Fred and Dorothy Chau Mellon Pre- or Postdoctoral Fellowship

Full time Education

Job Description

Fred and Dorothy Chau Mellon Pre- or Postdoctoral Fellowship

Pomona College seeks applications for the Fred and Dorothy Chau Mellon Pre- or Postdoctoral Fellowship, an in-residence, two-year position, beginning July 1, 2025. This fellowship is open to scholars in the creative, performing, and visual arts, humanities or social sciences (including science and technology studies) whose work engages with or centers the critical study of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality or community-based research and learning. Fellows teach two courses each year and are also responsible for public presentations. The Fellowship stipend is $65,000.

Pomona College is a member of the Consortium for Faculty Diversity which, through its fellowship programs, seeks to diversify faculty at small liberal arts colleges. The Fred and Dorthy Chau Mellon Pre- or Postdoctoral Fellowship, reflects the college’s long commitment to increasing diversity and cultivating inclusion within the professoriate. We seek to attract pre- or postdoctoral fellows with demonstrated commitments to improving higher education for underrepresented students through their teaching, scholarship, and mentoring. You may find more information, including eligibility requirements, and the link to the application on our website.

Located in Southern California, Pomona College is a selective liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 1700 undergraduate students and is a founding member of the Claremont Colleges, which include Claremont McKenna, Scripps, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, Keck Graduate Institute and Claremont Graduate University. Collectively, the Claremont Colleges constitute an academic community of 8,000 students. As a result, Pomona students enjoy both the personalized instruction and close faculty-student interactions afforded by a small liberal arts college as well as the intellectual and extracurricular resources typically found at larger universities. In collaboration with the Claremont Colleges Consortium, Pomona College offers a variety of professional development, mentorship, and networking opportunities for fellows.

Please submit a cover letter in which describes teaching and research interests, CV, three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample (12-20 pp) by December 1, 2024 to Academic Jobs Online (https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28923). Review of all applications will begin by December 1. Pomona College departments will submit their nominations between January 17-24, 2025 and on-campus interviews for three finalists will begin in early February. Pomona College does not petition work authorization visas for this fellowship program.