The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2025.
Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Description
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is an academic program exploring the historical and contemporary intersections of empire, migration, and racial hierarchy. It hosts programming both on and off the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus and serves as home to a new undergraduate major, Critical Diaspora Studies.
The Chloe Center invites scholars conversant in ethnic studies and its adjacent disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, 2025–2027.
The postdoctoral fellowship, beginning on July 1, 2025, will support recent doctoral degree recipients (Ph.D. awarded no earlier than January 1, 2021) whose scholarship engages with questions and topics directly related to the Chloe Center’s mission.
The Chloe Center remains committed to analyzing institutional racism and probing connections among areas too often considered separately from one another, connections created by entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The Center thus seeks scholars whose work moves beyond singular identitarian modes of knowledge production to study the overlaps, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—such as Asian-American, African diaspora, Indigenous studies, and Latinx studies. The fellow will engage actively JHU’s interdisciplinary community of scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students, as well as members of the wider public in Baltimore. We seek, especially, candidates interested in extending their research and public engagement in new directions in partnership and mentorship with Chloe Center faculty.
The fellow will carry out their own research and contribute to organizing campus and public-facing events. Over two years, the fellow will teach no more than five undergraduate courses in the Critical Diaspora Studies major. The fellow will also be invited to participate regularly in Chloe Center and other campus programming.
The Critical Diaspora Studies major consists of four tracks: Migration and Borders; Global Indigeneities; Empires, Wars, and Carceralities; and Solidarities, Social Movements, and Citizenship. The major emphasizes community-engaged learning and comparative and transnational methods. It was primarily envisioned by student activists. Scholars whose work engages with the Critical Diaspora Studies tracks of Global Indigeneities or Migration and Borders are particularly encouraged to apply.
Compensation
Fellows will be appointed for two years and will receive an annual stipend of $70,000, health insurance, and modest moving and research budgets.
Application
To apply, please provide a cover letter outlining a research and teaching agenda, a CV, a chapter- or article-length writing sample, and two course overviews (title, level/type of course, and one paragraph description), as well as the names and contact information for two references.
Submit applications at Interfolio. Applications received by March 1, 2025, will receive the best consideration.
Johns Hopkins is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The University is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Consistent with the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will assess the comprehensive qualifications of each applicant.