Non-Geographic/Methodologically Oriented 2011-12

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Last year's jobs (2010-11)

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

 * Tenure-track position at the assistant professor level from individuals with a specialty in cultural history and/or social history. Regional, geographic, and period specialization is open. The department is especially interested in applications from candidates with specialties in race, class, social movements, sports and leisure, film, the arts, and literature.
 * Teaching responsibilities include three courses per semester, including a General Education World History course and upper level courses in specialty areas. Ph. D. in an appropriate field, in hand by August 2012. Please list major and minor fields of specialization on C. V. and submit a letter of application, C.V., unofficial transcript, and two letters of recommendation by November 1, 2011. Application letters (500-750 words) should address teaching experience including experience and/or ability to teach world history, and research interests and agenda. Finalists may be requested to provide additional supporting materials. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the AHA meeting.
 * Note: Electronic submission of application materials is required. For additional information about this position and to apply, please visit https://employment.uwlax.edu/ Cross-listed on the jobs wiki under world history & Open Field or Mixed Hire History Jobs 2011-12.

Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

 * Research assistant professor, deadline July 27, 2011
 * Anyone received an ack? (Aug 5)


 * Deadline was very early: are they interviewing at the AHA?

University of Manchester (UK)

 * Lecturer (tenured) in Economic History with specialty in British Industrialization, to 1914.
 * Deadline: 31 Jul. 2011

Emory University

 * Tenure track assistant professor in US History (pre-1900) with specialism in women, gender and sexuality
 * "The department is particularly interested in candidates whose work intersects with the department’s strengths in the history of race, slavery, the American South, and religion"
 * Review begins: 15 Oct 2011.
 * (Originally posted at US History 2011-12)

Liverpool Hope University (UK)

 * Senior Lecturer (tenured) in the History of Education
 * Based in the Education Faculty and expected to contribute more generally to teaching in this Faculty.
 * "Please note that a PhD is required for this post. When completing your application please include the title and abstract of your doctoral dissertation. Candidates who have not completed a PhD but are at an advanced stage can be short-listed and interviewed but if offered the post will be required successfully to complete the PhD within the 12 month probationary period."
 * Deadline: 18 Jul 2011
 * NB: the intention is to hire for a September 2011 start date.

Universiteit van Amsterdam

 * Assistant Professor (tenured) in the 'Cultural History of Christianity'
 * "You are a historian and scholar of religion with expertise in the field of the cultural history of Christianity, against the background of religious dynamics and cultural diversity in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean world. You are familiar with visual, ritual and material aspects of religion and with the historical and present-day transformations of Christianity."
 * Fluency in English essential; fluency in Dutch must be achieved within 2 years
 * Deadline: 1 Sept. 2011

Columbia University

 * Tenure track assistant professorship in Islamic South Asian History
 * (Link to posting on Asian History 2011-12 page)
 * Review begins: 7 Sept. 2011

Fairfield University

 * Tenure track assistant professorship in the History of the Islamic World
 * "We particularly welcome candidates who employ cross-disciplinary methodologies, who take broad comparative or transnational approaches, or who use gender as a form of analysis. A successful candidate will be expected to teach the core-curriculum introductory History survey “Europe and the World in Transition, 1500-present,” and work with the International Studies Program."
 * Phd must be in-hand by 1 Sept. 2012
 * Deadline: 1 Nov. 2011
 * Will be interviewing at MESA

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
(cross listed at the European History page & Jewish Studies and Israel Studies 2011-2012)
 * Senior (Associate or Full Professor) position in Modern Jewish History
 * "Specialization is open but historians working in the “long” twentieth century are preferred"
 * Applicants must have Hebrew + at least one other relevant language
 * Deadline: 31 Oct. 2011

University of South Carolina - Assistant Professor, Jewish Diaspora/Jewish Studies

 * The History Department (http://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/) at the University of South Carolina invites applications for a new tenure-track position in Jewish Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Jewish diaspora, specialty and time period open, beginning Fall 2012. One of a cluster of approved positions in the area of diasporas (including positions in Music, Anthropology, and the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department), the person hired for this position will join a highly-ranked History Department and a vibrant and growing Jewish Studies Program.
 * To assure full consideration, applications should be received by November 4, 2011.
 * Also posted at Jewish Studies and/or Israel Studies 2010-2011

Texas State University

 * Tenure track assistant/associate professor in Public History, with expertise in US History
 * Soft Deadline: 30 Oct. 2011
 * Also posted at US History 2011-12

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

 * TT Assistant Professor in Early American History (to 1815), with a specialism in Public History
 * "Preference will be given to candidates with experience as practicing public historians."
 * Deadline: 10 Nov. 2011
 * Note that they are actually looking for a public historian. The Early America to 1815 emphasis is simply a plus, not a requirement.
 * Also posted at US History 2011-12

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

 * TT assistant professor in Public History and/or Policy History
 * Regional, geographic, or period specialization is open. We are especially interested in applications from Public History candidates with backgrounds in material culture studies, built environment, or oral history. The department is also especially interested in applications from candidates with Policy History specialties in education, welfare, race, criminal justice, or other social or domestic policy topics.
 * Teaching responsibilities include three courses per semester, including a General Education World History course and upper level courses in specialty areas. Ph. D. in hand by August 2012. Please list major and minor fields of specialization on C.V. and submit a letter of application, C.V., unofficial transcript, and two letters of recommendation by November 1, 2011. Application letters (500-750 words) should address teaching experience including experience and/or ability to teach world history, and research interests and agenda. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the AHA meeting.
 * Note: Electronic submission of application materials is required. For additional information about this position and to apply, please visit https://employment.uwlax.edu/ Also cross listed on the jobs wiki under world history & Open Field or Mixed Hire History Jobs 2011-12.

Universiteit van Amsterdam

 * Assistant Professor (tenured) in 'Public History: History, Society & Memory'
 * Fluency in English needed; Fluency in Dutch must be gained within two years
 * Deadline: 1 Sept. 2011

University of Pittsburgh

 * Tenured Associate or Full Professor in US Sports History "with a preference for those working on connections between sport in the United States and in other areas of the world."
 * "We encourage applicants to demonstrate how their research and teaching will contribute to one or more of our thematic fields: Atlantic History; Empires in World History; Gender, Ethnicity, Race, Religion; and Texts and Contexts"
 * Deadline: 15 Oct 2011

University of Queensland (Aus.)

 * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sports History
 * Period & region appear open?
 * Deadline: 30 Aug. 2011 [by 11.55pm Eastern Australia Standard Time]