Closing date not specified (ordered by post date)
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NEW [posted 21 April 2024]
British Academy
Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/
Closing date: to be announced (early-mid October 2024?)
including
UCL Institute of Archaeology
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2024/apr/marie-sklodowska-curie-and-british-academy-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024-25
internal deadline: 11 July 2024
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[posted 2 March 2024]
Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology
https://bioanth.org/jobs/3853/
primary: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13417
Closing date: open until filled (posted 15 February 2024)
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ANNOUNCEMENT/EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST [posted 1 August 2023]
University of Würzburg
Centre for the Study of Magical Text Traditions of West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity
MagEIA: Magic between Entanglement, Interaction, and Analogy
Fellows Programme
https://ancientesotericism.com/2023/07/31/mageia-research-fellowships/
primary: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/dfg-centre-for-advanced-studies-mageia/fellows/fellowship-information/
Closing date: expressions of interest (posted 1 August 2023)
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[posted 30 August 2012]
Humboldt Foundation
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/humboldt-fellowship-postdoc.html
Feodor Lynen-Forschungsstipendium Das Auslandsstipendium für deutsche Professoren und Postdocs
primary: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/lynen-stipendium.html
Closing date: year-round
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Closing date (in descending order)
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NEXT [re-posted 2 April 2024]
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
https://www.bisi.ac.uk/grants-scholarships/
Pilot Project Grants
in all fields of the arts, humanities or social sciences, concerned with any time period from prehistory to the medieval era to the present day.
http://www.bisi.ac.uk/content/pilot-project-grants
Research and Conference Grants
from the full range of arts, humanities and social sciences subjects, and topics may cover any time period from prehistory to the medieval period to the present.
http://www.bisi.ac.uk/content/research-and-conference-grants
Closing date: 1 April 2025 (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 16 March 2024]
University of Cincinnati
Classics Department
Tytus Summer Residency Program & Tytus Fellowship Program
primary: http://classics.uc.edu/index.php/tytusinfo
Closing date: 15 March 2025
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NEXT [re-posted 16 February 2024]
The American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR)
ACOR FELLOWSHIPS
primary: https://acorjordan.org/fellowships-2/
Closing date: February 2025? (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 2 February 2024]
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Grants
primary: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants
Closing date: 1 February 2025? (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 2 February 2024]
University of Notre Dame
Medieval Institute
https://medieval.nd.edu/research/grants-fellowships/
1) Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
This Fellowship is open to qualified applicants in all fields and sub-disciplines of Byzantine Studies, such as history (including its auxiliary disciplines), archaeology, art history, literature, theology, and liturgical studies, as well as the study of Byzantium’s interactions with neighboring cultures.
primary: https://medieval.nd.edu/research/grants-fellowships/#Byzantine-fellowship
2) A. W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies
primary: https://medieval.nd.edu/research/grants-fellowships/#Mellon-fellowship
3) Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021–2023
primary: https://medieval.nd.edu/research/grants-fellowships/#public-humanities
Closing date: 1 February 2025 (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 2 February 2024]
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS)
Post-doctoral Mellon Fellowships
http://www.pims.ca/academics/post-doctoral-mellon-fellowships
Closing date: 1 February 2025 (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 16 January 2024]
Library Company of Philadelphia
Long-Term Fellowships
Program in Early American Economy & Society (PEAES)
in early American economy and society, broadly defined, from its colonial beginnings to the 1850s; to investigate such topics as Atlantic and global connections of the American economy; its commerce, finance, business, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal development, or political economy; the history of race and the economy, capitalism, households, or gendered economies.
primary: https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships-2/
&
Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellowship
primary: https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships-2/
Closing date: 15 January 2025? (annual?)
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NEXT [re-posted 16 January 2024]
University of Rochester
HUMANITIES CENTER
2022-23 fellowships
in any field of humanistic study, including anthropology, art and art history, classics, English, history, modern languages and cultures, music, philosophy, or religion.
primary: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/humanities/fellowships/
Closing date: 15 January 2025 (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 16 January 2024]
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Fellowships
primary: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants
Closing date (annual): 15 January 2025?
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NEXT [re-posted 2 December 2023]
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Conservation and Scientific Research Fellowships
primary: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/fellowships
Closing date: early December 2024 (annual = first Friday of December)
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NEXT [re-posted 7 November 2023]
School for Advanced Research (SAR)
Resident Scholar Fellowships
from the perspective of anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy
primary: https://sarweb.org/scholars/resident/
Closing date: early November 2024 (annual = first Monday in November)
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NEXT [re-posted 4 November 2023]
École française d’Athènes
Chercheurs résidents 2024
primary: https://www.efa.gr/bourses-de-lefa-2024-appel-a-candidature-2/
Closing date: early November 2024? (annual?)
