Resources for Postdoc Opportunities
Postdoc opportunities are listed on various websites including publications and institution’s jobs websites.
Search for skills, achievements, or products you want to have at the end of your postdoc. You can also search for research topics and techniques of interest. (If you find a position this way, you can apply through their online system and send your materials to that faculty member to make sure your application is seen.)
A word of caution: Many postdoc listings on jobs sites are not actually open for applications. Some institutions require that a postdoc position is posted publicly even if the faculty member has already offered the position to someone. Find sources that you trust to only post opportunities that you can actually apply for.
All-Discipline Resources
- Subscribe to Duke postdoc listserv
- Personalize your CareerHub
- Contact institution’s postdoc offices to learn about opportunities
- Explore and research:
- Specific institution’s job listings
- Professional societies’ websites
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Academic Jobs Wiki postdoc listings
- H-Net
- Ghosh’s listing of postdocs
- Postdoc Jobs
- Find A PostDoc
- National Postdoctoral Association
- Indeed
Diversity-Focused Listings
- Minority Postdoc
- Ford Fellowship for underrepresented minorities
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Teacher-Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds
- Carolina Postdoc Program for Faculty Diversity
Funding Resources
- Grant Forward
- Google the search results to find the programs’ websites if you do not have a log-in
- Duke Research Funding
- Use Discipline and Who’s Eligible filters to find postdoc-specific funding
- Cornell
- Harvard
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of California at Los Angeles
- University of Chicago, fellowship database and student grants and fellowships
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Discipline-Specific
Interdisciplinary Resources
- Academic Positions for academic jobs and postdoc positions in Europe
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Philosophical Society
- American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants
- Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Harvard Bell Fellowships
- Brown University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Dartmouth Society of Fellows
- Northwestern Dispute Resolution Research
- Duke Thompson Writing Program
- Ford Foundation
- Georgia Tech Brittain Fellowship
- Getty Foundation
- Haverford College Faculty Fellowships
- Humboldt Research Fellowships for postdocs in Germany
- Smithsonian Institution
- Huntington Library
- Library of Congress
- Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Loeb Fellowship
- McNeil Center for Early American Studies
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- National Gallery of Art
- Newberry Library
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
- Social Science Research Council
- Stanford
- University of California at Los Angeles Culture in Transnational Perspective
- University of California’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California Society of Fellows
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wesleyan University
- Yale University
Postdocs outside the U.S.
It is important to investigate how a postdoc position outside the U.S. may be different than the postdocs you’ve worked with at Duke or other American institutions.
Ask about expectations for postdocs, length of the appointment, sources of funding, salary/benefits, and other details to make sure there are no surprises after you accept a position. Also consider what opportunities a postdoc outside the U.S. uniquely offers you that could help you obtain your next position.
Applying to postdocs abroad is similar to applying in the U.S. Your best method is to network with researchers at conferences. Cold-contact potential postdoc mentors by email can also work.
Funding sources:
- Fogarty International Center
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Postdoc fellowships for scientists to work in foreign laboratories
- Humboldt Research Fellowships
- Postdocs in Germany
- Newton International Fellowship
- Postdocs in the United Kingdom
- Database of academic jobs and postdoc positions in Europe
