Assistant Professor in Medieval Islamic
- Employer
- Harvard University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Aug 27, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Humanities, Foreign Languages & Literatures, History
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Job Details
The departments of History and of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations (NELC) seek to make a joint, full-time, tenure-track
appointment with the rank of assistant professor in Medieval
Islamic History. We welcome applicants who specialize in the
medieval period (600-1500) and in various subfields, including (but
not limited to) cultural history, digital humanities, economic
history, gender history, intellectual history, legal history,
political history, and social history. The successful candidate
will be expected to teach and advise at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels, including teaching general surveys of Islamic
history in the medieval period (600-1500), and will have an
excellent reading knowledge of Arabic, Persian or Turkish and the
ability to guide graduate students in the reading of primary
sources in at least one of these languages.The appointment is
expected to begin on July 1st, 2022.
Company
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the home of Harvard’s undergraduate program (Harvard College, founded in 1636) as well as all of Harvard’s PhD. programs (the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1872). The 40 academic departments and more than 30 centers of the FAS support a community unparalleled in its academic excellence across the broadest range of liberal arts and sciences disciplines. Together, the FAS seeks to foster an environment of ambition, curiosity and shared commitment to knowledge and truth that elicits excellence from all members of our community and prepares the next generation of leaders through a transformative educational experience.
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