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NEXT [re-posted 4 November 2023]
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fellowship Opportunities
primary: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/fellowships
Closing date: early November 2023 (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 2 November 2023]
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
Fellowships
Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian scholars
primary: https://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-awards/research-fellowships
Closing date: 1 November 2024 (annual?)
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NEXT [re-posted 27 October 2023]
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Research in the Humanities
https://irh.wisc.edu/irh-fellowships/
1) Kingdon Fellowships
who are engaged in historical, literary, and philosophical studies of Judeo-Christian religious traditions and their role in society from antiquity to the present, broadly understood. Projects may focus on any period from antiquity to the present, on any part of the world, and in any field(s) in the humanities; can range widely or focus on a particular issue; and can explore various forms of Jewish and/or Christian traditions; the interaction of one or both of these religious traditions with other religious traditions; and/or the relationship of one or both of these religious traditions to other aspects of society such as power, politics, culture, experience, creativity, nationality, cosmopolitanism, gender, and sexuality. Projects that incorporate consideration of religion’s interaction with society are especially welcome.
2) Solmsen Fellowships
working in the humanities on European history and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods before 1700.
Closing date: late October 2024? (annual)
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NEXT [re-posted 20 October 2023]
Princeton University
University Center for Human Values
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships
primary: https://uchv.princeton.edu/open-positions/laurance-s-rockefeller-visiting-faculty-fellowships
Closing date (annual?): mid October 2024?
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NEXT [re-posted 19 October 2023]
European University Institute, Firenze
Max Weber Fellowships
in the social sciences (economics, law, political science, sociology, history and related fields)
primary: https://www.eui.eu/apply?id=max-weber-fellowships
Closing date (annual): mid October 2024?
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NEXT [posted 17 October 2022]
Getty Foundation
Getty Library Research Grants
https://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/residential/library_research_grants.html
Closing date (annual?): mid October 2024?
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NEXT [posted 16 October 2023]
Stanford University
Stanford Humanities Center
Up to four Mellon Fellowships of Scholars in the Humanities
Eligible fields for the 2023 competition: Classics; English; Philosophy; Slavic Languages & Literatures
primary: https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/fellowships/mellon-fellowship-scholars-humanities
Closing date: 15 October 2024 (annual?)
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NEXT [re-posted 16 October 2023]
Yale University
Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM)
INTERDISCIPLINARY FELLOWSHIPS
including Anthroppology ~ Art ~ Architecture ~ Composition ~ Creative Writing ~ Ethnomusicology ~ Film Studies ~ History of Art or Architecture ~ Languages ~ Literature ~ Liturgical Studies ~ Musicology ~ Religious Studies ~ Ritual Studies ~ Sociology ~ Theatre Studies ~ Theology ~ World Religions and more
primary: http://ism.yale.edu/ism-fellows
Closing date: 15 October 2024 (annual)
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NEXT [posted 3 October 2023]
Columbia University
Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Fellowship Competition
http://societyoffellows.columbia.edu/fellowship/ = https://sofheyman.org/fellowships/society-of-fellows
Closing date (annual?): early October 2024
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NEXT [re-posted 16 March 2024]
The Society for Court Studies
Research and Publication Bursaries
The bursaries are available to all post-graduate and early career (within six years of PhD award) researchers working in the field of court studies in the broadest sense, political, cultural, architectural, military, art, environmental and diplomatic history, and gender studies, across any time period and geographical location.
http://www.courtstudies.org/research-and-publication-bursaries.html
Closing date: 15 October 2024 (next deadline: 15 March 2025)
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NEXT [posted 2 October 2023]
Stanford University
Stanford Humanities Center
External Faculty Fellowships
primary: https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/fellowships/fellowships-external-faculty
Closing date: 1 October 2024? (annual?)
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NEXT [re-posted 23 September 2023]
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Harvard Academy Scholars Program
in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions
primary: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/ & http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/academy_scholars_program.html = https://academy.wcfia.harvard.edu/programs/academy_scholar
Closing date (annual): late September 2024?
