2007 Job Market

most of the info below was acquired from the following wiki:
http://wikihost.org/wikis/academe/wiki/middle_east_history
it is a great tool that allows everyone to update the relevent info.

Position Filled:

1) University of San Francisco (Taymiya Zaman, U. Michigan)
2) Smith College (Nadya Sbaiti, Georgetown)
3) Guelph University
4) East Carolina U. (Mona Russell, Georgetown)
5) Cornell U. (Ziad Fahmy, U. Arizona)
6) U. of Alberta (Magdy El-Shammaa, UCLA)
7) U. Colo-Colo Springs (Carole Woodall, NYU)
8) Colorado College
9) Cal State Fullerton
10) American U.
11) U. of Windsor
12) Eastern Michigan U.
13) U. of Memphis (Kent Schull, UCLA)
14) Rutgers U. (Toby Jones, Stanford)
15) Montclair St U.
16) Texas St S. Marcos (Elizabeth Bishop, U. Chicago)
17) George Washington U. (Shira Robinson, Stanford)
18) UC Riverside
19) Syracuse U. (Amy Aisen Elouafi, Berkeley)
20) Boston College (Dana Sajdi, Columbia)





Offer Made
-Appalachian State
-University of San Francisco [accepted]
- Queens College (search Cancelled)
-Georgetown U. (Muslim Christian Understanding)
- Smith College [accepted]
- Guelph University
- University of Colorado-Colo Springs
- East Carolina [accepted]
- U. Brooklyn College
- Gettysburg College
- University of Central Florida
-Cornell U. [accepted]
- U. of Alberta
- U. of N. Florida
- Boston College
-Rutgers U. [accepted]
-George Washington [accepted]
-Syracuse U.
-Montclair State University
-California State U. Fullerton
-California State U. Stanislaus
-American U.
-Rhodes College
-University of Windsor
-Florida International
-Eastern Michigan University
-U. of Memphis





On Campus:

1) University of Guelph
2) Smith College
3) Appalachian State
4) Middlebury College (Jan)
5) Queens College (CUNY)
6) University of San Francisco
7) Brooklyn College (CUNY)
8)University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
9) U. Wisconsin at Stevens Point
10) U. of Central Florida
11)Colorado College
12) St. Joseph's Univ. (Jan)
13)George Washington University
14) Bard College (Feb)
15) Haverford College (Feb)
16) University of Virginia (Feb)
17) Syracuse University (Jan)
18) Gettysburg College (Jan)
19) East Carolina (Jan)
20) Rhodes College (Jan/Feb)
21) N. Florida (Jan/feb)
22) U of Alberta (Jan/Feb)
23) LeMoyne College (Feb)
24) Rutgers University
25) UTEP (Jan/Feb)
26) Kennesaw State (Feb)
27) U. Memphis (Feb)
28) Texas Tech (Feb)
29) Boston College
30) University of Winnipeg (Feb)
31) Montclair State University
32) University of Windsor
33) Cornell U.
34) UC Riverside

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Assistant Professor (Middle East History)
Savannah, GA

Cornell University
History of the Modern Middle East (Assistant Professor)

Yale University
Social Sciences w/expertise in North Africa (Assistant Professor)

Wayne State University
Islamic Studies (Assistant Professor)

University of Memphis
- Assistant Professor, Modern Middle Eastern History

Rhodes College
History of the Islamic World (Assistant Professor)

University of Miami
Islamic Studies or Asian Religions (Assistant Professor)

United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
- Assistant Professor, World History
I was just informed that the contact email in the ad is incorrect-- it should be John.G.Hodgson@usma.edu

California State University, Chico
Islam (Assistant Professor)

Pratt University
(Assistant/Associate Professors - World Civilzations)

University of Windsor
- Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History

University of North Florida
- Assistant or Associate

University of Virginia
ME/NA History (Assistant Professor)

Boston College
- Islamic World

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Islam (Assistant Professor)

Haverford College
Islamic Studies (Assistant Professor)

Hope College
- Middle East, Russian or Latin American History

California State University - Stanislaus
- Full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor, African and/or Middle Eastern history and World Civilizations

Kennesaw State University
Assistant Professor of the Islamic World

Tulane University
- Assistant Profrssor, Islamic/Middle Eastern history

Merrimack College
- Assistant Professor, Non-Western History

University of San Francisco
Tenure Track - Islamic World

University of North Carolina - Greensboro
- Assistant or Associate Professor, Islam

University of South Alabama
- Assistant Professor, Islamic World

University of California - Irvine
- Persian History (pre-20th century)

University of Alberta
- Assistant Professor, History of Middle Eastern Societies

Central Michigan University
- Assistant or Associate Professor, Islam

Texas A&M University - Commerce
- Assistant Professor of History, Latin America, Africa, Middle East ,or Asia

Gettysburg College
- Assistant Professor, Islamic History

The 2007 Job Market

Please comment here if you wish to discuss (or, most likely, complain about) the (2007) job market.

