{"id":5179,"date":"2019-05-23T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5179"},"modified":"2019-05-23T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:51:16","slug":"may-2019-mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-for-the-study-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5179","title":{"rendered":"May 2019: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now accepted for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery. The fellowship will take place at Georgetown University for the 2019-20 academic year. More details are available at the American Historical Association&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.historians.org\/jobs\/rss\/12372018\/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-for-the-study-of-slavery-2019-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Career Center<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The posting notes that &#8220;candidates must be specialists in African-American religious history,&#8221; though it states a preference for &#8220;scholars of African-American Catholic communities.&#8221; All applicants are to have received their doctoral degrees, in a discipline within the Humanities, in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the fellowship at Georgetown, a successful applicant will &#8220;participate in ongoing research activities relating to <a href=\"http:\/\/slavery.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgetown University\u2019s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative<\/a>.&#8221; Such work might &#8220;include archival research and further development of the digital capacity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgetown Slavery Archive<\/a>.&#8221; Continued work on the applicant&#8217;s own research is to be expected as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for applications is June 15, 2019. Additional details on the application process and benefit associated with the fellowship are available at the AHA&#8217;s Career Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now accepted for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery. The fellowship will take place at Georgetown University for the 2019-20 academic year. More details are available at the American Historical Association&#8217;s Career Center. &nbsp; The posting notes that &#8220;candidates must be specialists in African-American religious history,&#8221; though it states a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5180,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5179","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5179\/revisions\/5182"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}