Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) at the University of Michigan invites applications from scholars working on Africa or the African diaspora for the Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Consideration will be given to all disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and, in some cases, law, business, urban planning, and other professional schools. Scholars from or who study the Gullah-speaking Sea islands, Cape Verde islands, the Anglophone Caribbean, the Canary Islands, Madagascar, and/or other less studied areas are especially encouraged to apply. This is a residential fellowship for the academic year. The fellowship package is worth $56,000 plus benefits. Included in the package is a stipend of $52,000, which also includes health insurance, a total of $3,000 to support research and scholarly travel expenses, and up to $1,000 for the cost of relocation to Ann Arbor. Successful candidates can expect to maintain affiliations with DAAS and departments and research institutes related to their projects. Fellows will be expected to conduct a DAAS work-in-progress seminar on their research during one of the semesters in residence in the form of a five or six-week “mini-course" as well as to be a presenter in at least one colloquium during the academic year. The mini-course should be designed to expose a small group of upper-level undergraduates and graduate students to new, specialized, and advanced research topics in Afroamerican and African Studies.