Middle Eastern History Jobs, 2009-10

Middle Eastern History
--it seems to vary from school to school. I applied for a handful of jobs last year; some were quick to tell me where they were in the process, while others never contacted me at all. --Not sure. I do know, however, that Grinnell is holding 18 preliminary interviews, and I am not one of them. Ouch. *Bard College Tenure-Track, post 1600 middle east Phone interview for 11/19
 * How many people are checking this board regularly? Add one for yourself:  14
 * Do schools send out rejection letters as soon as they decide that you're not their candidate or do they wait until the search is over to inform everyone at once?
 * Does anyone have an interview at MESA?
 * Just Fairfield for me
 * I have two, TAMU and Fairfield
 * me too
 * Does anyone know how many people apply per position, on average, and how many people are asked to be interviewed per job, on average?
 * Colby-Sawyer College, Tenure-Track Assistant
 * Georgetown University
 * Grinnell College Middle East and Religion      Anybody hear about Grinnell interviews yet?
 * Rejection email 11/9


 * Northwestern University
 * Old Dominion University
 * SUNY - New Paltz, Tenure-Track Assistant, Middle East before 1918
 * Texas A&M, Tenure-Track Assistant, Islamic World

Rejection letter 10/21
 * Inteview at MESA 10/25

invited for campus visit 11/11
 * University of Manitoba
 * University of Notre Dame, Medieval Middle East

Has anybody heard back about interviews for Notre Dame job?

I got a rejection letter 10/22

Any other news about Notre Dame? I haven't heard anything.

request for a writing sample on 10/10

Has anybody gotten a Notre Dame interview?


 * University of Oregon
 * request for additional materials 10/25--they will contact AHA interviewees in mid December


 * University of St. Thomas
 * Rutgers-Newark
 * request for additional materials early/mid October.x2
 * request for additional materials 10/19, request for teaching evals 11/9
 * -phone interview 11/19

request for additional materials 11/19
 * Northeastern Illinois U
 * Dartmouth

request for additional materials 11/17--word on the street is that they aren't conducting AHA interviews (11/20)
 * University of Kansas


 * U of Nebraska-Lincoln
 * Fairfield U
 * -request for MESA interview 11/18
 * -invitation to campus 11/27


 * Western Carolina U
 * U of Louisville
 * U of Illinois-Springfield

African History
Carleton College Asst Prof http://h-net.org/jobs//display_job.php?jobID=38878 McGill University, Quebec Canada History of Sub-Saharan Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries
 * any news from Carleton yet?


 * anyone else apply for this? -mcgill? yes. i think we are two among many, many applicants, from what i've been hearing (11/22)

Pomona College, Northern Africa

University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, environmental and natural resource issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

University of Oregon


 * Surely this was from last year. There is no Oregon search this year.-there is an Oregon search that includes North Africa

University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse Assistant Professor of World History / Sub Saharan Africa Yale, sub saharan Africa since 1850
 * Short list of applicants made, will be contacted for AHA interviews soon.


 * -SEARCH CANCELLED
 * -how do you know this is canceled? I got a letter just last week that they will begin review applications shorty - I think the Yale search was cancelled, not William & Mary 11/11.-- it was the yale job that got cancelled; someone posted the colorado thing in the middle, making it unclear. i've corrected it.

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Africa/Europe, 800-1700. Apply at http://www.jobsatcu.com, refer to posting 808542.


 * -the posting is now up on h-net, so i took down the details to keep this page streamlined

College of William and Mary, Assistant Professor African History


 * --request for writing samples (11/19)

Hofstra University

Lehman College, CUNY


 * -request for interview (11/11); likewise - they're interviewing at both New Orleans and San Diego (11/11)

Connecticut College

Syracuse University


 * --Anyone heard anything from SU yet? (10/26)-Nothing (10/30)-- Has to be soon right if they're interviewing in New Orleans?? (10/30)- qui sait? sigh.-- Nothing yet...(11/3)-request for extended writing sample (11/3)--anyone have an interview set up? (11/10)-not yet (11/11)-request for interview (11/12)- did you just get invited for the interview today? and is it still in New Orleans? (11/12)-yes and yes (11/12)

Gettysburg College