European History Jobs 2008-09

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British History
How many British Historians are here? Change the number below if you're here:
 * 13


 * Northwestern University
 * application deadline is 1 Oct 2008
 * asked for more material (10/14)
 * asked for more material (10/19)
 * Did anyone else hear from them lately? What is going on with them?
 * Know of someone who had an on-campus there last week.


 * Princeton University
 * application deadline is 15 Oct 2008
 * See "Early Modern Europe" section for more information.


 * American University
 * applications accepted immediately
 * Email from search coordinator acknowledging receipt, 11/7. Review began mid-October (but was still ongoing as of 11/7)
 * Asked for more material, around 11/1. Sorry, I should have told you...
 * requested phone interview 11/14


 * Middle Tennessee State University
 * Review of applications begins October 6, 2008
 * Phone interview scheduled for 10/23
 * Phone interview (10/28)
 * On-campus interview scheduled (11/3)


 * Central Michigan University (Modern England)
 * Review of applications begins November 21, 2008
 * Received acknowledgment letter 11/15


 * University of North Alabama
 * Review of applications will begin immediately, and will be accepted until the position is filled
 * Phone Interview scheduled 11/19


 * University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (British or British Imperial since 1750)
 * Applications must be received by October 15, 2008


 * University of North Carolina Greensboro (Britain/British Empire, 1500-1800) SEARCH CANCELLED
 * Applications must be received by December 1, 2008
 * 11/24 Letter received saying SEARCH CANCELLED
 * 11/24 Likewise. Due to "the dire economic condition of the state of North Carolina"


 * University of South Carolina Aiken SUSPENDED DUE TO HIRING FREEZE
 * Review of applications begins November 15, 2009
 * They mean 2008, of course, since the job is "to begin August 16, 2009."
 * Emailed (11/6) - the search has been suspended because of a hiring freeze, but might be renewed next year.


 * University of Tennessee Knoxville (Empire)
 * Review of applications will begin on November 1st
 * AHA interview scheduled 11/21


 * New York University
 * Review of applications will begin on October 20, 2008
 * anyone knows anything about this job and what they are looking for?
 * writing sample requested 11/18
 * How many people heard back from them? Is it more than one?
 * Additional writing sample requested from me too on 11/18, so that makes at least two.
 * Expletive deleted
 * Make that three on the writing sample, also requested 11/18. Sorry, trying not to check this site obsessively...


 * College of William and Mary (1500-1700)
 * Application materials expected by by 31 October 2008
 * Received Acknowledgment 11/05
 * Received request for additional materials 11/18
 * Received request for additional materials 11/18


 * Christopher Newport University Early Modern Britain
 * Review of Applications Begins 31 October 2008
 * Received Acknowledgment 11/07


 * Murray State University
 * Review of applications begins November 15, 2008
 * Received acknowledgment letter 11/17


 * Brandeis University (Britain and the World, esp. South Asia) SEARCH SUSPENDED
 * Application deadline November 1, 2008
 * Email saying that the search is canceled, 10/23.

Ancient

 * State University of New York - Cortland (ancient/medieval Europe)
 * application deadline is 15 Oct 2008
 * according to e-mail of 23 Oct, phone interviews have been delayed until after the New Year "due to budgetary constraints".
 * Presumably phone rates will decline in 2009?
 * They're hoping the governor finds a long-lost Dutch treasure chest buried in the Hudson, solving all of the state's budget woes...


 * Emory University
 * application deadline is until an appointment is made.

Medieval
'''How many medievalists are on the job market (and checking this wiki)? 17'''

Is anyone interested in breaking down our numbers by our current status, e.g. ABD, Defended, VAP, postdoc, in a TT job, etc... Or is this too much information to give out? --Why not. ABD: 3; ABD/VAP: 2; postdoc: 2; TT: 3; unemployed Ph.D.: 3; VAP: 1


 * Duke University 1000-1300
 * application deadline 15 Nov 2008
 * 11/17 received acknowledgment letter
 * 11/17 received request for writing samples
 * out of curiosity: how many out there were asked for writing samples? 5
 * were the requests for writing samples sent via snail or email?
 * e-mail


 * Emory University SEARCH HAS BEEN FROZEN
 * application deadline is 1 Dec 2008
 * 11/21: Search has been frozen because of budgetary concerns
 * What a great time to be alive. How were you notified?
 * Via e-mail.


