Opportunities
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Call for Papers: ‘Writing the Francophone Caribbean Woman: Memory, Resistance, Imagination’
Following the success of our previous bilingual issue of MaComère which was dedicated to the Hispanophone Caribbean, this peer-reviewed journal by the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) invites submissions for a special bilingual issue focused on women’s writing in the Francophone Caribbean.
This issue seeks to explore the literary, cultural, political, linguistic, religious and imaginative worlds shaped by Francophone Caribbean women writers across genres, generations, and diasporic spaces. We welcome scholarly and creative engagements with voices emerging from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, French Guyana, and the wider Francophone Caribbean diaspora.
Haitian Studies in Dialogue – A Pre-Conference Symposium
The Haitian Studies Association (HSA) and the Haiti-DR Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) are pleased to invite proposals from PhD students, early career researchers, and advanced (senior) scholars to participate in a one-day symposium to be held at the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel (14th arrondissement) on May 25, 2026 from 0900 until 1700.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: Haitian Community and Demographic Study (Nov. 30, 2025)
The City University of New York’s Haitian Studies Institute (CUNY-HSI) invites proposals for the first community and demographic study of Haitians in New York City and surrounding counties. Over the last 20 plus years, Haiti has seen many significant political changes that have spurred immigration to New York City, one of the largest Haitian communities in the United States. Through this study, we look forward to better understanding the diverse make-up of the community including recent migrants as well as long established individuals and families. A chief goal of the study is to collect valid and reliable information that can inform strategic planning, service delivery, financial resource investments, and marketing and communications of Haitian communal organizations to New York City and State government agencies. We are particularly interested in going “beyond the numbers” to understand the sense of connection, relationship, and motivations that form complex Haitian diasporic identities.
2025 Call for Nominations for the H.S.A. Board
The Haitian Studies Association is powered by the volunteer service of dedicated members who serve on the Board of Directors. If you meet the requirements and feel prepared to serve at this time, please consider submitting a nomination by September 14th for our upcoming elections!
In 2026, HSA has a particular need for leadership and energy to steward projects related to: immigration and human rights, community-institution partnerships, academic and public engagement, communication and media, fundraising and financial stability.
CaribOx Visiting Fellowships & Travel Grants (Sept. 19, 2025)
The call for 2026 applications for the Caribbean Oxford Initiative, ‘CaribOx’, is now open.
CaribOx is a new visiting fellowship and travel-grant programme designed to support researchers across all disciplines based at Caribbean research institutions and to facilitate collaborations with researchers based at the University of Oxford.
IIE-SRF Fellowship (July 27, 2025)
The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) is the only global program that arranges, funds, and supports fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide. These year-long fellowships of USD $25,000 support temporary academic positions at institutions of higher learning anywhere in the world where IIE-SRF fellows can continue their work in safety. In most cases, IIE-SRF fellows are eligible to apply for a second and final year of fellowship support.
IIE-SRF accepts applications on a rolling basis, and fellowships are awarded quarterly. Applications must be submitted no later than July 27, 2025 for possible consideration at IIE-SRF’s Selection Committee meeting in September 2025.
Call for Nominations: 2025 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize (May 28, 2025)
The Haitian Studies Association (HSA) is pleased to announce the 2025 HSA Book Prize, awarded biennially to an outstanding scholarly monograph that offers a rigorous analysis and original perspective on Haitian society, culture, and history. The prize aims to recognize exceptional contributions to the field of Haitian Studies.
The Mapou: Peer Support Groups
THE MAPOU: RASIN GROUPS FOR EMERGING (AND EMERGED!) SCHOLARS seeks to hold space for any member of HSA to have the opportunity to build professional relationships that foster community, accountability, and career advancement/discernment. Mapou participants commit to joining a Rasin Group that meets throughout the year. Mapou meetings are structured around a set of questions that help move professionals toward the program goals of building intentional community, creating accountability, and supporting professional advancement.
