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The Princeton Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is an interdisciplinary program that combines the efforts of a diverse group of faculty, programs, and schools to develop a dynamic understanding of urban issues past, present, and future. Its theme, Cities on the Edge, encompasses several interrelated concepts, including the juncture of built/natural environmental studies, center/ periphery, hemispheric comparatives, migration, New Jersey urbanism, social justice, the humanities as a force of change, and the margin as a place of radical possibility. Additional information about its themes and program may be found at https://arc-hum.princeton.edu/.

We seek to hire fellows with an abiding interest in multi-disciplinary work focused on the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities. Candidates can come from any discipline. They may be academics, designers, and/or practicing writers or artists. The individual may teach or team-teach an interdisciplinary course on some aspect of urbanism (contingent upon sufficient enrollments and approval from the Dean of the Faculty) and participate in Initiative events.

Deadline: February 17, 2025

Assistant or Associate Professor, Historic Preservation, Public History of the Built Environment, University of Pennsylvania
Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

The Department of Historic Preservation at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, welcomes applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor to conduct graduate-level instruction, advising, and research in historic preservation. We especially seek scholars who have both 1) research and teaching experience related to the public history of the built environment, ideally with a specific emphasis on social and/or environmental justice, and 2) heritage-based professional practice. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2025. The complete position description and application information can be found here: apply.interfolio.com/161050.

The Urban Humanities Network (UHN) is excited to announce and invite you to a weekend of intellectual collaboration, community building, and shared meals in St. Louis, Missouri on October 16-18, 2025.

Building on the success of the inaugural (Un)Conference 1 in Tucson, Arizona, in March 2023, we will continue navigating toward the future of urban humanities in St. Louis at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) for the (Un)Conference 2! Wash U is proud to host the upcoming convening and is excited to share the areas in which they have cultivated focused efforts toward urban and public humanities scholarship and practice. 

We warmly invite Letters of Interest (LOI) for participation in (Un)Conference 2. We invite submissions showcasing work situated at the intersections, edges, and territories of design, urban studies, and the humanities.  Please visit our website, www.urbhum.net and the attached call for proposals (CFP) for more details.

The deadline to submit a Letter of Intent is January 31, 2025.

Sign up for updates to stay in touch as we make our way together to St. Louis in 2025!

The Environmental Design Archives (EDA) is pleased to offer two short-term research fellowships to support scholars conducting interdisciplinary and innovative research on-site at the EDA, located within the College of Environmental Design in Berkeley, California.

See HERE for full details. 

Deadline: March 3, 2025

Open Cultural Studies - an open access journal published by De Gruyter (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/culture/html) - invites applications for Section Editors for the Architecture and Urban Studies section.

Main responsibilities:

- handling the evaluation process of assigned manuscripts

- playing an active role in the development of the journal

Requirements:

- Ph.D. in relevant discipline

- good command of English

- enthusiasm and punctuality

The position requires occasional work and is not remunerated.

Applications, including CV and a cover letter, will be collected by Managing Editor of the journal Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com) until November 30, 2024.

In the subject of the e-mail, please enter: application / Section Editor [title of the section] / Open Cultural Studies / [your name]

Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OpenCulturalStudies/

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan invites applications for the Fishman Fellowship, established by and named in honor of Professor Emeritus Robert Fishman. 

This fellowship is open to individuals who are in the process of completing or have recently completed a Ph.D., a professional degree in architecture or urban planning, a research-oriented post-professional master’s degree, or a research-focused master’s degree. Potential fields of study include architecture, urban design, urban planning, urban history, urban policy, urban affairs, racial and spatial justice, urban development, environmental planning, and urban strategy

The ideal candidate should be engaged in a significant interdisciplinary research project in urbanism, broadly defined, and should have a research focus that would benefit from a two-year fellowship among colleagues and students actively exploring the history, theory, and practice of urbanism.

The Fishman Fellowship provides an opportunity for early-career scholars and practitioners in urbanism to develop a project that could take the form of a publication, exhibition, or symposium. Fellows will spend two years in residence, during which they will engage in teaching responsibilities while pursuing their research project. The fellowship offers resources for project development, opportunities to collaborate with scholars and researchers across the broader university community, and a platform to present the fellowship outcomes at a public event hosted by the college.

Taubman College is committed to advancing architectural and urban planning education through diverse epistemologies, experiences, histories, methodologies, and technical and conceptual competencies. The ideal candidate will be intellectually open to the various forms of urbanism taught at Taubman College and enthusiastic about the opportunity to teach students in architecture, urban design, urban technology, and/or planning.

For full details and to apply, visit taubmancollege.umich.edu/fellowships.

Deadline: December 9, 2024

The UHA invites submissions for our 11th biennial conference, Metropolitan Majorities in Los Angeles, California! 

We welcome full session and individual paper proposals on any aspect of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history in the United States and globally.

See our CFP HERE. 

The UHA is thrilled to announce the winners and honorable mentions of our 2024 awards cycle, including the inaugural winners for two new awards:

Joe William Trotter Jr. Prize for First Book in Urban History

and

Lynn Hollen Lees Prize for Best Book in European Urban History

We are excited to add these awards to our annual award offerings!

See the winners here! 

The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.  

The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. Works of art from The Met collection should be central to the discussion. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship—art historical, technical, and scientific—whereas Research Notes are narrower in scope, focusing on a specific aspect of new research or presenting a significant finding from technical analysis, for example. The maximum length for articles is 8,000 words (including endnotes) and 10–12 images, and for research notes 4,000 words (including endnotes) and 4–6 images. 

The process of peer review is double-anonymous. Manuscripts are reviewed by the Journal Editorial Board, composed of members of the curatorial, conserva­tion, and scientific departments, as well as scholars from the broader academic community.

Articles and Research Notes in the Journal appear in print and online, and are accessible in JStor on the University of Chicago Press website.

The deadline for submissions for Volume 60 (2025) is September 15, 2024.

Submission guidelines: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct

Please send materials to: journalsubmissions@metmuseum.org

Questions? Write to Elizabeth.Block@metmuseum.org

 

Inspiration from the Collection: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

View the Journal: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/met

The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to: monographs, popular narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources.

Individuals or institutions may submit up to two works published between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. Deadline: July 31, 2024. 

Full submission details HERE.