Senior Research Fellowship - Black Europe and the Atlantic World

The Department of Modern Languages, in conjunction with the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University, invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable senior research fellowship in Black European Studies. We encourage scholars with deep interest in the study of culture and identities in Europe. We seek a confirmed scholar whose work is grounded in a transdisciplinary understanding of race within the Atlantic World, a researcher who will ultimately sustain the Center's mission into the future.

CBESA is an interdisciplinary research hub dedicated to the collection, production, restoration and dissemination of scholarship on people of African descent in Europe, and the study of exchanges between Black Europe, Africa and the Americas. Led by its founder, Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang, the center aims at fostering collaboration between scholars, educators, policy makers and communities, as well as producing educational programs on transatlantic circulations of Blackness.

The successful candidate will benefit from a strong and growing support of interdisciplinary humanities research and teaching at Carnegie Mellon, including such initiatives as the Center for the Arts in Society, Humanities@CMU, the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy and Askwith Kenner Global Languages and Cultures Room.

Carnegie Mellon University is committed to increasing the diversity of its community on a range of intellectual and cultural dimensions. Carnegie Mellon welcomes applicants who will contribute to this diversity through their research, teaching and service. We seek to meet the needs of dual-career couples and is a member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) that assists with dual-career searches. Please visit "Why Carnegie Mellon" to learn more about life in Pittsburgh and becoming part of a welcoming institution that inspires innovations.

A completed PhD.

Applicants should submit 1) a current CV, 2) a cover letter addressing research, teaching, and 3) the names and contact information for three professional references.

Please direct inquiries to: Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang, Director-Founder of CBESA mniang@andrew.cmu.edu