Postdoctoral Fellow, Intellectual Pluralism and the Scholarly Habitus

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Position Description Position DescriptionThe Postdoctoral Fellow will work on a project directed by Professors and , within a new Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute focused on intellectual pluralism and the changing scholarly habitus in higher education.


This Collaborative brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how professors and students understand and navigate political similarity and difference; how they interpret and practice academic freedom; how they manage the boundary between their roles as scholars and as citizens; and how these dynamics shape research, teaching, student experience, and the production and circulation of knowledge.


Drawing on survey and qualitative methods, and informed by scholarship in sociology, anthropology, political science, history, STS, and related fields, the project will generate new empirical evidence and conceptua...