Opportunities

Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize, awarded for excellence in digital legal history.  The amount of the award is $250.  The deadline is September 1, 2019. The Dudziak Prize, named in honor of Mary L. Dudziak, a leading scholar of twentieth century U.S. legal history and international relations as well as a digital history pioneer, … Continue reading Call for Nominations: Dudziak Prize for Digital Legal History

Harvard University’s Faculty of Divinity seeks to make a full-time, tenure track appointment in Islamic Studies. We are particularly interested in a candidate with scholarly expertise either in: Islam in the Americas, Islam in Southeast Asia, or Quranic Studies. The candidate should be competent in the appropriate research languages and conversant with the broader, global … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Divinity School: Faculty Position, Islamic Studies

The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of a Postdoc in the History of Islamic Art. A full post-doc position as university assistant is available at the Institute of Art History from October 1, 2019 (according to university contract regulations, 40 hours per week). The position is limited to four years. Please send … Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoc History of Islamic Art, University of Vienna

Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

Professor Rabb seeks Research Assistants for research on Islamic Law Professor Rabb seeks 1-2 Research Assistants for research on Islamic law, in conjunction with the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. Knowledge of Arabic, Persian, or other foreign languages is not necessary (but welcome). Open to students at HLS, Harvard PH.D. Programs, or … Continue reading Call for Applications: Research Assistantships on Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

AMERICAN SCHOLAR AWARDS 2020 /2021 These Fulbright Awards provide approximately 50 teaching and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Grant length: Applicants can propose projects for a period of 4, 9, or 12 months. The dates of the awards should coincide with the academic … Continue reading Call for Applications: American Scholar Awards 2020-2021, Fulbright Awards

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announces the first "Winter School" program on the theme of "Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State." The winter school program will be held January 4th to 14th, 2020, and is open to advanced graduate students (ABD) and early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities. Prospective applicants have until September 30th 2019 to apply. … Continue reading Call for Applications: “Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State” Program, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University is happy to announce the Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion, which is dedicated to the publication of first books by early career scholars working in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences. This competition will give scholars the opportunity to travel … Continue reading Call for Applications: Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion, Columbia University

The Macalester College Religious Studies Department invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (tenure-track) to begin Fall 2020. A PhD is required by time of appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach a broad range of courses in classical and modern Islam and in the study of religion more broadly (i.e. … Continue reading Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Macalester College

The Academy Scholars Program identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences or law with a command of the language and history or culture of countries or regions outside of the United States or Canada.  Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational … Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University

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. We seek candidates who work in one or more of these areas or who do comparative work across them. These positions may … Continue reading Call for Applications: Professors of Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies, Harvard University

The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) invites scholars, including advanced doctoral students, to submit paper proposals for its 2020 spring meeting, which will be held March 6-8, 2020 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The spring 2020 meeting will focus on “Islam and Law,” and paper proposals should be broadly related … Continue reading Call for Papers: Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society

The Macalester College Department of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Arabic. Candidates must demonstrate passion and ability for teaching Modern Standard Arabic at all levels, as well as research and teaching interests in the literature, history, cultures, and/or societies of the classical Arab world. Strengths in … Continue reading Call for Applications: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Arabic, Macalester College