Religious Studies 2008-2009

Albion College - Asian Religion
 * search downgraded to one year visiting position

Austin College - Asian Religion
 * offer made (early January)

Boston College School of Theology and Ministry – Catholic Systematics (Christology)

Boston University - Religion and Literary Arts
 * rejection letter received (Nov. 15)

Bucknell University - Religion and the Americas
 * Initial interviews took place at AAR, heard campus interviews were scheduled for this month. (what month??)
 * My guess is December?
 * heard an offer was made (end of Dec) (any idea whether it was accepted and by whom?)--don't know and a candidate from UNC (says 2nd hand sources)

California Lutheran University - South and/or East Asian Religions
 * Campus interviews held (December)

Canisius College - Catholic Systematic Theology
 * Search suspended due to economic downturn. (12/5)

Carleton University - Islam

Catholic University of America - Ecclesiology

Central Washington University - Philosophy of Religion
 * Phone interviews scheduled for early December
 * Search suspended due to economic downturn. (12/4)
 * Search cancelled (12/19)

Cleveland State University - Asian Religions
 * Job offered, verbal acceptance (12/19) (who is hired??)
 * Most people either don't know or won't say who has been hired. If they knew or would say, they would have posted it already.
 * Rejection letter received (01/13) x2

Cleveland State University - Religion in America
 * Initial interviews at AAR
 * Campus Interviews (November/Early December)
 * Job offered and accepted (12/6) (by whom??)
 * Rejection letter received (01/13) x2

College of Wooster - South or East Asian Religions
 * offer made (mid-December, or so I have heard)

Columbia - Religion and African-American Studies

Columbia - Post-Talmudic Judaism

Dalhousie University - Asian Religions
 * Rejection letter Dec. 16
 * Hire made (Dr. Christopher Austin)

Denison University - American Religions
 * Initial interviews at AAR
 * Rejection letter late November
 * Campus interviews late Jan-early Feb

Duke University - Buddhism in China or Korea

Duquesne University - Christology
 * Rejection letters (November)

Eckerd College - Asian Religions

George Mason University - Sociology of Religion
 * Preliminary interviews at both AAR and ASR

George Washington University - Religious Ethics and Peace Studies

Georgetown University - Comparative Religious Ethics
 * Initial interviews at AAR

Georgia State University - American Religions
 * Initial interviews at AAR
 * Campus interviews December

Georgia State University - Early Christianity, Indigenous Traditions, or Buddhism
 * Received an email from GSU 1/09 about a second TT position that has recently opened
 * Position advertisement now appears on Chronicle Careers (1/19)

Goucher College - Religion and the Social Sciences

Hamilton College - Indigenous Studies Any other news on this search? Did they interview at AAR?

Harvey Mudd College - Religious Studies (general)
 * Campus interviews initiated (11/17)
 * offer made and accepted --Erika Dyson, Columbia

Ithaca College - World Religions
 * search suspended

King's University College at the University of Western Ontario - Three positions: Catholic Studies, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies
 * Initial interviews at AAR; on-campus interviews started in late November; Islamic Studies interviews in January

Mississippi State University - Asian Religions and Religious Ethics

Moravian College - Islam or Asian Religion

Muhlenberg College - Indigenous Religions / Ritual Studies
 * Rejection letter (11/25)

Naropa University - Religious Studies

New York University - Islam

Oregon State University - Comparative Religions

Princeton University - Stewart Postdoctoral Fellowships
 * Campus interviews scheduled and underway

Rice Universitity - Religious thought

Ripon College - Postdoc in Asian Religions

Rutgers - Religion in Modern America
 * Preliminary Interviews at the AAR
 * Campus interviews initiated (11/25)
 * I hear the search was postponed? (Dec) Yes -- postponed just after offer was made for a campus interview.  Letter received (11/11).

Siena College - South or East Asian Religions
 * Campus interviews initiated, (11/17)
 * Search suspended due to financial crisis (Dec. 17)

Skidmore College - Islam and/or Christianity

Southwestern University - American Religions

St. Ambrose University - Catholic Systematic Theology
 * Initial interviews at AAR; some faculty resumé checking and e-mailing going on in early December. Phone interviews mid-December.
 * Phone interviews conducted mid-December. Expect to issue invitations for campus visits in mid-January, with campus interviews taking place in late Jan/early Feb
 * Invitations for campus interviews also issued in mid-December, just after phone interviews were conducted.

St. Benedict's College - Spirituality
 * Rejection letters (11/15)

St. Mary's University of Kansas - Catholic Theology
 * Phone interviews mid-October.
 * Campus interviews scheduled for mid- to late Jan 2009

St. Michael's College - Christianity
 * Position no longer listed on St. Michael's HR webpage (12/24). Possibly cancelled? Other positions with similar search dates are still listed there
 * Not cancelled; filled. Email received 1/09

Temple University - Chinese Religions
 * Prelim interviews at AAR

Texas Christian University - Religion and Visual Culture

Towson (Women's Studies) - Women and Religion in Global Context

Transylvania University - World Religions/History of Religion
 * rejection e-mail received Dec. 30
 * hired Carole Barnsley (ABD) - Dec. 30

Trinity University, TX -- Religion in the U.S.
 * Prelim interviews at AAR
 * did not anticipate arranging campus interviews until after the New Year

University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa - African-American Religion and Lit

University of Alberta - South Asian Philosophy
 * Campus interview scheduled as of December

University of British Columbia - Chair in Buddhist Studies

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Chinese Buddhism

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Southeast Asian Religions

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor- North American Religious History
 * Prelim AHA interviews scheduled

University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Asian Religions
 * rejection letter received (Dec. 22)

University of North Carolina, Asheville - Religions of Asia
 * Prelim interviews at the AAR

University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Modern Religious Culture
 * Preliminary interviews at the AAR
 * Offer made (to whom and was it accepted??)
 * Offer accepted

University of North Carolina, Wilmington - Asian Religions

University of Oklahoma - Norman (American Studies) - Religious Experience in the US
 * Campus interviews scheduled (Dec)
 * Offer made (~12/18) Don't know to whom.
 * Rejection letter received (Jan. 16)

University of Oklahoma - Norman (Religious Studies) - Christian Tradition

University of San Diego - History of Religions (China or Judaism)
 * Prelim interviews at the AAR
 * Campus interviews scheduled 12/10

University of Saskatchewan - Asian Religions

University of South Florida - Christian Studies

University of Sudbury - Religion and Modern Culture

University of Toronto - Religion and Globalization

University of Virginia - Islam

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - South Asian Religions

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point - NT/Early Christianity

Warren Wilson College - Asian Religions

Webster University - World Religions
 * Rejection letter received (12/19)

Wilfrid Laurier University - Religion and the Arts
 * I heard they were checking references. (when??) -- End of November; but I also heard that they don't intend to seriously consider the applications until January.

Wofford College - African or Asian Religions
 * Initial interviews at AAR

Yale - Modern Judaism

Yale Divinity - American Religious History
 * request for reference letters (1/13)

Yale Divinity - Christian Ethics

Yale Divinity - Systematic Theology