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Asian History Job Search (only tenure-track or tenure positions listed)

Please follow this format: School's Name: Job Title (1) Acknowledgement received (date: XX/XX) (2) Phone/conference interview scheduled (date: xx/xx) /or/: Rejection notice received (date: xx/xx) (3) Campus interview scheduled (date) (4) Offer extended/accepted/rejected (date)

1. China

Brandeis University: Asst. Professor, East Asian History with Chinese Specialization in any period (deadline 11-15-07; job description)

(1) AA card received (11/10) (2) AHA interview scheduled (12/07) Brown University: Asst. Professor, Premodern Chinese Language, Literature and Culture (deadline 10-15-07; job description) Bryn Mawr College: Asst./Assoc. Professor, Chinese Intellectual and Cultural Traditions (deadline 11-15-07; job description) (1) Does anyone know if they are interviewing at AHA? McDaniel College: Asst. Professor, History of Premodern China (deadline 10-15-07) McGill University: Asst. Professor, Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History (deadline 11-15-07; job description)

(1) Request for writing samples (12/6) Middlebury College

(1) Acknowledgement received (12/3); ack recv'd (12/10). Northern Kentucky University: Asst. Professor, Chinese History (deadline 10-08-07) North Georgia College and State University: Asst. Professor, Chinese History ( job description) Simon Fraser University: Asst. Professor, Late Imperial or Modern Chinese History (deadline 11-01-07; job description)

(3) Campus interview invitation extended (11/27) State University of New York, Albany: Asst. Professor, 19th or 20th Century Chinese History (deadline 11-09-07; job description)

(1) Acknowledgement received - not interviewing at AHA (date: 11/10) (2) Surprise unscheduled phone interview conducted (11/25) (2) Phone interview completed (11/29) - Suprise interviews? Not very professional. - Not really. mine was scheduled in advance. I am not sure whether it was due to the fact that different search committee members interviewed with different candidates. - The worst part is that some candidates were ambushed while others had ample time to prepare. Not a level playing field. - Heard that some schools have used surprise interviews to make sure that they did not miss some well qualified candidates in their shortlist for scheduled phone interviews. But such surprise interviews tended to be much shorter than the 30 or 40-minutes interviews. - Yes, the problem is that some people had scheduled interviews and others had suprise interviews. - And how will cmte members compare notes? - If the surprise interviews were indeed used to pre-screen some candidates while others had already been shortlisted, the former candidates would seem already to have been put in a separate category than the shortlisted ones. If so, there was no need to compare notes for scheduled interviews. (3) Campus interview offer, not yet scheduled (12/10) St. Bonaventure University: Asst. Professor, Modern China and World History (deadline 11-01-07; job description) University of Arizona: Asst. Professor, Early China (deadline 11-15-07) University of British Columbia: Asst. Professor, History of China, Qing Period (deadline 10-30-07; job description)

(1) acknowledgment received (postmarked 11/1) (3) on-campus interview scheduled for January (12/11) Has anyone heard from them ever since the acknowledgment letter? This school seems to be much slower than all the others. University of California, Santa Barbara: Asst. Professor, Modern Chinese History, 1644-present (deadline 11-02-07)

(1) more materials requested (11/5) (2) AHA interview scheduled (12/4) University of Hawai'i, Manoa: Asst. Professor, Ming-Qing Chinese History (deadline 11-15-07)

(1) and (2): scheduled AHA interview and writing sample requested (12/5) University of Hong Kong: Asst. Professor, China-West Historical Studies (deadline 12-01-07) U. of Hong Kong, Modern Chinese History

(1) acknowledgment received Univ. of Toronto Scarborough - Chinese History (speciality open).

(3) On-Campus interview scheduled (12/7). Wake Forest, Chinese History

(2) AHA interview scheduled (11/15)

Has anyone scheduled (or done) interview with any of the Canadian schools recruiting China historians at all? It seems strange that there is no news from any of those schools yet even though U.S. schools with later deadlines have already finished phone interviews or scheduled AHA conference interviews. Thanks for sharing any info. if you do have.

