(reference #010506 – http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/jobs/vacancies/) Job description To undertake the role of delivering high-quality research, research supervision and teaching in Archaeology in the School of Humanities. Preferably in one or more of the following areas: scientific artefact analysis, archaeological materials and material culture studies. The post-holder will bring period and regional expertise Read more…
Position: Visiting Professorship in Assyriology The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC) at Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin Province, P. R. China, invites applications for a full-time Visiting Professorship in Assyriology. The appointment will be fixed term from 1st September 2015 through 15th July 2015, with the Read more…
YALE UNIVERSITY, the Department of Religious Studies, is seeking to make a full-time appointment of a Lector or Senior Lector whose teaching responsibilities may include Aramaic, Advanced Syriac, Ugaritic, and additional Semitic languages, such as Ethiopic, beginning July 1, 2016. Ph.D. preferred but not required. Interest in the use of Read more…
An der Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- und Orientwissenschaften , Altorientalisches Institut, ist ab 1. Juni 2015 folgende Stelle zu besetzen: Akademische/-r Assistent/-in (zunächst befristet für 3 Jahre) vorgesehene Vergütung: Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L / Besoldungsgruppe W1 Aufgaben und dienstrechtliche Stellung einschließlich Befristung ergeben sich aus §§ 72, 73 SächsHSFG. Voraussetzungen: • Read more…
With the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is offering promising young researchers from all over the world attractive career prospects in Germany. Junior research talents of all disciplines from abroad are given the opportunity to establish working groups of their own at German research institutions. The Sofja Read more…
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications from exceptional junior scholars who have demonstrated a capacity for innovative research and cross-disciplinary thinking. We seek candidates who best augment or complement the present strengths of the Joukowsky Institute community. We are particularly interested in Read more…
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum as Project Curator: Ur Cuneiform Digitisation. The successful candidate will work in a project team and will assist with the British Museum’s contribution to the joint University of Pennsylvania/British Museum Ur of the Read more…
Tel Aviv University – Department of Hebrew Culture Studies Senior Academic Position in Semitic Linguistics The Department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position in Semitic Linguistics, effective from October 2016. The position requires the ability to conduct independent research in the Read more…
Oriental Institute Collections Research Grant The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary research center whose goal is to integrate archaeological, textual, and art historical data to understand the development and functioning of the ancient civilizations of the Near East from the earliest Holocene through the Medieval Read more…
‘Domesticating the Sumerians in Mandate Iraq: contextualising Woolley’s excavations at Ur (1922-1934)’ Applications are invited for a doctoral studentship tenable at University College London (UCL) History Department, in collaboration with the British Museum (BM). This doctoral award is funded though the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Collaborative Read more…