Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships for Early-Career Scholars at Cornell University, United States

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships at Cornell University, United States

Designation/Position- Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships

Cornell University, United States invites application for Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships from eligible and interested candidates

About- The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kind in the country, the program offers independence from constraints of particular grants, enabling the recipients to devote themselves to frontline, innovative research without being tied to specific outcomes or teaching responsibilities.

Research/Job Area- Arts & Sciences – Natural, quantitative, and social sciences, humanistic inquiry, the creative arts, and emerging fields that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries

Recipients may conduct research in any discipline in the College: natural, quantitative, and social sciences, humanistic inquiry, the creative arts, and emerging fields that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. Fellows are selected from a global pool of applicants based on their research accomplishments, potential for future contributions, and alignment of scholarly interests with those of their proposed faculty mentors in Arts & Sciences. The candidates will also be assessed on how their work can benefit from and contribute to the momentum in strategic research areas in the College.

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Eligibility/Qualification–

  • Awardees must have earned the doctoral degree within two years of beginning the Klarman Fellowship (i.e., for 2022 recipients, no earlier than 30 June 2020).
  • Candidates with more than two years of postdoctoral experience, and those who received their PhD from Cornell or have held any position at Cornell for more than six months at the time of application are not eligible.
  • Candidates who received their undergraduate degree from Cornell are, however, welcome to apply.
  • Awardees may not simultaneously hold any other paid or unpaid position during the term of the appointment.
  • Prior to the start of the fellowship, candidates will be asked to provide proof that their doctoral degree has been conferred.

Job/Position Description- 

  • Typically, six Klarman Fellows are appointed each year.
  • Klarman Fellows are appointed for a period of three years, subject to the faculty host’s annual evaluation of scholarly progress.
  • The fellowship start date is negotiable between 1 July and 1 September 2022. 
  • Candidates are notified of selection decisions from mid-December 2021 to mid-January 2022. Cornell University also publishes an announcement of awardees in the spring.
  • Klarman Fellows are provided an annual stipend of $75,000, plus Cornell benefits. 
  • In addition to the annual stipend, Klarman Fellows are provided with an annual research fund of $12,000.
  • Teaching may be allowed by prior agreement as part of the fellowship, specifically if it supports the professional development of a Klarman Fellow.

How to Apply- 

  1. All applications and supporting materials must be submitted electronically via the Klarman Fellows portal above.
  2. Letters of recommendation by the applicant’s Cornell faculty host and three additional references must be submitted by Friday 15 October 2021 11:59 pm EDT. Applicants with a Cornell faculty co-host must also secure a letter of recommendation from the co-host. Applications without letters of recommendations submitted by this deadline will not advance for review (see below for details).
  3. The full application must be completed, submitted, and received by the final deadline of Friday 15 October 2021 11:59 pm EDT (see below for details).
  4. Applicants will be required to provide biographical information, including expected (or actual) date that the PhD degree will be conferred. Note that the PhD degree must be received before beginning the Klarman Fellowship.
  5. Full CV in PDF format. List accepted publications (with DOI, if applicable). It is acceptable to list submitted publications in review or in revision, but do not list papers in preparation. Please list refereed publications separately from non-refereed publications, conference proceedings, etc. Do not include publication reprints.
  6. Description of proposed research (maximum 2 pages, single spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins, PDF format). The applicant must describe their research clearly, concisely, and free of jargon so that its purpose, significance to advancing the discipline, and methodological rigor can be evaluated by faculty reviewers from diverse disciplines. In addition, the proposal must describe resources necessary to conduct the project and an informed evaluation of resource availability at Cornell.
  7. Full name and contact information of the Cornell faculty host. The Cornell host must be an active tenured or tenure-track Cornell faculty member whose primary appointment is in the College of Arts and Sciences and who commits to supporting the fellow throughout the three-year fellowship appointment.
  8. The prospective Cornell faculty host will receive a system-generated email with instructions for uploading their letter. We strongly suggest that applicants inform their Cornell faculty host to check their spam/clutter filters if necessary. It is the applicant’s responsibility to verify their host’s Cornell email address and to ensure that they upload a letter of recommendation, in PDF format, by Friday 15 October 2021, 11:59 pm EDT. Applications without full letters of recommendation submitted by the deadline will not be reviewed.
  9. Full name and contact information of three references, including the applicant’s doctoral advisor. References should be scholars who are very familiar with the applicant’s research and can speak in detail about their prior working relationship with the applicant, the importance of the proposed research, and the scholarly and professional qualities that enable the applicant to complete the proposed research successfully. References may not be relatives, either direct or through marriage/domestic partnership, of the applicant. Except in rare circumstances, one of the three references should be the applicant’s primary doctoral advisor. For questions about exceptions, please contact KlarmanFellows@cornell.edu.
  10. References will receive a system-generated email with instructions for uploading their letter. We strongly suggest that applicants notify their references to check their spam/clutter filters if necessary. It is the applicant’s responsibility to verify their references’ email addresses and to ensure that they upload a letter of recommendation, in PDF format, by Friday 15 October 2021, 11:59 pm EDT. Applications without full letters of recommendation will not proceed to the second round of review.
  11. Applicants will receive email verification when each reference submits their letter of recommendation. Note: once all letters of recommendation are submitted, the applicant must log in to the application portal and click “review and submit” by the application deadline of 15 October 2021 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. For this reason, we strongly recommend that applicants request that their references submit letters on 14 October, one day prior to the application deadline. Applications that are not reviewed and submitted will not advance to the review stage.
  12. Applicants who proceed to the final stage of selection will be invited to participate in an interview via electronic conference with the selection committee.
  13. Non-US citizens are welcome to apply.
  14. Candidates will be notified of selection decisions from mid-December 2021 to mid-January 2022.

For Contact- KlarmanFellows@cornell.edu

Last Date for Apply15 October 2021

16 August 2021Application submission opens
15 October 2021 Applications (including all letters of reference and faculty host letter) due online
early December 2021Finalists invited for interview (by video conference)
mid-December 2021 – mid-January 2022Successful candidates are notified
1 July – 1 September 2022Klarman Fellows will begin at Cornell

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