- Many Canadian schools interviewed at AHA last year. Basically they are on the same schedule as US schools. - Thanks. - Well, I stand corrected. Some Canadian schools that interviewed at AHA last year (Ex. UTSC) have gone straight to campus interviews this year.

2. Japan

Arizona State University: Asst. Professor, Modern Japanese History (deadline: 11-26-07) Boston University: Ass. Professor, Modern Japanese History.

(2) AHA interview invitation received (12-07-07) University of California, Berkeley: Open Rank, Japanese History (deadline 10-15-07) University of California, Santa Barbara: Asst. Professor, Modern Japanese Cultural Studies (deadline 10-15-07)

(2) AAA (sic!) interviews scheduled College of William & Mary: Asst. Professor, Modern Japanese History (deadline 11-02-07)

(1) more materials requested (11-20-07) (2) AHA interview invitation received (12-07-07) New York University: Asst. Professor, Japanese History

(2) rejection notice received (12-07-07) University of Hawai'i, Manoa: Asst. Professor, Modern Japanese History (deadline: 11-01-07)

(1) acknowledgment received (2) AHA interview invitations sent out (12-06-07) University of Hong Kong: Asst. Professor, Japanese Studies (deadline 08-25-07) University of Leeds: Lecturer, Japanese Studies (deadline 10-02-07)

(4) offer extended Sophia University, Modern Japanese History, (deadline 12-01-2007) Yale: Open Rank, Modern Japanese history (1800-present) (deadline: 01-15-2008)

3. Korea

Cornell University: Asst. Professor, Early/Pre-Modern Korean Studies (deadline 01-07-08; job description) Duke University: Open Rank, Korean Cultural Studies (deadline 11-10-07; job description) Smith College: Asst. Professor, Korean Studies (deadline 10-15-07; job description) Stanford University: Junior Rank, Contemporary Korea (deadline 10-31-07) University of Chicago: Open Rank, Modern Korean Studies (deadline 10-15-07; job description) University of Pennsylvania: Open Rank, Korean Studies (deadline 10-15-07) University of Wisconsin-Madison: Asst. Professor, History of Korea (deadline 11-15-07; job description)

4. East Asia General

Brigham Young University: Open Rank, East Asian History, preferably China or Korea (deadline 09-15-07)

(3) Short list for campus interviews set (10/17) Guilford College: Asst. Professor, Modern East Asian History (deadline 11-30-07; job description)

(2) AHA invite (12/11) Gustavus Adolphus College: Asst. Professor, East Asian History (deadline 11-15-07)

(2) AHA interview invitation extended (12/7) Norwich University (Vermont): Asst. Professor, East Asian History since 1500 (deadline 09-01-07; job description)

(2) AHA Interview invitation e-mail (12/13) Rhodes College: Asst. Professor (not tenure track), East Asian History (deadline 10-15-07; job description)

(2) AHA interview invitation extended (11/1) Rochester Institute of Technology: Asst. Professor, Modern East Asian History (deadline 11-05-07; job description)

(1) Request for letters of recommendation (electronic submission) 12/06 Saginaw Valley State University: Asst. Professor, East Asian History ( job description)

(2) AHA interview invitation extended (11/17) Skidmore College: Asst. Professor, East Asian History (deadline 11-01-07)

(2) AHA interview invitation extended (11/29) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Assistant Professor in East Asian History

(1) Acknowledgement received (12/04) University of Bristol: Professor, East Asian Studies (deadline 10-23-07; job description) University of Colorado, Denver: Asst. Professor, East Asian History (deadline 11-01-07); job description)

(2) Phone interviews to be scheduled for 1st week of Dec. (11/20) University of Hawai'i at Hilo: Asst. Professor, East Asian History (deadline 11-15-07) University of Minnesota-Duluth

(2) Phone interview invite (12/11) University of Missouri-Kansas City

(2) AHA invite (12/8) University of North Carolina, Charlotte: Asst. Professor, Modern East Asian History (deadline 11-01-07; job description)