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[posted 23 December 2023]
European Commission
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships
primary: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-msca-2024-pf-01-01?keywords=MSCA%20postdoctoral
Closing date (annual): 11 September 2024
including
UCL Institute of Archaeology
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2024/apr/marie-sklodowska-curie-and-british-academy-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024-25
internal deadline: 11 July 2024
Humanities Division, University of Oxford
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF032/marie-skodowska-curie-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-the-humanities
primary: https://humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/marie-sklodowska-curie-postdoctoral-fellowship
internal deadline: 3 June 2024
University of Cambridge; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoctoral-opportunities
internal deadlines: 1 March & 1 June 2024
University of Liverpool
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/213481
primary: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/apply-for-funding/marie-sklodowska-curie-postdoctoral-fellowships/
deadline: 7 May 2024
Nantes Université
Centre for Research in Archaeology, Archaeosciences and History (CReAAH)
The desired theme is maritime archaeology applied to the evolution of the coastal landscape.
https://underwaterarchaeologyjobs.com/2024/02/19/post-doc-maritime-archaeology-applied-to-the-evolution-of-the-coastal-landscape/
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/nantes-universite-msca-pf-2024-hosting-offer-centre-research-archaeology
deadline: 14 April 2024
Alliance Sorbonne Université (ASU)
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships
including “Beyond Borders: Exploring the Bronze Age Archaeological Landscape in the Heart of Southwestern Arabia”
primary: https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-sorbonne-university-and-its-alliance-partners
Deadline (expressions of interest): 29 February 2024 (i.e. extended from 16 February 2024)
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NEXT [posted 29 February 2024]
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen
KWI INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS & Thyssen@KWI Fellowship
primary: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/kwi-international-fellowship-programmes/
Closing date: 31 August 2024? (next: 28 February 2025?)
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NEXT [re-posted 2 August 2023]
Princeton University
The Society of Fellows
fellowships
primary: https://sf.princeton.edu/about-us/news/2023-call-applications
Closing date (annual): early August 2024?
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[posted 11 April 2024]
University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
University of Duisburg-Essen, Ruhr University Bochum and TU Dortmund University
College for Social Sciences and Humanities
International Senior Fellowship Programme 2025/2026
https://www.college-uaruhr.de/fellowship/application/call-for-applications
Closing date: 10 June 2024
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[posted 14 April 2024]
Heidelberg University
Early Career Researcher Fellowship in the Humanities
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/368584/early-career-researcher-fellowship-in-the-humanities/
Closing date: 1 June 2024
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NEW [posted 24 April 2024]
University of Oxford – Mansfield College
Visiting Fellowship 2024-25
i.e. Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Geography, History, Human Sciences, Jurisprudence, Mathematics, Material Science, Philosophy, Physics, Politics, and Theology.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHH583/visiting-fellowship-2024-25
primary: https://www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/visiting-fellowship/
Non-Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships 2024-26
primary: https://www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/non-stipendiary-junior-research-fellowships-2024-26/
Closing date: 22 May 2024
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[posted 4 April 2024]
Heidelberg University
Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS)
Fellowships
In the 2025-2026 academic year, we zoom in on the role of Biopolitics in the construction, classification, and contention of specific spatialities, temporalities, and affects, constitutive of apocalyptic experiences.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGV846/fellowships-at-the-kte-hamburger-centre-for-apocalyptic-and-post-apocalyptic-studies-capas
primary: https://www.capas.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fellowships-at-capas/call-for-applications
Closing date: 13 May 2024
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[posted 1 April 2024]
Université de Caen Normandie
project AGRELITA “The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities”
THREE POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/211072
https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/5005
Closing date: 12 May 2024
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EXTENDED [posted 30 July 2023; re-posted 16 November 2023]
Azrieli Foundation
Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship
for Research at Israeli Universities in STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65566 = https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67066
primary: https://azrielifoundation.org/fellows/internationalpostdoctoral/
Closing date: 9 May 2024 (i.e. extended from 15 November 2023)
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[posted 17 March 2024]
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)
Max Planck Research Group “Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia” (ASTRA)
postdoctoral fellowship
The researchers in this group use philological, mathematical and sociohistorical methods to study various aspects of the astral sciences across the cultural spheres of Asia and beyond.
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news-events/career/opportunities
Closing date: 1 May 2024
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NEW [posted 19 April 2024]
British Institute at Ankara
BIAA Postdoctoral Fellowship
within the field of the arts, humanities and the social sciences and should be related to and/or undertaken in Turkey and the Black Sea region.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF679/biaa-postdoctoral-fellowship
primary: https://biaa.ac.uk/grants/biaa-post-doctoral-fellowships-2/
Closing date: 30 April 2024
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[posted 3 April 2024]
Ghent University
project “The Mosques of Kerala: Artistic Vocabularies in the Identity-Building of Muslim Communities”
2 Post-doctoral fellowships
to carry out art historical, historical and/or anthropological and/or religious investigations
https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/postdoctoral-fellow-7
Closing date: 30 April 2024
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[posted 23 March 2024]
University of Western Brittany (UBO)
“Interdisciplinary School for the Blue Planet” (ISblue)
post-doctoral fellowship program
https://academicpositions.com/ad/university-western-brittany-ubo/2024/post-doctoral-fellowship-program/214692
primary: https://isblue.fr/en/tous-les-appels/post-doctoral-fellowship/
Closing date: 30 April 2024
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[posted 17 April 2024]
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation
Applications for fellowships for 2025–6 should address questions of inheritance – such as, its legal, economic, philosophical, material and biological dimensions and implications; its articulation with generation(s) and related concepts and practices, as well as with certain conceptions of time and space; its mobilization for constructions of identity and, or justifications for exclusions; its visualization or other multimodal renderings; and alternative (‘inheritance otherwise’) or overlapping notions and practices.
