About this position
Property and Poverty. What is property - a cornerstone of personal freedom, a glue that keeps communities together, or a tool for oppression? Is it an institution rooted in the nature of society or an invention of the state? Does property require poverty as its corollary? The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University seeks applications from scholars researching the history of property and dispossession, wealth and poverty, and the practices of owning and disowning things, people, bodies, and ideas. The Davis Center invites applications from historians studying the intellectual, legal, religious, cultural, and economic histories of property and poverty, and from social historians who explore the world of the impoverished, the practices of poor relief, the causes of poverty, and the mechanisms of dispossession. All approaches are welcome, including but not limited: the history of intellectual property and copyright, the history of the commons, the lived experience of poverty, various forms of individual and collective ownership and resistance to them, the administrative and informational technologies enabling the development of property, and the religious and moral aspects of poverty and ownership. Intellectual, environmental, and economic historians, as well as historians of art, gender, race, sexuality from antiquity to the modern period, whose work engages with these subjects, are encouraged to apply. The Davis Center offers appointments for either one semester (usually September-January or January-June) or the academic year. Though the Center can normally offer funding for only a single semester, it welcomes the residence of year-long Fellows who combine Center support with funds from elsewhere. Applicants are encouraged to apply for external funds or sabbatical support and to apply for a year's Fellowship if they have a reasonable expectation of bringing additional funds with them. The Davis Center fellowships are residential.
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