Position ID: | Cornell-Vice Provost Units-MIGPOSTDOC [#24465, WDR-00035907] |
Position Title: | Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow |
Position Type: | Postdoctoral |
Position Location: | Ithaca, New York 14850, United States [map] |
Subject Areas: | Human Development / Anthropology Social Sciences / Sociology Humanities and Social Sciences / Arts, History Migration |
Salary Range: | $54,840 - $75,000 |
Appl Deadline: | 2023/05/15 11:59PM finished (2023/03/03, finished 2023/08/31, listed until 2023/05/31) |
Position Description: |
The Migrations initiative at Cornell University aims to cultivate new collaborations that advance science, scholarship, teaching, outreach, and engagement in ways that generate new insights into critical problems. We wish to provide a stronger evidentiary basis for policy and to place Cornell University at the forefront of migrations studies around the world. The initiative is the recipient of a three-year grant of the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative for its program “Cross-Border Movements: Racism, Dispossession, and Migration.” Leading with a humanistic lens, the Cross-Border Movements program will be used to advance collaborative research, learning, and public engagement spaces around racism, dispossession, and migration. It will develop an antiracist and anticolonial agenda that transforms the university and advances racial justice. Thereby, it will focus on three thematic interdisciplinary themes: • Authority, Governance, and Racial Injustice • Climate, Dispossession, and Natural and Built Environments • Trafficking, Displacement, and the Right to Stay Home Roles The Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow will be conferred to an emerging scholar studying racism, dispossession, and migrations. The Fellow may conduct research in a wide range of humanistic disciplines, including but not limited to Anthropology, Art History, History, Migration, and Sociology. We are particularly interested in someone working historically in any of these or allied fields. The Fellow will be selected from a global pool of applicants based on their research’s promise for cultivating dialogue, nurturing collaboration across academic disciplines, and integrating, synthesizing, and building upon existing disciplinary contributions to research on racism, dispossession, and migrations. The candidates will also be evaluated based on how their research during the fellowship could benefit from and contribute to efforts by the Migrations initiative to advance Cornell’s position as a global leader in the study of migrations, racism and dispossession. Scholars will be an affiliate of the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs’ Migrations initiative. While in residence at Cornell, the Fellow will work to generate new knowledge that addresses the key themes outlined above. Successful applications will likely identify possible connections across disciplines. In addition to their research, the Postdoctoral Fellow is expected to support the implementation of the Migration initiative particularly a) the public dissemination of research results via seminars, workshops, social media, public broadcasting, academic and public writing; b) the development and implementation of innovative curriculum; and c) the development of sustainable collaborations with regional community organizations and community colleges. Anticipated Division of TimeThe primary responsibilities of the Fellow include research and publication of their work as well as intellectual contributions to the interdisciplinary agenda of the Migrations initiative. Fellows interact with undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and teach one undergraduate course during the academic year (to be housed in the Global Development Department). During semesters when they are not teaching, awardees will split their time roughly between their independent research, and the research of the Migrations initiative. These activities including contributing the Migrations Forum (regular manuscript exchange workshop), overseeing our program of undergraduate Migrations Fellows, and contributing to programming activities as part of our Mellon Just Futures Initiative grant. When they are teaching, awardees will spend roughly 50% of their time on their independent research, 25% of their time on Migrations Lab projects, and 25% of their time teaching. RequirementsAwardees must have earned the doctoral degree within five years of beginning their fellowship. Candidates with more than five years of postdoctoral experience, and those who received their PhD from Cornell are not eligible. Awardees may not simultaneously hold any other paid or unpaid position during the term of the appointment. Prior to the start of their fellowship, candidates will be asked to provide confirmation that their doctoral degree has been conferred. How to Apply
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Supervision ExercisedThe Fellow will receive supervision and mentorship from the co-Directors of the Migrations Initiative, Shannon Gleeson, Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Labor Relations, and Eric Tagliacozzo, John Stambaugh Professor of History. The faculty will meet with the Fellow on a regular basis.
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