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The Climate Museum Fellowships (post-doctoral & undergraduate)
The Climate Museum seeks applications from humanities scholars who wish to engage the public on climate change and inequality, to fill a one-year full-time Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation. The Fellowship will run from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026.
About the Climate Museum
Contending with the climate crisis at scale requires a transformation of our public culture. The Climate Museum, the first museum in the U.S. dedicated to climate change, mobilizes the power of arts and cultural programming to accelerate this crucial shift toward climate dialogue and action, empowering visitors with the understanding that they can take meaningful action for climate justice, creating community for collective action, and popularizing solutions that emphasize justice and equity. The Museum sees cultural work on climate both as a humanistic end in itself and as a means to inspiring action for climate justice and clean energy policies.
In its proof-of-concept phase, which began in 2018, the Museum presented 17 exhibitions, ten of them with partners including the Parsons School of Design, Rockefeller Center, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; held 355+ events—including panels, workshops, performances, and more; and welcomed 165,000+ visitors. The Museum recently secured a 25,000 square foot permanent home for its exhibitions, programs, and events, which is scheduled to open in 2029. Its free, accessible exhibitions, art installations, advocacy tools, events, and youth programs have received wide recognition in the cultural sector and beyond, and empowered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to exercise their agency in the global climate movement.
The Fellowship
The Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate Humanities and Social Justice will serve on the team responsible for the development and implementation of Climate Museum programming, including exhibitions, art installations, and public programming. Further, the Fellow will be responsible for developing and teaching a seminar at the intersection of climate, justice, and the humanities at The New School. They will provide critical scholarly vigor and intellectual depth to enrich a climate humanities and justice framework throughout the Museum’s work. The Fellow will be encouraged to propose and help implement creative new approaches to engaging the public on these issues.
The Mellon Fellowship is open to all candidates who have received their PhD in any humanities discipline within the last five years and who have experience in climate and social justice. Although the position is an at-will employment position, the intent is for the Fellow to be in residence at the Museum full-time from August 2025 through July 2026. The Museum’s office is located in New York City.
The Fellowship offers an exceptional opportunity for those eager to work in a dynamic, growing organization at the intersection of culture, climate, and justice and to meet the rising public demand for pathways into climate engagement and action. The position will include hands-on, immersive public humanities experience developing and expanding the programmatic content and public engagement strategy for the first museum in the U.S. dedicated to climate change.
For more (and for the undergraduate fellowship description) see: https://theclimatemuseum.submittable.com/submit
theclimatemuseum.submittable.com
The Climate Museum Application Manager
The Climate Museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions.
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