Jewish Studies

2008-2009
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Area of Specialization:

Medieval: 2

Hebrew Bible: 2

Hellenistic-Second Temple Judaism: 1

Rabbinic Literature: 2

Modern: 2

Tenure-Track Jobs
but they were also accepting applications til 11/14
 * Boston University: Religion and literary arts
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * Boston University: Modern Jewish History
 * Updates
 * Contacted about AJS/AHA interview (11/12)
 * '''Chicago Theological Seminary Chair in Jewish Studies: Interviewed at the AAR 10/30
 * Columbia University: Rabbinic-Medieval Judaism (Senior position)
 * Columbia University: Witten professorship
 * Hofstra University: Pre-modern Judaism
 * Updates
 * contacted for SBL interview
 * King's University College at the University of Western Ontario: Jewish Studies/Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * Initial interviews took place at AAR
 * Princeton University Tikvah Fellowship: Jewish Thought
 * Queens College: Eastern Europe and Holocaust
 * Queens College: Medieval/Pre-Modern (yay!) History/Thought
 * Santa Clara: Modern Judaism. Interviewed at the AAR 11/1.
 * Swarthmore College: Open specialization
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * contacted for campus interview
 * what is up with Swarthmore? they said they were inviting people to campus in late November!
 * Temple University: Jewish History
 * University of Buffalo: Rabbinics (Senior position)
 * Univ. of California - Davis: Pre-modern Judaism
 * Updates
 * contacted about AAR interview
 * contacted about AJS interview
 * University of Colorado: Jewish Literature (Yiddish, German, Slavic languages)
 * Updates
 * contacted for AJS interview
 * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Israeli Cultural Studies
 * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Rabbinics
 * Updates
 * contacted about preliminary interview
 * University of Maryland - College Park: Israel Studies*
 * University of Michigan: Modern Hebrew and Jewish Culture
 * University of Minnesota: Israelite religion
 * Updates
 * contacted about SBL interview
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * preliminary interviews took place at SBL
 * Univ. of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: Rabbinics
 * contacted (by phone) about AJS interview (12/2)
 * Univ. of Pittsburgh: Classical Judaism (Perlow Lectureship)
 * Updates
 * contacted about AJS interview
 * University of Texas Austin: Jewish Studies/Rabbinics
 * Interviews to take place at AAR, invitations to interview to come out next week.do you mean AJS?
 * University of Wisconsin - Madison: Israeli Literature & Culture
 * Vanderbilt University: Rabbinics
 * Updates
 * contacted about AJS interview (11/21)
 * Wellesley: Hebrew Bible
 * Updates
 * First round interviews took place at SBL
 * Wesleyan University has anyone heard anything since aar?
 * Updates
 * contacted about interview

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 * Updates:
 * writing sample requested by e-mail 11/5
 * phone interview scheduled 11/20
 * MLA interview scheduled 12/3
 * on-campus interview invitation 1/12
 * offer extended 3/11
 * offer accepted 3/25
 * rejection letter received 4/1  (Rejection letters received after the on-campus visits.)