University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
- Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern/North African History/ Women's Studies

American University
- Assistant Professorship (tenure-track), History of the Islamic World

Job Seeking Experiences

Share with us your experiences while you were on the job market last year. How were conference interviews? On-campus interviews? Any advice for those of us on the market this year?
Also this is the place for people to ask questions about the nature of the job market.
If you have served on a search committee it would be great if you can provide some input as well.

Quinnipiac University
- Assistant Professor, World History (Middle East, South Asia or the Islamic World)

Azusa Pacific University
- Assistant or Associate Professor of History in Asian, Latin America, or the Middle East

Ohio State University -
Assistant Professor, Islamic Central Asian History

University of California, Santa Barbara
Islamic Studies (Assistant Professor)

Princeton University
History/Literature/Culture of Modern Iran (Tenure Track)

Duke University
Tenure or Tenure Track Position in Islamic Studies

Georgetown University
Maksoud Chair Arab Studies (Assistant Professor)

The University of Guelph (Canada)
Assistant Professor - History of the Middle East

Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Assistant Professor - History of Islam

Middlebury College
Islamic Studies (Tenure Track). In religious studies dept.

2006 Job Market ? Who was hired?

In last year's job market I counted 45+ tenure track position. Some were filled. Some were not and will be re-posted this year. If you have information on who was hired where than post it right here...

Frequently Asked Questions

Why?
I created this blog for those of us (Mid East History PhD’s and ABD’s) who are on the academic job market, in an attempt to formalize the informal rumor mill through which most job market and postdoc applicants find out whether they've been accepted or rejected. I was inspired by another blog named (IR Rumor mill) http://irrumormill.blogspot.com/ and have shamelessly copied some of their organization formatting.Obviously it is up to you to contribute to this site with information about jobs and to spread the word to other friends and acquaintances who are in the job market (in 2007/2008). I will do my best to post the different positions as they open up (my main sources are MESA, the AHA, h-net, the chronicler and higher-ed) As most of you know, the academic job market is highly imperfect and information is extremely scarce (especially for us).With your help this site can help answer some of these questions:
-Who was invited to what job interview?
-Who was offered a job?Did they accept or decline?
-Which positions are closed or postponed?
-What position(s) have an inside candidate? -Etc.
(Simply Add your comments to the jobs listed in this blog)


What's the purpose of this?

To formalize the informal rumor mill through which most job market applicants find out whether they've been accepted or rejected. This has been done in other fields, including Internation Relations. See Chronicle of Higher Education.
What will you be posting?
Job listings that specify Middle East History as one of the target fields will be posted here.

If you have a job listing that we don't have, please email us or leave a comment on that post. Once shortlists are generated (and we are informed about them), those will also be posted as individual entries. So please contribute!

How can I contribute?
-If you have a rumor regarding job or fellowship offers that have been made already, post a comment to the appropriate Job entry.

-If you have information about a job that we don't have on a list, post it to the the appropriate List entry.

-If you have more specific information on a job already posted (what a particular department is looking for, the makeup of the search committee, etc.), post a comment to that specific entry.

-What are the comment posting rules? How can I be anonymous?

Please keep your comments short and informative. The idea is to post information, not opinions.

Anonymous comments are the default! However, some participants have chosen to use persistent pseudonyms instead of submitting anonymous comments so that the community can get a better sense of the veracity of the rumors. Just select "Other" when you leave your comment and type in your pseudonym. Even better, create an account on blogger.com (owned by Google, so you may want to grab the namespace in any case!) and your pseudonym will be password-protected.

Who are you guys, anyway?
Members of the discipline who have decided that the existing job market does an extremely poor job of letting candidates know where they are in the process.

Can I join you?
The best way to contribute by sharing whatever information you have with us through comments or emails.

Smith College

Smith College and Mount Holyoke College seek a historian of the Middle East for an entry-level, tenure-track appointment as Five College Assistant Professor, to begin 2007-08.

Washington and Lee University

Tenure-track position at the rank of assistant or associate professor in the study of Islam and the history of Muslim societies.

University of Denver
We seek applications from individuals anticipating appointment at either the junior or senior professor level. Interested applicants with a specialization in politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, communications, management, or law are welcome to apply.

Syracuse University

See also Mesa Adv.
A tenure-track assistant professorship in the History of the Middle East

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History

Georgetown University

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Relations

Texas Tech University
Islamic World Assistant Professor

Loyola University - New Orleans
tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern Middle East History

East Carolina University
Tenure-track assistant professor in Middle East History

Colorado College

A tenure-track position, at the assistant professor level, in the history of the Islamic world

Appalachian State University
Modern Middle East History (Assistant Prof.)

California State University - Fullerton
Assistant Professor, Modern Middle Eastern History

Texas State University-San Marcos

The Department of History, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in modern Middle East history