Postdocs vs. doctoral fellows

[Russell Valentino]

Post-doc is a job title. Post-docs are usually in the sciences -- they're 
jobs people get (we say both "she is a post-doc" and "she got a post-doc"), 
usually doing some kind of research, after they finish their Ph.D. but 
before they get a teaching or other university position. Doctoral fellow 
could include someone still working on a Ph.D. It's someone receiving a 
fellowship, so not necessarily being paid in exchange for work.

Neither one is equivalent to kandidat nauk, which is a degree category.

In the U.S. academic environment, the post-doc is an extremely important 
middle category for research (between grad students and faculty). All the 
university labs in the country are filled with 'em.

At 15:57 02.06.2005, you wrote:
>Urgent: can someone tell me if these are significantly different? (I've 
>been away for too long to remember)
>
>We're translating a speech by a non-Russian-speaking American into Russian 
>in which he discusses the *Russian* academic environment, and he mentions 
>these two terms. The translator renders them both as кандидат 
>наук, and the editor wants to change them to докторант, 
>saying that if you continue in academia in Russia after you get your 
>кандидатскую степень, you are inevitably working toward 
>your докторскую.
>
>MMTIA
>
>--
>War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
>--
>Paul B. Gallagher
>pbg translations, inc.
>"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
>http://pbg-translations.com
>

Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Program in Russian
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
University of Iowa
Tel. (319) 353-2193
Fax (319) 353-2524  

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