Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics, AY

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Linguistics

Academic Years

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Linguistics invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning August 1, 2027. The fellowship carries a stipend of $68,000/year.

The Department of Linguistics seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellow from scholars who take a linguistic approach to problems of broad humanistic significance. Applicants might have expertise in any number of subfields including historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, computational linguistics, phonology, or sociolinguistics. We would like to see candidates who can communicate with and learn from both linguists and scholars in other fields, including philosophy, literature (critical theory, poetics, metrics, gender studies), history (post-colonial studies, prehistoric archaeology, human population genetics) and anthropology (language documentation, endangerment and revitalization, globalization studies).

Postdoctoral Fellows teach one course per semester. Candidates should propose an introductory, 2000-level course designed to appeal to students from across the University, and an upper, 4000-level course designed primarily for Linguistics students and advanced undergraduates in related fields. These courses should be conceived of as smaller seminars and their topics should directly relate to the candidate’s research and integrate linguistic methods in the subfields of either historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, computational linguistics, phonology or sociolinguistics with topics of more general humanistic import.

Applicants for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2027-28 and 2028-29 academic years must have received the Ph.D. degree after August 1, 2023, and before June 30, 2027. Applicants who do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application must include a letter from the committee chair or department stating that the Ph.D. degree will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins.

International scholars are welcome to apply, contingent upon visa eligibility.

For specific questions about the position or application process, please contact the Recruiter listed in the job posting or for general questions email mycareer.

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The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to support research and teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation, and a continuing society of scholars. The Society and its Fellows have fostered path-breaking interdisciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection on the humanities at large.

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows are invited to attend all of the Society’s events, and are expected to participate in the Society’s weekly Wednesday Fellows Seminar and luncheon.

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