JOB OPPORTUNITY
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Racial Wealth Gap at the Syracuse University Lender Center for Social Justice
Hiring institution: Syracuse University
Location: Syracuse, New York | United States
Application deadline: Open until filled
The Syracuse University Lender Center for Social Justice, with funding from the MetLife Foundation, is offering a two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship at Syracuse University to PhD (or equivalent) scholars with compelling projects that address the Racial Wealth Gap in the United States.
The Lender Center for Social Justice welcomes scholarly project proposals based on humanistic,
theoretical, empirical, case study, or applied research that addresses any of the following three
tracks:
I. Structural and systemic factors positively or negatively impacting the building of
generational wealth [e.g., slavery, settler colonialism, and historic legacies of racialized
violence, racial capitalism, mass incarceration, inheritance laws, etc.]
II. Policies and practices that generate or minimize racial wealth disparities [e.g., redlining,
urban renewal schemes, tax policy, predatory financing, healthcare burdens, racially
disparate housing appraisals, etc.]
III. Individual and organizational-level factors influencing educational attainment, skills
acquisition, and career development [e.g., educational inequities, hiring queues, corporate
programs, etc.]
Within each track, projects are invited that:
(1) identify and capture factors leading to or minimizing the racial wealth gap
(2) capture the long-term impacts of the racial wealth gap
(3) offer solutions to minimizing the racial wealth gap that are data driven and evidence-based
(4) present arts- or humanities-based research as an alternative means of evidencing data and
documenting narratives conveying either lived experiences of the racial wealth gap, or promising
solutions.
Proposals that consider women, the disabled, and other historically marginalized groups are
especially encouraged.
The position will be open until filled. Candidates applying by late March will be given priority
consideration. Application instructions and a list of post-doctoral fellow expectations can be
found at https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/97353. If you have questions about the position,
please email LenderCenter@syr.edu.
