Job Opportunities
Below is a list of positions in Middle East and Islamic studies advertised since July 2015. Other lists of job opportunities are maintained by the American Academy of Religion and the Middle East Studies Association.
Positions at UNC
Alphabetical List of Job Postings | Chronological List of Job Postings (in order of receipt)
- Virginia Tech | Comparative Politics/Middle East/North Africa
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Research Associate for “Computational Study fo Culture: Cultural Analytics for Modern Arab and Islamic Studies”
- University of Virginia | Assistant Professor in Iranian Literature, Cinema, and Culture
- Yale University | Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Council on Middle East Studies
- University of St Andrews | Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Iranian and Middle Eastern History c. 1700-1950
- Virginia Commonwealth University | Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art
- University of Hawaiʻi, Islam and World, Assistant or Associate Professor of Religion
- George Washington University, Teaching Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Modern Arabic Literature
- Virginia Military Institute, Assistant Professor of Arabic
- American University in Cairo, Fixed-Term Assistant or Associate Professor of International Relations
- York University, Gender, Post-Colonialism, and the Islamic World
- York University, Middle Eastern Diasporic Literatures and Cultures
- Institute of International Relations Prague | Senior Researcher in Politics, Economy and Security in the Middle East and North and Subsaharan Africa
- Leiden University | Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Open Rank Professor in Political Science with specialization in Comparative Politics
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Open Rank Professor in Political Science with specialization in International Relations
- Radboud University Nijmegen | Postdoctoral Researcher, History of Middle Eastern Water Management
- Harvard Law School | Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Visiting Fellowships 2020-2021
- Ohio State University | Carter V. Findley Professorship in Ottoman and Turkish History
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Assistant or Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
- Gerogetown University | Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Assistant Professor of the Politics of the Arab World
- Dickinson, College | Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor Position in Middle East and North African Politics
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Research Associate, “Computational Study of Culture: Cultural Analytics for Modern Arab and Islamic Studies”
- Princeton University | Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran/Persian Gulf Study, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Northwestern University, Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
- King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology
- Tampere University/Tampere University of APplied Sciences | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Present-Futures in/of Palestine- project) / Tutkijatohtori (Palestiinan nyky-tulevaisuudet -hanke)
- University of Texas at Austin | Assistant or Associate Professor tenure line position in Media Studies
- American University of Sharjah | Ahmed Seddiqi Endowed Chair in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology
- American University of Sharjah, Assistant Professor Position in Arabic/English Translation
- American University of Sharjah | Assistant Professor Positions in Classical/Medieval Arabic Literature
- Fritz Thyssen Foundation | Postdoctoral Position in Muslim Cultures and Societies
- Fordham University | Department of Theology, Assistant Professorship in Modern Islam
- DePaul University | Assistant Professor, Religions in Asia
- University of Texas at San Antonio | Assistant Professor position in the history of the Islamic world
- Stetson University | Assistant Professor of Religious Studies – Islamic Studies
- University of California, Santa Barbara | Assistant Professor in the area of Global Race/Ethnicity and Inequality, with particular interest in candidates with transregional approaches to race/ethnicity with expertise in Africa and/or the Middle East
- Columbia University | Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
- American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) | Jordan Fellowships, 2020–2021
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Assistant Professor and Kenan Rifai Fellow in Islamic Studies
- Georgetown University in Qatar | Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies
- McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies | Islamic Studies in the Formative or Classical Period/s
- American University in Cairo | Director, Middle East Studies Center
- Carnegie Middle East Center | Commissioning Editor, Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
- University Duisburg-Essen | Professorship for Turkish Studies (W2), Department of Turkish Studies
- Dartmouth College | Assistant Professor, History of the Pre-modern and Early Modern Islamic World
- Durham University | Sir William Luce Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Scholar Working on the Gulf Region and Sudan
- University of Haifa | Tenure-Track Position, (Open Rank) in the Environmental History of the Mediterranean,
- University of California, Los Angeles | Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Ottoman History
- North Carolina State University, Assistant Professor of History of the Modern Middle East
- ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) | Tunis Office: Yemen Researcher, Arab Regional Advocacy Program
- Brandeis University | The Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Junior Research Fellowship
- University College London | Research Fellow, responses to displacement in Turkey, Lebanon, and/or Jordan
- Seattle University | Assistant Professor of Islam
- University of Oklahoma | Mackey Professorship in Middle East Studies
- University of Southern California | Farhang Foundation Junior Chair in Iranian Studies
- Management Systems International | Technical Specialist/Chief of Party (MENA), Arlington, VA
- Syracuse University | Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of Middle East and North Africa
- University of Toronto | Session Lecturers for courses on Islamic World and Early Islamic History, Fall 2019
- Yale University | Modern Middle East History
- Stanford University | Assistant-Level Faculty Position in Muslim Societies
- Quincy Institute | Associate, Middle East Program
- Quincy Institute | Director of Middle East Program
- University of Toronto Scarborough | Assistant Professor – Contractually Limited Term Appointment (CLTA) – in Early Modern Islamicate History
- American University in Cairo | Assistant Professor of Sociology
- University of Exeter | Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
- New York University | Abu Dhabi, Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World
- Princeton University | Assistant Professor, Islamic Art, Architecture, or Archaeology
- Syracuse University | Assistant Professor of Religion specializing in modern and/or contemporary Islam and Muslim cultures
- University of California Berkeley | Avimaleck Betyousef position in Assyrian Studies
- University of Chicago | Divinity School, Islam in Africa, open-rank position
- Harvard University | Up to 4 tenured or tenure-track positions in ethnic studies, Asian American studies, Latinx studies, and/or studies of Islam in America
- University of California Berkeley | Bita Daryabari Assistant or Associate Professor of Iranian Studies
- Binghamton University | Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Early Modern Ottoman History (c. 1300-1800)
- University of Freiburg | Junior Professorship for Islamic Studies / Turkology Studies
- University of Lisbon | Associate Professor of History of Islam or Islamic Philosophy
- Whitman College | Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track Position) in Law and Politics in Global or Middle East Context
- University of Groningen | Rosalind Franklin Tenure Track Professorship for Female Scholar in the Research Field of “Islamic Thought and Culture”
- Sciences Po, Visiting Professor | Kuwait Program, Spring 2020 Semester Candidate Qualifications
- Colorado College | Comparative Politics/Middle East, open rank
- Appalachian State University | Assistant Professor in Middle East/ North Africa History
- Lebanon Support | Researcher
- IMéRA (Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University) | Mediterranean Programme, 5 or 10-Month Residency
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Human Rights Graduate Program, Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
- Harvard Divinity School | Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Islamic Studies
- Emirates Diplomatic Academy | Abu Dhabi, Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow, MENA Peace and Security programme
- Aga Khan University | Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Governance Programme Research Fellowship