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The Black Studies Project (BSP) at UCSD invites applications for 1 or 2 postdoctoral fellows. The position is a 12-month appointment beginning any time after January 1, 2023.

During this time of social unrest, state-sanctioned and vigilante-led violence, health and education inequality, and emergent forms of data-driven and algorithmic bias, Black Studies scholarship remains vitally important. BSP focuses on sustaining faculty and student intellectual life at UCSD, while building active relationships with local organizers, artists, and community groups. As such, we seek a postdoctoral fellow whose work attends to public-facing community work and/or intersections of Black Studies with fields that impact contested framings of public life.

BSP focuses on three areas vital to contemporary African American and African Diaspora Studies: Intersectional Analysis of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality; Transnational and Diasporic Studies; and Social Justice Movements. We look forward to supporting scholars addressing topics in one of the following areas:

• Work grounded in black feminist studies, gender studies, and/or queer studies
• Critical analyses at the intersection of black studies and STEM fields
• Analyses of historical periods pre-1900 that shed light on present-day and/or world-building concerns

The research areas may include fields and disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, or STEM fields with a focus in Black Studies and/or Black communities in the African Diaspora.

Postdoctoral Overview:

• This is a residential postdoctoral fellowship. This position comes with full benefits through the University of California, San Diego, research funds, shared office space and work equipment. The actual appointment salary step will be based on previous postdoctoral experience. For more information on UCSD postdoctoral scholars, please visit https://postdoc.ucsd.edu/postdocs.
• Together with BSP Directors, the candidate will identify a dedicated mentor with whom they will meet regularly throughout the fellowship.
• Postdoctoral fellows facilitate periodic research workshops and public lectures, and participate in BSP events throughout the year as an active interlocutor.
• The fellow will present their work in a public forum during the fellowship period.
• Teaching potential at the graduate and undergraduate level. The teaching component of the position will be under the lecturer title, (1630/1632)

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