Postdocs can be an excellent option for your first position out of graduate school (PhD track), as they provide an opportunity to turn your dissertation into a book while also getting some practice teaching. Academic wiki sites are good places to find listings of postdocs on the market. Currently, we do not have any post-doctorate positions available in our department.
Typically, our department hosts and sponsors postdocs periodically in collaboration with the Society for the Humanities. We are also contacted to host Klarman Fellows. Any additional fellowship opportunities that we are sponsoring will be announced on this page. However, at this point, it has limited resources and capacity to accommodate individual requests for postdoctoral hosting and sponsorships for visiting scholars and postdocs if positions have not been explicitly advertised.
Rather than initially contacting individual faculty as potential sponsors for the latter types of opportunities, please direct related queries to our Administrative Staff’s current Graduate Field and Event Coordinator, (Hannah Langtry @ hll53@cornell.edu) who can provide information for applying for any available opportunities as a non-degree student, including international students, who should submit a Graduate School Application and fulfill English Language Proficiency Requirements. No candidates will be considered who have not completed this process. After completing this step, any eligible candidates from this pool will be considered by our faculty. Our department’s facilities will allow us to accommodate a maximum of two postdoctoral fellows who are eligible. Annually, our department will disclose a list of the names of its faculty members who are available to sponsor or host prospective postdoctoral fellows from this pool. Please consult this list before querying individual faculty. Similarly, we are unable to accommodate requests, including unsolicited job applications, for teaching opportunities and lectureships if positions have not been explicitly advertised by the department.