The Buell Center at Columbia University seeks a recent doctoral recipient to join its intellectual community for a 21-month fellowship (two academic years and an intervening summer) as a Buell Center Research and Teaching Fellow. Ideal candidates will be scholars of the built environment who are beginning an academic career of research and teaching, with a growing record of original writing intended for peer-reviewed publication. Complementary experience, such as design, curatorial, critical, or fourth-purpose organizing work, is welcome but not required.The 21-month fellowship will begin September 1, 2027, and is intended to give Fellows a chance to advance their own research, gain teaching experience, and take part in the ongoing intellectual life of the Buell Center; the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP); and Columbia University. The Fellow will be co-hosted by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.The Fellow is expected to be in residence at Columbia for two academic years and will remain a Fellow in the intervening summer, but is not required to be in residence. In addition to presenting their research once yearly in a formal setting, Fellows will teach at least one semester as faculty in GSAPP’s architectural history survey course, “Questions in Architectural History” (QAH). The Fellow may also propose to teach a separate course within GSAPP based on their own research.The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture is a separately endowed entity within Columbia GSAPP, which sponsors interdisciplinary research through projects, workshops, public programming, publications, and awards.

A recent PhD degree in Architecture or a related field is required by the start date of the appointment. PhDs granted within the last three years prior to the appointment start date are acceptable.Successful candidates:- must have a PhD conferred within three years of—and no later than—the start date of the appointment, i.e., the date of the degree should be between September 1, 2024, and September 1, 2027. – must demonstrate an interest in pushing the disciplinary or methodological norms of architecture and related fields of the built environment- should have a growing record of bridging across disciplines in the humanities or social sciences- may be focused on any historical period and geographic area in their research.