The Journal of Women’s History and Binghamton University are excited to welcome applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship exploring the intersections of gender and global history. Beginning in the fall of 2015, this one-year in residence appointment carries a stipend of $45,000, plus benefits. The successful applicant much teach one course per semester and present one university-wide public lecture; all remaining time will be devoted to scholarly research and writing. Candidates must complete all requirements for the PhD by 1 July 2015, or have received the PhD no earlier than the fall semester of 2011.

The search committee encourages candidates whose research explores the embodied histories of the global past, considering women as historical subjects as well as gender and sexuality as historical systems. We are especially interested in scholars whose spatial framework transcends national borders to focus on the movement of gendered bodies in transnational arenas, whether through migration, trafficking, travel, imperial politics, slavery, or other processes of exchange. Please note that Binghamton is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity. Women, minorities, and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

The postdoctoral fellow will join a vibrant community of scholars working on women, gender, and sexuality at Binghamton University, which has a long tradition of supporting scholarship in this field. In 1974, Binghamton’s history faculty created one of the first PhD programs in women’s history in the United States. Binghamton also houses the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender and in 2010, became the editorial home of the award-winning Journal of Women’s History, the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women’s history. The JWH promotes comparative and transnational approaches to the history of gender, sexuality, and women’s experiences.

Application requirements

Applicants must submit:

1. A CV
2. A 2,000-word statement detailing the significance of the research project to be developed during the fellowship tenure
3. Three letters of recommendation
4. A list of possible course offerings

Materials must be submitted at http://binghamton.interviewexchange.com.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2015.

Please direct all questions to jwh@binghamton.edu.

For more information about the Journal of Women’s History, please visit http://journalofwomenshistory.org.

To learn more about Binghamton University’s History Department, please visit http://www.binghamton.edu/history.

Lectureship in English (Early Modern Literature)
University of Bristol – School of Humanities; Department of English

Salary: £35,256 to £39,685
Grade: Lecturer B, Pathway 1, Grade J
Hours: Full Time
Closes: 19 January 2015

The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in English Literature, with special reference to Early Modern Literature. The post is designed to foster research and teaching across conventional period boundaries. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research in any area of Early Modern Literature are eligible to apply.

For further information and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKG365/lectureship-in-english-early-modern-literature

Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
University of Kent – School of English

Salary: £31,644 to £45,053 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Closes: 11 February 2015

The School of English wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature.

You will contribute to the School’s undergraduate curriculum in early modern literature, including Shakespeare, by teaching seminar groups, offering lectures, acting as a module convener and developing Special Options. You will also contribute to the research culture of the School, undertake supervision for PhD programmes, and play a full and active role in the rich interdisciplinary environment of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS).

For further information and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATS345/lecturer-in-early-modern-literature

Early Medieval History Lectureship, University of Leeds

Location: Leeds – Main Campus
Salary: £31,342 to £45,954

Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Early Medieval History in the School of History to start in September 2015. This post has become necessary due to the forthcoming retirement of Professor Ian Wood, who has taught early medieval history in the School with great distinction for almost forty years.

We welcome applications from historians interested in any aspect of the history of the Early Middle Ages between c. 400 and c. 900, although it is unlikely that we shall appoint someone whose research and teaching are wholly or largely concerned with the British Isles. You will be expected to provide both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the period c. 400-900. You will be able to teach at all levels of the undergraduate programme, and be able to contribute to the MA programmes as well as supervise research students. You will contribute to the administration and management of the School’s activities, develop the place of Early Medieval history within the research culture of the School and the Institute for Medieval Studies, and also to develop this strand of history as part of the School’s policy to foster ‘public engagement’.

You will have a PhD in Early Medieval history and relevant teaching experience. You will be expected to produce a significant range of publications that will qualify you for inclusion in the next REF, and indicate an ability to make a distinctive contribution to research activity in this subject area in the years to come. You will be given every encouragement to develop your subject within the research and teaching environment of the School and the Institute for Medieval Studies, subject to the requirements of the post. You will also be encouraged to take part in the supervision of postgraduate research degrees from early on during your tenure of this post.

