Postdoctoral Fellowships
Since 2015-2016 the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies supports a number of postdoctoral fellowships, intended to offer one year’s support to recent Ph.D. graduates of the Northwestern History Department in order to help them to advance their research and publication agenda, as well as gain additional teaching and work experience. The fellowship is open to historians who have gained their PHD within the three years prior to the fellowship year. For more information see the left-hand banner and click on Postdoctoral Fellowship Application.
The Chabraja Postdoctoral Fellows together with the graduate Breen and Quinn Fellows form a small, but significant CCHS scholarly community, which meets regularly at the Center (see People).
2024-25 CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Chabraja CCHS Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships
- Sarah-Louise DAWTRY
- Conrad Yu HIRANO
- Holly SWENSON
Chabraja Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public History
- Emily LYON (Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library)
- Charlotte ROSEN (Public Books online journal)
2023-24 CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
The Center, jointly with the Material History Laboratory of the History Department, conducted a GLOBAL SEARCH (open to candidates worldwide) for a postdoctoral scholar in African material history.
Chabraja Postdoctoral Scholar in African Material History
Chabraja Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships
- Claire ARNOLD, teaching a 292 class on the History of Western Marriage (Spring 2024)
- Colin BOS, teaching a 393 class on Science and Decolonization (Spring 2024)
Chabraja Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public Service
- Chernoh BAH—at The Africanist Press
- Erica GILBERT-LEVIN—at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, UIC (January through August 2024)
- Gil ENGELSTEIN—at the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
- Charlotte ROSEN—at online Public Books magazine
2022-23 CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Chabraja CCHS Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships
- Gil ENGELSTEIN
- Robin POKORSKI
Chabraja History Department Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships
- Marcos Leitão De ALMEIDA
- Andrea ROSENGARTEN (Fall 2022)
Chabraja Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public Service
- Ruby DAILY (online magazine Public Books)
- Guangshuo YANG (Chicago Leather Archives and Museum)
2021-22 CHABRAJA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
This year we will have an exceptional number of postdoctoral fellows in collaboration with the History Department and other institutions, such as the Newberry Library and the online publication Public Books. The teaching postdocs are offering small "re-entry seminars" to help undergraduates move from remote learning to in-person classes.
Chabraja CCHS Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowships (History 200 seminars)
- Bennett JONES—seminars on "#History: How to Tell the Story of Vast Early America" —Fall and "Period Pieces: US History as Told by Popular Culture"—Winter
- Vanda RAJCAN—seminars on "Propaganda: The Power of Lies"—Fall and "Historians in Trouble"—Spring
Chabraja History Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship (History 200 seminar
- Aram SARKISIAN—seminar on "One Nation Under God? Talking About American Exceptionalism"—Fall; co-teaching “History of the Present” with Lauren Stokes—Winter
Chabraja Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public Service
- Michelle BEZARK (Start Early)
- Gideon COHN-POSTAR (U.S. Congress)
- Ruby DAILY (Public Books online publication)
Chabraja Newberry Library Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Gabrielle GUILLERM (Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography)