Position ID: | Cornell-Vice Provost Units-DTRPOSTDOC [#21933, WDR-00031845] |
Position Title: | Democratic Threats & Resilience Postdoctoral Fellow |
Position Type: | Postdoctoral |
Position Location: | Ithaca, New York 14850, United States [map] |
Subject Areas: | History Social Sciences / Politics Computer Science Humanities and Social Sciences / Economics International Relations / Culture and Politics |
Appl Deadline: | 2022/08/30 11:59PM finished (2022/06/15, finished 2023/01/12, listed until 2022/08/30) |
Position Description: |
The Democratic Threats and Resilience Project at Cornell University aims
to cultivate new knowledge and collaborations that advance scientific
understanding, scholarship, teaching, outreach, and engagement in ways
that generate new insights into critical problems. We wish to provide a
stronger evidentiary and theoretical basis for understanding democratic
threats and resilience and to place Cornell University at the forefront
of regime transition, democratization, and autocratization studies
around the world. The
Democratic Threats and Resilience Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct
research in the social sciences, including political science, history,
sociology, economics, and/or computer science. 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 regime transition research,
broadly conceived. The candidates will also be evaluated based on how
their research during the fellowship could benefit from and contribute
to efforts by the Democratic Threats and Resilience Project to advance
Cornell’s position as a global leader in the study of the factors that
make democratic institutions vulnerable to internal or external
subversion and, more importantly, the conditions under which they are
resilient. One
fellowship will be conferred to a post-doctoral scholar who will be
housed within the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. While
in residence at Cornell, the Fellow will work to generate new knowledge
that addresses key themes and concerns: these include but are not
restricted to the socioeconomic inequalities and cultural conflicts that
empower populist or anti-democratic challengers; the institutional
features and political strategies that allow would-be autocratic leaders
to capture and subvert regime institutions; the strategies that
democratic rivals use to activate and defend checks and balances, and
popular democratic support; and, expanding our knowledge of which
“bottom-up” movements, civil society institutions, and individuals
resist the rise of autocratic regimes. Successful applications will
likely identify possible connections across disciplines. The
Fellow will assist the Democratic Threats and Resilience team with
ongoing research projects, including attention to empirical indicators
of democratic backsliding and autocratization, and factors driving
partisan/identity cleavages to serve as inhibitors to regime cleavages
that can mobilize pro-democracy coalitions. Anticipated Division of Time During
semesters when they are not teaching, awardees will split their time
roughly between their independent research, and the research of the
Einaudi Center Democratic Threats and Resilience Project. When they are
teaching, awardees will spend roughly 50% of their time on their
independent research, 25% of their time on Democratic Threats and
Resilience Project research, and 25% of their time teaching. Requirements
Awardees
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
The
scholar will be housed within the Mario Einaudi Center for
International Studies. The scholar will seek supervision from the
Director of the Einaudi Center and the Faculty Fellow of the Democratic
Threats and Resilience Project. Teaching Expectations Fellows will be asked to teach one class per academic year in a department closely related to their field of study.
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