Postdoctoral Application Advice

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For many recent graduates, a postdoctorate position is a logical next step in developing a scholarly career.

Postdocs typically provide a stipend, applied research or teaching opportunities, an incubation period for scholarly writing, and mentorship or training components.

Application Advice

• The Postdoc Experience: High Expectations, Grounded in Reality
• How to get a postdoc

Application Materials

The curriculum vitae

• The CV Doctor is Back
• The CV Doctor Returns – English
• The C.V. Doctor: C.V. For a Faculty Member in the Sciences
• Creating and Maintaining Your CV

The research statement

• Writing a Research Statement

The teaching philosophy

• The Teaching Philosophy/Teaching Statement
• Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
• Rubric for Statement of Teaching Philosophy
• 4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy

Example statements for anthropology 

• Statement of Teaching Philosophy - Yolanda Covington-Ward
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy - Kerim
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy - Peter Collings, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
• Teaching Philosophy - Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy - Dustin M. Wax