Postdoctoral and Research Fellows Program

The Watson School offers a range of postdoctoral and research fellowship opportunities for outstanding young scholars in the social sciences. The program supports participants in their own research, enhances their interdisciplinary literacy, and contributes to meaningful and enduring collaborative exchange.

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Postdoctoral and Research Fellows Program

The Watson School offers a range of postdoctoral and research fellowship opportunities for outstanding young scholars in the social sciences. The program supports participants in their own research, enhances their interdisciplinary literacy, and contributes to meaningful and enduring collaborative exchange.

Participants will join an interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in theoretically and substantively important research addressing the most pressing global issues of our time.

The Watson School’s unique structure — including scholars from a wide range of disciplines who are also appointed in partner departments — allows postdoctoral research associates to benefit from a broad academic community while remaining closely connected with top scholars in their discipline. This structure enables them to pursue research and participate fully in the intellectual life of the Watson School.

Postdoctoral research associates will also teach one seminar course per year of up to 19 students, as well as present a work in progress to an interdisciplinary group.

Applying to the Program

We are currently accepting applications for three types of Watson School postdoctoral positions and all are joint appointments with partner departments. This fall we are accepting applications for joint postdoctoral appointments with the Department of Anthropology (deadline Oct. 15), the Department of Political Science (deadline Jan. 20) and the Department of Sociology (deadline Oct. 15).

Later in the fall semester, we will be accepting applications for joint postdoctoral appointments with the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences and the Department of Computer Science. 

Details for three active searches are below. Please note that there are two different deadlines for the active searches. 

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Watson School Postdoctoral Research Associates

  • Justus Bamert

    Justus Bamert

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    justus_bamert@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Children & Families, Education, Labor, Social and Economic Policy
  • Petter Berg

    Petter Berg

    Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    petter_berg@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Education, Labor, Social and Economic Policy
  • Kate Birkbeck

    Kate Birkbeck

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
    kate_birkbeck@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, International Economics, Politics, and Security, Law Enforcement & Policing, Political Economy, State & Municipal Policy, Technology & Innovation, Technology and Policy
  • Deren Ertas

    Deren Ertas

    Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
    deren_ertas@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise International Economics, Politics, and Security, International Development, Social and Economic Policy, Technology and Policy, Bureaucracy, Energy & Environment, Environmental Justice, Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Political Economy, Supply Chains
  • Neil Johnson-Rogers

    Neil Johnson-Rogers

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
    neil_johnson-rogers@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Inequality & Poverty, Labor, Political Economy, Social and Economic Policy, Technology & Innovation, Technology and Policy
  • Andrew Kenealy

    Andrew Kenealy

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
    andrew_kenealy@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise US Foreign Policy
  • Casey McQuillan

    Casey McQuillan

    Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    casey_mcquillan@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Labor, Social and Economic Policy, Tax Policy
  • Shelby O'Neill

    Shelby O'Neill

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
    shelby_oneill@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Immigration, Displacement & Borders

Center, Initiative, and Program Postdoctoral Research Associates

  • María Ballesteros

    María Ballesteros

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Rhodes Center
    maria_ballesteros@brown.edu
    Research Interests Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geopolitics, Rhodes Center
  • Max Bradley

    Max Bradley

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Climate Solutions Lab
    max_bradley@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Economy, Climate Politics, Distributive Politics, Comparitive Politics, energy transitions
  • Joseph Essig

    Joseph Essig

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Taubman Center
    joseph_essig@brown.edu
  • Mircea Gherghina

    Mircea Gherghina

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Climate Solutions Lab
    mircea_gherghina@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental policy, energy transitions, economic sociology, science and technology studies, social stratification, sociology of organizations, computational social science
  • Albina Gibadullina

    Albina Gibadullina

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Rhodes Center
    albina_gibadullina@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Global Finance & Banking, Political Economy
  • William Kidd

    William Kidd

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Taubman Center
    william_kidd@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Democracy & Elections, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, Rights and Democracy
  • Chikezirim Nwoke

    Chikezirim Nwoke

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Africa Initiative
    chikezirim_chima_nwoke@brown.edu
    Research Interests Youth livelihood, Neoliberalism, Gig Economy, International Development, Cyberfraud, Ethnography, Africa, Statehood, Policy, Violence, Knowledge Production, Gender, New Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Izaura Solipa

    Izaura Solipa

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs, Rhodes Center
    izaura_solipa@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise International Economics, Politics, and Security, Political Economy, Macroeconomic Policy

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