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Tenure – Medieval History, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee

Medieval History, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee

The Department of History at Rhodes College invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in medieval history at the rank of assistant professor, beginning in August 2014. All areas of specialization pre-1500 are welcome. The department seeks applications from individuals whose interests go beyond traditional geographic, methodological, and thematic disciplinary boundaries. PhD by August 2014 is expected.

Applicants should be committed to undergraduate teaching and professional scholarship. Teaching load is five courses each year, normally consisting of surveys and seminars in medieval history, as well as courses in the college’s interdisciplinary humanities program, The Search for Values in Light of Western Civilization: http://www.rhodes.edu/academics/9085.asp.  Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. In addition, faculty development money, travel funds, and an attractive benefits package are included.

Please apply online at http://www.rhodes.edu/jobs. Only online applications will be accepted.  A complete application includes a cover letter, c.v., and three letters of recommendation. For further information, please contact Dee Garceau, Medieval Search Chair, Department of History, Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112; garceau@rhodes.edu. Review of completed applications begins November 1, 2013 and interviews will be conducted via Skype in early December, 2013.

Founded in 1848, Rhodes is a highly selective, private, residential, undergraduate college located in Memphis, Tennessee. We aspire to graduate students with a lifelong passion for learning, a compassion for others, and the ability to translate academic study and personal concern into effective leadership and action in their communities and the world. We encourage applications from candidates interested in helping us achieve this vision.

Rhodes College values an inclusive and welcoming environment. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workforce: http://www.rhodes.edu.collegehandbook/1039.asp.  Memphis has a metropolitan population of over one million and provides multiple opportunities for research and for cultural and recreational activities: http://www.rhodes.edu/about/22775.asp.

Contact:

Dee Garceau

Chair, Medieval Search Committee

Department of History

Rhodes College

Memphis, TN, 38112

garceau@rhodes.edu

901-843-3503 (office)

901-484-1837 (cell)

 

Website:     http://www.rhodes.edu/jobs

Primary Category:       Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies

Secondary Categories:

Atlantic History / Studies

European History / Studies

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Islamic History / Studies

Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies

Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Russian or Soviet History / Studies

Posting Date:      09/18/2013

Closing Date       12/16/2013

Medieval Chester

PhD studentship – British medieval history between c. 400 and 1200

John Doran Memorial Scholarship

Chester

£13,726 per annum

Full time

Temporary

University of Chester

Department of History and Archaeology

John Doran Memorial Scholarship
£13,726 per annum
HRMS/12150a

Offered on a 3 year basis, depending upon satisfactory progress

The John Doran Memorial Scholarship is a funded full-time PhD studentship awarded in memory of Dr John Doran.

One Scholarship is available for entry in 2013/14, to be awarded competitively across applications received from candidates wishing to undertake research leading to the award of PhD for a thesis addressing a topic in British medieval history between c. 400 and 1200. Further particulars are available.

Completed applications should be received no later than 7 November 2013.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held in November 2013.

Candidates may download further details and application forms for this role from our website atwww.chester.ac.uk/jobs/research.html quoting the appropriate reference number.

Working towards equality of opportunity

Roman Bath in Bath

Lecturer-Senior Lecturer-Medieval-Early Modern-British-European History

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – Medieval/Early Modern British/European History

www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/hr/jobs

Newton Park

£35,244 – £44,607 per annum

Full time

Permanent

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer: History (Medieval/Early Modern British/European History)
School/Department:School of Humanities and Cultural Industries
£35,244 – £44,607 per annum
Newton Park
Permanent
Full time

Line Manager:Head of Department, Humanities

Closing Date: 12 noon GMT, 24 October 2013

About us
Bath Spa University’s vision is to be a leading educational institution in creativity, culture and enterprise. With innovative teaching and learning, focussed research excellence and state-of-the-art facilities, we put our students at the very centre of all we do.

Based in the School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, History is a long established and very popular area of undergraduate study, with around 320 students currently enrolled. We offer Single and Combined Honours routes in History and an MA in Heritage Management. Teaching and research strengths include medieval, early modern and eighteenth, as well as twentieth century history. History staff are also engaged in supervising a variety of PhD students and we are looking to expand this latter area of provision, particularly in the international field.

About the role
We are looking for a historian specialising in Medieval/ Early Modern British and/or European History to help consolidate and extend our existing expertise in these historical areas. You will design and deliver courses in your specialist field, as well as supervise undergraduate dissertations/projects. You will also contribute to the teaching of existing courses, especially the core modules at year 1 and year 2; and where appropriate, you will contribute to MA teaching and participate in the supervision of PhD students.

The History subject team has an important contribution to make to the education of socially engaged global citizens through our subject. The team has worked alongside Heritage to develop extensive local and national links and is actively seeking to extend the area of History at Bath Spa University further into the international sector. A solid part of our curriculum is focused on the global, the contemporary and the diverse means of exploring the past and its heritage product. It is, additionally, a curriculum firmly linked with the University’s own employment agenda, and received an excellent internal review for the subject in February 2012.

About you
With a PhD in History and evidence of recent and forthcoming publications in Medieval/Early Modern British/ European history, you will be able to demonstrate recent, successful experience of university level teaching in this subject area. IT literate you will also share our commitment to a student-centred learning and teaching environment. Importantly, you will have an active research profile that can enhance the research culture of the Department and be actively seeking research grants and will be able to offer submissions to the next research exercise.

