Recruitment/Posting Title Post-Doctoral Fellowship - The New Jersey Immigrant Laborers’ Monument Project Department of American Studies Department SAS - American Studies Salary Annual Salary Posting Summary The New Jersey Immigrant Laborers’ Monument Project, and the American Studies department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, seek a postdoctoral fellow for a calendar-year appointment that begins on August 1, 2025, and ends on July 31, 2026. (The fellow is only required to be in-person at Rutgers during the academic year, 9/2/25 to 5/13/26.) This fellowship is funded by the Mellon Foundation Monuments Project.The New Jersey Immigrant Laborers’ Monument Project is organizing a series of public events, to take place in the fall and winter of 2025/2026, in which community stakeholders will collaborate with public artists to create monument installations and other programming exploring immigrants and migrants’ contributions to the state as laborers. Examining immigrants who came to New Jersey from abroad, as well as groups who moved internally within the United States, this project grapples with the xenophobia, hostility, and exclusions that working-class migrants have historically encountered, despite providing essential labor. Rarely is the public given the opportunity to engage with art and history that commemorate the difficult, unglamorous, but crucial work that migrants supply. This project provides a national model for how public space can be critically reinterpreted through monuments that take the form of installations, performances, and tours that highlight the histories of im/migrants who toiled as servants, industrial workers, and agricultural laborers. This project will use public art and history to facilitate conversations about relationships between work, migration, race, and citizenship today.This fellowship carries a 1/1 teaching load. The fellow will teach one interdisciplinary undergraduate course, based out of the American Studies department at Rutgers, New Brunswick, and one interdisciplinary undergraduate course, based out of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers, Newark. (Newark and New Brunswick are about 30 minutes apart from each other, by NJ Transit, which runs frequently. Both campuses can also be reached from New York City.) These courses, to be developed in partnership with the project team, can focus on any number of themes related to the subjects of migration and labor, so long as they highlight community engagement and the creation of content and programming that connects the conversations, dialogues, and oral histories that will be occurring at the project’s public events.The fellow will also be expected to help organize, participate in, and lead some of the public events, programs, and discussions connected to this project. A certain amount of travel around the state of New Jersey will be expected, and attendance at occasional evening events, but a car or driver’s license is not required.The fellow hired for this project will gain firsthand experience collaborating with artists and community stakeholders on a groundbreaking project that seeks to make labor and migration histories accessible to broad audiences. The expectation is that the fellow will deprioritize their own research for a year, in exchange for the chance to help lead a cutting-edge public humanities project.Questions? Please email Andy Urban, aturban@rutgers.edu, Associate Professor, American Studies & History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and Project Director. Position Status Full Time Posting Number 25FA0049 Posting Open Date 01/17/2025 Posting Close Date 05/31/2025