The Jewish Studies Program in association with the Department of History at Queen's University invites applications for the Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. The temporal and thematic area of specialization is open and includes any area of research related to Jewish history. The fellowship will be awarded to a scholar with a completed PhD who has a record of outstanding teaching. The fellowship will be awarded initially for a two-year term commencing 1 July 2024 and is renewable for an additional one-year term. A postdoctoral supervisor will be named based on the successful candidate’s field of specialization.

The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active scholarly profile and to teach three semester-long courses on Jewish history, broadly defined, per academic year. Course offerings will include a combination of lecture and seminar courses in the incumbent’s area of specialization, as determined in consultation with the Chair of the Department of History with input from the Director of Jewish Studies.

The value of the fellowship in 2025-2026 will be $42,000 CDN. The teaching stipend is determined by the collective agreement and is approximately $9,334 per one-term course, for a total salary of approximately $70,000 per year.

The university invites applications from all qualified individuals. Queen's is strongly committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace and encourages applications from Black, racialized/visible minority and Indigenous/ Aboriginal people, women, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQ+ persons. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

The university has policies in place to support its employees with disabilities, including an Accommodation in the Workplace Policy and a policy on the provision of job accommodations that take into account an employee's accessibility needs due to disability. The university will provide support in its recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant’s accessibility needs. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please contact Jenn Lucas at jenn.lucas@queensu.ca.

Postdoctoral fellows at Queen's University are governed by two collective agreements. The terms of the overall appointment are governed by the Collective Agreement between PSAC 901, Unit 2 and Queen’s University. The candidate will also be appointed to a term adjunct teaching position, which is governed by the Collective Agreement between QUFA and Queen’s University. Information about these bargaining units, including the Collective Agreements can be found on the Faculty Relations Office’s website.

Application Instructions:

Applications should be submitted electronically in a PDF format and include the following:

1. a cover letter that outlines current or proposed research project(s) to be pursued during the fellowship and ideas for courses in Jewish history that the candidate would be interested in teaching at Queen’s
2. a complete and current curriculum vitae
3. letters of reference from two referees
4. a writing sample such as a dissertation chapter or article
5. any other relevant materials the candidate wishes to submit such as a teaching dossier

Please arrange to have applications and supporting letters sent electronically to history.chair@queensu.ca. Applications will be received until 15 January 2025. The final appointment is subject to budgetary approval.

Please visit our websites for more information about the Department of History and the Jewish Studies program. Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Professor Rebecca Manley (manleyr@queensu.ca).

About Queen's University

The History Department at Queen’s is home to a community of world-recognized scholars whose research and curiosity span the globe. Our faculty are equally dedicated to the classroom and have received multiple awards for teaching and mentoring. A uniquely-structured undergraduate program puts majors into challenging seminar classes from second year on, while offering all students, whatever their major, an exciting variety of general-interest courses exploring most regions of the world and ranging in time from the middle ages to yesterday. The M.A. and Ph.D. program, large for a university of our size, has traditionally been a top training ground for historians of Canada and the British empire. Today, it also boasts dynamic research clusters in global history, the history of gender and sexuality, intellectual and legal history, the history of race, and medieval history.

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