Academic Jobs in the Study of Islam and Muslims

Academic Jobs and Fellowships in the Study of Islam and Muslims

 

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February 2025

Jobs

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. 

Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK, Cardiff University. 

Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World 1650-1850, Leiden Netherlands.

January 2025 

Fellowships

Al-Mahdi Institute Doctoral Scholarship (Imami/Twelver Shi’ism). 

Jobs

Professor and Department Head of Global Languages and Cultures. 

Associate Professor- Queer Studies and Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 

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

Assistant Professor – Philosophy and Religion (Religion), University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Council on Middle East Studies: Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Associate, 2025-26, Yale University

Visiting Assistant Professor Late-Medieval/early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World, Williams College

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)

 Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy University of Villanova School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 5-6, 2025 (Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2025)

 

December 2024

CfP/Workshops

Commensality and Culture Heritage in the Middle East and its Diasporas, Winter School Applications, University of Groningen. 

Reclaiming History: Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century, Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference. 

Sri Lanka Graduate Studies Conference, Cornell University. 

Conference on the Study of Religions in of India

Virtual International Conference on The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Expressive Cultures (1400-1700), April 2-3, 2025. 

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. 

3 Postdoctoral Fellowships (Islamophobia and Canada’s Immigration Regime, the History of Anti-Islam in the Western Tradition and Islamophobia and Anti-Palestine Racism), Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto. 

Post-doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies, University of Toronto. 

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Institute of Religion, Culture, and Public Life of Columbia University. 

Assistant Professor Contemporary Political Thought, University of Northern British Columbia. 

Assistant Professor, Field of Systems Change and Sustainability Transformations, University of Toronto, Scarborough. 

Full-time tenure stream position in area of Social Sciences and Digital Technologies. University of Toronto (St. George Campus).

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. 

Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought in the Islamic World, John Hopkins University. 

University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Judaic & Near Eastern Studies: Associate/Full Professor – Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies

The Religious Studies Department at William & Mary, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies

Johns Hopkins University- Homewood, The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought in the Islamic World

Philosophy and Religious Thought program at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought 

Tenured or Tenure-Track Position in Islamic Studies, Harvard University

Fellowships

Research Fellowship, Environmental History in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean, Ca’Foscari University. 

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

The Structural Islamophobia Research Lab (SIRL) Fellowship at the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS), University of Toronto

CFP

Devotion to the Prophet’s Family in Islamic Thought and Practice – Deadline: December 15th, 2024

International Conference on Islamic Philosophy and Islamic Studies (ICIPIS-25) at Vancouver, Canada on 25th – 26th January 2025 – Deadline: December 26th, 2024

Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue, Moratoriums on Islamic Criminal Punishments: Legal Debates and Current Practices – Deadline January 13, 2025

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)