There are a number of places to look for jobs in academia — all disciplines have their own outlets, although some of these are fairly general (as in the Chronicle of Higher Education). Because there are so many possibilities, I’ve limited myself to just resources that primarily support academic job seekers in the humanities and social sciences. No list is comprehensive because it often costs money for departments to place ads on each of these sites (which is usually in the hundreds of dollars per placement). So many schools with limited budgets will only post on 1-2 sites they think will reach their most desired audience.
For a sometimes-comprehensive list of resources (and a frequently updated list of jobs), check out the Academic Jobs Wiki and the specific lists for your field.
If you find other resources that you think are good to share, please post them in the comments or email them to me.
Discipline-Specific Resources
American Anthropological Association
This is the catchall for anthropologists, and most jobs in anthropology — tenure track or not — are listed here.
American Association of Geographers
The AAG website focuses on Geography related positions, which can include positions in the geophysical sciences.
American Historical Association
The AHA website focuses on History related careers.
American Political Science Association
You need an account to access the APSA database–which I don’t have–so I can’t tell you much about it!
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association career website is, sadly, a paid resource and you need to pay dues to access it.
The MLA job website lists careers mostly in Literature and related interdisciplinary areas.
National Communication Association
Communications and rhetoric focused jobs are posted on the NCA website.
National Women’s Studies Association
The NWSA website has a broad database of gender studies related jobs (and jobs that aren’t gender studies focused, but where employers are seeking women-identifying applicants).
Philjobs lists careers for philosophers, including jobs in bioethics.
Royal Anthropological Institute’s Vacancy Link
The RAI includes mostly UK positions in Anthropology, including postdocs.
Society for the Social Studies of Science
The Society for the Social Studies of Science Positions website lists jobs across the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies. A separate page lists fellowships and other funded opportunities, including postdocs.
General Academic Job Databases
Academic Keys tends to post jobs in administration — they can be fairly high level and bureaucratic.
Academic Positions posts jobs for the EU (primarily), and follows the European job market (more spring than fall).
The Chronicle tends to post a lot of jobs in community colleges, liberal arts institutions, and second and third tier research universities — it can be good to locate adjunct positions in your area. It has also increasingly become the one-stop listing for many academic jobs, and is worth setting up alerts for.
Euraxxes is a pretty comprehensive list of academic positions (from funded Ph.D.s through senior level tenure-line jobs), mostly in the EU.
H-Net posts a wide variety of kinds of jobs, tending towards research universities. It’s also a reliable venue for late announcements (often visiting positions to fill vacancies). Because it’s free, most jobs will appear here.
Inside Higher Education hosts an all-purpose job board — much like the Chronicle for Higher Ed.
Jobs.ac.uk is a general academic jobs database for academic positions, mostly in the UK (although positions in China and the EU sometimes show up).
University Affairs seems to include all academic positions in Canada, including senior level positions in administration and Canadian Research Chairs.
Last updated 23.10.23.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer 
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