Postdoc Opportunities in Anthropology in United States

The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Scholar in the NICHD-funded T32 training program, “From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research.” The position is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. The program trains postdoctoral scholars to work across disciplinary boundaries and develop creative, integrative approaches to understanding the factors that...

Washington University School of Medicine is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Radiology for the Multimodal Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Cao Lab in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The researcher will investigate the neural and computational mechanisms underlying visual perception and social cognition . Projects may involve advanced 3T and 7T fMRI, human intracranial electrophysiology, behavioral experimentation, computational modeling, and multimodal analysis ...

Texas A&M AgriLife Research is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dallas, Texas, within the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture’s Healthy Living program. The two-year position will work directly with Principal Investigator Dr. Alexandra (Lexi) MacMillan Uribe on an NIH/NHLBI-funded longitudinal study of pay-what-you-can community restaurants and coronary heart disease-related outcomes among guests experiencing food insecurity and hypertension. The research u...

Postdoctoral Scholar – Araldi Lab Dioneia Araldi’s laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar for an immediate, full-time appointment in Iowa City, United States. The Araldi Lab investigates signaling pathways driving the transition from acute to chronic pain, with emphasis on aging, neuropathic pain, chronic opioid use, and stress. The research program combines complementar...

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) at Harvard University offers postdoctoral fellowships for scholars conducting research on Japan and Japanese Studies. The fellowship supports scholars of exceptional promise who are seeking to develop doctoral research into a publishable manuscript. Relevant academic interests may include Japanese history, literature, anthropology, sociology, politics, culture, and other Japan-focused humanities or social science fields. Eligibility: A...

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is offering a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship based in Boston, Massachusetts, with potential renewal for an additional year. Associate Professor Stéphane Verguet seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher interested in health economics, health systems, priority setting, decision sciences, global health, and health policy. The fellow will contribute to projects on priority setting in low- and middle-income countries. Research activities in...

The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar for the Department of Public Health Sciences in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States. The postdoctoral researcher will use quantitative demographic methods to study fertility and family-size variation among the Amish, one of North America’s highest-fertility populations. Research activities may include fertility and mortality measurement, population projections, event-history and longitudinal analysis, multil...

The University of Notre Dame is seeking applicants for a Gender Studies postdoctoral position . The opportunity is intended for scholars working in Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, or Sexuality Studies . Applicants must hold a PhD in one of these fields, with all degree requirements completed before August 1, 2027 . The post is shared by Perin Gurel, Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Applications should be submitted through t...

The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in nautical chart symbology, digital cartography, visualization, and maritime navigation systems. The researcher will investigate how maritime symbology behaves across overlapping data layers, varying backgrounds, transparency and blending conditions, and operational display constraints. The work combines visual perception, computer graphics, geographic...