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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more
The Institut für Altorientalistik, Freie Universität Berlin calls for applications. See below and see http://www.fu-berlin.de/service/stellen/st_2015/st-20150309/index.html. Please note that the address of the institute has changed: Institut für Altorientalistik Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin, Germany Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Institut Read more
The Laboratory of excellence RESMED (“Religions and societies in the Mediterranean world”) offers 3 one-year postdoctoral fellowships starting in September 2015. Candidates should submit a resarch project on one of the following profiles: *Profile 1: *Conversions and controversies between Semitic Read more