 * McGill University - Postdoctoral Fellow, Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Textual Cultures Research Group
 * application deadline is 12 Dec 2008


 * Mount Holyoke College
 * application deadline is 21 Nov 2008 (deadline from AHA online, not listed on H-Net)


 * Muskingum College (ancient/medieval)
 * application deadline is 1 Nov 2008
 * 10/20 received acknowledgment letter


 * Smith College
 * application deadline is 1 Nov 2008
 * 11/5 received acknowledgment letter
 * snail mail or e-mail, just out of curiousity?
 * snail mail
 * how many people have received acknowledgment letters? Or, more to the point I guess, how many people haven't?
 * Received snail-mail acknowledgment: 3


 * Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
 * application deadline is 1 Dec 2008
 * 10/15 received acknowledgment letter


 * Trinity University
 * application deadline is 26 Nov 2008
 * 09/25 received acknowledgment letter


 * University of Wisconsin-Madison (Byzantine history)
 * application deadline is 31 Oct 2008


 * Wheaton College (ancient/medieval)
 * application deadline is 15 Nov 2008
 * 10/20 received acknowledgment letter

Medieval/Early Modern
Ursinus College Kalamazoo College
 * Medieval/Early Modern Europe, Iberian Peninsula, or France, or Italy.
 * Posted ~14 August 2008; applications due 1 December 2008
 * 11/18 received acknowledgment letter, indicating they would contact people for further material in early December
 * Posting
 * Medieval/Early Modern Europe.
 * Applications due 31 October 2008
 * Posting
 * Received Acknowledgment 10/31
 * SC contacted some candidates to ask whether they would attend AHA. During the course of this conversation, SC indicated that they would contact short-list for interviews on or before December 5th.
 * [I deleted confusion over what the above-mentioned contact was about.]

Cornell College
 * Medieval/Early Modern Europe.
 * Applications due 14 November 2008
 * Posting
 * Department website and this tidbit from the advertisement makes it look a bit like a current VAP has something of an edge: "we welcome candidates who are also able to teach courses in the history of the Ottoman Empire or the early modern Islamic world"
 * Received acknowledgment letter 11/22
 * BTW, nicest acknowledgment letter EVER.
 * I agree! Could make you want to live in IA!
 * Oh, yes. I'd sell my mom for parts for this job. (No offense, mom!)

Marlboro College
 * Europe prior to the 20th century
 * Review of applications begins November 24
 * Received acknowledgment letter 11/22
 * Is there any reason this is listed as Medieval/ Early Modern? It's listed as "pre-20th century" which seems like modern to me unless someone knows something beyond the posting.
 * Marlboro is a tiny college (under 400 students, under 40 faculty), so "pre-20th century" means exactly that. Medieval/Early Modern is as good as any other classification, it would appear...

Early Modern Europe
Out of curiosity - how many people have we got active on this thing? Change the number below if you're here:

25 

Q: But this seems like a poor measure--how many people bother? A: I'm just trying to assess how complete the information here is because I had no idea whether there were two people or two hundred. If there are 100 people posting, silence on any given job says that the committee has not yet contacted candidates because someone in that group would have gotten an interview. If there were just two people, it would be less helpful as a source of information. With sixteen posters (as I write) I think this is probably pretty accurate, at least for the AHA stage of things. (That said, I'm only applying for two jobs, so I'll be no help at all!)

