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.
UNC-Chapel Hill | Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian
Alphabetical List of Job Postings | Chronological List of Job Postings (in order of receipt)
- University of Tennessee | Knoxville, History Lecturer, Modern Middle East
- UCLA Library Human Resources | Librarian/Curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- University of Virginia | Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of History, One-Year Appointment
- Shanghai University | Center for Global Governance, Postdoctoral Fellowship and Visiting Scholarship
- University of Sharjah | Ahmed Seddiqi Endowed Chair in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies
- Western Washington University | Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of the Modern Middle East
- Florida State University | Postdoctoral Associate, History of the Global South
- Emirates Diplomatic Academy | Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow – Africa programme
- Library of Congress | Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division
- Brookings Doha Center and Qatar University | Joint Visiting Fellowship
- Loyola University Maryland | Visiting Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Middle Eastern and North African history
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Institute for Oriental and Islamic Studies, Professor of Turkish Studies
- College of William and Mary | Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History
- American University | Non-Tenure Track Professorial Lecturer in Global Kurdish Studies
- King’s College London | Lecturer in Political Economy with a focus on the Middle East
- European Council on Foreign Relations | Visiting Fellow – Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme (Self-Employed)
- Orient-Institut Istanbul | Research Associate, Standing Working Group Iran and Beyond: Breaking the Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration (IRSSC)
- American Research Institute in Turkey | Istanbul Branch Director
- Wellesley College | Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies
- UNC-Chapel Hill | Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian
- University of Helsinki | Postdoctoral Researcher in Algerian Culture and History
- Oklahoma State University | Assistant Professor and Farzaneh Chair of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
- The Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian
- Yale University | Postdoctoral Associate under initiative to study the Racialization of Islam
- University of Oxford | Senior Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
- Florida State University | Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Islamic Studies
- University of California | Los Angeles, Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies
- Yale University | Council on Middle East Studies, The MacMillan Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Middle East Studies
- University of Arizona | Assistant Professor of Health Studies in the Middle East and North Africa
- Northwestern University | Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship
- John Cabot University Rome | Adjunct Lecturer in Religious Studies, Fall 2019
- Harvard Kennedy School | Research Fellowships in the 2019-2020 Program of the Middle East Initiative
- International Crisis Group and Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Economics of Conflict
- University of Oxford | Islamic History Research Officer, Changing Structures of Islamic Authority (CSIA)
- Princeton University | Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Postdoctoral or More Senior Researcher – Contemporary Politics in the Arab World
- Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin) | Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies 2019/20
- American Research Center in Egypt Fellowships
- Virginia Tech | Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics/Middle East/North Africa
- Florida International University | Religious Studies, Assistant Professor, specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire
- Rice University | Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Theory, Geography, History, and/or Practice of Spatial Studies
- Hartford Seminary | Imam Ali Chair for Shi‘i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools
- American University of Kuwait | Faculty Position in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar, Open Rank Professorship in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar, Professorship in Women, Society and Development
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Full Professorship for “Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective” (W3)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Full Professorship for “Islamic Intellectual History of the Post-Classical Period (1200-1800)” (W3)
- University of Gothenberg | Researcher (one or several) to the Department of Political Science and the Program on Governance and Local Development
- University of Gothenberg | Post doctoral fellow (one or several) to the Department of Political Science and the Program on Governance and Local Development
- American University of Beirut | Associate or Full Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies
- Ben Gurion University of the Negev | Full-time, Tenure-track Position in Persian and Iranian Studies
- Harvard Law School | Islamic Legal Studies Program, Law and Social Change, Visiting Fellowships 2019-2020
- Brown University | Visiting Assistant Professor in Iranian Studies
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies with a specialization in Persian/Iranian studies
- Bristol University | Senior Research Associate/Research Associate, Governance of Religious Diversity and Radicalisation
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | History and Culture of Islam in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | Faculty Positions in Politics and International Relations/Comparative Politics
- University of Sharjah | Chairpersons for Five Academic Departments
- Arab Centre For Research (London) | Head of Programs
- Virginia Commonwealth University | Lecturer in Arabic Language and Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Alberta | Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
- Harvard Law School | Islamic Legal Studies Program, Visiting Fellowships 2019-2020
- Arcadia University | Assistant Professor, Department of Historical and Political Studies, Expertise in East or Southeast Asia or the Middle East
- University of Mississippi | Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Croft Institute for International Studies
