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Applications now open for two postdoctoral fellowships (9 months & 12 months respectively) for the project “Avicenna East & West I: Commentaries on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs” (FRS-FNRS; UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Review begins: Oct. 1, 2019
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, is delighted to invite you to the upcoming event "Arabic LADO in the UK Asylum System: Does It Work?" on 2 October 2019.
Call for Submission of Paper Proposals for Genealogies of Knowledge II Evolving Transnational, Transdisciplinary and Translational Epistemologies. Deadline: September 30, 2019.
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a lecturer position in Persian starting in fall 2020. Deadline: October 29, 2019
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin invite applications for an advanced Assistant Professor or Associate Professor tenure line position in Arabic and Francophone Literatures. Deadline: October 29, 2019
The University of Oklahoma's Department of International and Area Studies, a multidisciplinary academic department in the dynamic College of International Studies (CIS), invites applications for the Mackey Professorship in Middle East Studies. We seek advanced assistant professors or associate professors for this tenure-track or tenured position. We are interested in candidates working on issues of energy, resources and environment in the Middle East, to include the political economy of energy, critical political economy, development, human development, and the political economy of conflict.
The Departments of Political Science and International and Global Studies are searching for a shared tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The ideal candidate will conduct research and teach in the fields of Comparative Politics and/or International Relations with a focus on development. There is a strong preference for candidates who study development through the lens of international political economy, Africa, the Middle East, human rights policy, or global health policy. Review begins September 16, 2019.
Washington and Lee University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the study of Judaism in the Department of Religion. Review begins October 20, 2019.
The Department of Political Science at Syracuse University seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics for a position beginning in Fall 2020. Review begins October 1, 2019.
Fordham University, Department of Theology, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship, beginning Fall 2020, in the field of Modern Islam. Deadline: October 11, 2019
The Department of History at Rhodes College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the history of the Global Middle Ages and/or Medieval Mediterranean world to begin Fall 2020. Review begins: October 7, 2019
This is a call for papers for an edited volume on the Arab diaspora will include an interdisciplinary approach to allow for linguistic, cultural, historical, political, anthropological and socioeconomic perspectives. Deadline: October 14, 2019
The Fulbright Program in Israel is pleased to offer Post-doctoral Fellowships for Early-Career MESA Members at any of Israel's world-class institutes, leaders in Middle East Studies, like The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University & Ben-Gurion University. Deadline: September 16, 2019
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives are pleased to offer competitive fellowships and support of up to $5,000 to support research based on our collections. Deadline: November 7, 2019.
Haverford College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in its Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program to begin Fall semester 2020. Deadline: November 1, 2019
The Department of History at Dartmouth College invites applications for a historian of the Premodern and Early Modern Islamic World, to be appointed at the rank of Assistant Professor. Deadline: October 11, 2019
The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten PhD students to its doctoral programme, which is to begin on 1 October 2020. The Graduate School is a joint project of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, which brings together scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and area studies.
The Department of Culture and Language Studies, Renison University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo, invites applications for one tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Deadline: September 30, 2019
The Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the field of Classical Arabic Islamic Thought, starting in August 2020.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University seeks to appoint up to four professors who study race, ethnicity and/or migration with focus on Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies. Deadline: October 1, 2019
New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS) is pleased to share this public call for papers for its seventh annual workshop to be held at Brown University on March 6–7, 2020. Deadline: November 4, 2019
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) welcomes the submission of papers for its October and December issues.
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University seeks to hire a Political Scientist of the Arab World.
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on May 21-23, 2020. Deadline: October 1, 2019
The Pennsylvania State University Jewish Studies Program invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Israel Studies and Jewish Studies.