Academic Jobs and Fellowships in the Study of Islam and Muslims
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December 2025
Jobs
Assistant Professor of History in the Middle East, McMaster University.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College.
Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Law, California State University, Fresno.
Postdoc: ‘Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam’ at Utrecht University.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion- Islam, Trinity University Campus.
Koch History Center Senior Fellowship, University of Oxford.
Junior Research Fellowship in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Oxford.
One year Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Lake Forest College
CfP
Sonic Efficacy: Mantras, Music and Placemaking in Global Southern Asia.
IISRA 5th Annual Conference, Counter-Islamophobia: History, Theory and Praxis.
November 2025
Jobs
Assistant Professor of Sociology, St. Francis Xavier.
Religion, Ethics and Environment, Assistant Professor, The University of Virginia.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London.
History, Assistant Professor, Corpus Christi College.
Philosophy (Equity, Ethics and Policy), Assistant Professor, McGill University.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in “Intercultural Studies”, the University of Tübingen.
Postdoctoral Associate, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Postdoc Position for Middle East Medievalist in Marburg
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, University of Rochester.
Majorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Queen’s University
CfP
Yale Modern South Asia Workshop 2026
October 2025
Jobs
Writer/Editor, Religion Research, Pew Research Center.
Tenure track professor in contemporary Middle East Studies (KU Leuven)
Assistant Professor of Religion and Science, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lecturer in the Study of Islam, University of Glasgow.
Assistant Professor, Migration and Politics, Concordia University.
Collections Librarian, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary.
William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowships, Harvard University.
Sociology- Assistant or Associate Professor or Lecturer, 12 – month term. University of Alberta.
Academic Autonomy Coordinator, MESA.
Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, Grand Valley State University.
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Fellow, University of Michigan.
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Anthropology in the American University in Cairo.
Open Rank Professor and Robert Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature, McGill University.
Tenure track professor in Contemporary Middle East Studies, KY Leuven.
Assistant Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology, Binghamton University.
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Lethbridge.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions in American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis.
Assistant Professor, Sociology, MacEwan University.
Killam Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies 2026-27.
Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of New Brunswick Saint John.
Assistant Professor, Film and Media Industries with a focus on AI Media Practices. York University.
Open Rank, Tenure Track Position in Film, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Fellowships
University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence, Starter Grant Programme 2026
Harry Ransom Center, 2026-2027 Fellowships, The University of Texas at Austin.
Workshops
2026 Penn State Global Asias Institute: Vitalizing Global Asias, Artifacts and Archives.
September 2025
Jobs
Assistant Professor of Global History of Technology- Department of History, UC Berkeley.
Assistant or Associate Professor- Social Sciences, McMaster University, Wilson College.
Assistant Professor- History, St Mary’s University.
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Contemporary Islam in the Americas.
History, Middle East History, Brigham Young University.
Research Assistant, Max-Weber Kolleg of the University of Erfurt, “(De)Colonizing Sharia?”.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Centre College.
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2027, Habitat, Emory University.
Assistant Professor, Comparative & International Education, Ontario Tech University.
Assistant Professor, Sound in Cinema and Media/Experiential Learning, University of Toronto.
Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice and Human Rights, Haverford College.
Assistant Professor of the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Smith College.
Full Professor in Religion and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.
Postdoctoral Associate, Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality, Rice University.
Assistant Professor, Religion in the United States, Sarah Lawrence College.
Academy Scholar, Postdoctoral fellow, the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
Society Fellowships 2026-2027, Cornell University.
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Rhodes College.
Associate Professor or Professor in Palestinian Literature and Culture, University of Toronto.
James A. Bellamy Professorship, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Assistant Professor of Religion- Applied Religious Ethics, Oberlin College.
Religion, Medicine, & Healing- Assistant Professor, University of Toronto (St. George Campus).
City University of New York- Baruch College, Assistant Professor in History of South Asia.
Assistant Professor of International Relations/Comparative Politics, Lafayette College.
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology- Senior Scientist in the field of Social Anthropology.
