Channelling my friends and colleagues, Catherine Tan and Laura Heath-Stout, I'm posting my successful grant applications and sample job documents for early career colleagues who are looking for templates when first hitting the academic job market. I've also jotted down the questions for every long-list interview I've ever had (N=12), and wrote up a short document detailing the practical advice I wish I had had before my first campus visits (pack cough drops! find the iron! be on the lookout for exploding bottles of soda!).

All are yours for the taking, and my condolences—the market is rough. 

Sample job documents

These sample documents are all from the 2021–2022 academic job market season.
​Clicking the button to the left of the descriptions will take you to a pdf of the document.
The cover letter I submitted when applying for my current job (as of October 2022) at UCD. I realized several months later that I had forgotten to include a digital signature. Let that be a reminder that typos won't destroy your chances at a position and are, in fact, pretty common. 
I submitted a shortened version of this to at least one institution that long-listed me during the 2021–2022 season.
This is retitled as my "teaching philosophy," "statement of teaching philosophy," or "teaching statement" depending on the ad.
Here's how I organize my teaching portfolio, using Styles and Table of Contents in Word. I append my teaching evaluations to the end of the document after saving it as a pdf.
​​

Academic job interview prep & advice

I've applied for 100 academic positions over seven years, which, unfortunately, is a low number for someone currently on the market. I wish I could say that the process has forced me to consider what is important in life and thus grow as a person. Instead, all this career steeplechase has meted out is a deep familiarity with the arcane etiquette of academic interviews, which I am happy to share below. 
In the minutes immediately following a high-stakes professional Zoom interview, do I take a beat to sit and breathe at my desk? No! Do I wander around campus and appreciate the beauty of nature? No! Do I treat myself to a delicious snack? Sometimes. But I also immediately scribble down all of the questions the search committee just asked me. Here's my archive for your viewing pleasure.
Ah, the campus visit. Two whirlwind days journeying to a place you may spend the next thirty years in...or may never set foot in again. Formerly shared with friends in grad school, this document contains all the basic advice I could think of that might be helpful to someone going through the process for the first time.

Successful grant applications

Boy, wouldn't it be great if there were more successful applications here? Alas. I'm working on it.
I co-organized this workshop with Laura Heath-Stout in October 2023. We had initially submitted as a Symposium proposal, and then were encouraged to resubmit as a workshop proposal, which turned out to be a good fit. Details of the workshop, and videos of all of the presentations, are available at www.anthroknowledge.com. 
I get asked for a lot of advice about the Curie, and the two points I repeat ad nauseum are (1) start early, and (2) pick an institution and colleagues who will provide you with logistical support and feedback when submitting the application.
The current iteration of this is the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), which sadly removes the archaeology pun from the title.