Postdoctoral Scholars
Currently the Department of Classics does not have any open funded postdoctoral scholar positions.
The Stanford Humanities Fellows Program, however, does offer paid fellowships to Classics Postdocs. The Stanford Humanities Fellows program is a postdoctoral fellowship designed to give the best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop as scholars and teachers. Up to six Fellowships will be awarded for a two-year term. Fellows will teach one course and contribute a second course-equivalent per year in one of Stanford's fifteen humanities departments. In addition, Fellows will be expected to participate in the intellectual life of the program by sharing work in progress, meeting
regularly as a group and with faculty, and generally contributing to the community of humanists at Stanford. It is
expected, too, that Fellows will be in residence during the term of their appointment. The application deadline is Monday, December 3, 2007. You can visit their website at http://fellows.stanford.edu/.
If you have secured your own funding (if you will be paid directly by an agency, home country institution, PAVAMC, SUH, etc. funding should generally include funding for benefits, tuition, and fees) and are interested in pursuing postdoctoral research at Stanford in Classics please follow these steps:
- Please contact the faculty with whom your research is most aligned and ask them to serve as your mentor and faculty sponsor; alternatively contact the Department Chair, Richard Martin, with the same request. Negotiate a start date and course of research.
- The faculty sponsor should contact the chair to get approval of the fellowship.
- Once the chair's approval is obtained, you should complete a Postdoctoral Scholar Appointment Information Sheet and submit this to your faculty sponsor, along with a copy of your most recent CV, a copy of your Diploma or Statement of Completion of Degree (translation into English must also be submitted if applicable), Visa information if applicable (DS-2019, passport, visa, etc.), and Proof of Support (award letter or letter from paying institution). The faculty sponsor should then submit all of the above paperwork along with the Department Recommendation Form and a sample of an offer letter (see sample) to the Department Manager.
- The Department Manager will verify eligibility of postdoc. Once eligibility is verified, the Department Manager will finalize the offer letter and send it you (the potential postdoc).
- You should sign the offer letter and return it to the Department Manager and she will start the process of appointing you as a postdoctoral scholar.
For Humanities Fellows this process may be different. Please contact the Humanities Fellows Program directly.
Postdoc Eligibility and Policy
Appointment Policy
Postdoctoral Scholars are expected to be appointed on a full-time basis (initial appointments must be for 100% FTE). Appointments are generally restricted to those who have earned their Ph.D. within the last three years. Postdoctoral appointments may not exceed a total of five years for all combined years of institutional training. In cases of combined training, only the years of active research at the postdoctoral level will be counted for salary and other purposes. This maximum includes cumulative postdoctoral research experience. Postdoctoral Scholars are appointed at Stanford for fixed terms, by issuance of re-appointment letters (preferably of one year's duration each) that may total up to four years.
Registration at Stanford
All Postdoctoral Scholars must be registered at Stanford during every academic quarter of their appointment. Registration entails payment of a quarterly postdoctoral fee, which will be paid by the academic department or school appointing the Scholar. (See Section 3.E at the end of this document.)
Responsibility of a Scholar
Postdoctoral Scholars are expected to carry out the study or research outlined in discussions with the faculty sponsor, to communicate regularly with the faculty sponsor, and to notify the faculty sponsor of any change in plans. The Scholar is not expected to handle administrative duties or to be on a dissertation reading committee for any graduate student.
For more information on being a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford please visit the Postdoctoral Affairs Office Website at http://postdocs.stanford.edu/.
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