Political Science (Political Theory)- Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s University.
Public Policy and Law- Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).
Fellowships
2026 Sir William Luce Fellowship, Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Durham University.
Pre-doctoral research fellows, Heidelberg University.
Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University.
The Map Academy + Nalli Fellowships
Cfp
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities- Call for Projects.
August 2025
Awards/Grants
Research Awards, Canadian Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture and Knowledge (CFSACK).
Book completion grant, Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies.
Jobs
Assistant Professor of International Relations/Comparative Politics, Lafayette College.
Full Professor of Islamic Religious Education, University of Vienna.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, South Asian History, University of Iowa.
Assistant or Associate Professor, in Social Justice and Community Studies, Saint Mary’s University.
Interdisciplinary Fellowships (religion and the arts), Yale University.
Palestinian Literature and Culture- Associate Professor or Professor, University of Toronto.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Organizational Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga.
July 2025
Awards/Grants
Dissertation Award, Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies
Jobs
Assistant Professor in Canadian Politics, University of Toronto.
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, DePaul University.
Sir Willian Luce Fellowship (working on Middle East).
IFI Postdoctoral Research Contract.
Project Archivist, Hazara Heritage Project, Part-time.
Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature, University of Oxford.
Assistant Professor, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, University of Toronto.
Faculty Member in Islamic Chaplaincy, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Visiting Professorship (International Relations, Political Science), McGill University.
Anthropology, Assistant Professor (South Asia/South Asian Diaspora), Simon Fraser University.
Religion in the United States Tenure Track Position, Sarah Lawrence College.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania.
Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University.
Fellowships
Clark Fellowship, The Clark (visual arts, theory, practice etc).
Virtual Scholar Scheme for Palestinian Scholars, University of Exeter
Fellowship – Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany.
Fellowships at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, CAPAS
June 2025
Fellowships
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Early Career Call Humanities and Social Sciences.
Jobs
Assistant Professor, Governance, Law and Management, Athabasca University.
Chair in Philanthrophy, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.
Sociology- 12 month term faculty position, Brandon University.
Social Justice & Community Studies, Assistant or Associate Professor, Saint Mary’s University.
Limited Term Assistant Teaching Professor in International Relations, University of Victoria.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape.
May 2025
Jobs
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Arabic and Hebrew Sources), King’s College, London.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sri Lankan History, University of Cambridge.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Contemporary American Religion, Bryn Mawr College.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Premodern South Asia, University of Pennsylvania.
CfP
Young Scholars in American Religion (Deadline May 19, 2026)
Elemental- Ismaili Perspectives on Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Ether, 19-20 March 2026.
March 2025
Jobs
Postdoctoral Position in Shia Studies (Deadline June 14, 2025)
Postdoctoral Researcher (Humanitarian Aid and Development) (Deadline April 30th, 2025).
Sessional lecturer, RELS 201, Jews, Christians and Muslims (online), University of Calgary.
Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Respect Graduate School, PA. (Deadline May 4, 2025).
Global Fellow in Women and Divinity, Habib University Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan.
Casual Arabic & Islamic Studies Instructors, Palliser School Division, Alberta.
Fellowships
Presidential Internship Program (Morocco)
CfP
The Quran and Shi ‘i Islam: Texts, Studies, Legacies.
International Journal of Islam in Asia
Workshops
Summer Qur’anic Arabic, University of Toronto at Mississauga.
Arabic Summer Institute, University of Texas at Austin (Online).
Mediterranean Summer Skills Seminars
February 2025
Fellowships
Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Research Grant Applications. Deadline: March 20, 2025.
Middle East Initiative Fellowship, Deadline. Deadline March 23, 2025.
Jobs
Publications Manager, Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South.
Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Prince Edward Island.
Deadline: February 19th, 2025.
Visiting Assistant Professor in Late-Medieval/Early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World at Williams College. Deadline: February 21st, 2025.
Assistant Professor – Philosophy and Religion (Religion) at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Deadline: February 27th, 2025.
