The Middle East Studies Association is seeking a full-time, remote employee to support a new Academic Autonomy Initiative and to support the related work of the MESA Committee on Academic Autonomy. The expected duration of this position is for two years and it is funded by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
MESA has been building out the Academic Freedom Initiative (AFI), a project funded by the Mellon Foundation, to identify and track trends regarding academic freedom and repression on campuses across North America. Two initial datasets focus on recent immigration actions affecting higher education, and adverse employment outcomes for university employees since October 2023.
MESA's Task Force has created a new advocacy resource center for our members to consult in response to the repression of rights on campuses across North America and beyond.
The Department of Comparative Literature seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, or Full Professor in Persian literature and culture.
The workshop invites paper proposals that explore the evolving dynamics of global Chinese migration and the expanding Chinese presence in emerging nodes of economic and geopolitical significance along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The Committee on Academic Freedom received a response from the Dean of the Claremont Colleges Library in response to our letter regarding Bilal Nasir of Pomona College
Our letter expressing concern about the University of California, Berkeley’s decision to give the federal government the names of 160 individuals associated with allegations of antisemitism on campus without informing them of the nature of those allegations and in violation of university policies and procedures
MESA's Task Force on Civil and Human Rights has created this resource to answer frequently asked questions about visas and other related concerns for non-citizens in the United States.
The 2025 Druze Studies conference, featuring online and in-person sessions, invites people to join them on 16-17 October.
Our letter urging an immediate intervention to expedite the visa and study permit applications of Palestinian scholars who have secured academic placements at Canadian universities.
The seventh annual conference (December 5 - 7, 2025) invites abstract submissions.
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Arabic Linguistics, with expertise in dialectology and historical linguistics.
Our letter expressing concern about the demand by the Claremont Colleges Library that Professor Bilal Nasir of Pomona College change the title and abstract of a lecture he had been invited to present in the library’s “Claremont Discourse” series.
The conference invites paper submissions for an interdisciplinary gathering dedicated to exploring the emergence, development and practice of public history in the Middle East.
The Department of International Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning July 1, 2026.
The international hybrid conference taking place on December 10–11, 2025 in Egypt invites abstracts from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, and education that explore the intersections between psychology and the humanities.
The Program in World Literatures invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor.
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is seeking outstanding scholars of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa for a residential fellowship.
Harvard Divinity School invites applications for five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2026-27 in its Women’s Studies in Religion Program.
The College of Arts and Sciences invites applications for the position of the Dorothy Koster Washburn ‘67 Endowed Lectureship in Arabic Language and Middle East & North Africa Studies-related courses.
The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference invites proposal submissions.
MESA welcomes a court decision striking down the Trump administration’s freezing of over $2 billion in federal grants to Harvard University.
The Department of History seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the level of assistant professor.
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) invites applications for two open-rank teaching faculty positions in Instructional Arabic.
MESA's Task Force on Civil and Human Rights has created this resource to answer frequently-asked questions and to inform members regarding immigration enforcement on campus.