From the medievalists: Is anyone interested in breaking down our numbers by our current status, e.g. ABD, Defended, VAP, postdoc, in a TT job, etc...
 * ABD:
 * ABD & VAP:
 * Postdoc: 2
 * TT: 1
 * Unemployed Ph.D.:
 * VAP:

Active Postings for 2008-2009''' (Archive of 2007-2008 wiki)

Adelphi University
 * Associate Professor Position
 * Deadline: Immediately

St. Andrews University
 * Lectureship in the Religious History of Continental Europe, 1450-1750
 * Closing date: 17 October 2008
 * Interviews set for December 1, shortlist set. 

The University of Southern California
 * Application Deadline is November 1
 * Has anyone heard anything from these folks?
 * I have it on reliable authority that they're still reading files... all 300+ of them.

Michigan State University
 * Early Modern Europe, c. 1500- c. 1800
 * Application Deadline is December 1
 * Rank Open

Princeton University
 * 2 Early Modern Europe (1400-1800)
 * 1 early modern Britain (1400-1700)
 * Positions are open rank.
 * Posted 11 July 2008; applications due 15 October 2008
 * Requested additional materials, 10-22
 * I imagine they'll decide that the assistant-professor level position will be in either early modern Europe or early modern Britain; does anyone know which way they're going?
 * A friend of mine was told by someone in their department that the early modern Britain position will be at the assistant professor level.
 * Email from SC indicates that they will not contact Early Modern British applicants until short-list is complete.
 * They have invited one senior Reformation historian to campus and are pursuing another senior eighteenth-century French historian. The British search is being delayed for a few weeks as they have decided to concentrate on filling the continental positions first.
 * So are you saying that they ARE NOT looking for any continental people at the assistant professor level?
 * I was the one who posted that a friend of mine had been told that the early modern Britain position would be at the assistant professor level. But I recently heard that a senior British historian had been invited to campus.  Go figure.  Certainly it's not impossible that they could fail to get the senior people that they want, which would mean that they might end up going junior with one or more of these searches.
 * And I was the one of those who posted that they weren't going to move on the British position just yet. As you say, go figure.
 * I recently heard that they wanted to fill the senior position (undecided which) before moving to the junior searches, so that the senior faculty could have input on the hiring process. So, junior people might not hear until winter or next year.
 * This makes sense. This department is famous for long, drawn out searches, so it might be a while before they turn to the junior slot.
 * I applied for the continental Europe positions, and I just received a letter saying they would speak to short-listed candidates in early Decmeber
 * Just got a letter from Princeton: concentrating on continental European posts in the fall, will move on to the British post in the spring, we should expect to hear abot the next stage of the competition toward the end of February 2009.

Texas A&M University - College Station
 * Renaissance and Reformation
 * Search chair studies Britain, so they probably mean Continental Europe
 * Posted 17 June 2008; applications due 7 November 2008
 * AHA interview scheduled 11/14

Texas A&M University - College Station
 * Iberia & Iberian World, post-1400
 * Posted 17 June 2008; applications due 7 November 2008
 * AHA interview scheduled, 11/14

University of Chicago
 * Early Modern Europe (1350-1650)
 * Posted 18 July 2008; applications due 7 November 2008
 * Posting
 * Received email confirmation asking for online application - 13 November 2008
 * Anyone hear anything from Chicago yet?

Williams College SEARCH POSTPONED TO 2009
 * Early Modern Europe
 * Posted 11 July 2008; applications due 17 November 2008
 * Posting
 * 10/20 - Received letter of acknowledgment! Whoo hoo!
 * 10/29 - Second-hand source says that the search has been canceled. See this article for some measure of confirmation. "any vacancies will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. For those deemed essential, a search will begin to fill the opening. Any others will remain unfilled."
 * 11/3 - Update: Email from search chair says that the search is up in the air. They are asking the Administration for permission to go ahead with it, but have not yet received a response.
 * Bah - Email from search chair says that the job has been postponed to next year.
 * Sigh - The one job whose qualifications I actually fulfilled.
 * Two things to cheer you up: 1) The chair was very clear that the job will be back next year. 2) I would have gotten it this year, and if all goes well I will not be on the market next. :)

