Opportunities

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Havard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track or tenured professor in Medieval Islamic Cultures and Societies. We welcome applicants who specialize in the medieval period (600-1500) and in various subfields, including (but not limited to) early and medieval Islamic history, classical Arabic literature, and non-Muslim communities in medieval Islamic societies. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and advise at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, will have an excellent reading knowledge of Arabic, and will have the ability to guide graduate students in the reading of Arabic primary sources, both printed and in manuscript. In Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tenure-track positions are untenured. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1st, 2027. The appointee will teach and advise at the undergraduate and graduate levels. External applicants and finalists considered for a tenured appointment will need to complete the same procedures as external applicants and finalists in a search designated specifically for a tenured appointment.

The objective of the Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early- and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. 

The British Academy and Carnegie invite applications for Fellowships in any of the following areas: 

• Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics
• Global Order and Institutions
• South and East Asia  
• Middle East & North Africa 
• Security and Defence

The Center for Middle East Studies' at Brown University postdoctoral research associate position in Palestinian Studies is a two-year appointment, not renewable thereafter. The position is part of New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS), which seeks to facilitate innovative lines of academic inquiry that center Palestinian experiences, voices, and actions. We welcome candidates who thrive in an interdisciplinary environment and whose work is informed by comparative and global perspectives. We are interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the field of Palestinian Studies and to the diversity and excellence of the academic community.

Postdoctoral Research Associates will teach one class per year and help organize the annual NDPS workshop, and will have opportunities to present their research and participate in programming on campus.

The Institute of Religious Studies within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Université de Montréal invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, specializing in the historical study of Islam, with a start date of June 1, 2027. Interested candidates are asked to consult the detailed job description, application procedures, and application deadline on the Institute of Religious Studies webpage. 

The Université de Montréal is committed to workforce diversity and encourages applications from members of visible and ethnic minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and individuals of all sexual orientations and gender identities. We invite all qualified candidates to apply to UdeM. However, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, please note that priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. 

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its 28th annual PARC Palestinian research fellowship competition for research in the humanities and social sciences. Applicants must be Palestinian doctoral students or Palestinian scholars who have earned their PhD. All Palestinians may apply regardless of their country of residence or ID. Research must contribute to Palestinian Studies. Eligible fields of research are the arts, humanities, social sciences, public health, and environmental studies. Purely scientific research is not eligible for this competition.

Kindly note that female PhD students who meet the application criteria are eligible to apply for both this fellowship and the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship. Applicants, however may only receive one award.

Please note:

- Fellowship awards up to a maximum of $6,000
- Awardees will have until December 31, 2028 to complete their research 

New Directions in Palestinian Studies invites proposals for its eleventh workshop on the past, present, and future of the Palestinian refugee camp as an idea, a space, a temporality, and a condition of life. 

The theme of “Refugee Camp” addresses the quintessential Palestinian condition of displacement, statelessness, vulnerability, and generational reproduction of everyday struggles for rebuilding lives and forging more dignified and just futures. This workshop invites interventions that center the camp and the refugee in thinking about Palestine and the Palestinians.

The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the international research group under the newly established Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).  The applicant will work closely with the ERA Chair Holder, Prof Mariana Llanos, and the research group leader, Dr. Mahmoud Farag.

 We invite applications from scholars within area studies whose research demonstrates strong regional expertise and a commitment to addressing globally significant issues through a social science lens. The ideal candidate will employ comparative methodologies and actively engage in disciplinary debates within area studies on critical current events from a comparative perspective. 

A Special Issue of Feminism and Organization.

Guest Editors: Laura Lucia Parolin (Mälardalen University, Sweden), Carmen Pellegrinelli (University of Trieste, Italy) and Alison Pullen (Macquarie University, Australia).

For a long time, many of us have felt politically constrained in confronting the ongoing genocide in Gaza and its global ramifications. Across academia and wider society, scholars who take a stance on the violence which has killed 72,500-72,600 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7 and injured over 170,000-172,000 (Wafa, 2026) increasingly encounter barriers when attempting to expose, analyse, and challenge practices of complicity and silence. Some journals have recently taken an editorial stance to break silences (Afiouni et al, 2026). We understand these barriers not as incidental but as symptomatic of systemic dynamics that demand critical scholarly attention.

As feminist scholars in Management and Organization Studies (MOS) working across institutions with Western traditions, we call for contributions to Feminism and Organization that engage with the imperative to interrogate why complicity and silence have become so pervasive, and how they shape intellectual, public, and academic debate. As demonstrated by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in her report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, (Albanese, 2025), the networks implicated in these processes extend far beyond the immediate geographical context, encompassing states, supranational institutions, multinational corporations, universities, and broader knowledge infrastructures.

BRISMES Trustee and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dr Feras Alkabani, has been commissioned to edit The Bloomsbury Handbook to LGBTQ+ Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, and would like to invite scholars working on relevant areas covered in the edited collection to contribute a chapter. 

The Bloomsbury Handbook to LGBTQ+ Culture in the Middle East and North Africa offers an exploration of LGBTQ+ culture across a region often overlooked or misrepresented in global queer narratives. Through a blend of historical context and contemporary cultural analysis, the book challenges monolithic portrayals and highlights the resilience, creativity and complexity of queer identities across diverse MENA societies and in their diaspora.

Chapters will typically be around 8,000 words (with some flexibility); first drafts are expected to start arriving in early 2027. 

If you are interested or would like to discuss your potential contribution, please contact Dr Alkabani directly: f.alkabani@sussex.ac.uk. 

This edited volume centers the space that is bounded by an Arab East, a European North, an African South, and an Atlantic West. Generally encompassing Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, the label used to name this region variously includes or excludes Mauritania, Libya, and Egypt. Tamazgha, the Maghreb, al-Maghrib al-‘Arabi, and North Africa: each label originates in specific historical-political junctures and comprises particular power relations. 

This collective book seeks to provide a view of visual, literary, and cultural aspects of the region to explore and critically interrogate the multifaceted encounters between the peoples and ideas of Tamazgha, the Maghreb, North Africa, and the world. It invites chapters that examine how Western images of this region have evolved over time and how local representations of the West have developed in response—including through trans-Saharan and trans-Mediterranean networks, borderland formations, and other sites of mobility and encounter. 

Emphasizing a contrapuntal reading and a multidisciplinary and decolonial methodology, the book seeks to reassess how this region of complex and contested identities and cultures have been shaped by engagements with Western and non-Western thought, aesthetics, and ideology. It centers local and indigenous perspectives in shaping and contesting cultural representations, while fostering dialogue across disciplines. The book encourages innovative methodologies that challenge previous approaches and discourses while also opening space for more nuanced and decolonial readings of cultural production and exchange.