Changes: Jewish Studies

Latest revision as of 18:39, 24 September 2009

2008-2009[]

For Jewish Studies Jobs advertised in 2009-2010 see: Jewish Studies 2009-2010

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

Area of Specialization:

Medieval: 2

Hebrew Bible: 5

Hellenistic-Second Temple Judaism: 1

Rabbinic Literature: 3

Ancient: 1

Modern: 5

Tenure-Track Jobs[]

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: Filled
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
semi-finalists contacted
George Washington University: Hebrew Bible

Search cancelled for financial reasons
Harvard Divinity School Women's Studies in Religion Program
- Has anyone heard from them? Last year, rejection letters had arrived by now.
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)
  - Not accepted; they will try again next year
Princeton University Tikvah Fellowship: Jewish Thought
Rejection letter received
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)
- 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
- 3/4 offer extended to somebody deserving, but unfortunately not me
Rhodes College:Hebrew Bible
- Phone interview scheduled (1/7/09)
  - Campus interview scheduled (1/27/09)
  - Offer made and accepted
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. Heard it was filled.
St. Thomas More College:
- offer extended and accepted (3/10)
Swarthmore College: Open specialization
- Updates
  - contacted about AAR interview
  - contacted for campus interview
  - job offer made and accepted
Temple University: Jewish History
University of Buffalo: Rabbinics (Senior position)
- Updates
  - Interviewed at AJS
  - Rejection received.
  - Offer extended and accepted by Aaron W. Hughes (02/13)
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)
  - 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)
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 [1]

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
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
  - offer extended 4/6
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)
University of Wisconsin - Madison: Israeli Literature & Culture
- Position filled
Vanderbilt University: Rabbinics
- Updates
  - contacted about AJS interview (11/21)
  - rejection received, did not interview (something in the works?) (1/13)
  - contacted for campus interview
  - offer extended 3/2
  - offer accepted 3/10
Wellesley: Hebrew Bible
- Updates
  - First round interviews took place at SBL
  - On-campus invitation 12/17
  - offer made and accepted
Wesleyan University
- Updates
  - contacted about interview
  - phone interview 12/10 in lieu of AAR interview
  - Campus invitation, 1/12 (ph)
Yale: Intellectual and Cultural History, 1800-present (1/15)
campus interviews scheduled
offer made and accepted 4/20

Visiting Positions[]

American University - Schusterman Teaching Fellowship/Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies
Miami University - Visiting Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor, Ancient Judaism / Rabbinics, job posted 3/1
- Telephone interview scheduled 4/6
- Offer made
- Offer declined, interviews are ongoing
- Offer made and accepted

Georgetown University-Visiting Assistant Professor, Jewish Civilization, posted 1/16

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.)