University of Massachusetts, Boston
 * Early Modern Europe (Excluding Britain)
 * applications due 1 Dec 2008
 * Posting

European Modern

 * OK, the Early Modern guys have a good idea up above. In order to see how many of us are active on this page, change the number below if you're here.
 * we obviously need to get more people on the page


 * 45


 * American University
 * Applications accepted immediately
 * Application acknowledgment, email 10/31
 * American not interested in German specialists
 * That would have been nice to know about a month ago! What a waste of time.
 * What specialization are they interested in?
 * The ad is a bit broad, but my contacts tell me that the department may lean toward French specialists or specialists in Eastern European history.
 * Two on-campus interviews have been scheduled.


 * American University of Cairo
 * AHA interview scheduled (email) 11-19


 * Armstrong Atlantic State University
 * Application review begins December 1


 * Aquinas College
 * Review of applications will begin November 1, 2008
 * Received acknowledgment letter, 11/7
 * Will be interviewing at AHA; plan to contact interviewees "in early December"


 * Canisius College
 * Applications due December 15 2008
 * See "Russian/Soviet history" section below


 * Castleton State College
 * Review of applications begins on November 1, 2008
 * Received acknowledgment letter, 11/7


 * Centenary College
 * Review of applications beginning November 14, 2008
 * Received acknowledgment letter, 11/10
 * Written request for more materials, 11/20


 * Coastal Carolina University SEARCH CANCELLED
 * Application materials must be received by December 1, 2008
 * search cancelled, 11/14
 * would have been nice if they let us know....no info sent 11/18


 * Coe College
 * Application materials must be received by December 1, 2008
 * Acknowledgement received via email 10/30


 * C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University
 * Applications must be received by November 14, 2008


 * Dowling College
 * Application deadline is 1 Oct 2008
 * Phone Interview set up
 * Phone Interview (10/22)
 * Has there been any further development regarding the Dowling position?
 * On-campus interview scheduled by e-mail (11/22)


 * Elizabethtown College
 * Application deadline is unknown
 * They will be interviewing at the AHA, however, so get those apps in this fall.
 * 11/6 - receipt of application acknowledged (e-mail)


 * Grinnell College (Excluding Britain and Russia)
 * Application materials should be received by November 3, 2008
 * 11/6 - receipt of application acknowledged (e-mail)


 * Hiram College
 * Review of applications will begin in early December


 * Indiana University Southeast
 * Applicants should submit materials by December 3rd, 2008
 * - does anyone know if they just didn't make a selection last year, or if they just forgot to delete their job ad? The ad is identical to last years...
 * -There is no job according to departmental secretary (11/4)


 * Louisiana Tech University
 * Review of credentials will begin on November 15, 2008
 * 11/12 - receipt of application acknowledged (snail mail)
 * 11/7 - AHA Interview scheduled (phone)
 * 11/7 - AHA interview scheduled (phone)
 * 11/7-AHA interview scheduled (email)
 * (11/21) Is it odd to anyone that supposedly "review of credentials will begin on Nov 15", but AHA interviews were already set up on Nov 7? Now, I made sure my app would arrive before Nov 15, but I'm wondering if this all wasn't just a waste of time. Would a SC assume that all the best apps arrive at least 2 weeks before the due date? Anyone have any suggestions/speculations?
 * I also thought this was very odd and I'm not sure what to make of it. I sent my materials off after 7 November, but I have yet to hear anything from them outside of the standard acknowledgement letter.  Maybe they already had several candidates in mind? (11/21)
 * As a sympathetic but senior observer: send your applications in before the deadline! It is unfair, even irrational, but every job search committee I have been on has had at least one member who would not look at applications that arrived just before (a week; a couple of days; it depends) the deadline.


