The Department of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College seeks an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Humanistic Studies for the academic year 2025-2026 beginning August 1, 2025. The fellowship is renewable for a second year. This is a combined teaching and research fellowship, with the expectation that the fellow will teach two courses each year. Candidates must have a completed Ph.D. in Political Science or a related field by the start date.

The Political Science Department seeks a postdoctoral fellow with research strongly rooted in U.S. politics, including (but not limited to) American political development, political culture, power structures, race, or law. Comparative approaches using the United States as a central case would also be welcome. We are especially interested in fellows who can contribute to interdisciplinary growth in areas such as Migration Studies, Carceral Studies, or Queer Studies but would be open to a variety of other focus areas. This position will offer substantial time to devote to research. In addition, the postdoc will have faculty mentorship to support this research. The fellow would teach one 200-level course as well as a 300-level seminar, both of their own design. In the second year, Fellows may repeat these courses or offer new ones.

Please submit a cover letter; curriculum vitae; a statement of teaching philosophy; a writing sample; a statement of demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion; a sample syllabus; and arrange for two (2) letters of recommendation by April 14, 2025 to the Political Science Search Committee via Interfolio at: https://apply.interfolio.com/165461.  Applications received by April 14, 2025, will receive full consideration. The search committee will begin reading applications April 14, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.

Bryn Mawr College is a distinguished liberal arts women’s college with a vibrant faculty of scholar-teachers, a talented staff and intellectually curious students eager to make a difference in the world. The College is committed to increasing the diversity of its students, faculty, staff, and curricular offerings with a particular focus on enhancing ethnic and racial diversity and advancing social justice and inclusion. We believe diversity strengthens our community and enriches the education of our students. We have a student body of about 1,400 undergraduates (32 percent are U.S. students of color and 11 percent are international students). There are over 300 graduate students in coeducational graduate programs in social work, humanities and science. Bryn Mawr College is located in metropolitan Philadelphia and enjoys strong consortial relationships with Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr College is an equal-opportunity employer; candidates from underrepresented groups and women are especially encouraged to apply.

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The mission of Bryn Mawr College is to provide a rigorous education and to encourage the pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work. Bryn Mawr teaches and values critical, creative and independent habits of thought and expression in an undergraduate liberal arts curriculum for women and in coeducational graduate programs in arts and sciences and social work and social research. Bryn Mawr seeks to sustain a community diverse in nature and democratic in practice, for we believe that only through considering many perspectives do we gain a deeper understanding of each other and the world.

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