The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modeling Interdisciplinarity Inquiry is designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and interpretive social sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils or DFAs (in hand by June 30, 2025, and no earlier than June 30, 2022) who have not previously held a research-oriented postdoctoral fellowship for a position as Fellow. In mid August 2025, the newly selected fellow will join the university’s ongoing interdisciplinary programs and seminars. The fellow will receive a two-year appointment with a nine-month academic year salary. Postdoctoral fellows pursue their own continuing research in association with a senior faculty mentor at WU. During the two years of their fellowship, they will teach three undergraduate courses and collaborate in leading an interdisciplinary seminar on theory and methods for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the humanities and social sciences.
Applicants should submit, through Interfolio, a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a description of their research program (no more than 1800 words and accessible to reviewers in other disciplines), and a brief proposal (up to one page) for an interdisciplinary advanced undergraduate seminar. Applicants who have not completed their doctoral work should indicate, in their cover letter, how many chapters of their dissertation are complete and how complete the remaining chapters are. Please include the names and email addresses of three references.
The to submit materials for the 2025–27 fellowship is December 19.
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