Closing date for applications: 11 January, 2015

Informal enquiries to Professor Graham Loud (Head of School), tel +44(0) 113-343-3592, email G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk

For further details and to apply, please visit: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=ARTHI1005

Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellowship in History
Pembroke College, Cambridge

The College hopes to elect not later than 1 May 2015 to the following Fellowship with tenure from 1 October 2015: THE MARK KAPLANOFF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP. The tenure of the Fellowship will be for three years. Candidates should have recently completed or be about to complete a doctoral degree. The holder will be expected to conduct research in any aspect of History, and to do a limited amount of teaching for the College, which has particular supervision needs in nineteenth and twentieth century History; but would require the permission of the Governing Body to undertake other paid work. The stipend will be at least £24,775 p.a. and is reviewed annually.

Applications, which are due by 14 January 2015, should be made online at http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/the-college/job-vacancies where further particulars are available.

Durham University – The Department of History
Research Assistant – Social Relations and Everyday Life in England, 1500-1640

Salary: £31,342
Hours: Full Time

The Department of History seeks to appoint a two-year post-doctoral Research Assistant (Grade 7) to work on the Leverhulme Trust-funded research project ‘Social relations and everyday life in England, 1500–1640’.

Led by Professor Andy Wood (the Principal Investigator), the project engages with questions concerning the nature of social cohesion, hegemony, authority, the class/gender relationship and forms of deference, patronage and resistance in England in the 140 years prior to the English Revolution. The Research Assistant will be expected to locate, study and transcribe large bodies of archival material in repositories across England. S/he will also be expected to write at least one article for publication in a leading historical journal on a theme related to the project and to contribute to the intellectual life of the project and Department (for example, through participation in seminars and reading groups).

The range of source material on which the project is based is eclectic, and much will depend upon the initiative and findings of the Research Assistant; but the material is certain to include a large quantity of legal records derived from a range of contemporary jurisdictions (criminal; borough; equity; ecclesiastical). Some familiarity with early modern legal records is therefore desirable.

We seek to appoint from 1 March 2015, for a period of two years. The start date could be negotiable in the event of a current employer requiring a three-month period of notification of end of contract.

Applications close 1 January, 2015.

For more information and to apply please visit: https://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp?newms=jj&id=90259

The School of History and Department of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews invite applications for a 6-month postdoctoral fellowship to work with Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker on her AHRC-funded project ‘The Jacquerie and Late Mediaeval Revolts’.

The postdoctoral fellow will co-edit a volume of essays with Dr Firnhaber-Baker, as well as contribute an article of his or her own to the volume. The postdoctoral fellow will also do some of the organization for a conference in April 2015 and will set up and populate a bibliographic wiki dedicated to mediaeval revolts. Applicants should have a completed PhD in mediaeval history or a related field. A reading knowledge of Latin and at least one European language other than English is essential. Reading knowledge of other European languages, especially Dutch or Italian is desirable, as is some experience with digital humanities and conference organization.

Applicants should submit a letter of application along with a curriculum vitae and the names of three referees. In addition to a list of publications (if any), candidates should submit a plan of the research they would plan to undertake over the duration of the project that would result in the publication of an article to be included in the edited volume.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Firnhaber-Baker at jmfb@st-andrews.ac.uk to discuss the role.

This post is for 6 months, starting on 2 February 2015, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Applications close 8 December 2014.

For further information and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJZ343/research-fellow-in-mediaeval-history-ml1579/

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas at McGill University seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow in Studies in Early Modern Europe with a demonstrable research interest in the public life of arts and ideas. The Fellow will join a research project—Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies.

Early Modern Conversions is a five-year, international, interdisciplinary project (2013-2018) that studies how early modern Europeans changed their confessional, social, political, and even sexual identities. These subjective changes were of a piece with transformations in their world— the geopolitical reorientation of Europe in relation with the Ottoman Empire and the Americas; the rethinking of Latin Antiquity; changes in the built environment; the re-imagining of God. The research is growing together with a History Visualization Lab able to track the growth of multiple conversional forms, both geographically and historically. Among the partners taking part in the Conversions project are the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (Cambridge), the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Headquartered at the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), McGill University, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the project will develop an historical understanding that will also enlighten modern debates about corporeal, sexual, psychological, political, and spiritual kinds of transformation.