(1) request for additional material (11/16) (2) rejection e-mail recieved (12/5)Me too (12/6) I found it a very courteous rejection message. University of Tennessee, Knoxville: History of East Asia

(1) Acknowledgement received (12/04) (2) AHA interview scheduled (12/05)

5. South Asia

Bentley College: Asst. Professor, Modern South Asian History (deadline 12-01-07) AHA interview scheduled by phone (12/11) Miami University (Ohio): Asst. Professor, South Asian History (application review begins 10-08-07; job description) Rutgers University: Asst. Professor, Modern South Asian History (deadline 11-01-07; job description)

(1) request for additional material (11/9) Texas A & M: Asst. Professor, History of South Asia (deadline 10-08-07)

(4) offer made and accepted (11/15) Tufts University: Asst. Professor, South Asian History (deadline 10-15-07; job description)

(3) on-campus interviews are being held Nov. 7-9 (11/7) (4) Offer extended/accepted (12/6) University of California, Santa Cruz: Open Rank, Sikh/Punjabi and South Asian History (deadline 11-12-07; job description) University of Toronto Scarborough: Asst. Professor, South Asian History (deadline 11-15-07; job description) University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: Asst. Professor, South/Southeast Asia (dealine 11-15-07) Wake Forest University: Asst. or Assoc. Professor, South Asian History (deadline 10-01-07; job description)

(3) on-campus interview held

6. Other

University of Guam: Asst. Professor, Pacific History (application review begins 06-28-07; job description) Yale: Southeast Asian Studies position (deadline 12-01-07)

7. Asia General

Fordham University: Asst. Professor, Modern East and/or South Asian History (deadline 12-01-07; job description)

(1) Acknowledgement received by mail (Nov.); I just got mine, the letter is dated (11/07) but today is (12/12)--rather odd (2) AHA interview scheduled (12/10) (3) My acknowledgement was dated 12/7; does anyone know how many AHA interviews were scheduled?

Longwood University: Asst. Professor, Asian History (application review begins 10-15-07; job description)

(2) AHA interview scheduled (11/20) Meredith College: Asst. Professor, Asian History

(2) AHA interview scheduled (12/6) Michigan State University: Asst. Professor, Asian Studies (application review begins 09-15-07; job description) Siena College: Asst. Professor, Modern Asian History (deadline 10-20-07; job description)

(2) AHA interview scheduled (11/26) (3) On-campus interview invitations extended; non-invitees notified (11/30) - I think that the (3) above should actually be a (2) Rejection notice received. Siena is interviewing at AHA. - That's not what the rejection letter said: "Finalists for the position have been invited for on-campus interviews...." (4) Our apologies - we are interviewing at the AHA, and the letter sent out must have been a typo. Scott Taylor, search committee member. Tennessee Technological University: Asst. Professor, Asian or American Diplomatic History (deadline 01-01-08; job description) The University of Virginia's College at Wise: Asst. Professor, Asian History (no deadline specified; job description)

(2) AHA interview scheduled (11/30) University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa: Asst. Professor, Modern Asian History (deadline 11-15-07; job description)

(2) AHA interview scheduled (11/29) University of North Florida: Asst. Professor, Modern Asian History (deadline 10-01-07; job description) University of Oregon: Asst. Professor, Transnational Modern Asia (deadline 11-15-07; job description) University of Southern Mississippi: Asst. Professor, Asian or Middle Eastern history (deadline 11-30-07; job description)

(2) AHA interview scheduled (12/5) University of South Florida: Asia/Middle East

(1) Acknowledgement received (late Nov.) (1) Received separate letter stating that because the department has not received final budgetary approval for the position, USF will not be interviewing at AHA and will do phone interviews with a short list 'once funding...has been secured.' (12/4) University of Tennessee, Martin: Asst. Professor, Asian or Middle Eastern History (deadline 01-11-08; job description) University of Toronto: Asst. Professor, Postcolonial Studies/Empire in Asia (deadline 11-01-07) Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University

(2) AHA invite (12/11)