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The National Humanities Alliance Foundation invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellow position to implement a project entitled “The Publicly Engaged Humanities: A Survey of the Field.” Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until someone has been hired.

By Erik Martinez, Graduate Career Peer
Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 - 9:55am


Credit: National Humanities AllianceThe National Humanities Alliance Foundation invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow to implement a project entitled "The Publicly Engaged Humanities: A Survey of the Field." The project will document the full range of publicly engaged humanities work that college and university faculty and students have carried out over the past decade. Working with National Humanities Alliance staff, the postdoctoral fellow will: collect examples of publicly engaged humanities work; formulate synthetic claims about the state of the field; carry out a comprehensive communications strategy aimed at practitioners and public audiences; and collaborate with a developer to create a visually rich website that features representative project profiles. The project is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until someone has been hired.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in a humanities or humanistic social science discipline
Location: Washington, D.C.
Duration:​ 2 years

For more information and application instructions, ​visit the job announcement online.