Position Summary
The Humanities Research Center (HRC) will award two postdoctoral fellowships for a one-year appointment to participate in the 2015-16 Rice Seminar, “After Biopolitics.” The Rice Seminar is designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching and to support research projects in the humanities. Applicants’ research should explore biopolitical thought as it has developed over the past forty years, while bringing it into conversation with other intellectual genealogies that promise to reinvigorate, and be reinvigorated by, taking seriously the place of “life” in contemporary social, cultural, and political formations.
Fellows will take part in a yearlong residential research seminar, leading to the publication of an edited collection with a major university press, and will also be expected to participate in the annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, held at Rice on the same topic during November of 2015.
The fellows will teach one course each semester and are expected to make significant progress in their research. Courses will be determined in consultation with the appropriate department. Fellows will meet with other Rice Seminar affiliates regularly to share works in progress and otherwise participate in the intellectual life of the Center.
Salary will be commensurate with rank; Rice offers eligibility for medical benefits and an allowance for travel and relocation to Houston.
Applicants must have received the PhD between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2015.
The Online Application Form can be found at https://jobs.rice.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp