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

The University of California, Berkeley offers a PhD program in Classical Archaeology , focused on the archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The program is housed in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and provides broad preparation across the humanities and social sciences. Students develop one or more specializations while building expertise in the material, textual, and cultural evidence of the ancient Mediterranean. The program emphasizes archaeological fieldwork in t...

The University of California, Berkeley’s two-year Master of Fine Arts in Art Practice supports approximately 12 graduate students per year and is designed for working artists pursuing sustained creative, critical, and cultural impact. Students develop their individual creative practices through graduate coursework, independent study, peer critique, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The program encourages engagement with university-wide and cross-disciplinary research connected to areas such a...

The Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University invites applications for a humanities-based interdisciplinary position focused on digital visual cultures of the Middle East and North Africa . The appointment is designed to bring a scholar into the department’s broader world languages and cultures initiative, with an emphasis on research and teaching that connect visual media, cultural expression, and language-based inquiry. The successful candid...

This postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service is based in Burlington, Vermont, within the Food Systems Research Unit. The project focuses on remote sensing of Northeastern pastures and aims to characterize the long-term phenology of perennial pasturelands across the Northeastern United States. The fellow will work on understanding the drivers and impacts of phenological change across the region’s ecoregions, with particular attention to how lo...

The Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University supports outstanding scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is already making a difference in their fields and beyond. This annual fellowship is designed for advanced researchers and creative thinkers working across the physical sciences, mathematics, arts, and humanities. Fellows join the Radcliffe Institute’s interdisciplinary intellectual community at Harvard, with s...

The Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan offers a three-year fellowship for outstanding early-career scholars working across the humanities, the arts, the social sciences, the physical sciences, the life sciences, and professional schools. Housed under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, the Society supports a broad, interdisciplinary research environment that brings together scholars from different academic traditions. This is a university-wide fellowship scheme de...

The Stanford Humanities Center is offering External Faculty Fellowships for scholars working across the arts and humanities. These fellowships are designed primarily for people who are already teaching or otherwise affiliated with an academic institution, while independent scholars may also apply. The program supports a diverse residential scholarly community and welcomes applicants from all academic ranks, including assistant, associate, and full professor. Fellows spend one full academic year ...

The Kumar Lab in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University in St. Louis is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an NIH-funded program on the cortical mechanisms of hearing difficulty after noise-induced hearing loss. The project asks how cortical cellular and circuit processes adapt after hearing loss and how those adaptations contribute to impaired auditory perception, especially in noisy environments. The successful candidate will work in a multidisciplinary neuroscience se...

The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program at the University of Chicago is a postdoctoral opportunity designed to support academic diversity and strengthen the university’s faculty pipeline. The program is intended for highest-caliber junior scholars from diverse backgrounds and is part of the University of Chicago’s commitment to increasing faculty diversity. Fellows receive up to two years of funding through the program. The opportunity is positioned as a postdoctoral fellowship within the art...