Position Announcements – Archaeology News and Announcements

Position Title: Assistant Professor
Institution Name: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Greek History
Application Deadline: 2025-01-25

Position Summary

We seek candidates whose research focuses on the archaeology, material culture, and/or history of Archaic, Classical, or Hellenistic Greece (800 to 31 BCE), who is prepared to teach classes in their area of specialization, courses in Greek history and culture, and Greek and Latin at all levels. In addition to an active research program, applicants should have a strong record of teaching at the undergraduate level and an interest in mentoring students from a variety of backgrounds. Experience in online teaching is desirable. Applicants must hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in Classical Studies or related field by August 1, 2025. We especially encourage applicants with cross-disciplinary interests and innovative approaches to the ancient world that will expand upon the current research and teaching interests in the department.

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants must hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in Classical Studies or related field by August 1, 2025.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong record of teaching at the undergraduate level.

Tenure Status: Tenure Track

Special Instructions to Applicants

Please submit a cover letter, CV, graduate transcript, and sample syllabi for two classes: an introductory Greek History survey, and an upper-level undergraduate course in the applicant’s area of specialization electronically via https://jobsearch.uncg.edu (click on “Faculty”). Applicants are asked to provide the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three (3) references in the References section of the electronic application. These references will be solicited by the UNCGjobsearch system via email and asked to provide a confidential letter of recommendation on behalf of the applicant. This will occur as soon as the applicant successfully submits the application and receives a confirmation number from the UNCGjobsearch system.

Initial interviews will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams early in 2025. To apply for this position, please visit our website at https://spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/30810 In order to be given best consideration, applications must be received by January 20th 2025. Applications received after that deadline will be reviewed until the position is filled.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38982/assistan…

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Position Title: Pūkenga – Lecturer in Classics
Institution Name: Victoria University of Wellington
Position Rank: Lecturer
Area of Specialty: Ancient Studies/Classics
Application Deadline: 2025-01-17

Are you a classicist with expertise in any area of the ancient world?
Do you have a PhD and a strong research agenda in Classics or a related field?
Would you like to join a programme committed to the continued relevance of the ancient world in the twenty-first century?

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting a Pūkenga – Lecturer in Classics. The role is situated in the Classics Programme of Te Kura o ngā Reo me ngā Tikanga-ā-iwi – School of Languages and Cultures, and involves responsibility for teaching, researching and publishing in Classics or a related field. This is a permanent introductory position (comparable to a tenure-track assistant professorship in North America); lecturers are eligible for promotion through all academic ranks, including full professor.

We seek a broadly trained classicist with expertise in any area of the ancient world; we particularly invite applications from candidates who specialise in Greek History or in Roman Art and Archaeology. The successful candidate must be able to teach undergraduates at every level of study on a range of topics, to supervise postgraduate research, and to teach Greek and Latin at all levels. We anticipate that the successful candidate will commence teaching in July 2025.

Key responsibilities:

Conducting research on your specialist area of the ancient world
Developing and teaching engaging undergraduate and postgraduate courses on a range of topics
Collaborative co-teaching, including in introductory survey courses and the Greek field trip
Supervising postgraduate research at Honours, Masters and PhD level
Contributing effectively and collegially to the administration of the Programme and the School and supporting our Programme and University obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38980/p%C5%ABk…

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Position Title: Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in History of Art and Architecture and Archaeology of the Ancient Americas
Institution Name: Brown University
Position Rank: Other
Area of Specialty: History of Art
Application Deadline: 2025-02-05

Brown University invites applications for a 2-year International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2025-2027, with a specialization in the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology of the Ancient Americas.

This position, effective July 1, 2025, is to be held jointly at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and is affiliated with the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Our goal is to appoint an exceptional scholar working in any aspect of visual and material cultures and the built environments of the precolonial Americas.

The successful candidate will teach two courses per year in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, cross-listed with Archaeology and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. The research associate is expected to participate in the Cogut Institute’s weekly Tuesday seminars as well as other activities. The department is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community.

Qualifications

Applicants should have a PhD in hand by July 1, 2025, or the degree must have been awarded within the last five years. Recipients of a Ph.D. from Brown University are ineligible. The successful candidate will be employed as postdoctoral research associates with standard benefits and a $2,000 per year reimbursable research fund. Scholars from outside the United States are appointed under J-1 visas (exchange visitors status) only.

Assistant Professor Tenure-Track Faculty Position Announcement for California State University, Northridge

Assistant Professor – Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies #25-22

The department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies (ISLS) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Interdisciplinary Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor.

The successful candidate will teach courses in our BA in Interdisciplinary Studies as well as in our teacher education BA in Liberal Studies. The candidate’s research and teaching interests will lie in one or more richly interdisciplinary areas such as, but not limited to, Science and Technology Studies; Ethics and AI; Digital Humanities; Library and Information Sciences; Geographic Information Science; Behavioral Economics; Cognitive Science; Bioinformatics; Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies; Ethnic Studies; Native/Indigenous Studies; Cultural Ecology; Environmental Humanities; and Media and Communication Studies.

As a large, diverse, urban university and Hispanic-Serving Institution, CSUN is seeking a qualified candidate who shares our campus commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Getty Job Opportunity

On January 23, 2025

https://jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/4538/curatorial-assistant/job

The Getty has just posted a job ad for a limited-term Curatorial Assistant in Antiquities. It is a two-year, full-time position to assist with the development of a major exhibition on ancient Anatolia and its relationship with Greece and Rome that will open in 2026.

