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## **Handbooks & Guides**

**Below are key handbooks and guides related to the appointment and promotion of faculty and researchers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.**

If you have questions about policies and procedures, please contact the [associate dean for faculty affairs](http://facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/assistant-deans-divisions-seas-and-selected-college-appointments) in your academic division (the Arts and Humanities, the Social Sciences, Science), the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, or for selected College appointments.



 

  [### Faculty Search Committee Guidance

 ](https://faculty.harvard.edu/guidance-harvard-faculty-search-committees) 

   [### FAS Appointment & Promotion Handbook 

 ](http://academic-appointments.fas.harvard.edu/) 

   [### FAS Postdoctoral Fellows’ Handbook

 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1751/files/facultyresources/files/fas_postdoc_handbook_final_updated_oct_2022.pdf) 

   [### Guide to Preparing an Electronic Dossier

 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1751/files/facultyresources/files/updated_final_for_ay_15-16_guide_to_preparing_an_electronic_dossier.pdf) 

   [### Guide to Unacceptable Interview Questions

 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1751/files/facultyresources/files/guide_to_interview_questions_for_facres_website_june_2022.pdf) 

   [### Information for Department Chairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1751/files/2026-05/26-27%20Chairs%20Handbook%205.27.26_0.pdf) 

   [### Research Appointments Matrix

 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1751/files/2025-07/research_appointments_matrix%20-%20revised%207-15-25.pdf) 

   [### Tenure Track Handbook 

 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1751/files/2025-08/Tenure-Track%20Handbook%2025-26_updated%208_27_25.pdf)