Idaho Society of Fellows | Post-doc Opportunities at the University of Idaho
Housed in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, the Society constitutes a new initiative to broaden the sphere of interdisciplinary and collaborative research in the humanities and social sciences.
Each year, the Society will recruit three postdoctoral fellows for two-year appointments. The fellows will teach two general education courses per year and will otherwise engage in their research and participate in the academic life of the college. These postdoctoral fellowships will provide professional support and development and work closely with faculty mentors and graduate students and will engage in interdisciplinary initiatives across the campus.
The fellowships are generously funded by CLASS endowments and a partnership with the Office of Research and Economic Development. Candidates are drawn from the following fields:
- Political science
- History
- Anthropology
- International/global studies.
Annual Speaker Series
Title: From Michoacán to The Pacific Northwest: An Indigequeer Migrant Counter-Archive
- Time
- 2 - 3:30 p.m.
- Date
- Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Location
- Aurora Room, ISUB
Speaker: fabian romero
Bio: This talk starts with how my family settled in the Pacific Northwest, breaking multiple generations of cyclical migration as temporary migrant workers. I explore how the immigration process compounds the struggles of queer migrants, some conditions in Michoacán that force migration for campesinos and Indigenous people from the P'urhépecha region, and the legacy of the Bracero program. The second part of this talk explores how I built a relationship with the land that my family settled on as a queer P'urhépecha in the diaspora.”
Topic: fabian (P’urhépecha) is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies and affiliated faculty in American Indian and Ethnic Studies at the Ohio State University. fabian’s work explores the manifestations of colonial heteropatriarchy in contemporary mestizo P’urhépecha heritage family structures in Michoacán and the diaspora. You can find their work in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer, Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity, Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, and their self-published chapbook Mountains of Another Kind.
Title: Monarchy, Media, and the Politics of Reform in Saudi Arabia
- Time
- 2:30 p.m. (Opening Reception with light refreshments)
- 2:45 p.m. - 4 p.m. (Presentation and Moderated Q&A)
- Date
- Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Location
- IRIC Atrium
Speaker: Dr. Safa Al-Saeedi
Bio: Safa Al-Saeedi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marist College. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and a Predoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University.
Topic: Dr. Al-Saeedi will focus on how changes in access to media, including the cassette tape and the Internet, have affected the balance of power among Saudi liberal, reformist, and conservative elites in the context of their potential to influence policy reforms in select issue areas.