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Academic Jobs and Fellowships in the Study of Islam and Muslims

 

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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/Associate Professor of International and Area Studies, Farzaneh Family Professor of Iranian Studies, University of Oklahoma. 

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Bates College. 

Tenured or Tenure-Track, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, with focus on Islam in Africa, Harvard University.

Director of Inter-religious studies, Vancouver School of Theology. 

Director of Research & Policy

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

Visiting Lecturer in Middle Eastern and North African Studies (Arabic language and literature) Bowdoin College.

Assistant Professor, Early Islam University of Minnesota

Open Rank (Assistant, Associate, Fully professor), Women, Gender and Sexuality, University of Virginia.

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)