Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2018–2022: Race

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King’s College Cambridge invites applications for a four-year Junior Research Fellowship from those who are completing or have recently completed a doctorate and who intend to pursue a research project on some aspect of the study of race.

Ideas of race based on ethnic descent and ethno-religious differences have long powerfully shaped human relations and human intimacies. Such classifications and naturalized hierarchies have constructed and constricted ideas about human capacities in strikingly pervasive ways. They have also centred on a whole range of theories about inherited characteristics and physical appearances that have served to institutionalise and politically enact discrimination in the shape of various forms of racisms. Equally, race as a noun has become a powerful basis for the collective resistance of communities to ethnic prejudice. Better understanding the impact of ideas and practices of race and racisms on human society and culture in the past and in the present, and the nature and reality of prejudice, is an urgent need. This post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to encourage such research by enabling the successful candidate to complete a substantial research project on some aspect of race. Projects may concern the role of race in any part of the world and in any aspect of past or present archaeology, anthropology, art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, politics, or sociology.

The ideal candidate for this Junior Research Fellowship will have a strong background in one or more disciplines within the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences and have completed an outstanding doctoral thesis. It is not a requirement that the candidate’s doctoral studies or the work that they submit in support of their application should have concerned issues of race, but candidates will be expected to show in their applications both how their future work relates to the work that they have already done, and that they are able to situate their proposed project in relation to current research on race. The successful candidate will be expected to engage broadly with the whole college community and to organise academic activities in the form of seminars/workshops/conferences (for which the College will provide modest funding).

A Junior Research Fellowship is a postdoctoral position tenable for up to 4 years. Applications are welcome from graduates of any university. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD, and must not have undertaken more than 2 years of postdoctoral work by 1st October 2018 (i.e. your PhD cannot have been granted before 30th September 2016).

The closing date for applications is 9 a.m. on Tuesday, 19th September 2017. Full details, including the method of application, are given on the King's College website

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/junior-research-fellowships.html

King’s College follows an equal opportunities policy.