For August 2023-May 2025 at Syracuse University

The Syracuse University Lender Center for Social Justice, with funding from the MetLife Foundation and in collaboration with Syracuse University faculty in the Social Differences, Social Justice Research Cluster, is offering a two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship at Syracuse University to Ph.D. (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:

1. 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.)
2. 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.)
3. 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 early March will be given priority consideration. Application instructions and a list of post-doctoral fellow expectations can be found at the University’s Human Resources website. If you have questions about the position, email lendercenter@syr.edu.