There is no designated application deadline or start date: the Getty will consider applications on a rolling basis and aims to fill the position relatively quickly. Interested parties are encouraged to submit their applications soon. Specific research experience with Anatolia is not a requirement, but applicants should have a background working with ancient art and preferably have an MA or PhD in a field related to ancient Mediterranean history.

[SCS Placement] New or Updated Position Listing

On January 23, 2025

The following advertisement has been added or updated on classicalstudies.org:

Position Title: Assistant Professor of Classics, 1-Year Term (Start Fall 2025)
Institution Name: Grinnell College
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Ancient Greek History
Application Deadline: 2025-02-01

The Department of Classics invites applications for a one-year term contract with the possibility of renewal appointment in ancient Greek history and/or archaeology beginning Fall 2025. Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) preferred; Instructor (ABD) possible. Broad training in Classics and ability to teach courses both in Greek and in translation are highly desirable. The Department provides instruction in Greek and Latin language and literature along with history, art and archaeology, and a range of other courses in classical civilization. The teaching load is five courses over two semesters.

Grinnell College is a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college with a strong tradition of social responsibility. In letters of application, candidates should discuss their potential to contribute to a college community that maintains a diversity of people and perspectives as one of its core values. To be assured of full consideration, all application materials should be received by February 1, 2025. Please visit our application website at https://jobs.grinnell.edu to find more details about the job and submit applications online. Candidates will need to upload a letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcripts (copies are acceptable), a representative sample of scholarly writing, and provide email addresses for three references. Questions about this search should be directed to the search chair, Professor Angelo Mercado, at [ClassicsSearch@grinnell.edu] or 641-269-4730.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38968/assistan…

[SCS Placement] New or Updated Position Listing

On January 23, 2025

Position Title: Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies
Institution Name: Vanderbilt University
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Ancient Greece and Rome
Application Deadline: Rolling until the position is filled

The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a Mellon Assistant Professorship (non-tenure-track) to begin August 16, 2025, for a three-year term. The particular themes or fields of specialization within Classical and Mediterranean Studies are open, but research and teaching must demonstrate fundamental engagement with the interpretation of texts from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, broadly defined. The ideal candidate will enrich the intellectual life of the department both by bringing a significant, active research agenda and by developing and teaching courses that will strengthen and extend the department’s curriculum. Candidates who approach the material with new methodological or theoretical perspectives are especially encouraged to apply.

To be eligible, candidates must have completed the Ph.D. in a relevant field no longer than four years prior to the appointment date in this case, August 16, 2025 and no later than August 1, 2025. In addition, candidates must possess teaching experience at the college or university level, preferably as an instructor of record. Publication of the candidate’s work or its presentation at a professional venue is also desirable.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38966/mellon-a…

Position Announcement | Fellowship in Critical Classical Studies

By cmiles2

On December 9, 2024

In Funding & Fellowships, Position Announcements

The Department of Classics at Brown University invites applications for two (2) two-year, non-renewable Postdoctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies to begin July 1, 2025. We seek junior colleagues with terminal degrees (either Ph.D. or MFA) whose work directly addresses the classicization of the Ancient Greeks and Romans; critiques the structures of power, exclusion, erasure, and violence that have scaffolded past and present models of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (i.e. Classics); and/or speculates about alternative models to studying these ancient cultures and others. Successful applicants will be appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associates.

The Fellowship is open to areas of research and creative practice not traditionally housed within Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (e.g. art, film, creative writing, translation studies, political science, language pedagogy, higher education studies, public humanities, museum studies, indigenous studies, decolonial studies, performance or performance history, music) and to more traditional subfields (e.g. art history, literary studies/philology, archaeology, ancient history, philosophy, reception studies). Ideal candidates position their work’s intervention in relation to other disciplines, fields, institutions, and/or industries. They prioritize making contributions to academic, artistic, and/or activist communities. The work can take the form of traditional scholarship (e.g. monographs and articles) or be pedagogical, public-facing, creative, or otherwise trans/inter/extra-disciplinary.

The fellows selected in this competition will join fellows already in residence and form a community committed to refining methodologies well established at Brown and in the field as well as to co-developing new approaches to Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

Brown University seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing, learning, and creating. Therefore, the Department of Classics particularly welcomes applications from members of groups that have been minoritized and underrepresented in academia. A required application form asks every applicant to summarize their approach to and experience in creating equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities. This history might include academic teaching, mentoring, and service, activism, or other forms of community engagement and leadership.

In lieu of formal teaching responsibilities, fellows will be given the time and support necessary to complete their projects during the fellowship term and to share those projects with communities on and off-campus. Each fellow should expect to host one departmental event (e.g. lecture, symposium, performance, screening) and one informal event (e.g. workshop, interview, open rehearsal, table read, write-on-site) that prioritize graduate students in the Department of Classics each academic year. They will also participate in regular cohort-building and mentoring activities.

Each fellow will earn a salary of $65,000 in year 1 and $70,000 in year 2. In addition to a full benefits package, each fellow will receive a research fund of $10,000 and access to a shared office space. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the full term of the fellowship and, if applicable, will receive a $3,000 moving allowance to ease the burden of relocation.

Further information, including application details, can be found here.

Any questions should be directed towards the chair of the Search Committee, Dr. Sasha-Mae Eccleston.

SCS Placement

On October 23, 2024