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The Yale Babylonian Collection invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship of one year, full-time residence in New Haven, preferably beginning October 1, 2016. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to prepare a substantial group of cuneiform tablets for publication in hand Read more…

(German below) POSITION Research Fellow Heidelberg University’s Collaborative Research Centre 933 (CRC 933) “Material Text Cultures“ offers a vacant job position for a Research Fellow (E 13 100{518531fadeb811ae8faec8ba5977a8511c844f925d504d488b0d90b6c297e400}) in the sub-project B04 (Jewish Studies). The Collaborative Research Centre 933 (CRC 933) “Material Read more…

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has vacancy for a: PhD position: Language contact and genetic relationships in pre-Roman North West Anatolia (1.0 fte; four years; start September 2016) Project Description The Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and Read more…

The Würzburg Centre for the Study of Ancient Cultures (Würzburger Altertumswissenschaftliches Zentrum – WAZ) advertizes a 4-month resident research fellowship (Postdoc; within 2016; application deadline 22 April 2016). The prospective fellow is expected to conduct independent research on a specific Read more…

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology and the Ancient World Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University, Providence, RI The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications from exceptional junior scholars who augment Read more…

PhD Studentship in British Museum and SOAS AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) in the British Museum and SOAS Deadline: 31 March 2016 AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA): ‘Individuality and identity in cuneiform: personalising economic documentation from the 21st and 20th Read more…

https://oi.uchicago.edu/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 Read more…

An der Universität Wien (mit 15 Fakultäten, 4 Zentren, rund 188 Studienrichtungen, ca. 9.700 Mitarbeiter/innen und über 92.000 Studierenden) ist ab 01.03.2016 die Position einer/eines Universitätsassistent/in (“post doc”) am Institut für Orientalistik bis 15.08.2016 zu besetzen. Kennzahl der Ausschreibung: 6232 Am Read more…