Jewish Studies

2008-2009
How many of us are looking at this page? 9

Well, since there are only 9 of us looking at the page, and there are more than 9 jobs, each of us should get the job of our dreams! If you are looking at this page, please say so!

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

Tenure-Track Jobs
has anyone heard anything since aar
 * Boston University: Religion and literary arts
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * Boston University: Modern Jewish History
 * Updates
 * Contacted about AJS/AHA interview (11/12)
 * Columbia University: Rabbinic-Medieval Judaism (Senior position)
 * Columbia University: Witten professorship
 * Hofstra University: Pre-modern Judaism
 * Updates
 * contacted for SBL interview
 * King's University College at the University of Western Ontario: Jewish Studies/Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * Initial interviews took place at AAR
 * Princeton University Tikvah Fellowship: Jewish Thought
 * Queens College: Eastern Europe and Holocaust
 * Queens College: Medieval/Pre-Modern (yay!) History/Thought
 * Swarthmore College: Open specialization
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * Temple University: Jewish History
 * University of Buffalo: Rabbinics (Senior position)
 * Univ. of California - Davis: Pre-modern Judaism
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * University of Colorado: Jewish Literature (Yiddish, German, Slavic languages)
 * Updates
 * contacted for AJS interview
 * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Israeli Cultural Studies
 * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Rabbinics
 * Updates
 * contacted about preliminary interview
 * University of Maryland - College Park: Israel Studies*
 * University of Michigan: Modern Hebrew and Jewish Culture
 * University of Minnesota: Israelite religion
 * Updates
 * contacted about SBL interview
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Rabbinics
 * University of Texas Austin: Jewish Studies/Rabbinics
 * only three weeks to AJS and no news!
 * I know, the suspense is killing me! Maybe they don't know about AJS...
 * University of Wisconsin - Madison: Israeli Literature & Culture
 * Vanderbilt University: Rabbinics
 * Updates
 * contacted about AJS interview (11/21)
 * Wesleyan University
 * Updates
 * contacted about interview

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
 * offer extended 3/11
 * offer accepted 3/25
 * rejection letter received 4/1  (Rejection letters received after the on-campus visits.)