sample (a publication or dissertation chapter)
3. Project description (3 pages maximum)
4. Curriculum Vitae
5. Course proposal focusing on Puerto Rican Studies (1-page description, including sample readings).

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 15, 2026 at 11:59PM.

Contact Information:

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