Postdoctoral Fellowships with Stipend of $56,225 at University of Pennsylvania in the US

The Wolf Humanities Center offers five Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who hold a Ph.D. Fellows will spend one year in residence at the University of Pennsylvania. For the 2019-20 academic year, the topic which fellows will be working on is Kinship. During their year in residence, fellows pursue their proposed research and required to teach one undergraduate course in either the fall or the spring semester. Students must also participate in the Center's weekly Mellon Research Seminar, to present their research at one of those seminars. Preference will be given to candidates whose proposals are interdisciplinary, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Pennsylvania's intellectual life.

To be eligible for the fellowship, applicants must fulfill the following requirements: 

[1] Students who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 2010 and December 2018 are eligible to apply.

[2] Applicants specialty must be humanists or those in such allied fields as anthropology or history of science. Ineligible categories include an MFA or any other doctorate such as EdD, social scientists, scholars in educational curriculum building, and performing artists.

[3] The fellowship is open to all national and international scholars, but you must be eligible to obtain a Visa to enter the United States. The Wolf Humanities Center reserves the right to cancel awards if the recipient is unable to meet this condition. Applicants should consult the international programs office at their current university to confirm eligibility before applying for this fellowship.

[4] Applicants must be no more than eight years out of their doctorate and who are not yet tenured (may not be tenured during the fellowship year).

Successful applicants will receive one-year Postdoctoral Fellowships and will be required to spend the year from late August to May 2020 in residence at Pennsylvania. Scholars will get a stipend of $56,225 plus single-coverage health insurance and a $3000 research fund.  Fellows are responsible for coverage for any dependents. 

About Wolf Humanities Center:

The Wolf Humanities Center is Pennsylvania’s main hub for interdisciplinary humanities research and public programming. The center was established in 2017, and its goals are to demonstrate how vital the humanities are to the life of the mind and the health of society, and how fundamentally connected they are with many areas of urgent inquiry in medicine, law, business, and the sciences. Through Center’s fellowship programs, it gathers dozens of researchers at every level from undergraduate students to senior faculty to explore different topics in depth and from diverse perspectives. The center is a part of School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.