PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Anthropology in United States

The University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Scholar position in Hittitology at the Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD). The Scholar will contribute to the research, curation, and publication of the CHD. Working closely with the dictionary’s editors, the postdoctoral researcher will conduct lexical research, prepare first drafts of lexical entries, and undertake additional editorial work. The position offers an opportunity ...

MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania is recruiting two Postdoctoral Research Fellows for interdisciplinary research on human intelligence, cognition, and behavior. The fellowships are intended for researchers investigating how people think, learn, and behave, using perspectives that may span cognitive science, psychology, quantitative research, computational methods, and data science. The opportunity offers an interdisciplinary research environment focused on understanding human intelligen...

The University of California, Berkeley offers an interdisciplinary PhD program in Buddhist Studies through the Buddhist Studies Graduate Group. The program examines Buddhism in its many forms within Asian historical and cultural contexts. Students engage closely with Buddhist texts in their original languages while developing an understanding of the historical, social, and cultural environments in which the Buddhist textual tradition developed. The program also encourages students to broaden the...

Stanford University’s VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab is recruiting a two-year Postdoctoral Research Scholar for its 2027–2029 program, beginning in September 2027. The Lab develops foundational research on women’s leadership by diagnosing barriers, designing and evaluating interventions, and translating research-based solutions for academic and non-academic audiences. The scholar will bring expertise in the intersection of gender and race in organizations , broadly defined from schools...

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Criminal Justice for a temporary, full-time appointment in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology within the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences. The fellow will contribute to project-related criminal justice and criminology research, working under faculty supervision while developing an independent research agenda. Core activities include coordinating multi-site team meetings and communic...

Asian Studies M.A. at the University of California, Berkeley is an interdisciplinary graduate program for students who want to study the languages, cultures, histories, and societies of Asia. The program spans regions from Northeast Asia to South and Southeast Asia and enables students to build an individualized course of study across the humanities and interpretative social sciences. Students conduct in-depth research in a chosen area of specialization while taking coursework in multiple depart...

Rice University’s Center for Climate and Environmental Health is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study how climate and environmental change affect community health. The research examines environmental and social determinants of health using electronic health record ( EHR ) and exposome data. The postdoctoral fellow may collaborate with researchers at the Digital Health Institute, a joint initiative of Rice University and Houston Methodist, to investigate how environmental exposures and broa...

Yale University’s Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA), housed at the Whitney Humanities Center, is seeking a postdoctoral associate whose primary field is the study of antisemitism. YPSA brings together scholars from across Yale, including art history, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, and sociology. Its interdisciplinary work examines both past and present forms of antisemitism, including how Jews have been perceived—positively...

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is offering a part-time graduate internship in sociocognitive modeling focused on the characterization and analysis of information operations and influence. The project sits within the 711th Human Performance Wing and brings interns into a research environment that combines computational modeling, theory-driven social science, and practical questions about how information spreads and affects behavior. The work centers on understanding how information propagat...