Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Archaeology of Indigeneity and Race

Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

http://graduate.as.virginia.edu/rising-scholars

Review of applications will begin April 12, 2023

Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Anthropology

Archaeology of Race and Indigeneity

As part of the Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Mellon Foundation, the UVA Department of Anthropology hopes to provide a departmental home to a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Archaeology of Race and Indigeneity.  We seek a rising scholar who will have received their Ph.D. degree between August 24, 2021, and August 24, 2023.

This two-year fellowship is part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ mission to further our understanding of racial inequality, and to enhance the career trajectory of an underrepresented scholar whose work engages long-term, global, and comparative dimensions of the intersection of race and indigeneity (to access the application portal, please follow the link at the top of this message). This position reflects our collective commitment to pursuing an on-going reexamination of anthropological archaeology, its fraught racial and colonial legacies, and its potential for grounded theory and collaborative research.

We welcome applications from all eligible scholars working in these areas, and especially those who:

• Tend to situational interactions of race, indigeneity, colonialism, diaspora, and migration through archaeological research.
• Use collaborative research methodologies.
• Do research in connection with deep-time histories, cultural heritage management, colonization, indigenous ontologies, landscape, gender, memory.
• Have active field programs and public engagement.