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Position Announcement | Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek Studies

Position Title: Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek Studies
Institution Name: Brown University
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Byzantine Greek Studies
Application Deadline: 2024-11-01

The Department of Classics at Brown University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Byzantine Greek Studies. They seek a scholar whose work centers on the languages and literatures of the Eastern Roman Empire, and who has demonstrated competencies in one or more technical sub-disciplines, such as paleography and codicology, textual criticism, and/or epigraphy. The ability to teach in Byzantine Studies comes with the expectation that the successful candidate can also offer courses in Ancient Greek and Latin as necessary. Experience in university-level teaching and a strong research trajectory are prerequisites for this position. The Ph.D. must be in hand before July 1, 2025, the starting date of this appointment.

Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and cover letter, a brief statement of their experience and/or ideas for prioritizing diversity and inclusion in their teaching and research, at least three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample. Applications received by November 1, 2024 are assured of full review.

Please submit application materials online at at this link. For further information please contact the chair of the search committee, Prof. Joseph Pucci, at Joseph_Pucci@brown.edu.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website.

Cambridge University Research Highlights

Cambridge University’s department for popular research in Classics and Archaeology has released their research highlights from 2023. The public will have open access to articles and chapters usually exclusive to subscribers until the end of February 2024. Access their work here!

For more updates from Cambridge University Press, view their website here.

Free Access to Articles: Byzantine Studies

To celebrate the SPBS Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, enjoy free access to a special collection of articles from Cambridge’s Classics journals.

Where not already Open Access, content is free to read and download until the end of April 2023. The articles include:
 

  • Did the Byzantines call themselves Byzantines? Elements of Eastern Roman identity in the imperial discourse of the seventh century – Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
  • Law, custom and myth: Aspects of the social position of women in classical Athens – John Gould, The Journal of Hellenic Studies
  • A lead figurine from Toprakhisar Höyük: magico-ritual objects in the Syro-Anatolian Middle Bronze Age – Murat Akar and Demet Kara, Anatolian Studies

Click here to view the full collection

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