Postdoc Opportunities in Archaeology in United States

This postdoctoral fellowship is hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in Corvallis, Oregon, within the Horticultural Crop Production and Genetic Improvement Research Unit. The project centers on image-based soil health analysis, combining advanced sensing and imaging technologies to study how soil health management practices influence soil health metrics, crop yield, and crop quality. The fellow will work with a range of imaging systems, includin...

This postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) supports research in the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory. The position may be based at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland or the Eastern Regional Research Center in Pennsylvania. The project develops optical sensing and artificial intelligence methods for food safety inspection. The fellow will work on integrating imaging and spectroscopy with machine l...

This postdoctoral research associate position at Iowa State University focuses on bee ecology and conservation in farmland, with a specific emphasis on how reconstructed native habitat within agricultural landscapes influences managed and wild bees. The successful candidate will join a USDA-NIFA-funded, interdisciplinary project titled “Evaluating Benefits of Reconstructed Habitat in Farmland Across Bee Species and Landscapes” . The research examines when and where prairie strips and other recon...

The Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Austin offers independent postdoctoral support for researchers working on the diversity of life and organisms in their natural environments. Scholars can study any group of organisms and pursue research across scales from genes and populations to communities and ecosystems. The program is designed for talented postdoctoral researchers seeking to develop their own research direction within the life sciences. It supports a broad range ...

The Ford Foundation Fellowships are a recurring fellowship and scholarship scheme administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The program supports a national competition for predoctoral , dissertation , and postdoctoral fellowships. The fellowship’s central purpose is to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties, with a particular emphasis on expanding ethnic and racial diversity and on strengthenin...

Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development is recruiting a research fellow for a 24-month project in development, labor and political economy. The project will use econometric analysis and machine-learning methods to study development initiatives related to social norms, migrant integration, marriage certification and debt bondage. The research spans Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South Asia, offering a cross-regional setting for applied quantitative research on major s...

The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University offers a one-year postdoctoral fellowship connected with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on migration and the humanities . The fellowship supports humanities and social sciences scholars whose projects examine practices and processes of violence associated with large-scale historical and political transformations. Research may address slow violence , including the gradual degradation of social and economic structures, violatio...

This research fellowship is with the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit, based on the University of Delaware campus in Newark, Delaware, where a certified quarantine facility supports work on invasive agricultural and forest insect pests. The project focuses on biological control of the emerald ash borer and related Agrilus beetles. Working under the guidance of mentor Jian Duan , the fellow will help determine host associations of introduced biolo...

This postdoctoral fellowship is hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) within its SCINet/Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence research participation program. The work is based across the Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit in Ames, Iowa, and the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois. The project focuses on AI-driven maize–fungal pathogen genomics , with initial emphasis on Fusarium and Aspergillus sp...