POST DOCTORAL OPPORTUNITIES

And keep in mind, this often means, "all but dissertation (ABD)"...


Post-Doctoral Information from UCI



  • Abe Fellowship Program -SSRC (to promote Japan/American cooperation on topics of global concern
    Due Date: Sept 1st, Annually

    • (In conjunction with Japan, to research contemporary global policy-relevant issues)

  • AHRQ Individual Awards for Postdoctoral Fellows (F32) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA)
    Application Due Dates: February 16th, June 16th, October 16th, yearly

  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [for write-up in residence]
    Application Deadline: December 5, 2008

  • Environment - AAAS Environment Fellowships U.S. Citizens Only

  • AAAS Diplomacy Fellowships [on internationally-oriented public policy]


  • Health - Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy
    Due Date: December 31st

  • Health - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Annual Application Receipt Dates: May 5, September 15; January 15; May 15

  • California Program on Access to Care
    Letter of Intent Due: Late October, 2007

  • Health Services Research and Health Policy - Health Economics Fellowship Opportunities


  • Humanities - UCLA Humanities Consortium

  • Humanities - American Philosophical Society - Native American Research
    Application Receipt Date: March 3, 2008

  • Humanties - American Philosophical Society - Franklin Reseearch Grant
    Application Receipt Dates: Oct, 1st and Dec 1st, 2007

  • Humanities - Cornell University - Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Deadline: April 1st

  • Humanities - University of California Humanities Research Institute


  • American Psychological Association Diversity Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Due Date: Jan 15th, 2009

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - Early Career Post-Doctoral Fellowhsips in Eastern Europe Studies
    Due Date: November 12, 2008

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - International Studies
    Due Date: November 3rd, 2003

  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences
    Due Date: Nov. 12th


  • American Antiquarian Society (to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for publication)
    Annual Due Date: October 15th

  • American Association of University Women - Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Due Date: Nov. 15th, 2007

  • American Association of University Women - Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants
    Due Date: Nov. 15th, 2007

  • American Bar Foundation(Post Doctoral Fellowships in Law and Social Science)

  • The American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan - CAORC Fellowships and Senior Fellowships


  • American Council of Learned Societies (Southeast European Studies Programs)
    Application Deadline: November 14, 2007

  • American Education Research Association(AERA)

  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research - including the NRI Fellowship, Brady Fellowship, and Ford Fellowship
    Must be for Research of Domestic U.S. Issues
    Application Deadline: December 5, 2008

  • American School of Classical Studies at Athens Jacob Hirsch Fellowship [turning dissertation into publication]

  • American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies
    Application Deadline: December 1, 2008

  • American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Dissertation Award (ASA)


  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - Eastern Europe
    Due Date: November 1st

  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program

    [For past Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awardees or Alternates]

  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Early Career Fellowship in Economic Studies

  • Australian National Unversity Southeast Asian Fellowship
    Due Date: January 15, 2004 (No Citizenship Requirements)

  • The Leo Baeck Institute on German-Speaking Jewry [Some months in Germany]- Due Date: Nov 1st


  • Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies (SSRC)

  • Bourse Chateaubriand: Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Fellowship in France (No Citizenship Requirements)
    Annual Due Date: December 31st -

  • Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
     Application Deadline: March 28, 2008

  • Center For Advanced Judaic Studies

  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship - Stanford
    Application Deadline: June 30, 2007


  • Center for Hellenic Studies - Harvard
    Due Date: October 15, 2007

  • Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
    Due Date: February 27, 2003

  • Center for International Security and Cooperation [CISAC] - Stanford
    Due Date: February 1st, 2008

  • Center for Latin American Studies (Univ. of Florida)

  • The Center for Research in Language Post Doctoral Fellowships at UCSD


  • The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago
    Application Deadline: Feburary 1, 2006

  • Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity

  • Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities [if Ph.D. received between Jan 1, 2004 and July 1, 2008]
     Application Deadline: October 8, 2007

  • Committee on Scholarly Communication with China Programs

  • Community Health Scholars Program Post-Doctoral Fellowships

  • APA Congressional Fellowship Program
    Application Deadline: Early January


  • Congressional Fellowship Program - APSA

  • Cornell University - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
    Deadline: Oct 21, 2004

  • Cotton Foundation (Mediterranean Studies Awards)

  • Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)

  • The Council of American Overseas Research Centers [Foreign Postdocs Only]

  • Dartmouth College - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • East-West Center Visiting Fellowships
    Application Deadline: September 15, 2007

  • Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
    Application Deadline: February 26, 2009

  • Ford Foundation PostDoctoral Fellowship
    Application Deadline: Nov. 29th, 2007

  • Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.
    Application Deadline: September 15, 2007

  • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)- Postdoctoral Scholarship for Study and/or Research in Germany
    DAAD's due date is November 15th, but UCI's Internal Due Date: October 10th For U.S. and Canadian Citizens AND for foreign nationals if they have been full-time graduate students in the US for more than one academic year.