The start date for the year-long position is August 1, 2015. There is the possibility of a one-year renewal. Candidates will have a PhD in one of the fields represented in the project, a research program relevant to the central interests of the project, and a demonstrable interest in public life of works of art and intellect. The Fellow will work on his or her own research program, collaborate with colleagues in an interdisciplinary context, and take part in the development of the project’s program of public outreach, education, and exchange. He or she will serve on the project’s Education and Public Exchange Advisory Committee and might have opportunities to teach courses in his or her area of specialty. The fellowship stipend is $40,000 per annum.

Applications, consisting of a cover letter, CV, and an article-length writing sample should be sent to Paul Yachnin, Director, Early Modern Conversions, at conversions@mcgill.ca. Please arrange to have three letters of reference sent to the same address; referees should include the name of the candidate in the subject line of their emails. Adjudication of applications will begin January 5, 2015.

The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the classical tradition – in the sense of those elements in European thought, art and institutions that have evolved out of the cultures of the ancient world. Its Library and Photographic Collection are designed and arranged to encourage research into the processes by which one culture learns from another and by which different fields of thought and art act on each other. They are particularly concerned with continuities between the ancient Mediterranean civilizations and the cultural and intellectual history of post-classical Europe, especially in the period to c. 1800.

The Institute is offering one long-term Frances A. Yates Fellowship of two or three years tenable from October 2015. Fellows’ interests may lie in any aspect of cultural and intellectual history but, other things being equal, preference will be given to those whose work is concerned with those areas of the medieval and Renaissance encyclopaedia of knowledge to which Dame Frances herself made distinguished contributions.

Eligibility

The Fellowships are generally intended for scholars in the early stages of their careers. Candidates must have completed at least one year’s research on their doctoral dissertation by the time they submit their application for a Fellowship and, if postdoctoral, must normally have been awarded their doctorate within the preceding five years, i.e. after 1 October 2009. If their doctorate was awarded before this date, they should explain the reasons for any interruption in their academic career in a covering letter.

Applications must arrive at the Institute no later than Friday, 28 November 2014.

The starting salary of the Fellowship is expected to be £ 28,408 p.a including London Allowance.

For more information, and to apply, please visit: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/long-term

Applications are invited for the position of Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). The Director will occupy a professorial position within the Faculty of Arts at UWA. The Centre is based at UWA, with nodes at The University of Adelaide, The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland and The University of Sydney. The Centre has developed a vast range of collaborative links to international institutions in Asia, Continental Europe, the UK and North America and has established partnerships with such arts industries and community groups as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Musica Viva, and the Zest Festival. Besides its wide-ranging research projects, the Centre maintains a nation-wide program of community outreach and education events.

The appointee is expected to be:

• an academic leader, both in the CHE as a whole and in the University
• a productive and original researcher and research mentor,
• an energetic and collegial director of the Centre’s core activities,
• able to lead the Centre in new research directions,
• able to communicate the value and vitality of the Centre’s research to the public, in the media and throughout the education system
• able to undertake research at the highest international level on a history of emotions project, studying an aspect of Europe 1100-1800, in the disciplines of history, literature, performance studies or music,
• able to oversee management of the whole Centre of Excellence.

Closing date: Monday 24 November, 2014.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.uwa.edu.au/executive/new-vacancy-template3

Junior Research Fellowships 2015
University of Cambridge – Clare College, Cambridge

Applications are invited for two Junior Research Fellowships in The Arts, tenable for three years.

These Fellowships, which will start on 1 October 2015, are intended for researchers who are in the early stages of their careers.

The successful candidates will have excellent academic records and the potential to continue their research at the highest level. It is expected that the candidates will be either graduate students, in the latter stages of their research leading to a PhD, or post-doctoral researchers who have been awarded their PhD within the last year.

Candidates who have undertaken more than four years full-time research in The Arts will have the opportunity to present their case during the application process. The College is prepared to consider exceptions.

Remuneration for Research Fellows is set by reference to the Cambridge University general stipend and salary scale with a starting point of spine point 39 (£28,695).

It is anticipated that the successful candidate will carry out full-time research for 37.5 per week.

Research Fellows may be invited to undertake a small amount of undergraduate teaching during term. They will not be permitted to undertake other paid work or to hold other offices and awards except by permission of the College Council.

The competition closes at 5pm GMT on Monday 8 December. For more information and to apply go to http://jrf.clare.cam.ac.uk/rf_2015.

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 23 January 2015 and asked to submit copies of their written works.