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The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job: An opinionated guide by a former department chair that demystifies the process of faculty searches from what to wear to how to format your CV. For best effect, read this guide early on in your graduate career because there are things that you could already be doing to better position yourself in the competitive world of academic job seeking. For example, there are useful chapters on how to structure grant and fellowship applications and how to become a plausible candidate for jobs outside the academy.
The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster: A guide that explains how networking works in the digital age and how to leverage your contacts to break through digital gatekeepers at prospective employers. A particularly useful guide for people who want to pivot from academia to external professions.
Biblical Archaeology Society: Scholarships for participation on excavations taking place in the “Biblical World”
CAORC: Doctoral and postdoctoral grants for fellows to visit and carry out research within their network of ‘Overseas Research Centers.’ Eligible country:U.S.A. (& foreign national postdoc scholars who have been residents in the U.S. min. 3 years)
Dumbarton Oaks: Residential research fellowships in the fields of Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies and project grants supporting archaeological research
Fulbright: Fulbright Scholar program. Eligible country: U.S. scholars to go abroad, and visiting scholars (international) to the U.S.
National Science Foundation: Anthropology and archaeology geared grants for doctoral-level research and above. Eligible country:U.S.A.
National Geographic Grants Program: Project-based funding focused in conservation, education, research, storytelling, or technology in response to themes provided by NG
Wenner Gren: Grants and fellowships for graduate and post-graduate anthropologists
General Fellowship Resource Pages
Brown University: List of internal and external funding sources recommended by the Archaeology Institute at Brown University
Cornell: List of internal and external funding sources recommended by the Archaeology Inst. at Cornell University
Boston University: List of internal and external funding sources recommended by the Archaeology Dept. at Boston University
General Resources
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC): A collection of resources for community college students. They offer resources like job postings and advice on applying for grants and fellowships tailored to community college students.
American Association of University Professors (AAUP): The AAUP is a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals that works to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, advance the rights of academics, particularly as those rights pertain to academic freedom and shared governance, and promote the interests of higher education teaching and research.
American Historical Society: Career Diversity for Historians: Guide for doctoral graduates in history (and by extension the humanities) on how to pursue a wide spectrum of career opportunities that includes the professoriate, higher education administration, cultural institutions and other nonprofits, government, public education, and the private sector.
Beyond the Professoriate: Beyond the Professoriate is a public benefit corporation with a mission to empower PhDs to build impactful careers and engaged lives, wherever smart people are needed. To do this, they provide career education and professional development to graduate students and PhDs in humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines.
Community College Resource Center (CCRC): CCRC is a leader in the field of community college research and reform. Their work provides a foundation for innovations in policy and practice that help give every community college student the best chance of success.
Contingent Magazine:Contingent is a non-profit history magazine. Our writers are adjuncts, museum workers, independent scholars—all people who work outside the tenure-track professoriate.
How to Get an Internship (Intelligent.com): This guide by Intelligent.com was created to help students navigate the world of internships. It provides practical advice on selecting the right internship program based on each student’s qualifications and skill sets, crafting an impactful resume, and acing interviews with potential employers.
Jobs and Internship Guide (UC Berkeley): This guide has information on preparing for your job search, internships, sources for jobs and internships, resume and letter writing, successful interviewing, and internship and job offers.
MLA Career Exploration Activity: Explore structured self-assessment of skills, job analysis activity, and transferable skills for humanists.
Second Temple Early Career Academy (STECA): STECA is an international network for doctoral students and early career researchers, currently based at the University of Birmingham. Their aim is to create a virtual common room to support early career researchers wherever they are based.
The Professor is in: A career-advising blog for would-be academics launched by former professor Karen Kelsky in 2011
The Versatile PhD: The Versatile PhD mission is to help graduate students, ABDs and PhDs identify, prepare for and excel in professional careers.
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