Funder: Cornell University
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $68,000 per year for two years
Summary: Supports postdoctoral research and teaching connecting linguistic methods with questions of broad humanistic significance.
Key Information: Fellows must reside at Cornell, teach one course per semester, and participate in weekly Fellows Seminars.
Description
Cornell University’s Department of Linguistics, with sponsorship from the Society for the Humanities, offers a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars taking linguistic approaches to problems of broad humanistic significance. Relevant subfields include historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, computational linguistics, phonology, and sociolinguistics.
The department seeks scholars who can communicate with and learn from researchers across disciplines. Connections may include philosophy; literature, including critical theory, poetics, metrics, and gender studies; history, including post-colonial studies, prehistoric archaeology, and human population genetics; and anthropology, including language documentation, endangerment, revitalization, and globalization studies. The fellowship combines scholarly work with research-related undergraduate teaching and participation in Cornell’s interdisciplinary humanities community.
