Duke University, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Position ID:
Position Title:
Duke GSF Postdoc - Theme Year
Position Type:
Postdoctoral
Position Location:
Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States of America
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Appl Deadline:
2025/01/15 11:59PM
** (posted 2024/11/04, listed until 2025/01/15)
** (posted 2024/11/04, listed until 2025/01/15)Position Description:
Position Description
The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist (GSF) Studies invites applications for a residential postdoctoral associate focused on “Feminism and the Culture Wars” for the 2025-2026 academic year. Through research, teaching, and service, the associate will contribute to the overall work of the GSF Program. We seek candidates with training in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and allied fields with a specific research focus on the culture wars, broadly construed, and feminism’s historical and/or contemporary entanglements with moral panic. We welcome a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that situate the culture wars in a transnational context, from anti-LGBTQ extremism and Islamophobia to the border “crisis” and climate change denialism. Research may examine the affective politics of moral panic, as well as liberatory modes of resistance like decolonization, demilitarization, abolition, and transformative justice. Scholars with expertise in the following areas are encouraged to apply: transmisogyny; the policing of sex and sexuality; anti-abortion movements; purity culture; xenophobia and the refugee crisis; the war on terror; the war on drugs; and anti-intellectualism. Postdoctoral associates are expected to participate in a faculty-graduate seminar and work with faculty developing research and programming in this area. The position includes a stipend, health insurance, and office space. Applicants should have PhD in hand by July 1, 2025. In addition to a letter of application, please include *a writing sample (no more than 25 pages) *a C.V. *names and contact information for three references. Please submit applications electronically by January 15, 2025, through AcademicJobsOnline.org at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29141 Finalists will be asked to submit three reference letters. GSF program information is available at https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Application Materials Required:
Submit the following items online at this website to complete your application:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Writing Sample
- Three Reference Contacts
- Reference letter (to be submitted online by the reference writers on this site )
And anything else requested in the position description.
Further Info:
919-684-3770
Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Box 90760
Durham, NC 27708
Box 90760
Durham, NC 27708