Jewish Studies

Just to get a sense of who is checking this site: What would you consider to be your primary field of study?

Hebrew Bible & Ancient Israel: 2 Second Temple & Late Antiquity: 6 Medieval: 0 Modern: 2

Literature: we're over at English: Other Ethnic American. Join the party!

2007-2008

American Jewish University: interviewed at AJS

Arizona State University Hebrew language position

Baltimore Hebrew University:

Bates: 11/08 Has scheduled AAR interviews 12/05 Has scheduled campus interviews 1/16 One of their finalists pulled out and so they offered that person's spot to someone else.

Brandeis Jewish Communal Leadership 1/25 snailmail rejection letter: 229 applicants, 5 finalists. Expect to have winner by early March Some info on the finalists here: http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/and-then-there-were-5/

Brooklyn: 11/16 Has scheduled phone interviews; 1/29 heard that offer made Offer Accepted

College of Charleston: 12/04 Has scheduled AJS interviews Conducting Campus Interviews

Colby: 11/30 Has scheduled phone interviews  12/18 Scheduled campus interviews for mid-February

Connecticut Coll.: 11/13 Has scheduled AAR interviews 12/3 Week of campus visits begins Offer made

1/10 rejection letter, with my name mispelled

Duke: 11/13 Conducting on-campus interviews (will be completed 11/14)  12/7 Offer Made | may I ask: to whom?

Franklin and Marshall:

Hebrew Union (Cincinnati):

Hebrew Union (Los Angeles):

McMaster: 11/07 Has scheduled AAR interviews 12/05 Has scheduled campus interviews

Miami of Ohio: 11/07 Has scheduled AAR interviews 12/10 Notified candidates on short list 1/19 Offer made

Missouri State: 11/06 Has scheduled AAR interviews 12/7 Has scheduled campus interviews

Moravian College Conducted SBL and phone interviews

Portland State: 11/16 Has scheduled AJS interviews 12/08 rejections emailed

Princeton University (Israel Studies job):

Purdue history job interviewed at AJS   12/24 campus interview scheduled

Southwestern: 11/10 Has scheduled AAR interviews. 11/28 has scheduled campus interviews

St. Olaf: 11/7 Has scheduled AAR interviews 12/21 got letter saying they've identified 3 for campus visits

Stanford University:

Trinity Univ.: 11/13 Has scheduled AAR interviews 11/30 Has mailed rejection letters

University of California-Davis: 1/16 Currently conducting campus interviews

University of California-Riverside

University of Denver: Has scheduled MLA and AJS interviews

University of Manitoba (deadline 1/15/09): 1/25 Called to schedule campus interview

University of Notre Dame: 11/13 Has scheduled AAR interviews

University of South Carolina: 11/7 Has scheduled AAR interviews 11/24 Has scheduled campus interviews Has made an offer Q on 1/22 anyone know what field it was offered in (Bible, Second Temple, Rabbinics or Medieval)? Medieval history

University of Western Ontario: Is scheduling campus interviews

University of Wisconsin 11/12 Has scheduled AAR interviews; 1/10/08 Has sent out rejection letters. 10/25 Has scheduled campus interviews

Vanderbilt: Did on-campus interviews; offer made and accepted.

Virginia Tech: 12/18 Has scheduled phone interviews 1/18 Has scheduled campus interviews

Post-docs

'''Any news on these postdocs post-AJS? What are the timelines for these things?'''

American University, Schusterman postdoc:12/09 Has scheduled AJS interviews. Did anyone get news about this postdoc after AJS? Still no campus visits for this postdoc? It appears that there are postdoc finalists' talks listed on website.

Columbia University IIJS Postdoc:

Delaware, Schusterman postdoc: 01/10 Scheduled phone interview

Northeastern, Schusterman postdoc: 12/03 Has scheduled AJS interviews. Anyone interviewing in Boston? ''Yup. I overheard them saying that they're interviewing 3 or 4 people in Boston and 3 or 4 at AJS. They'll be conducting their last first round interviews in early January apparently. '' Do you think they'll do multiple rounds? Yes; they said they would do full on-campus interviews, I would guess no earlier than February.

Ohio University, Schusterman postdoc: 12/11 AJS interview scheduled 1/17 Campus visit scheduled

Penn Center for Judaic Studies Fellowships Due 11/1 1/16 Anyone heard yet? They might be on a different schedule this year, but I recall that two years ago mid-January, right after MLK day, was when they sent acceptance offers  2/5 Notification received.

Princeton Society of Fellows, Jewish Studies postdoc: 1/12 rejection letter recieved in the mail

Princeton University Tikvah Fellowship

Towson University, Schusterman postdoc 2/4 Called to set up phone interview

UCLA Mellon Fellowship in Jewish American Literature

Univeristy of Michigan Any news on the research positions at the Frankel Institute?

University of Toronto Wolfe fellowship

University of Washington Cole fellowship interviewed at AJS Any news on this one?

Anyone know anything about the Targum Shlishi grant?