 * Louisiana State University Shreveport (Excluding Russia, Britain and France)
 * Review of applications begins November 15, 2008
 * Confirmation


 * Missouri State University (Continental Europe excluding France)
 * Date of First Consideration is 11/19/2007
 * -Here, again, is this last year's ad reused, or what?
 * This University's Human Resources webpage does not list this job vacancy, so I think we can assume that this search was completed last year.


 * Missouri University of Science and Technology
 * Application must be received by by December 1, 2008


 * Saint Michael's College (Modern Europe)
 * Review of applications will begin November 1, 2008.
 * 11/7- Email acknowledging receipt of application


 * Salisbury University (20th Century Europe)Hiring freeze now in effect for this position
 * Applications postmarked by November 15, 2008 will be given first consideration
 * Acknowledgment letter received 13 November. Included EEOE Form.  They appear to be reviewing candidates and hoping for budgetary approval.
 * The University's Human Resource site indicates the status of this position will not be clarified until early January.


 * Simpson College
 * All application materials should be received by November 3, 2008
 * 11/3 - receipt of application acknowledged (snail mail)
 * 11/24 - AHA interview scheduled (phone)


 * University of Alabama Tuscaloosa (Excluding Britain)
 * Review of applications will begin November 15, 2008
 * Asked for more material (11/20)
 * Asked for dissertation (11/20)


 * University of Cincinnati (Excluding Britain, Russia and Germany)
 * Applications must be received by November 15


 * University of Maine Farmington
 * Review of applications will begin November 15, 2008
 * 11/3 - receipt of application acknowledged (snail mail)
 * Will be interviewing at the AHA


 * University of North Dakota(Continental Europe)
 * Deadline for ensuring full consideration is November 14, 2008
 * 11/12 - receipt of application acknowledged (snail mail)


 * University of Puget Sound
 * Application materials postmarked no later than November 15, 2008 to ensure consideration.
 * -does anyone know if this position is a replacement for a retiring faculty member? Their Russian historian appears to be of retirement age...
 * 11/14 - receipt of application materials acknowledged (snail mail)


 * University of Redlands (Modern Western Continental Europe - Assistant/Associate Professor)
 * Review of applications will begin November 15, 2008
 * Confirmation / EEOForm rec'd (snail mail, dated 11/13)


 * University of Scranton
 * Application deadline is 1 Dec 2008
 * assistant professor of history should earn at least $49,000 annually
 * confirmation of application material 11-7
 * preliminary screening of applications finished by approximately 12/10

German History

 * Assumption College
 * application deadline is 1 Nov 2008
 * Selection Committee will meet in 'late November.'


 * Syracuse University
 * October 15, 2008
 * early november request for additional writing sample
 * do you have a date for the early November request?
 * was the request made in writing or by e-mail?
 * i got an email request for 'complete dissertation' (which I don't yet have) on Halloween, I think they are checking ABD applicants


 * University of Cincinnati
 * November 15, 2008
 * Hiring freezevery sorry. found this info on the university's website, but it was an old page.
 * Where did you get this info.? I just spoke with the History Dept. at the U of Cincinnati and they assured me that they were unaware of any freeze that was going to impact the status of the German history search.  As of right now, it's on.
 * There is no hiring freeze at the University of Cincinnati at this time. The Dean of Arts and Sciences has assured the Department of History that this search - and the other for Modern European History - is still on.  Interviews will take place at the AHA.


 * University of Notre Dame
 * Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2008
 * Asked for more material Oct 9
 * Anyone heard anything?
 * Have heard nothing, though I was also asked for material in October
 * I was also asked for more materials in mid October, but have heard nothing since.


