Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
Harvard Divinity School
The Divinity School invites applications for five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2027–28 in its Women's Studies in Religion Program.
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Call for Contributions - MENA Profile, Atlas of Today’s World
Atlas of Today's World
The editorial team invites contributions to the Middle East and North Africa Profile.
Assistant Professor of History
Davidson College
The Department of History invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern history, broadly defined to include North Africa, West Asia, and the Islamic World.
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Research Fellowships
University of Michigan
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute invites applications from scholars of all academic ranks for the 2027-2028 academic year research fellowships.
Call for Papers: Ninth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium [Deadline October 1]
AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies
The Colloquium invites students in the social sciences and humanities to submit reviews on noteworthy books published since January 1, 2025 in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
Assistant Professor of Cuneiform Culture
University of California, Berkeley
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Cuneiform Cultures, tenure track.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics
Dartmouth College
The Department of Government invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics.
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities
Brown University
Brown University invites applications for the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, to begin July 1, 2027.
ACLS Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowships in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America
American Council of Learned Societies
ACLS invites applications for ACLS/Kraidy Fellowships in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America.
17th Gulf Research Meeting 2027 Call for Workshop Proposals
Gulf Research Center
GRCC invites innovative proposal submissions in the social science field dedicated to a better understanding of developments in the Gulf region.
IAS School of Historical Studies: Call for Applications: 2027-28 Membership & Fellowships
Institute for Advance Study School of Historical Studies
The institute invites scholars to apply for the 2027-28 Membership and Fellowships.
Call for Chapters - new book on the Muslim Brotherhood
Vernon Press
Vernon Press invites chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how the Muslim Brotherhood has been understood and shown throughout its history.
Assistant Professor in the Pre-Modern History of the Islamicate Middle East or Central Asia
University of Chicago
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies
Bowdoin College
Environmental Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in environmental humanities at the Assistant Professor level.
Call For Entries - Lives Beyond the Archives: Alf Muslimah Research Competition
Al-Mujadilah Research, Qatar Foundation
Al-Mujadilah's Jadal Institute invites scholars, researchers, and experts to submit proposals for research-based entries for Alf Muslimah, a forthcoming encyclopaedia.
Residential Fellowships 2027–28 | Call for Applications
National Humanities Center
The center invites applications for academic-year or semester-long residential fellowships.
New Research Group on Ibn Khaldun’s Historical Legacy
University of Jordan
The group announces its establishment to scholars and researchers interested in Arabic intellectual heritage, Islamic historiography, and medieval sources.
The Composition of the Qur’an: Structure, Style & Meaning
Institut dominicain d'études orientales
The conference invites abstract submissions.
Assistant or Associate Professor in Sociology (Open Rank)
The American University in Cairo
The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (SEA) is seeking to recruit an Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology.
Assistant Professor - Law, Politics, and Public Discourse
University of California Berkeley
The Department of Rhetoric invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Law, Politics, and Public Discourse.
Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
Stanford University
The Department of Religious Studies invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies.
Call for Book Chapters: Alternatives to the Nation-State: Federalism, Autonomy, and Post-Imperial Imaginaries in the Mediterranean Long Nineteenth Century
Aix-Marseille University
Chapter abstracts are invited for a volume in Routledge's Ideas beyond Borders series.
Monterey Summer Symposium 2026
Middlebury Institute of International Studies
The Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies invites applications for the Monterey Summer Symposium 2026.
MESA’s First Virtual Research Workshop Call for Proposals
MESA
Information on submitting proposals to participate in MESA's First Virtual Research Workshop to be held in June 2026. The deadline to submit is January 9, 2026.
Conference: Mainstreaming the Margins and Marginalizing the Mainstream in Contemporary Egyptian Culture
American University in Cairo & CEDEJ
The conference invites attendees to think about repositioning Egypt, and the region more broadly, as a place of knowledge production; a place from which theory emerges, not just be applied or localised.
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