Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Position description

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he Johns Hopkins University is pleased to invite applications for the position of Patrick Henry Scholar, a two-year postdoctoral fellowship offered by the Department of Political Science. 

People in motion, and the regulation of their movement, are a key dimension of global and local orders. The imperial world involved distinctive forms of movement, including flows of slaves, settlers and labor. The national/international world that followed initiated population transfers to fit national borders and erected a mobilities regime of regulations, rules and norms to facilitate, regulate and restrict their movement across borders, thereby institutionalizing migrant categories and hierarchies. This regime, along with the American world power that underwrote it, is now in crisis. Central to this crisis are the politics of migration and the ways in which they have unsettled domestic, regional and international order, in and beyond the United States.

This two-year early career postdoctoral fellowship will support research concerned with some aspect of the global politics of mobility and American world power. As mobility is simultaneously a global and local matter, national and international, we invite applications from scholars across Political Science subfields whose work fosters cross-field, interdisciplinary synergies that move beyond isolated cases.

Qualifications

Applicants must show demonstrated excellence in their research and have completed their PhD in political science between 2020 and June 30, 2025. The fellowship term will begin on July 1, 2025, and will end on June 30, 2027. The Patrick Henry Scholar will normally teach one undergraduate course and one graduate seminar over the course of the fellowship and will be expected to participate fully in the intellectual life of the Department of Political Science, including giving a formal research presentation to faculty and graduate students. The Patrick Henry Scholar will also benefit from faculty mentoring in the Department.

Application instructions

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