The value of the fellowship in 2025-2026 will be $50,000 CDN. The teaching stipend is determined by the PSAC collective agreement and is approximately $9,334 per one-term course, for a total salary of approximately $59,334 per year.
Required Education:
Doctorate
The Department of History at Queen's University invites applications for the Global Indigeneity Post-Doctoral Fellowship, generously funded by Professor Nancy van Deusen, Principal Emeritus Daniel R. Woolf Professorship of Humanities. We are seeking a scholar specializing in Global Indigeneity, with a focus on the patterns of colonization, imperialism, enslavement, violence, and/or land dispossession that have shaped the experiences of peoples in the Americas.
We are particularly interested in scholars with place-based understandings of Indigeneity who are conducting research on the similarities and differences in how colonized peoples in the Americas have responded to past and ongoing land dispossession and sovereignty struggles.
Potential themes of interest include, but are not limited to:
Environmental knowledge and Indigenous adaptation to environmental changes
Animal-human relations from Indigenous perspectives
Territorial sovereignties and Indigenous governance
Public health and climate justice
Cross-border movements and cultural exchanges
The Anthropocene and its impacts on Indigenous peoples
Global trade and its intersections with Indigenous economies
We especially encourage applications from scholars focusing on Indigenous peoples of the Americas during any historical period.
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 one-year term commencing 1 July 2025 with the possibility of renewal 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 one semester-long course on global indigeneity per academic year. The course offerings will be determined in consultation with the Chair of the Department of History.
The value of the fellowship in 2025-2026 will be $50,000 CDN. The teaching stipend is determined by the PSAC collective agreement and is approximately $9,334 per one-term course, for a total salary of approximately $59,334 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:
a cover letter that outlines current or proposed research project(s) to be pursued during the fellowship and ideas for courses in global indigeneity that the candidate would be interested in teaching at Queen’s
a complete and current curriculum vitae
letters of reference from two referees
a writing sample such as a dissertation chapter or article
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 28 February 2025. The final appointment is subject to budgetary approval.
Please visit our websites for more information about the Department of History. Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Professor Amitava Chowdhury (a.chowdhury@queensu.ca).
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.