Slavery North Job & Fellowship Opportunities 2025-26
Slavery North is pleased to announce two unique fellowship opportunities for the 2025-26 academic year:
Slavery North also announces two exciting job opportunities:
About Slavery North:
Founded in 2022, Slavery North is a one-of-a-kind academic and cultural destination where scholars, thinkers, artists, and cultural producers build community and produce research and cultural outcomes that transform our understanding of the neglected histories of Transatlantic Slavery in Canada and the US North. Slavery North is led by Founding Director, Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At the heart of Slavery North is a fellowship program that welcomes national and international students, artists, and scholars, providing them with the space, funding, time, and community to produce transformative research outcomes.
About Slavery North Fellowships:
Slavery North fellows actively participate in both the scholarly and social environment of the center. With support of Slavery North leadership, fellows conduct independent research and create original works in one or more of the five mandate areas of Slavery North which include 1) Canadian Slavery, (2) slavery in the US North, (3) the comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions, (4) the study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery, and (5) Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery. Furthermore, the research must center on the enslaved and/or adopt an anti-colonial, de-colonial, post-colonial, and/or anti-racist methodology/approach which challenges the nature of European and Euro-American imperialism and colonialism and interrogates the racist logic of the institution of Transatlantic Slavery.
Artist-in-Residence Call for Application:
Artistic Categories: Applicants can be active in any of the following fields or areas of creative production: cinema and filmmaking, ceramics, mixed media, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and fiction writing (including novels, plays, screenplays, poetry etc.).
Minimum Qualifications:
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High School Diploma or equivalent; and
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Applicants must demonstrate evidence of consistent creative output of a high standard, a strong record of exhibitions and/or public engagement, and participation in professional, academic, creative, or community organizations.
Applications close: March 2, 2025 Eastern Standard Time
Full Job Description and Application Portal:
Visiting Research Professor Call for Application:
Minimum Qualifications:
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PhD; and
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Must hold a full-time academic appointment at another institution of higher learning.
Applications open until the position is filled. Applicants are encouraged to apply promptly.
Full Job Description and Application Portal:
Associate Professor (tenured) Public History / Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative Job Opportunity:
The Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenured position in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. The appointment will be at the Associate Professor level beginning Fall 2025. For its initial three years (with potential for renewal) the position will be affiliated with Slavery North, an initiative that seeks to advance social justice by centering the cultures, experiences, lives, and resistance of enslaved peoples in Canada and the US North while bolstering public understanding of the social and cultural impacts of trans-Atlantic slavery and its legacies in the North, including how that history manifests in anti-Black racism today.
Priority deadline of March 8, 2025. The search will remain active until the position is filled.
Full Job Description and Application Portal:
Director of Curriculum and Outreach Job Opportunity:
The Director of Curriculum and Outreach manages Slavery North’s developing strategies to interpret and share research findings with academic and professional organizations, the community, and the media. The Director plans and organizes panel discussions, exhibitions, screenings, conferences, workshops, and other in-person and virtual events. Additionally, the director is responsible for developing historical and art historical curricula for all educational levels and for academic and lay audiences in this emerging field of study.
Applications close: June 1, 2025 Eastern Standard Time. This position will remain open until filled or the advertised closing date, whichever occurs first. Early submissions are recommended.
Full Job Description and Application Portal:
Questions:
Please contact Emily Davidson by email: emilydavidso@umass.edu
Stay tuned:
Announcement of fellowship opportunities for undergraduate honors, MA, and PhD students coming soon!
More Slavery North:
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