Funder: Cornell University
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application and recommendation letters, projected)
Funding Amounts: $68,000 per year for two years
Summary: Supports postdoctoral research and teaching at Cornell that apply linguistic approaches to questions of broad humanistic significance.
Key Information: Fellows must reside at Cornell, teach one course per semester, and participate in the weekly Fellows Seminar and luncheon.
Description
Cornell University’s Department of Linguistics administers this two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship with sponsorship from the Society for the Humanities. It supports scholars whose work brings linguistic approaches to problems of broad humanistic significance. Relevant subfields include historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, computational linguistics, phonology, and sociolinguistics.
The department seeks candidates who can communicate with and learn from both linguists and scholars in philosophy, literature, history, and anthropology. Connections may include critical theory, poetics, metrics, gender studies, post-colonial studies, prehistoric archaeology, human population genetics, language documentation, endangerment and revitalization, and globalization studies. Fellows pursue research in residence, hold departmental affiliations and joint appointments with the Society, and teach small seminars connecting their research and linguistic methods with broader humanistic questions.