  • German Studies Association Award for Best Paper within 5 years of the Doctorate
    Annual Deadline: January 15th

  • Eastern Europe Studies (ACLS)
    Due: Nov. 1st


  • Eurasia (SSRC)

  • European and American Young Scholars' Institutes Program

  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships (for Minorities) [Application Deadline: November 29?, 2007]

  • Fulbright New Century Scholars Program

  • In Germany


  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States - European Issues Grants

  • The Getty Museum
    Due Date: Nov. 1st, 2007 - 2008-2009 Theme = "Networks and Boundaries"

  • The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
    Due: February 1st

  • Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
    Application Deadline: October 7, 2007


  • Hoover Presidential Library Association

  • U.S. Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.)

  • The Huntington Library Research Materials in Science and Technology

  • The Huntington Library Research Materials in Women's Studies

  • The Huntington Library Fellowshipsm [including the following:]

    • W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowships for Young Scholars (including nontenured faculty)
    Huntington-British Accademy Fellowships for Study in Great Britain
    Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships
    Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
    National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships


  • Institute for Advanced Study - School of Social Science - The theme for 2009 - 2010 is Education, Schools, and the State
    Electronic Due Date: Nov 15th, 2008

  • Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History


  • Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
    Due Date: Jan 9th, 2009

  • Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley)

  • International and Area Studies Fellowships (SSRC)
    • (6-12 month fellowships to pursue research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Near and Middle East, Latin America, East Europe and the former Soviet Union)

  • International Center for Advanced Studies - New York University [Due Date: Jan 15th]

  • Summer Institute on International Migration
    Due Date: Feb 15th


  • International Research & Exchanges Board

  • International Research Fellowship Program (Social Science)

  • International Sociological Association - multiple opportunities

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)[SSRC] Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Annual Application Deadline: Sept 1st

  • Japan Program [SSRC]

  • Kluge Fellowship (Research in the humanities and social sciences, especially interdisciplinary, cross-cultural or multilingual)
    Due Date: July 15, 2009

  • Korea Foundation
    Annual Due Date: January 31st


  • The Library Company of Philadelphia - to support research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries
    Due Date: Nov. 1, 2007

  • Library of Congress Fellowships in International Studies

  • MacArthur Program on Global Security and Sustainability Research and Writing Program (February Deadline)

  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
    Application Deadline: January 30, 2007

  • James Marshall Public Policy Fellowship


  • McNeil Center for Early American Studies [North American or Caribbean < 1850]

  • Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan

  • M.I.N.D. Institute

  • National Academy of Education/Spencer
    Due Date: Early November, 2007


  • National Research Council

  • National Science Foundation - Minority Travel and/or Research
    Oct 2006 - March 2007

  • NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science and Engineering

  • National Tax Association Doctoral Dissertation Award

  • NATO Science Programme Fellowships


  • Newberry Library Fellowships

  • Newton International Fellowship (British Academy)
    Application Deadline: August 4, 2008

  • John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships in National Security

  • Palestinian American Research Center
     Due Date: March, 2009

  • Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women Posdoctoral Fellowships

  • PENN Humanities Forum


  • The Population Council - Fred H. Bixby FellowshipApplication Deadline: January 15th, 2009

  • Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion

  • Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts [4 different tracks: Humanities and Social Sciences; Judaic Studies; LGBT Studies; and Race/Ethnicity]
     Due Date: October 8, 2007

  • Public Policy Institute of California

  • Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
    Application Due Date: October 1, 2007

  • Rand Postdoctoral Training in the Study of Aging
    Application Deadline: February 9, 2009

  • Robert Woods Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research [Two-year tenure]


  • Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Migration

  • Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

  • Smithsonian Institution Fellowships [3-12 months]
     Annual Deadline: January 15th

  • Smithsonian Institution Latino Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
    Annual Deadline: January 15th

  • The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Applied Social Issues Internship

  • Spencer/National Academy of Education
    Due Date: Inquire


  • Stanford Center on Adolescence(Topic: How adolescents find 'Purpose')
    [Application Submission deadline: January 17, 2007]

  • Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Fellowships in California Studies
    Due Date: Feb 3, 2003 [Click on "Forms"]

  • S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics

  • U.S. Geological Survey

  • U.S. Institute of Peace - Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
    Due Date: Oct 1, 2002

  • All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD)
    Application Due Date: April 20, 2007


  • UC MEXUS (Postdoctoral Research Residencies)
    Due Date: Feb 15th, 2005

  • UC MEXUS-CONACYT
    Due Date: February 24th, 2003

  • U.C President's Posdoctoral Fellowship (for Diversity)
    Due Date: Nov 15, 2002

  • UC MEXUS-CONACYT Postdoctoral Research
    Application Deadline: Early March, 2008


  • Program on U.S. – Japan Relations Advanced Research Fellowships

  • University of Michigan - Michigan Society of Fellows (Humanities)
    [Application Dealine: October 1, 2007]

  • University of Pennsylvania - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities -
    [Due: October 15th, 2009]

  • Wenner-Gren for Anthropological Research
    Due Dates: Nov 1st; May 1st

  • Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Program
    Due Date: Nov 3, 2008


  • Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities



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