October 2023 – Page 3 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

Acad. Job: Southeastern European Studies / Croatian Language and Culture Lecturer

Deadline: October 31, 2023

The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) in UBC’s Faculty of Arts invites applications for an initial three-year full-time appointment in Slavic and Eastern European Studies at the rank of Lecturer, effective September 1, 2024.

Lecturer positions entail a probationary first year, and are non-tenure-track appointments, renewable for successive terms, subject to availability of funds and demonstration of excellence in teaching, in accordance with the Collective Agreement between UBC and the UBC Faculty Association. A full-time Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts is responsible for 24 teaching credits (i.e., eight 3-credit courses) per year and service assignments amounting to approximately 20% of the full-time commitment.

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

Tenure-track position in Russian Studies (Hamilton College)

Deadline: October 8, 2023

Hamilton College’s Department of German, Russian, Italian, and Arabic invites applications for a tenure-track position in Russian Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2024. The Department seeks candidates of native or near-native fluency in Russian whose research interests focus on pre-Soviet literature, arts, or translation. Interdisciplinary subjects and participation in related departments are strongly encouraged. We are particularly interested in candidates who can also teach the literatures and cultures of other Slavic and/or West Eurasian peoples (Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, etc.) or Georgian, Armenian, Turkic, or Yiddish literatures. The candidate must possess demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching in both Russian and English, including all levels of language. We would expect the new hire to expand program co-curricular outreach (Russian club, films, field trips, etc) and create new courses that would have broad appeal to students. We seek candidates committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse community. Applications should include evidence of commitment to or experience in teaching and working with diverse student populations, either in a cover letter or in a separate statement. The position requires institutional service, including academic advising of undergraduate students after the first year.

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

55th Annual ASEEES Convention

Deadline: Early Bird: August 11, Discounted: October 17, 2023

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown November 30 – December 3, 2023

virtually October 19-20, 2023

As ASEEES celebrates its 75th anniversary, the 2023 Convention promises to be a lively and stimulating meeting, with over 670 sessions and ancillary events, including 420 panels, 192 roundtables, and 5 film screenings.

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor in Modern Russian History (tenure-track, Davidson College)

Deadline: October 1, 2023

The Departments of History and Russian Studies at Davidson College invite applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Russian History with an emphasis in Jewish History and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. The successful candidate will offer courses in the History Department and in the Russian Studies Department. Candidates should be committed to excellence in both undergraduate teaching and scholarly research. Ph.D. in History or related field expected by June 30, 2024. The successful candidate will teach five courses each year (four in the first year) including introductory and upper-level courses of their own design. The candidate will also participate in the college’s Writing Program.

July 6, 2023July 6, 2023

Associate Professor to (Full) Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of History, Southwest Borderlands (Baylor University)

Deadline: October 13, 2023

The Department of History seeks an Associate to Full Professor of Southwest Borderlands History to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses & conduct research in this area.

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023

Acad. Job: Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Deadline: October 1, 2023

The Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities position is open at Missouri S&T.

Job Description

Missouri University of Science and Technology invites applications for the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. We seek candidates with exceptional scholarly credentials in any humanistic field with a demonstrated commitment to public humanities.

Qualifications: Applicants must be active scholars and outstanding teachers at the rank of associate or full professor.

June 26, 2023June 26, 2023

CFP: The UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies

Deadline: October 9, 2023

The UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies is one of the few publications for undergraduate students focusing on Slavic and East/Central European topics. Undergraduate students working in any relevant discipline are invited to submit their papers for consideration to the journal. All papers will be subject to peer review.

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023

CFP: “Eurasia Decentered: Internal and External Souths from the Medieval Period to the Present” (Columbia University)

Deadline: October 1, 2023

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the journal Kritika and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, to be held at the Harriman Institute in New York City on April 19-20, 2024.

The conference Eurasia Decentered builds upon recent scholarship that casts the differences between the internal souths of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the external souths of India, Persia, China, the Ottoman Empire / Turkey, Latin America, and elsewhere, on the other, as both blurred and critical. Kritika editors are soliciting analyses that show the symbiotic nature of north-south relations through economic exchange, political modeling and rivalry, migration, and cultural forms. We seek to highlight the ways the north was transformed by its contacts with the tricontinental south. We intend for the conference to be multi-perspectival across space and time. For instance, how was the Russian Empire perceived from Tehran in 1829 or the Soviet Union from New Delhi in 1946? How did the Soviet Union theorize the existence of its internal south, which was sometimes imagined in racial terms, amid its support for anti-colonial movements in Africa and Asia? We invite the consideration of experts in the histories of the medieval East Slavic states, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union, as well as scholars of the external south who engage these topics “from the other shore.”

Kritika editors are drawn to this topic by two related developments in the field of Imperial Russian and Soviet history. The first is the growing prominence of comparative, transnational, and trans-imperial approaches, which have situated histories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union amid the global circulation of ideas, practices, peoples, and commodities. It bears emphasizing that transnational and comparative thinking and, more broadly, efforts to de-exoticize Russia and the Soviet Union have been part of Kritika’s agenda from its very first issue.

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023

Job: Foreign Service Office Management Specialist (US Department of State)

Deadline: October 2, 2023

As a Foreign Service Office Management Specialist (OMS) with the U.S. Department of State, you’ll provide office management and administrative support to U.S. diplomats in embassies and consulates abroad, as well as some domestic locations.

You’ll be a key coordinator in the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Your organizational, time management, problem solving, and decision-making skills, along with your tolerance of intensive world travel, living away from family, and working and living in difficult and/or isolated conditions, will make you an ideal candidate.