"The Virginia and Walter Nord Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities"

Case Western Reserve University, Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a postdoctoral fellow position. This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of renewing for an additional year.

The purpose of the BNI Postdoctoral Fellowship is to support research in the humanities by providing scholars in the early stages of their careers with the time and resources necessary to advance their work. Fellows will be affiliated with one or more of the humanities departments represented by the Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities including but not limited to: Classics, Religious Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Art and Art History. We are particularly interested in Fellows whose scholarly and/or creative inquiry engage the following areas of speculation and the speculative, global Afrofuturism(s), and/or decolonial methods and approaches.

Responsibilities and Duties:

1. The BNI Post-Doctoral Fellow will be expected to offer an undergraduate course during the spring of their fellowship year, following consultation with their host department.
2. The BNI Post-Doctoral Fellow will pursue a research and writing project for the full academic year.
3. An essential feature of the program is that The BNI Post-Doctoral Fellow make intellectual contributions to the CWRU community, through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses.

The term of the fellowship will commence on or about July 1, 2026.