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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Pembroke Center annually supports three or four postdoctoral research fellows in residence for an academic year. Candidates who do work that is qualitative and humanistic in nature are drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences. Fellows may not hold a tenured position. The Center has an annual research focus.

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

The Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows for 2009 - 2010 are:

David Machledt
Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow
Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007
Project title: "Moving Risk: Tuberculosis, Migration and the Scope of Public Health at the U.S.-Mexico Border"

Anita Starosta
Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow
History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009
Project title: "Aberrant Subjects and New Borders: Sex Trafficking in Expanded Europe"

Sonja van Wichelen
Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow
Social Sciences (Anthropology & Sociology), University of Amsterdam, 2007
Project title: "Markets, Adoptee-Bodies, and Transnational Ethics: The Cultural Pragmatics of Global Adoption"


To Apply as a Postdoctoral Fellow

Click here for application and deadline information

For questions or for additional information, contact Donna_Goodnow@brown.edu.