How to start looking for post-docs in Anthropology

[LongGraduatedStudent]

I am a graduate student in molecular anthropology. I am graduating soon, and I need to start looking for post-docs.

I was looking for suggestions on how to go about looking for post-doc job postings.

[juilletmercredi]

• Presumably your field has several professional organizations; I would start there and look at their listings. There are the big ones, like AAA, but also the smaller ones that may focus on subfields or specific geographic areas. Take a look there. You may also look in relevant interdisciplinary areas' professional organizations. For example, I looked at both the American Psychological Association and the American Public Health Association because my research crosses both, and I also looked at smaller ones like the Society for Personality & Social Psychology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality because those were my subfield and my specific area of interest.
• Are there any recurring post-docs that hire every year in your field? Examples are Michigan Society of Scholars, UNC's Society of Scholars, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, etc.
• Let the professors in your department know that you are looking for postdocs and to send you any leads they may have. They will. Let your classmates and colleagues know, too!
• Check out organizations that give grants in your field; they may offer fellowships that allow you to go wherever you want for a postdoc.

Also note that a lot of postdocs are posted later in the year - some of them aren't posted until spring semester.