- University of Bern | Professorship in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Copenhagen | Postdoctoral position in Mediatized Diaspora
- New York University-Washington | Local, Part-time Lecturer to teach course on Politics of Near and Middle East (Spring 20019)
- University of Florida | Assistant or beginning Associate Professor for Islamic Studies
- National University of Singapore | Middle East Institute, Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow
- American University in Cairo | Comparative Politics on the Middle East
- Augustana College | Religion: Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor Specializing in the Study of Islam
- Princeton University | Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, Department of Religious Studies, Social Theory of Islam
- American University of Beirut | 2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions, Women and the Arab MENA Economies
- Rice University | Fellow for the Middle East
- University of Wisconsin | Madison, Assistant or Associate Professor in Comparative Study of Modern Arab Politics and Society: 3 positions in Political Science, History, and Gender and Women Studies
- American University in Cairo | Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Freie Universität Berlin | Postdoctoral Position in Arabic Studies
- Bard College Berlin, Lecturer Position in Middle Eastern Studies
- Assistant or beginning Associate Professor in Islamic Studies
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Assistant Professor of Arab Studies (Jordan Family Fellow in International Studies)
- American University of Beirut | Mary Fox Whittlesey Visiting Professorship in Archaeology
- Hamilton College | Assistant Professor, Asian Islam
- Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW) | Senior Resident Scholar for Political Economy
- Boise State University | Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History
- Yale University | Program in Iranian Studies, Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Georgia Institute of Technology | Assistant or Associate Professor of Arabic
- Swarthmore College | Arabic Language & Literature (Assistant Professor)
- University of Minnesota | Assistant Professor in Arab Middle Eastern Studies
- Emory University | Assistant Professor – Jews in the Islamic World
- Princeton University | Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Postdoctoral or Senior Resaerch Position
- Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington | Senior Resident Scholar, Spring 2019
- Colgate University | Lecturer in Arabic Studies
- American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) | Post-doctoral Fellowships
- Miami University | Assistant Professor in International Studies (Critical Security Studies of the Middle East)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Full Professorship “Islamic Law in the Past and Present” (W3)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Full Professorship “Islamic Text Studies” (Koran and Hadith) (W3)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Junior Professorship for “Islamic Philosophy and the Foundations of Belief” with Tenure Track (W1)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Full Professorship “Islamic Religious Education and Practical Theology” (W3)
- Texas Tech University | Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East
- Hartford Seminary | Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program
- Bard College | Islamic Studies Position
- European Institute University | Middle East Directions Programme, Research Assistant
- Boston College | Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asia Art
- University of Sussex | Teaching Fellow in Middle Eastern History
- University of Toronto | Institute of Islamic Studies
- Simon Fraser University | Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Naval Postgraduate School | Assistant/Associate Professor of Political Economy
- Smith College | Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History
- Sciences Po | Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Spring 2019 Visiting Faculty Position on Middle East and North Africa (late January-end of April 2019) and Scientific Advisor to the Kuwait Chair (September 2019-June 2021)
- Furman University | History Open Rank Professor, Middle Eastern History
- University of San Francisco | Assistant Professor in International Studies, Expertise in the Middle East
- Tübingen University | Professor (W 3) of Islamic History and Culture
- Hamilton College | Asian Studies Program, Asian Islam
- Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center | Research Fellowship in Oman
- Johns Hopkins University | Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature
- University of Oxford | Postdoctoral Researcher on Qur’anic law in its late antique context, QuCIP Project Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oriental Institute
- University of Oxford | Postdoctoral Researcher on the Islamic reception history of surahs 1–4, QuCIP Project Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oriental Institute
- Lebanon Support | The Bassem Chit Postdoctoral Fellowship for The Study of Activism, Beirut
- Stanford University | Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East & North Africa
- San Jose State University | Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Political Science: Comparative Politics/International Relations
- University of Helsinki | Assistant/Associate/Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies
- University of Graz | Centre for Southeast European Studies, University Assistant with doctorate, one-year fixed position in humanities or social sciences on a theme related to Turkey’s politics and society
- University of Vienna | University Assistant (post-doc) at the Department of Islamic-Theologic Studies
- University of British Columbia | Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East
- National Chengchi University in Taiwan | Open-rank Faculty Member in the Dept. of Turkish Language and Culture
- Queen’s University | Assistant Professor in Gender and Social Movements in the Islamic World
- Augustana College | One-Year Teaching Fellow Position in Islamic Studies
- University of Birmingham | Research Fellow on transnational Twelver Shiism
- Carleton College | Department of Political Science, Assistant Professorship in International Relations
- Brown University | Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Palestine and Palestinian Studies
- Towson University | Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Islam/History of the Modern Middle East
- Columbia University | Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies