Jewish Studies

2008-2009
Number of searches canceled due to the economy (and ponzi schemes): 4

How many of us are still looking at this page? 1 (It seems not be getting updated regularly. I mean, is it really possible that almost no offers have been made? It's mid-February!)

If you are looking at this page, please say so!

Please add dates to added info (e.g., date contacted for interview).

Area of Specialization:

Medieval: 2

Hebrew Bible: 5

Hellenistic-Second Temple Judaism: 1

Rabbinic Literature: 3

Ancient: 1

Modern: 5

Tenure-Track Jobs
-- Has anyone been offered this job yet? 
 * Boston College: Hebrew Bible
 * Interviewed at SBL
 * Rejection email received (not so classy)
 * Boston University: Religion and literary arts
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * Boston University: Modern Jewish History
 * Updates
 * Contacted about AJS/AHA interview (11/12)
 * Rejection received by mail (12/12)
 * "Rejection (post AJS interview) received by email"
 * Hire announced on Dept. website. No name released.
 * Chicago Theological Seminary: on campus visits scheduled for late January/early February
 * Claremont School of Theology: Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * Interviews conducted at SBL
 * rejection letter received
 * Columbia University: Rabbinic-Medieval Judaism (Senior position)
 * Columbia University: Witten professorship
 * Hofstra University: Hebrew and Comparative Literature
 * Updates
 * Search canceled (Madoff related). I believe all Hosftra jobs were frozen. (12/16)
 * Hofstra University: Pre-modern Judaism
 * Updates
 * contacted for SBL interview
 * heard they have contacted finalists about on campus interviews
 * Search canceled due to budget problems (12/16)
 * King's University College at the University of Western Ontario: Jewish Studies/Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * Initial interviews took place at AAR
 * oncampus interviews completed
 * job offer extended (December)
 * Princeton University Tikvah Fellowship: Jewish Thought
 * Princeton University: Hebrew Bible
 * has anyone heard anything? I sent application in mid october and haven't even received an acknowledgment letter/email (as of 12/19).
 * rejection letter recieved (01/02)
 * Queens College: Eastern Europe and Holocaust
 * Has anyone heard anything from them?
 * Position filled! Congrats to Elissa Bemporad!
 * Queens College: Medieval/Pre-Modern (yay!) History/Thought
 * Received confirmation of receipt of application (12/16)
 * Was this job already filled? Check FB
 * That information was posted as of May 2008. Seems unlikely that the search is fake...
 * Also, I'm not sure that Francesca would call herself a "medievalist/premodernist"--which is what the search is for..
 * 1/5 - received letter that review of applications will begin in late January
 * 2/3 finalists will be chosen before the end of next week--that's right, no preliminary interviews!
 * 2/8 campus invitations
 * Rhodes College:Hebrew Bible
 * Phone interview scheduled (1/7/09)
 * Campus interview scheduled (1/27/09)
 * San Francisco State University: Israel Studies
 * October 31 application deadline
 * Received confirmation of receipt of application (mid-November)
 * Has anyone heard anything else on this one?
 * Santa Clara: Modern Judaism:
 * Updates
 * On-campus visits scheduled for January.
 * St. Thomas More College:
 * Updates
 * contacted for on campus interview (1/23)
 * Swarthmore College: Open specialization
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * contacted for campus interview
 * Temple University: Jewish History
 * University of Buffalo: Rabbinics (Senior position)
 * Updates
 * Interviewed at AJS
 * Rejection received.
 * Univ. of California - Davis: Pre-modern Judaism
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * contacted about AJS interview
 * contacted for additional materials, including dissertation to date (12/24)
 * Any word since last posting?
 * Nope. Despite my best efforts to be a sycophant and keep the conversation going, nothing in weeks!!
 * ''Makes me feel better that I resisted the urge! Watching this space!
 * contacted about campus interview 1/13
 * RE:question about fields that was posted earlier: I'm also going there and also not in Hebrew Bible.
 * rejection received by phone after campus interview (2/4)
 * University of Chicago Divinity School: Hebrew Bible
 * University of Colorado: Jewish Literature (Yiddish, German, Slavic languages)
 * Updates
 * contacted for AJS interview
 * contacted for campus interview (1/5)
 * offer extended (2/2)
 * Is this possible? I thought that they were not finished interviewing! Did you receive the offer yourself?
 * I got the news straight from the source...
 * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Israeli Cultural Studies
 * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Rabbinics
 * contacted about preliminary interview
 * Search canceled 12/15
 * University of Maryland - College Park: Israel Studies*
 * flying out finalists in February
 * University of Memphis: Judaic Studies, 1-yr position with possibility of renewal for up to 2 additional years.
 * Updates
 * Contacted regarding phone interview (01/22)
 * University of Michigan: Modern Hebrew and Jewish Culture
 * 3 flyouts scheduled, Jan. 14-23rd.
 * University of Minnesota: Israelite religion
 * Updates
 * contacted about SBL interview
 * cancelled for budgetary reasons
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History
 * interviews to take place at AHA
 * cancelled for budgetary reasons
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * preliminary interviews took place at SBL
 * received notice that they are now conducting on-campus interviews
 * Was this through an email or a letter?
 * I was not contacted directly; I received a notice from a student friend at a related university.
 * Would you ask your friend at a "related university" (does it rhyme with nuke?) if there's been any activity on the rabbinics job?
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Rabbinics
 * contacted (by phone) about AJS interview (12/2)
 * contacted for campus interview (ph, 1/20)
 * '''University of North Carolina -- Wilmington (Bloch Distinguished Professor)
 * Updates
 * Contacted about on-campus interview in January
 * Univ. of Pittsburgh: Classical Judaism (Perlow Lectureship)
 * Updates
 * Interviewed at AJS
 * University of San Diego: Contemporary Judaism:
 * Updates
 * Conference interviews took place at AAR.
 * On-campus visits took place in December.
 * Received rejection letter via email (1/14); position filled
 * Univ. of Southern California: Ruth Ziegler Chair in Culture and Faith (11/15)
 * Updates
 * Has anyone heard any news about this?
 * Not a word: Jan/18
 * I've heard the committee is looking at a short list.
 * University of Texas Austin: Jewish Studies/Rabbinics
 * Updates
 * contacted about AJS interview
 * rejection email received (classy!) 12/11
 * rejection received; short list determined
 * University of Washington: Hazel D. Cole Fellowship
 * Updates
 * rejection email received (1/12)
 * Offer made (02/13)
 * University of Wisconsin - Madison: Israeli Literature & Culture
 * Vanderbilt University: Rabbinics
 * Updates
 * contacted about AJS interview (11/21)
 * Despite rumors to the contrary, this search is legit.
 * rejection received, did not interview (something in the works?) (1/13)
 * contacted for campus interview
 * Wellesley: Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * First round interviews took place at SBL
 * On-campus invitation 12/17
 * Wesleyan University
 * Updates
 * contacted about interview
 * phone interview 12/10 in lieu of AAR interview
 * any news since last posting? I was told that they would have their short list by the end of last semester.
 * Campus invitation, 1/12 (ph)
 * Yale: Intellectual and Cultural History, 1800-present (1/15)

Format guidelines
For new position announcements, please add the relevant information: School, specialty, due date, and link to job description, if available.

As job search progress indicators become available, add the type of information and date preceded by a two asterisks on the next line after the position announcement. The link to a job description can be deleted after the application due date.

For example: Midwest Dreamland U, 16/17th c., due 11/1/08
 * Updates:
 * writing sample requested by e-mail 11/5
 * phone interview scheduled 11/20
 * MLA interview scheduled 12/3
 * on-campus interview invitation 1/12
 * Search Canceled
 * offer extended 3/11
 * offer accepted 3/25
 * rejection letter received 4/1  (Rejection letters received after the on-campus visits.)