The Mapou relies on an unwavering commitment to being in attendance and fully participating in assigned Rasin Groups. Participants are asked to commit to attending all 4 meetings with their Rasin Group and to communicate with their peers when they are unable to participate. All HSA members are encouraged to participate, regardless of tenure, race, age, gender, sexuality, or religious/spiritual practice, and should be willing to work towards forming an inclusive, decolonized Rasin Group.
Call for Participation: Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies (Apr. 15, 2015)
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is pleased to announce its third call for open educational resources (OER) in Caribbean studies. Please see the 2024 stipend recipients and 2023 stipend recipients and read the project page for details.
This project builds on over a decade of efforts across dLOC’s network of educators to share teaching tools, ideas, and practices. Over the years, educators have freely shared syllabi, recorded lectures, lesson plans, and selections of primary sources. We recognize that in general, educators frequently share teaching resources with one another, but often these resources are inaccessible or unknown to the broader community. The OER program is an effort to make these types of resources more widely available.
Journal of Haitian Studies – Special Issue: Call for Abstracts (Mar. 30, 2025)
Our issue, “‘Citizens of the World’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas,” engages with the demand by the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (2022) to place (re)situate refugee epistemologies and lifeworlds at the very center of knowledge production. Drawing inspiration from Ustin Pascal Dubuisson’s Sobrevivientes: ciudadanos del mundo (2018), we invite abstract submissions that explore how Haitians in mobility reject labels like “refugee” and instead position themselves as survivors and global citizens, challenging the humanitarian narrative of the victim needing rescue. Haitians in mobility offer new, self-generated narratives that challenge contemporary humanitarian ideologies.
Smith College: Massachusetts – Lecturer of African and/or Afro-Caribbean Religions (Mar. 10, 2025)
The Department of Religion at Smith College invites applications for a 1-year, benefits eligible position at the rank of Lecturer in African and/or Afro-Caribbean religions to begin July 1, 2025. Teaching responsibilities will include 5 courses at the survey and upper levels, with an emphasis on the indigenous traditions of sub-Saharan Africa and/or the Caribbean. Courses might include a first-year seminar, a general introduction, one or more specific theme-focused courses, and possibly a comparative course that puts the religious traditions of Africa or the Caribbean in conversation with other religions beyond those respective regions. Ph.D. or ABD status in a relevant field is expected by the time of appointment.
Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective – Call for Applications (Jan. 31, 2025)
The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC) invites applications for our week-long residential digital humanities institute, to be held at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in June 2025. The CDSC supports the growth and development of digital humanities scholarship, training, and infrastructure for the Caribbean and its diasporas. Our Caribbean Digital Scholarship summer institute (CDSsi) will train scholars, at all levels, working at the intersections of Caribbean Studies and digital humanities. Thanks to a generous Mellon Foundation grant, the CDSC will be able to cover travel and accommodations for fellows selected for participation in the summer institute.
2025-2026 AUC Research Travel Award (Feb. 3, 2025)
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library is offering a research travel award to educators, graduate students, and independent researchers who would benefit from access to the manuscript and archival holdings in the Archives Research Center. The awards are to support teaching, research, and scholarship that will broaden awareness about these unique resources.
2025 Freedom and Justice Institute Fellows Cohort (Nov. 15, 2025)
The Freedom and Justice Institute (FAJI), an endeavor of Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ), aims to facilitate and support liberatory study and knowledge production by university and independent scholars whose work advances movements for freedom and justice. Under the leadership of Professors Davarian Baldwin, Cathy Cohen, Lorgia García Peña, Barbara Ransby, and Ananya Roy, with Dr. Saudi García as Executive Director, FAJI is a space of collectivity and community within, against, and beyond the confines and corporate values of institutions such as the U.S. university. There are many urgent areas of resistance and contestation, but the struggle over ideas and the right to dissent, especially on college campuses, is critical as it is intimately linked to larger and global struggles.