Postdoctoral Associate (Modern Middle East)

The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Associate position beginning August 2025.

We seek a scholar whose research and teaching focuses on Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and/or Palestine/Israel. We welcome applicants from any discipline in the humanities, broadly defined. Preference given to scholars conducting research in two or more languages.

Cornell NES is an interdisciplinary and comparative department that is home to scholars of anthropology, archaeology, history, literary studies, religious studies, and beyond. NES offers courses in the languages, literatures, cultures, religions and history of West Asia and North Africa from the deep past to the present. We educate students and the wider academic community in cross-cultural, trans-historical, and inter-religious understanding. We seek applicants whose scholarship and teaching complements existing departmental strengths.

The Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Fellowship is a two-year fellowship in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. This fellow is expected to teach three courses during the term of their appointment, one each semester for three semesters with a fourth semester free of teaching obligations. This fellow is also expected to be in residence for the term of the appointment and to take an active role in the intellectual life of their home department, the College of Arts & Sciences, and Cornell University.

Applicants should submit the following application materials by January 15, 2024 via Academic Jobs Online, https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29312:

* Cover letter

* C.V.

* Research Statement

* Writing sample

* Descriptions of two courses the applicant proposes to offer in the NES department at Cornell: one introductory level course and one upper-level undergraduate course

* Three letter of recommendation

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A Ph.D. is required no later than August 1, 2025.

Pay Range: Salary will be $70,000 plus full benefits, and a research account of $3,000 annually. Up to $2,000 of eligible moving expenses may be reimbursed.

Pay Range:

Pay Ranges:

The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• Prior relevant work or industry experience.
• Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.
• Academic Discipline
• Unique applicable skills.

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