Senior Preceptor in Armenian, Harvard University. Deadline: March 1st, 2025.
Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Deadline: March 5th, 2025.
Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Britain and the British World at University of Saskatchewan. Deadline: March 7, 2025.
Post-doctoral Researcher – MANTRAMS Project at University of Oxford. Deadline: March 10th, 2025.
Assistant Professor – Post-Classical Islamic & Modern European Philosophy at University of Toronto. Deadline: March 13th, 2025.
Assistant Professor Religious Studies at Georgia Southern University. Deadline: March 15th, 2025.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at Durham University. Deadline: March 27th, 2025.
9-month Lecturer of History at Nevada State University. Deadline: June 30th, 2025.
Assistant Professor of History, Department of Humanities at Simmons University. Deadline: June 30th, 2025.
Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Prince Edward Island.
Assistant Professor, Political Science. University of Calgary.
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Saint Mary’s University.
Several post-docs Islamophobia Research Hub, York University.
Assistant Professor of Sociology University of New Brunswick, Saint John
cfp
Seas of Change: Indian Ocean Mobilities at the End of Empire, Geneva, Switzerland.
January 2025
Fellowships
Al-Mahdi Institute Doctoral Scholarship (Imami/Twelver Shi’ism).
Jobs
Professor and Department Head of Global Languages and Cultures.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Lecturer, Religions of Premodern South Asia, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and the Public Conversation, Princeton University
Adjunct Instructor of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Eastern Kentucky University
Council on Middle East Studies: Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Associate, 2025-26, Yale University
Curator of Art from the Islamic World – The David Collection, Copenhagen, The David Collection
cfp
Conference on the Study of Religions of India.
European Academy of Religion, deadline April 4, 2025.
Racialized Immigrant Women and Labour in Canada, Waterloo.
Reclaiming History: Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century, Fairfax, VA.
4th International Islamophobia Studies Research Association Annual Conference
Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies
Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87), Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
Islam and Media Working Group – Call for Proposals 2025
Call for Abstracts: Middle East Medievalists, November 22-25 (Deadline: February 5, 2025)
December 2024
CfP/Workshops
Sri Lanka Graduate Studies Conference, Cornell University.
Conference on the Study of Religions in of India
Fellowships
Library of Congress Short-Term Fellowship
Research Associate Program Women’s & Gender History
Jobs
Immigration and Comparative Politics, Assistant Professor, Concordia University.
Histories of Black Montreal, Assistant Professor, Concordia University.
Sociology- Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University.
Women and Gender Studies- Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge.
The Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Stanford University.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and the Public Conversation, Princeton University.
Assistant Professor, Visual and Material Culture, Pratt Institute.
Assistant Director of the Humanities Center, University of Vermont.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Riverside.
Associate Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala Universitet.
South Asian Studies Council: Postdoctoral Associate in South Asian Studies, Yale University.
COSAS Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Caste Studies, University of Chicago.
Assistant Professor, Computation Study of Religion, University of Alabama.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Fall 2025)
Faculty Specialist, Theology/Religious Studies
Postdoctoral position, University of Freiburg
Tenured or Tenure-Track Position in Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Theology, Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Tenure Track, Loyola University Chicago
Tenured or Tenure-Track Position in Islamic Studies
Associate Director of Muslim Life, Rollins College
November 2024
CfP/Workshops
Modern South Asia Workshop, Yale University.
Fellowships/Scholarships
2025 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World
Al Jazeera Fellowship Program 2025
Jobs
JW McConnell Visiting Scholar, Public Policy, McGill University.
JW McConnell Professor of Practice, Public Policy, McGill University.
Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Loyola University, Chicago.
Post-doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies, University of Toronto.
Assistant Professor Contemporary Political Thought, University of Northern British Columbia.
South Asia Studies Librarian, Cornell University.
Assistant Professor of Global Ethics & Technology, Old Dominion University.
Middle Eastern Studies Librarian, University of Toronto.
Advanced Assistant or Associate Professor in Arabic Literary/Cultural Studies, Tulane University.
