The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) is one of the leading centres for research in social anthropology. Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance and political topicality.
Work type: Full-time
Department: Department of Social Work and Social Administration (30300)
Categories: Senior Research Staff & Post-doctoral Fellow, Research Staff
Applications are invited for appointment as Post-doctoral Fellow/Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration (Ref.: 534291) (to commence around August, 2026 for twelve months, with renewal subject to satisfactory performance).
The Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, in collaboration with UCL, King’s College London, LSE, and Birkbeck College, is excited to announce another round of the Jacobsen Fellowship in Philosophy.
The National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) was conceived and founded in 1988 by JRD Tata, who sought to create an institution to conduct advanced multidisciplinary research. The Institute serves as a forum to bring together individuals from diverse intellectual backgrounds, in the natural and life sciences, humanities, social sciences, and conflict and security studies. The philosophy underlying NIAS is given shape by its multidisciplinary research teams.
The Seminar for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel is offering up to four fully-funded one-year postdoctoral positions in the framework of the collective research group Futures Interrupted: social pluralism and political projects beyond coloniality and the nation-state. The postdoctoral positions offer an opportunity to researchers eager to engage with the general framework of the research group and ready to develop their own medium- to large-scale project for future funding in a supportive environment.
The Department of Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History welcomes projects in – but not necessarily limited to – its core research areas: Southern Italy and Naples, Cinematic Space, Historical Spaces, Epistemes of Cartography, and New Methodologies in Medieval Studies.
Funding periods last 2–3 years (predoctoral) or 1–2 years (postdoctoral). To be eligible, predoctoral candidates must be enrolled as PhD candidates at a university.
Awards of $5,000 available to scholars working on research projects in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies, Garden and Landscape studies, or related fields.
Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join a team working to provide comprehensive access to photographic and archival documentation of the Byzantine world held by Dumbarton Oaks’ Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA), which holds more than a million unique items in a variety of media, including extensive material relating to the art and architecture of the late Antique and Medieval eastern Mediterranean.
An opportunity for scholars across academic areas and around the world to bring the study of critical global issues to Adelphi.
The Bhisé Center for Global Understanding (BCGU) invites applications for its newly created Scholar, Artist or Writer-in-Residence program. The program is designed to support the innovative scholarly, creative arts or writing projects of new talents and emerging mid-career professionals, including scientists, creative artists and writers—showing extraordinary promise or accomplishments.
