BROWSE BY:

Job Searching | Grants and Fellowships | General Resources | Brown Bag Lunch Series

Resources compiled by ASOR’s Early Career Scholars Committee. For additions to this list or questions/comments, please contact Marta Ostovich. 

Early Career Scholars Facebook & Resources Page

Jobs

Job Advertisements

• Higher Ed 360: A meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter. Not limited to teaching positions.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs Postings: Job postings for faculty/research, administrative, executive, educational, for-profit, non-profit, and governmental positions.
• HigherEdJobs: Administrative, faculty, and executive jobs.
• H-Net Jobs: Jobs in history, museums, archives and the digital humanities. Most History jobs are posted here and sometimes only here.
• Indeed: An aggregator for U.S. jobs of all kinds. You can create useful alerts based upon keywords.
• Jobmanji: An aggregator and search engine for current jobs across multiple disciplines. Based in the UK but searches globally.
• Journalism Jobs: Listing for journalism jobs, including newspapers, tv, radio, publishing, online media, trade publications, PR/Media Relations/Communications, nonprofit/academia/government, financial/technology, and diversity.
• University Jobs: Search extensive job database for faculty and staff positions as well as postdoctoral and science jobs.
• USA Jobs.gov: American federal government jobs.
• National Council On Public History: Job listings in public history.
• Idealist: Jobs, internships, and volunteering for the social good.
• Association of Art Museum Directors: Current opportunities in museum careers. 
• Postgraduate opportunities in archaeology: Frequently updated blog with job postings in archaeology from all over the world.
• Digital Humanities Now: Job listings in digital humanities.
• theLAB: The Logos Academic Blog: Frequently updated blog with job postings in Biblical Studies and Theology.
• Past Preservers: Posts job listings in the intersection between archaeology, heritage, and media.

Books on Job Searching

• What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers: A classic book for job seekers and a practical guide that helps you think through matching up your aptitudes and abilities with gainful employment.
• 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.
• So Good they Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love: Cal Newport provides relevant career advice for any stage of one’s education. Newport uses case studies–including a PhD in anthropology–to break down what makes work feel meaningful and how folks find exceptional careers that they love.

Grants and Fellowships

Individual Granting Organizations

• W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research: Non-profit organization that facilitates research on the history and cultures of the Near East based in Jerusalem
• American Center of Research (ACOR): Resource for fieldwork and research in Jordan through various funding sources
• ASOR: These resources are listed under the Fellowship section of this website
• ASOR Canada (CASOR): Mary Louise Mussell Student Travel Fellowship
• The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARI): Graduate and post-graduate fellowships on Iraq-related topics for U.S. citizens
• American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE): Fellowships in a variety of fields to conduct research in Egypt
• American Research Institute of the Southern Caucasus (ARISC): Graduate and postdoctoral fellowships for research in a variety of fields
• American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT): Fellowships for research in Turkey
• American Philosophical Society: APS Franklin Grants are an excellent post PhD target
• 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)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowships: For postdoctoral research that would take place at a European University.
• Dumbarton Oaks
• Fulbright: Fulbright Scholar program. Eligible country: U.S. scholars and visiting scholars (international) to the U.S.
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Foundation offering financial support for the arts and humanities (additional database of funding)
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Variety of funding opportunities within the United States at various career levels. Eligible country: U.S.A.
• 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
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC): Masters, PhD, post-doctoral fellowships. Main granting agency in Canada.
• 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
• University of North Carolina: List of internal and external funding sources recommended by the Archaeology Dept. at UNC

General Resources

• W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research: Non-profit organization that facilitates research on the history and cultures of the Near East based in Jerusalem
• The Versatile PhD: The Versatile PhD mission is to help graduate students, ABDs and PhDs identify, prepare for and excel in professional careers.
  • NOTE: Your university needs to have a subscription to access the resources.
• National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity: For graduate students, they offer a skills-based program for strategic planning, dissertation writing, mentoring, and the job search processes.
• MLA Career Exploration Activity: Explore structured self-assessment of skills, job analysis activity, and transferable skills for humanists.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Professor is in: A career-advising blog for would-be academics launched by former professor Karen Kelsky in 2011

Brown Bag Lunch Series Videos

• Turn Your Dissertation into a Book: Part 2 (April 8, 2022)
• Turn Your Dissertation into a Book: Part 1 (March 18, 2022)
• Building Paths to Academic Careers (February 4, 2021)
• Getting Published: From Idea to Journal Article (October 8, 2020)
• Online Teaching: From Triage to Best Practices (April 2, 2020)
• Shaping the Scholarly Conversation at ASOR: Proposing a Member-Organized Session (Helen Dixon, November 23, 2019)

Digging Up Data Workshop Series Videos (co-organized by Open Context and Early Career Scholars Committee)

• Data Literacy for Archaeologists (September 15, 2021)
• Working with Archaeological Data (October 20, 2021)
• Telling Stories with Archaeological Data (November 10, 2021)

Research in Action Series Videos

• Social Media’s Antiquities Black Market with Katie Paul (April 22, 2022)