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.
Apply to Join the Idaho Society of Fellows
The Society of Fellows is searching for two post-doctoral fellows to join the Society in July of 2023. Please reach out if you have any questions at all about the positions, we are more than happy to help!
» Chicanx, Public, or American History Post-Doctoral Fellowship Position
The Department of History and the Idaho Society of Fellows is now accepting applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in American History, anticipated to begin July 10, 2023. Fellows will pursue their own research and teach one course per semester.
The History department is particularly interested in recruiting candidates (1) with expertise on Public History, (2) expertise in Chicanx History, or (3) whose work complements existing departmental research strengths.
» Political Science-Post Doctoral Fellow Position
The Department of Politics and Philosophy and the Idaho Society of Fellows is now accepting applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Political Science, anticipated to begin July 10, 2023. Fellows will pursue their own research and teach one course per semester.
The successful candidate will be able to teach core courses for the Master in Public Administration program such as Local Government Politics and Administration, Public Administration Theory, Public Personnel Administration, and Research Methods for Local Government and Community Administration. The ideal candidate will also be able to teach courses for the undergraduate political science degree like American National Government.
Colloquium Speakers
Soviet Knowledge, Soviet Encyclopedias: Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Date: Jan. 31, 2023
Location: Clearwater - ISUB
Outlier Species in Human-Animal Studies: Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Date: Feb. 7, 2023
Location: Clearwater - ISUB
In our efforts to examine the history of our relationships with animals, animal domestication is always a topic of great discussion and debate. Emily Hull, a member of the Idaho Society of Fellows, is a zooarcheologist who specializes in domestication studies, human-animal studies, non-human paleopathology, historical archaeology, and multispecies ethnographies. She is currently researching non-human cultural histories of circumpolar and circumboreal ungulates.
Mud and Water: Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Date: March 7, 2023
Location: 116 - Lionel Hampton School of Music
In this presentation, postdoctoral fellow Sally Powell (Martin Institute) will examine the physical realities of serfdom during the first half of the 19th century in Russia and the ways in which a serf, Nikolai Nikolaevich Shipov, chose to convey those realities in his autobiography. Powell's current work charts the consistency of serfs' and peasants' material existence during the 19th and 20th centuries in Russia and the Soviet Union.