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 =='''2008-2009'''==
+For Jewish Studies Jobs advertised in 2009-2010 see:
+[[Jewish Studies 2009-2010]]
 '''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:'''
@@ Line 24: / Line 20: @@
 '''Modern''': 5
-== Tenure-Track Jobs ==
+==Tenure-Track Jobs ==
 *'''Boston College''': Hebrew Bible
 **Interviewed at SBL
@@ Line 37: / Line 35: @@
 ***"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
+*'''Chicago Theological Seminary''': Filled
 *'''Claremont School of Theology''': Hebrew Bible
 **Updates
@@ Line 44: / Line 42: @@
 *'''Columbia University''': Rabbinic-Medieval Judaism (Senior position)
 *'''Columbia University''': Witten professorship
+*semi-finalists contacted
-*<s>'''Hofstra University''': Hebrew and Comparative Literature</s>
+*'''George Washington University''': Hebrew Bible
-** Updates
+*Search cancelled for financial reasons
+*'''Harvard Divinity School Women's Studies in Religion Program'''
+**Has anyone heard from them? Last year, rejection letters had arrived by now.
+*<s>'''Hofstra University''': Hebrew and Comparative Literature</s>
+** Updates
 *** '''Search canceled (Madoff related). I believe all Hosftra jobs were frozen. (12/16)'''
 *<s>'''Hofstra University''': Pre-modern Judaism </s>
 ** 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)'''
+***Not accepted; they will try again next year
 *'''Princeton University Tikvah Fellowship''': Jewish Thought
+*Rejection letter received
-*'''Princeton University''': Hebrew Bible
+*'''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 [http://www.history.upenn.edu/news/2007-08.shtml#graduate 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
+**3/4 offer extended to somebody deserving, but unfortunately not me
-*'''Rhodes College''':Hebrew Bible
+*'''Rhodes College''':Hebrew Bible
 **Phone interview scheduled (1/7/09)
 ***Campus interview scheduled (1/27/09)
+***Offer made and accepted
 *'''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.
+*** On-campus visits scheduled for January. Heard it was filled.
 *'''St. Thomas More College''':
+**  offer extended and accepted (3/10)
-** Updates
+*'''Swarthmore College''': Open specialization
-***contacted for on campus interview (1/23)
+** Updates
-*'''Swarthmore College''': Open specialization
-** Updates
 ***contacted about AAR interview
 ***contacted for campus interview
+***job offer made and accepted
--- Has anyone been offered this job yet?
 *'''Temple University''': Jewish History
 *'''University of Buffalo''': Rabbinics (Senior position)
 **Updates
 ***Interviewed at AJS
 *** Rejection received.
+***'''Offer extended and accepted by Aaron W. Hughes (02/13)'''
 *'''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
 *<s>'''University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign''': Rabbinics </s>
-***contacted about preliminary interview
-***'''Search canceled 12/15'''
+**contacted about preliminary interview
-*'''University of Maryland - College Park''': Israel Studies*
+**'''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.
 *<s>'''University of Minnesota''': Israelite religion</s>
 **Updates
 ***contacted about SBL interview
-***''cancelled for budgetary reasons''
+***''cancelled for budgetary reasons'' [http://www.mndaily.com/2009/01/18/hiring-pause-creates-ripples-education]
-[http://www.mndaily.com/2009/01/18/hiring-pause-creates-ripples-education]
 *<s>'''Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill''': Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History </s>
-***interviews to take place at AHA
-***''cancelled for budgetary reasons''
+**interviews to take place at AHA
-*'''Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill''': Hebrew Bible
+**''cancelled for budgetary reasons''
-**Updates
+*'''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
+*'''Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill''': Rabbinics
-***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?
+**contacted (by phone) about AJS interview (12/2)
-*'''Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill''': Rabbinics
-***contacted (by phone) about AJS interview (12/2)
+**contacted for campus interview (ph, 1/20)
-***contacted for campus interview (ph, 1/20)
-*'''University of North Carolina -- Wilmington (Bloch Distinguished Professor)
+*'''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
+***offer extended 4/6
 *'''University of San Diego:''' Contemporary Judaism:
-** Updates
+**Updates
-*** Conference interviews took place at AAR.
+***Conference interviews took place at AAR.
-*** On-campus visits took place in December.
+***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?
+***Has anyone heard any news about this?
 ***Not a word: Jan/18
-*** I've heard the committee is looking at a short list.
+***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)
+*'''University of Wisconsin - Madison''': Israeli Literature & Culture
-***'''Offer made''' (02/13)
+**Position filled
-*'''University of Wisconsin - Madison''': Israeli Literature & Culture
 *'''Vanderbilt University: Rabbinics'''
-** Updates
+**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
+***offer extended 3/2
-*'''Wellesley''': Hebrew Bible
+***'''''offer accepted 3/10'''''
-**Updates
+*'''Wellesley''': Hebrew Bible
+**Updates
 ***First round interviews took place at SBL
 ***On-campus invitation 12/17
+***offer made and accepted
 *'''Wesleyan University'''
-** Updates
+**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)
+*campus interviews scheduled
+*offer made and accepted 4/20
+==Visiting Positions==
+*'''American University '''- Schusterman Teaching Fellowship/Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies
+*'''Miami University - '''Visiting Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor, Ancient Judaism / Rabbinics, job posted 3/1
+**Telephone interview scheduled 4/6
+**Offer made
+**Offer declined, interviews are ongoing
+**Offer made and accepted
+* '''Georgetown University'''-Visiting Assistant Professor, Jewish Civilization, posted 1/16
 ==Format guidelines==