Lecturer or Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic, Penn State.
Tenured or Tenure-Track Position in Islamic Studies, Harvard University
Fellowships
Alomran Family Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University.
Canadian Studies- Pathy Distinguished Visitor, Princeton University.
2025 ISF Congressional Fellowship
2025 ISF Spring & Summer Congressional Policy Internship
The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Victoria, Grad Fellows
2025-2026 PARC NEH Fellowships for Scholars Conducting Humanities Research in Palestine
2025–2026 PARC Research Fellowships for Palestinian Scholars Focusing on Gaza
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships
Muslim Public Service Network Summer Fellowship 2025
Muslim Public Affairs Council’s (MPAC) Congressional Leadership Development Program (CLDP)
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Postdoctoral Fellowships
CFP
Devotion to the Prophet’s Family in Islamic Thought and Practice – Deadline: December 15th, 2024
October 2024
CFP
Global Shi’ism: Migrations, Diasporas and the Islamic Revival in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Jobs
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Islamic Studies.
Assistant Professor of the Modern Middle East, Texas Christian University.
Associate/Full Professor- Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Bates College.
Director of Inter-religious studies, Vancouver School of Theology.
Professorship of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge.
Herman Brown Chair of Political Science, Texas Christian University
Professor (open rank), Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies University of Bern.
Post-doctoral research level 1 or 2, School of History, UCD, Dublin.
Digital Humanities Research Associate, University of Bern.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic, Georgetown University.
Teaching Professor of Arabic, open rank. Georgetown University.
Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, NYU Abu Dhabi.
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Postdoctoral Research Associates
Alwaleed Fellow in Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalized World, University of Edinburgh.
Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Richmond, UA.
Fellowships
Mittal Institute Fellowships, Harvard University.
September 2024
Jobs
Assistant Professor, Early Islam University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor of Middle East/North African History, Virginia Military Institute
Director of the Center for African Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Full Professor, Islamic Beliefs and Philosophy, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology
Assistant Professor, Anthropology of Migration, Race or Health. Simon Fraser University.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Technology, UW-Madison.
Digital Humanities Research Associate, University of Bern
Assistant Professor in the Modern Arab Middle East, Brandeis University
Asian Islam Tenure Track Position, Hamilton College
Professor, Asian/Asian Diaspora Feminist Studies, Wake Forest University
Two Tenure Track Positions in Religious Studies, Duke University
Assistant Professor, Feminist and Gender Studies, Colorado College
Assistant Professor, African Diasporic Religious Thought and Traditions
Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern and North African History (September 30, 2024)
Assistant Professor in South Asian Art History, Princeton University.
Associate Professor in South Asian Studies, University of Oxford.
Associate Director of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Assistant Professor Sociology of Health/Mental Health, University of Toronto
Assistant Professor in Transgender Studies, Yale University
Fellowships/Grants
Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Grants
Faculty Leave Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship, Brandeis University (Scroll down)
Fellowships at the National Humanities Centre
William Luce Fellowship, Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Durham University
CFP:
Muslim Converts in Britain and Beyond: Transitions and Transformations, Cardiff University.
August 2024
Jobs
Religious Studies Lecturer at South Methodist University
Fellowships
Research awards for students and scholars in Canada on Sufism (October 15, 2024)
May 2024
Jobs
Academic Teaching Staff- Religious Studies, University of Alberta (deadline May 31, 2024)
Lecturer (Religious Studies/International/Islamic) UNC Greensboro.
Graduate Student Workshops and Cfps
CICW Graduate Student Institute “Islam in the Contemporary World”
CICW Workshop on Teaching Islam in the Contemporary World.
Workshop for PhD students- Sufi Culture in the Indus Valley
April 2024
Resident Scholar Program for Lebanon-based and Lebanese Scholars Finnish Institute in Middle East
2024 Suad Joseph Student Paper Award (September 1st, 2024)
Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Book Award (June 17, 2024)
The Barbo Klein Fellowship Programme (2025-2026) Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern Studies Virginia Tech (April 30)
