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Poste de directeur – Musée Bénaki

The Benaki Museum is seeking a dynamic, creative, and experienced Director to replace Professor Angelos Delivorrias.
The new Director will undertake responsibility in coming years for the Benaki Museum, one of the most important museums in Greece.

Requirements 
The prospective candidate should have:
– Significant experience in a museum, educational, or other cultural organization
– Administrative abilities
– A charismatic and outgoing personality and be at ease in interacting with others
– Excellent ability in spoken and written Greek, English, and at least one additional foreign language
– Experience in the evaluation and management of research, EU, and other programs
– A post-graduate degree (preferably, PhD) in a scholarly field relevant to the broader themes encompassed by the Museum’s collections and/or museum operation

Term
Five-year term with the possibility of renewal

Submissions
The curriculum vitae can be accompanied by relevant publications. All documents should be submitted
benakimuseum@egonzender.com

Further information here :http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?lang=en&id=4050101&sid=257

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Proposition d’emploi – University of Michigan

University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies

The Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan has been authorized to fill a tenure-track position beginning September 1, 2015 at the level of Assistant Professor. This is a university year appointment.

The area within Classical Studies is open, although we are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in Aegean Prehistory, Classical Reception or Ancient Science. Preference will be given to candidates who do not duplicate existing strengths. This position is part of a new University cluster on “The Mediterranean Perspective on Global History and Culture” devoted to studying the Mediterranean as a dynamic area of cultural, religious, social and political exchange (see www.lsa.umich.edu/mediterranean) and involving Classical Studies, History of Art, Judaic Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures. The candidate must be interested in wide-ranging cross-disciplinary approaches to networks of cultural interaction across the Mediterranean, and will participate in Mediterranean-based curricula and programs both within their own departments and interdepartmentally, including a collaborative undergraduate course on interdisciplinary approaches to the Mediterranean.

Qualifications: PhD or equivalent by date of appointment.

Candidates should send a cover letter, CV, statement of current and future research plans, statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence (if any) and article or chapter-length writing sample to lsa-med-classics-search@umich.edu by November 15, 2014. Applicants should instruct their recommenders to send three letters of reference directly to the same address.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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Proposition d’emploi – University of Virginia (modification aux dates)

University of Virginia
College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Connective Cultures in the Post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century)

The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured, full-time position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, from scholars with a research focus on connective cultures in the post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century).

Possible areas of study might include: the interaction of knowledge, people and practices; the social, political and/or cultural history of one or more connective Mediterranean cultures or communities; minority, diasporic or vocationally distinct social groups (e.g., merchants, scholars of science and medicine); interstitial and nomadic polities and cultures; translation; reappropriation of earlier cultural forms, materials or technologies.

Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research and an ongoing program of publication. They must also be committed to outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. PhD must be in hand by August 15, 2015.

Possible home departments include, but are not limited to: Art, Classics, History or Religious Studies. The appointee will also hold an initial two-year Mellon Fellowship in ‘Comparative Cultures of the Pre-Modern World’ at the University’s interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2014. The position will remain open until filled.

To apply, candidates must create a Candidate Profile through Jobs@UVA (https://jobs.virginia.edu) and submit the following electronically: a cover letter addressing research agenda and teaching interests, a c.v., a writing sample not exceeding 60 pages, and names and contact information for three references. Search on posting number 0610929.

Questions regarding the application process for Jobs@UVa should be directed to: L. Kent Merritt, History Administrative Supervisor, Corcoran Department of History, lkm6h@virginia.edu.

For additional information on this position contact: Paul J.E. Kershaw, Chair, Search Committee, pjk3p@virginia.edu.

The University will perform background checks on all new faculty hires prior to making a final offer of employment.

 The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Proposition d’emploi – University of Virginia

University of Virginia
College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Connective Cultures in the Post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century)

 The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured, full-time position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, from scholars with a research focus on connective cultures in the post-Classical Mediterranean (4th to 10th century).

 Possible areas of study might include: the interaction of knowledge, people and practices; the social, political and/or cultural history of one or more connective Mediterranean cultures or communities; minority, diasporic or vocationally distinct social groups (e.g., merchants, scholars of science and medicine); interstitial and nomadic polities and cultures; translation; reappropriation of earlier cultural forms, materials or technologies.

 Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research and an ongoing program of publication. They must also be committed to outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. PhD must be in hand by August 15, 2013.

 Possible home departments include, but are not limited to: Art, Classics, History or Religious Studies. The appointee will also hold an initial two-year Mellon Fellowship in ‘Comparative Cultures of the Pre-Modern World’ at the University’s interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures.

 Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2012. The position will remain open until filled.

 To apply, candidates must create a Candidate Profile through Jobs@UVA (https://jobs.virginia.edu) and submit the following electronically:

a cover letter addressing research agenda and teaching interests, a c.v., a writing sample not exceeding 60 pages, and names and contact information for three references. Search on posting number 0610929.

 Questions regarding the application process for Jobs@UVa should be directed to: L. Kent Merritt, History Administrative Supervisor, Corcoran Department of History, lkm6h@virginia.edu.

 For additional information on this position contact: Paul J.E. Kershaw, Chair, Search Committee, pjk3p@virginia.edu.

 The University will perform background checks on all new faculty hires prior to making a final offer of employment.

 The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Proposition d’emploi – Université d’Oxford

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Regius Professorship of Greek

in association with Christ Church

 Start date: 1 October 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter.

A Regius Professor of Greek is due to be appointed by Her Majesty the Queen at the University of Oxford with effect from 1 October 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Professor will have a high international profile in the study of Greek language and literature, together with broad intellectual interests and sympathies, enabling her or him to enhance the global standing of the Faculty of Classics in research and to develop interdisciplinary connections within Oxford and beyond. She or he will offer academic leadership, engage in world-class research, and promote a culture of obtaining research funding among colleagues and graduate students. She or he will play a central role in graduate teaching and examining and will locate her or himself at the heart of graduate activities in the Faculty; she or he will also make important contributions to undergraduate teaching. She or he will contribute, as appropriate, to the Faculty’s development initiatives and to its active programme of outreach in schools and the wider community.

 Deadline for applications: Monday 8 December 2014. For more details about the post and full application instructions, see here.

  Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

 The University of Oxford is committed to equality and values diversity