https://respatrimoni.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/fellowship-opportunity-kate-hamburger-kolleg-centre-for-advanced-study-inherit-heritage-in-transformation-deadline-29-avril-2024/
primary: https://inherit.hu-berlin.de/open-call
Closing date: 29 April 2024
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Archives:
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/postdoc-programmes-archives-2020/ [2020-2023]
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/postdoc-programmes-archives-2019/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/postdoc-programmes-archives-2018/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/postdoc-programmes-archives-2017/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/postdoc-programmes-archives-2016/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/postdoc-programmes-archives-2015/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/postdoc-programmes-archives-2014/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/postdoc-programmes-archives-2013/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/postdoc-programmes-archives/ [2011-2012]
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Open after start of review (in descending order)
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[posted 2 December 2023]
Brown University
Postdoctoral/Post-MFA Fellowship in Critical Classical Studies
whose work directly addresses the classicization of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and/or critiques the structures of power, exclusion, erasure, and violence that have scaffolded past and present models of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (i.e. Classics).
https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2023-2024/38237/postdoctoralpost-mfa-fellowships-critical-classical-studies
primary: https://apply.interfolio.com/133409
Closing date: 16 January 2024 (for full consideration)
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[posted 9 December 2023]
New York University
Program in Museum Studies
Faculty Fellow
whose research interests engage the history and theory of museums with a specialization in decolonial theory in museums and/or heritage and cultural property.
https://careercenter.americananthro.org/job/651697/faculty-fellow-in-museum-studies/
primary: https://apply.interfolio.com/136933
Closing date: open until filled (review of applications will begin 15 January 2024)
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[posted 3 December 2023]
Penn State University
Humanities Without Walls Postdoctoral Scholar
https://www.academia.edu/Jobs/13585/Pennsylvania-State-University/Humanities-Without-Walls-Postdoctoral-Scholar
primary: https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Academic/job/Penn-State-University-Park/Humanities-Without-Walls-Postdoctoral-Scholar_REQ_0000050479-2?q=REQ_0000050479
Closing date: 15 January 2024 (or open until filled)
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NEXT [posted 6 January 2023]
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships
in the humanities or social sciences
primary: https://www.vanleer.org.il/en/polonsky-academy/
Closing date: 15 December 2023 (annual?)
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[posted 25 October 2023]
Dartmouth College
Neukom Institute for Computational Science
Neukom Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2026)
whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and has some computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit part of the work that is pursued.
https://careercenter.americananthro.org/job/650252/neukom-postdoctoral-fellowship-2024-2026-/
primary: https://apply.interfolio.com/128998
Closing date: 1 December 2023 (or open until filled)
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[posted 20 October 2023]
Michigan State University
College of Social Science (SSC) Dean’s Research Associate Program
primary: https://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/516325/research-associatefixed-term
including Department of Anthropology
While the position is open to all of the social sciences, we are encouraging applicants from all areas of archaeology to apply.
Closing date: open until filled (review of applications will begin 31 October 2023)
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[posted 15 April 2023]
Arizona State University
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indigenous Knowledge Systems for the Anthropocene
integrated with research in any area of life, environmental, social, or Earth science related to global change.
Closing date: 27 May 2023 (or open until filled)
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[posted 5 January 2023]
Simon Fraser University
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies
“Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global” Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://rogueclassicism.com/2023/01/05/thelxinoe-classics-news-for-january-5-2023/
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2023/01/hellenisms-past-and-present-local-and-global-postdoctoral-fellowship-sfu/
primary: https://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/newsroom/news/postdoc-2023-2024.html & https://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/about/employment.html & https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/hellenic-studies/about/employment/1231/SNFCHS-Postdoc-Ad-2023-24.pdf
Closing date: 17 February 2023 (priority deadline)
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NEXT [posted 19 July 2022]
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Department III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
Working Group “Visualizations and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)”
Visiting Scholarships
within history, history of science and technology, art history, archaeology, philology, cultural history, religious studies, or museum studies, with a focus on visual representations or objects; researching the visualization of astral knowledge in any time period before 1500 CE, focusing on one of the following geographical regions: Ancient Near East, Asia Minor, Central Asia, and South Asia
Closing date: open until filled (review of applications will begin 1 September 2022; next deadline: 31 May 2023)
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postgraduate opportunities in archaeology 