Thurgood Marshall Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025-27

Dartmouth College invites applications for the Thurgood Marshall Pre-to-Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of African and African American Studies. This fellowship supports scholars whose research addresses any geographies, disciplines, and interdisciplinary spaces across African Diaspora, African American, African, or Africana Studies. In addition, the fellowship promotes student and faculty diversity at Dartmouth, and throughout higher education, by supporting completion of the doctorate by underrepresented scholars and others with a demonstrated ability to advance educational diversity and inclusivity. Applicants will be selected on the basis of their academic achievement, promise in research and teaching, and demonstrated commitment to addressing underrepresentation in higher education.

This is a two-year residential fellowship in which the fellow is focused on their research and writing. We seek scholars who can contribute to building the intellectual life of the AAAS department and Dartmouth College. Fellows are expected to complete the dissertation at the end of their first year and then transition to a postdoctoral appointment for the second year. In the first year, predoctoral fellows receive an annual stipend of approximately $47,000 plus benefits and an allocation for research expenses. In the second year, postdoctoral fellows receive a stipend of approximately $61,000 plus benefits and an allocation for research expenses (exact funding levels for 2025-27 will be set at the time of offer). Fellows will teach one course in the second year.

The Marshall Pre-to-Postdoctoral Fellows are part of the Provost's Fellowship Program, a multidisciplinary cohort of approximately ten predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars who share a commitment to increasing diversity and inclusivity in their disciplines. Fellows participate together in mentoring and professional development programming, including guidance in preparing for faculty careers. Fellows are also supported by the Guarini School for Graduate and Advanced Studies, including their diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Dartmouth is committed to academic excellence and encourages the open exchange of ideas within a culture of mutual respect. People with different backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives make the Dartmouth community diverse, which enhances academic excellence. Applicants should address in their Fellowship Statement how their research, teaching, service, and/or life experiences prepare them to advance Dartmouth's commitment to diversity in service of academic excellence.

ABD in any discipline, with focus on African Diaspora, African American, African, or Africana Studies.

Please submit all materials electronically through Interfolio:

1. Research statement outlining completed research (including dissertation), work in progress, and plans for publication (maximum two pages single spaced);
2. Teaching statement outlining past and future teaching interests (maximum one page single spaced);
3. Fellowship statement describing motivations to join a multidisciplinary cohort in the Provost's Fellowship Program. Please also address how your research, teaching, service, and/or life experiences prepare you to advance Dartmouth's commitment to diversity in service of academic excellence (maximum one page single spaced);
4. Curriculum vitae, including the names and contact information for three references.

Review of applications will begin February 1, 2025 and continue until the position is filled. At a later date, semi-finalist will be asked to provide three confidential letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the dissertation advisor and address the projected timeline for completion. A writing sample may also be requested of semi-finalists.