Slavery North Initiative Fellowships

Slavery North is pleased to announce three fellowship opportunities for the 2026-2027 Academic Year

The deadline for all Slavery North fellowship applications is Sunday, September 21, 2025.

About Slavery North Fellowships
The Slavery North fellowship program welcomes national and international students, artists, and scholars, providing them with the space, funding, time, and community to produce transformative research outcomes. Slavery North Fellows actively participate in both the scholarly and social environment of the center. Slavery North Fellows, with support of Slavery North leadership, conduct independent research and create original works in one or more of the five mandate areas of Slavery North which include 1) Canadian Slavery, (2) slavery in the US North, (3) the comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions, (4) the study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery, and (5) Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery. Furthermore, the research must center on the enslaved and/or adopt an anti-colonial, de-colonial, post-colonial, and/or anti-racist methodology/approach which challenges the nature of European and Euro-American imperialism and colonialism and interrogates the racist logic of the institution of Transatlantic Slavery.

Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor

See Full Job Description and Apply: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/527921/visiting-open-rank-research-professor

Graduate Student Fellow (MA, MFA, or PhD)

See Full Job Description and Apply:  https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/527920/slavery-north-research-fellow

Artist-in-Residence Fellow

Link to Full Job Description and Apply: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528032/slavery-north-artistinresidenceresearch-fellow

Questions can be directed to: Emily Davidson emilydavidso@umass.edu