Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships
The University of Notre Dame announces the creation of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, a university-wide initiative to support highly motivated scholars seeking to make a difference in the world. The College of Arts and Letters will appoint and host a cohort of six postdoctoral fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
The Department of Art, Art History, and Design is a vibrant, multidisciplinary department offering graduate and undergraduate programs in studio art, art history, and design. We provide students with intellectually informed instruction in critical visual studies within the context of the liberal arts at an international Catholic research university.
We are particularly interested in welcoming a postdoctoral fellow in art history who can contribute to our department’s support of Notre Dame’s quest to become a more global institution. The division of Art History has strengths in the art of the Americas, and the Mediterranean. The program offers a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, as well as a Graduate Minor in Visual and Material Culture. Notre Dame’s Raclin Murphy Art Museum and the Hesburgh Library Special Collections offer excellent opportunities for research. The university’s centers and institutes such as the Medieval Institute, the Institute for Latino Studies, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies showcase the breadth of our faculty’s interdisciplinary Scholarship.
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
The Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) is a large, dynamic department that provides a liberal arts approach to the study of film, television, and theatre with a unique mix of course offerings in production, design, writing, performance, history and theory.
Inquiries about the department or the postdoc position can be directed to Michael Kackman (mkackman@nd.edu).
Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies
One of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships will be a German studies scholar housed in the Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Notre Dame (formerly the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures). German Studies is conceived broadly, as we will consider not only literature scholars but also doctorates from other fields, such as history and philosophy.
All areas of expertise within German studies are welcome, but we view the ideal candidate as someone who can work with multiple faculty members. Our strengths in German studies include, but are not limited to, literature and philosophy, German intellectual history, literature and history, literature and religion, literature of the early twentieth century, and film studies.
Department of History
The Department of History is thrilled to be part of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program. We are a vibrant, collegial community of rigorous scholars, one of the preeminent humanities departments in the United States. Our department’s strengths include histories of the United States, Europe, and Latin America as well as histories of capitalism and religion. Areas where we intend to grow or have emerging strength include histories of Africa, South Asia, and East Asia. We are home to over 200 undergraduate majors and minors, a robust graduate program, and a lively intellectual community. As the University of Notre Dame embarks on its new strategic initiative, we are well positioned to grow and increase our impact on a global scale.
Inquiries about the department or the postdoc position can be directed to Paul Ocobock (pocobock@nd.edu).
Medieval Institute
The Medieval Institute is a leading center for the study of the Middle Ages in the world. In 2021, it celebrated its 75th anniversary. It is housed in the Hesburgh Library, one of the best research libraries for medieval studies, with a growing manuscript collection. It collaborates with sixty-five fellows, who represent twenty-two disciplines and educate the brightest new scholars in the field at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It regularly hosts visiting fellows, conferences, lecture series, and workshops.
This dynamic intellectual community is dedicated to integrated multidisciplinary inquiry. Its many strengths include Art History, Byzantine Studies, Liturgy, Manuscript Studies, Music, Philosophy, Theology, and Arabic, English, French, Germanic, Italian, Latin, Slavic, and Spanish Languages and Literatures. It looks to build on these strengths and to support the aims of the university’s Strategic Framework through its participation in the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
Department of Sociology
Our department has a reputation for being both collegial and supportive without sacrificing ambition – Notre Dame Sociology is the fastest-rising department in the country, according to the U.S. News and World Report.
The Department of Sociology at Notre Dame has long-standing excellence in the sociology of culture, education, movements and politics, religion, and theory. In recent years, we have established strengths in several sociological areas, including gender and family, global and transnational, race, and stratification. The faculty embraces a range of innovative methodological approaches and has expertise that covers the globe.
We especially welcome applications from scholars who contribute to one or more existing areas of departmental strengths listed above while also helping to expand into new areas of expertise. Postdocs in our department can benefit from a range of workshops and training seminars in culture and theory, education, ethnography, gender, networks and computational methods, politics and movements, race and ethnicity, and religion. Postdocs can fruitfully benefit from association with our department's centers: the Center for Research on Educational Opportunities, the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and the Center for the Study of Social Movements.