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Postdoctoral Research Positions re: State, Church, and Body Politics in Post-Communism

Deadline: May 1, 2025

The University Lucian Blaga Sibiu (ULBS), Romania, invites applications for three (3) postdoctoral research positions to work in the FERBOPO project, funded by the European Research Area (ERA) Chair.
Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Period: 24 months fixed contract starting on 1 November 2025, with the possibility of renewal for an additional 24 months based on positive evaluation
Number of Hours per Month: 168 (full time equivalent)
Salary: 3,800 Euros per month, including taxes

Description of project: The FERBOPO project aims at building a new research group focused on the complex relationship between State, Church and Body Politics in post-communism that would foster excellence in social sciences and better integrate ULBS in the ERA. Under the guidance of ERA Chair Prof. Lavinia STAN, the new research group will engage in research related to State, Church and Body Politics, attract competitive research funding, and assist ULBS to implement institutional reforms that align with ERA priorities.

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Acad. Job; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Eastern Europe/Eurasia (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Postdoc in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2025-2027)

Administration-Russian & East European Studies – Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh – (25000688)

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) at the University of Pittsburgh is offering a postdoctoral fellowship for Social Sciences scholars whose work focuses on Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia. This fellowship is a two-year appointment starting August 2025. Fellows will be expected to pursue their own scholarly work and participate in the academic and intellectual activities of REEES, University Center for International Studies (UCIS), as well as the Department(s) with which they become affiliated. 

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Fellowships: Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Deadline: March 31, 2025

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia would like to remind you of our
Open Calls for international fellowships for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Our programmes are designed for researchers from the social sciences and the humanities at different stages of their career from all over the world.

Additional information can be found further below.

CAS Sofia Fellowships for 2025/2026:

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Job: Program Coordinator, Dept. of German, Russian, and E European Languages (Rutgers)

Posted: January 15, 2025; Open until Filled

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Program Coordinator I for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

  • Provides administrative programmatic support to the SAS – Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures and all affiliated programs, by coordinating the administration of programs, projects, departmental operations, and/or processes, and management of the preparation and control of records, statistics, reports and documents.
  • Prioritizes work, resolves routine conflicts and issues, and prepares and implements administrative guidelines and procedures for the department.
  • Supports and oversight includes fiscal management, procurement, expense reimbursement, course scheduling, and human resources/academic personnel related processes and transactions.
  • Schedules appointments, arranges and coordinates logistics for events and meetings.
  • Creates and disseminates departmental communications, informational and marketing materials, and manages departmental listservs and databases.
  • Provides office administrative support to the department chair.
  • Processes various administrative documents and data.
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Job: Remote Translators Needed for Legal Interpretation, Russian (Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network)

The Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (GAIN) is a nonprofit organization that protects and empowers immigrant survivors of crime and persecution. We are seeking individuals who can provide remote Russian-English interpretation for nonprofit lawyers working with detained Russian-speaking immigrants. These individuals are held in immigration detention with little to no access to legal representation. Providing interpretation ensures that GAIN attorneys can expand their legal services to a population that is disproportionately detained and often isolated while in detention.

Payment is $25/hour. All interpretation sessions will take place virtually via Skype. Scheduling for client meetings is flexible, with meetings occurring between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM EST and lasting no longer than an hour on any given day.

If interested, please email your contact information to Alizeh Sheikh at asheikh@georgiaasylum.org. We will maintain your contact information on a private internal list and contact you only as needed.

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OVD-Info Prize for Master’s and PhD Research on Repression, Surveillance and Censorship in Contemporary Russia

Deadline: January 31, 2025

OVD-Info, in collaboration with several universities and faculty, has announced its inaugural prize competition for Master’s and PhD research on repression, surveillance, and censorship in contemporary Russia.  The text of the announcement is below, and more information and the application form are available at: https://en.ovdinfo.org/competition.

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2025-2026 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society (University of Toronto)

Deadline: February 14, 2025

The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto is accepting applications for the Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society for the 2025-2026 academic year. The objective of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship is to support annually one of the most promising junior scholars studying contemporary Ukraine and thereby to advance academic understanding of Ukrainian politics, culture, and society. The Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation.

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Three Research positions for OPUS-Weave project “Non-Ukrainians in  Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–1921″

Deadline: December 18, 2024

  The National Science Center (NCN) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) co-funded project “Non Ukrainians in Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–1921” (NURU) invites prospective candidates to  join this collaborative four-years project with one research team at the Polish Academy of  Sciences and another one at the University of Vienna. The Warsaw team will consist of three  researchers and the Vienna team of four researchers. The following three positions will be filled: 

1. Germans [or] Greeks [or] Moldovans/Romanians in revolutionary Ukraine (PhD position  Vienna) 

2. Levels, degrees, and combinations of cooperation among non-Ukrainian nationalities (PostDoc or PhD position Warsaw)  

3. Belarusians, Polesians, and Tutejszi in times of a nationalising revolution (PostDoc or  PhD position Warsaw)  

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Job: Outreach & Scholarships Coordinator (UT Austin, Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies)

Deadline: Open Until Filled; Posted November 27

Join the CREEES team as a K-16 Outreach and Scholarship Coordinator at The University of Texas at Austin! We are actively seeking a driven and highly organized individual with a profound commitment to education. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for orchestrating comprehensive outreach programs directed towards educators and K-16 students, collaborating with both local and national institutions.

The ideal candidate will be an effective communicator with a varied skill set, including proficiency in project management, curriculum development, and event coordination. In this role, you will play a crucial part in advancing K-16 educational accessibility and bolstering academic achievement for students and educators alike. You will also be the lead on student scholarship administration for our center, which will include learning and managing the LASSO university-wide scholarship system at UT Austin. This exciting new platform streamlines the scholarship application and awards process and expands the applicant pool.

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Job: International Program Specialist (US Department of Commerce)

Deadline: March 12, 2025

CLDP is looking for an energetic, innovative and results oriented individual who will enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced and mission driven organization as an International Program Specialist who will support CLDP’s work on programs related to telecommunications and the information and communicaton techonology (ICT) sector under the Digital Connenctivity and Cybersecurity Partnership (DCCP), public procurement, public private partnerships, competition, trade facilitation, sustainability and anti-corruption.

As an International Program Specialist, you will perform the following duties:

  • Serve as a liaison with government officials, regulators, judges, and other high-level diplomatic, community, and business leaders in foreign countries.
  • Assist attorneys with the design and implementation of technical assistance programs.
  • Assist with analyzing the impact of programs and writing reports to the U.S. Department of State and other government agencies identifying CLDP’s activities and achievements.
  • Identify and secure the logistical support needed to execute technical assistance programs through multiple procurement mechanisms.
  • Develop, plan and prepare overall program budgets based on CLDP interagency agreements including tracking budgets as expenditures occur, notifying funding agencies of spending rates, and sending regular bills for CLDP programs.
  • Travel overseas to prepare and assist with implementing trainings, workshops and consultations.
  • Monitor federal regulations and departmental policies to ensure that all CLDP plans and expenditures comply with the relevant requirements.

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: You must be fluent in reading, writing and speaking in one of the following languages: Spanish, French, or Russian. This information must be documented in your resume.

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