Important Info
For more details and the application, please visit: https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/opportunities/prospective-postdoctoral-f.... The application deadline is Sunday, December 1, 2024.
To apply, candidates must create an account on Slideroom, the application platform used by the King Center.
The Stanford King Center on Global Development’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program offers fellowships to outstanding new PhDs who have a demonstrated ability to generate high-quality, policy-relevant research on critical issues related to global development.
We invite applications for multidisciplinary postdoctoral fellowships to start summer/fall 2025 for a one- or two-year appointment. The King Center’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program is intended for promising new PhD recipients—coming from fields such as computer science, earth systems science, economics, engineering, health policy, political science, and sociology—to pursue policy-relevant research on topics related to international development and poverty alleviation. Postdoctoral fellows should expect to be active members of the community of development researchers at Stanford University.
The King Center’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program particularly encourages applications from women and minority PhD recipients, and from scholars from low- and middle-income countries, as well as from others whose backgrounds and experience would contribute to the diversity (broadly defined) of the program.
The King Center provides a competitive fellowship stipend, plus support for travel and research expenses.
For full consideration, candidates should submit all materials by December 1, 2024 via the application form link on the King Center’s website.
For more details and the application, please visit: https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/opportunities/prospective-postdoctoral-fellows
Visa sponsorship and work authorization is possible for successful applicants.
- Applicants must have received a PhD from an accredited university before the appointment start date.
To apply, candidates must create an account on Slideroom, the application platform used by the King Center. Candidates will need to upload the following materials in PDF format:
- a CV
- a cover letter
- an education and background statement of no more than 500 words describing your personal background and contributions to and/or demonstrated commitment to diversity and equal opportunity through your academic career
- a job market paper or academic writing sample
In your application, you will also be asked to select a King Center Faculty Affiliate from the list of mentors, and to write two to three sentences outlining the area of overlapping interest between your research interests and the faculty mentor you have identified. There is no need to reach out to faculty at this stage in the application process.
You will also be requested to provide contact details for three references. The application platform will send emails directly to your three references requesting that they upload their recommendation letters through a provided URL that will connect the uploaded documents to your online application. You must submit your application before the online system will send the URL and instructions to your references.
Although all are welcome to apply, reviewers may give greater weight to applicants who do not currently hold a postdoctoral fellowship or tenure-track faculty position or to those with PhDs from institutions other than Stanford. Applicants should address their circumstances in their applications.