The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, is currently accepting applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for two fellows, who will be appointed to a one year term renewal for a second term beginning July 1, 2016.

The Mellon Postdoctoral Program encourages innovative teaching, enriches educational and research opportunities in the humanities, and fosters the career development of a select group of promising young scholars. Fully one-third of the Krieger School’s faculty is engaged in humanities departments, where scholarly and pedagogical excellence has been the standard since the university’s founding in 1876.

Each fellowship carries a departmental affiliation and the responsibility of teaching one course per semester. The initial stipend is $61,060 with an additional $2,000 available for research and travel expenses. Health insurance and a one-time moving allowance of $2,000 are also provided. Appointments are for one year, renewable for a second year.

Humanities departments and an interdisciplinary committee of Krieger School faculty members will review applications and select fellows for 2016–17. Fellows will be selected based primarily on applicants’ scholarship and promise, as well as their abilities to fill research and teaching needs within the university’s humanities departments.

Applicants should have completed the PhD in one of the following fields: history, English, history of art, musicology, classics, anthropology, German and romance languages and literatures, philosophy, comparative literature, history of science and technology, Near Eastern studies, no earlier than June 30, 2011, and no later than June 30, 2016.