Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, with generous support from the Mellon Foundation, is pleased to launch its postdoctoral
program for the 2023–2024 academic year. Our postdoctoral fellowships provide focused
support for both research and concrete engagement with global racial justice issues and
campaigns. These humanities-centered fellowships will support scholars whose academic
research demonstrates a deep investment in the areas of inquiry related to anti-racism and social
inequality, at home and abroad. These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who
have received their Ph.D. or Masters degrees by permitting them to pursue their research while
also receiving guided mentorship.
The program supports a cohort of postdoctoral scholars engaged in full-time research and
writing for a one-year term starting September 1, 2023 (with the possibility of renewal).
Fellows in the program are supported by the institute and are provided with $5,000 for research
funds, a $60,000 annual salary, and further support including faculty mentor(s), office,
computer, and health benefits. In addition, fellows will have opportunities to access, review,
and/or collaborate with existing anchor institution equity activities that are happening within
the Rutgers University community. This cohort of fellows will participate in meetings and
workshops structured for the purposes of networking, social interaction, and supporting
professional development for fellows within the program. Applicants may request to be
affiliated with a particular campus across the Rutgers corridor and will teach one class over the
course of the academic year. In deciding placements, the ISGRJ will consider the postdoc’s
campus preference and the teaching requirements/needs of each campus.
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University is committed to the idea of the humanities as a discipline that travels beyond the university and engages the public
sphere. The institute will fuel and amplify the scholarship of researchers who are based in the
humanities or lean on humanistic methods and whose work has consequences in applied spaces
such as policy reform, K–12 education, the public arts, social justice work, public health, and the
carceral state. The institute is also committed to the creation of spaces for scholars to be in
conversation with communities, as both an aspect of scholarly inquiry but also for the purpose of
mutual sharing of knowledge between the university and its surrounding communities. The
ISGRJ draws from a range of fields, including visual, language, and other creative arts;
traditional humanities disciplines; new fields such as the digital and environmental humanities;
the humanistic social sciences; and research in law, public policy, and behavioral health.