 * University of Pittsburgh
 * application deadline is 14 Oct 2008
 * Anyone heard anything from Pittsburgh?
 * 11/14: Rejection letter (snail mail)
 * I also got my rejection letter today (11/14)
 * That was fast. Does this letter say if they've already made an offer?
 * also rejection. no info about decisions made
 * Got my rejection letter today too. (11/14) The letter didn't state if they had hired someone, but it sounded like they had only settled on a short list and were now going to ask for additional materials. At least it was a classy letter.
 * I haven't heard anything at all as of 11/17; no rejection, no request for other materials

Other Fields

 * Boston College (Modern European Intellectual History)
 * Deadline: November 14, 2008


 * California State University - Sacramento (Central Europe)
 * application deadline is 20 Oct 2008
 * contacted for phone interview 11/5
 * references contacted 11/11
 * phone conversation (11/6) and references contacted by phone


 * City University of New York (Eastern Europe)
 * Closing Date: November 15, 2008
 * Hiring Freeze


 * Claremont Graduate University (History and Cultural Studies)
 * Applications must be postmarked by 1 November 2008
 * has anyone heard anything, even an acknowledgment, from Claremont?


 * Concordia University, Montreal (Irish, Irish diaspora)
 * Deadline 11/17.


 * Hampden-Sydney College (Eastern/Central Europe after 1848)
 * Application deadline November 15, 2008
 * Acknowledgement received via snail mail, Nov. 10. They will be contacting candidates in early Dec. for interviews at the AHA


 * Millersville University (Third Reich/Genocide Studies or Modern Russia)
 * Full consideration given to applications received by October 30, 2008
 * Application acknowledgment received 7 Nov. Will meet to discuss candidates in mid-November.


 * Missouri University of Science and Technology (History of Science)
 * application deadline is 1 Dec 2008
 * The entire University of Missouri system (consisting of the Columbia, Kansas City, St. Louis and Science and Tech campuses) is, as of 19 November, under a hiring freeze. This job may be affected.  See


 * Tufts University (France and the World from the French Revolution)
 * application deadline 10 Oct 2008
 * Has anyone out there even gotten a confirmation/receipt of application from Tufts?
 * Nothing yet.
 * I got nothing but heard from others that they're already bringing people in for campus visits, so this is on the fast-track


 * University of Tennessee Knoxville (French or British Empire)
 * Review of applications will begin on November 1st
 * received acknowledgment letter 11/7
 * AHA interview scheduled 11/21


 * University of Texas Austin (Eastern Europe)
 * Applications should be received by November 3, 2008
 * Confirmation


 * Wesleyan University (History of Spain before 1900)
 * Applications received by 28 November 2008 will receive full consideration
 * Anyone know what area of expertise they're looking for?


 * West Virginia University (Western or Southern European history)
 * The screening process will begin on November 15, 2008
 * emailed letter 11/13 acknowledging receipt of application

Russian/Soviet History

 * number who read this: 8 (really?? c'mon!)


 * Canisius College
 * Applications due December 15 2008


 * Cornell University
 * application deadline is 1 Nov 2008
 * full-time, tenure-track, assistant-professor, 19th- and 20th-Century Russia/Soviet Union
 * Candidates have been invited for campus visit.


 * Dickinson College
 * application deadline is 3 Nov 2008
 * Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian History
 * 11/12: AHA interview scheduled


 * Goucher College
 * application deadline is 17 Oct 2008
 * 10/25: phone interview set up
 * 11/07: campus visit scheduled


 * Hofstra U (Russia)
 * applic deadline Dec 1, 2008


 * Millersville University (Third Reich/Genocide Studies or Modern Russia)
 * Full consideration given to applications received by October 30, 2008


 * St. Joseph's
 * Imperial Russia
 * application deadline Dec 1, 2008
 * received email in mid-November indicating that search has been frozen due to financial crisis.


 * Texas Tech University
 * application deadline is 14 Nov 2008


 * University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
 * application deadline 17 Nov 2008


 * University of Alaska Fairbanks
 * Assistant Professor, Modern Russian History.
 * application deadline is November 15, 2008
 * 11/18: applic receipt acknowledged


 * University of Maryland
 * application deadline is September 30, 2008
 * Hiring freeze. Position is now visiting professor.
 * more materials requested 6 Nov. 2008
 * 11/6 supplementary writing samples requested