For further information about the History programmes and for the current staff profiles see Bath Spa University

For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Alan Marshall, Head of Department, Humanities on a.marshall@bathspa.ac.uk.

How to apply
Further details and application forms are available from www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/hr/jobs. Details on how to apply and our Guidance Notes for Job Applicants, please look on our job pages and click on “How to Apply” on the left. Please note that CVs will not be considered and those included with application forms will be removed. Any queries regarding the application process or our website should be emailed to hrcontact@bathspa.ac.uk.

We offer excellent facilities and benefits to our staff. These include a nursery, childcare vouchers, pension scheme, flexible working practices, and employee assistance programme, and family-friendly policies.

We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community

Zsombor Jékely

Medieval Hungary

Medieval Hungary

Medieval Hungary is edited by Zsombor Jékely, an art historian from Budapest, Hungary. He works at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Recently he have been one of the curators of a major exhibition dedicated to King and Emperor Sigismund.

He received my PhD from Yale University, where I studied at the History of Art Department, focusing on medieval art. His dissertation is titled Art and Patronage in Medieval Hungary – The Frescoes of the Augustinian Church at Siklós (advisor: Walter Cahn). His earlier diplomas are from the Central European University (MA in Medieval Studies) and from Eötvös Loránd University (MA in Art History).

 

 

The Medieval World

The Medieval World

My name is Becky Cousins and I am an MA History graduate. I started this blog and the associated twitter account in 2010 as a sideline to my undergraduate History course. I had developed a keen interest in medieval history and wanted to pursue as much of this wonderful and fascinating period as I possibly could!
Email: themedievalworld@hotmail.co.uk

Francis in Assisi

Ekta 1678This week Pope Francis visited the crypt in the Basilica in Assisi and prayed for less “wordliness”. But what were the life and times of his namesake, St. Francis. A series of recent biographies tries to tackle the conundrum once more…

Assisi in the autumn is a evocative place, suggestive of endless possibilities for more peaceful, simple lives filled with charity. This week the new Pope – who dared to name himself after the beloved man from Umbria – visited the city, prayed at the tomb of St. Francis and asked for less “worldliness”. The “World does not care if so many families have nothing to eat”, he said later at lunch at the caritas centre, where he listened to the stories of poor people suffering from hunger and promised to open up the many derelict and empty convents and monasteries for the homeless.

But who was St. Francis and what were his life and times like? This has of course been the subject of and endless stream of more or less novelistic and scholarly works, some of which have been recently published in new editions in order to cater for the “market”.

For anyone “new” to the phenomena – and who wants to get a better grasp of the facts – we bring a list of the more recent publications of scholarly interest written by medieval historians:

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Internship – Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section – British Library

Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section

The British Library is pleased to be able to offer an internship in the Medieval and Earlier section of the History and Classics Department for a doctoral or post-doctoral student in the History of Art or another relevant subject.

The intern will be involved in all aspects of the work of the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts section, including responding to enquiries, providing talks for students and patrons, selecting and presenting manuscripts for display in our exhibition gallery, and cataloguing, thereby gaining insight into various curatorial duties and aspects of collection care.  During the internship at the Library, the intern will enjoy privileged access to printed and manuscript research material, and will work alongside specialists with wide-ranging and varied expertise.

The primary focus of the internship will be to enhance our online Digitised Manuscripts and Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts websites by creating and supplementing catalogue entries for medieval manuscripts and accompanying images, working under the supervision of the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts.  The internship is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to develop research skills and expertise in medieval and Renaissance art and history, and in presenting manuscripts to a range of audiences.

Qualifications

The programme is only open to students who are engaged actively in research towards, or have recently completed a PhD in a subject area relevant to the study of pre-1600 illuminated manuscripts who have a right to work in the UK.

Terms

The term of internship is either full time for six months, or part time for twelve months.  Applicants are asked to specify which term they would prefer in the application.  The salary is £8.55 per hour (Full time is 36 hours per week).  The internship will start in November 2013 after relevant security clearances are obtained.

How to apply

Please send an application letter detailing your area of research, the date you would like to start and whether you would like to work full or part time, a CV, and two letters of reference to Dr Kathleen Doyle, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, The British Library, by email to kathleen [dot] doyle [at] bl [dot] uk, or by post to 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, by 20 October 2013.  Interviews will be held in late October, and may include questions about the date, origin, and decoration of a particular manuscript to be shown at the interview.  The internship will start as soon as relevant security checks have been completed.

See more at “Internship in the medieval and earlier manuscript section” 

Karen Larsdatter

Material Culture

Material Culture is about stuff from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including clothing, armor, and artwork as well as news about museum exhibits and new books. More pictures than prose, there is always new and interesting stuff to delight you. This bonanza is brought to you by Karen Larsdatter

She also provides us with a very generous link page full of photos and links to everything which is both medieval and material…

James Palmer

Merovingianworld

the Merovingianworld is written by James Palmer and focus on the Early Middle Ages and Other Things

“Merovingianworld is a site dedicated to the culture and politics of the Frankish kingdoms and their neighbours, from the end of the Western Roman Empire until the Carolingian coup of 750-1. It is intended primarily as a resource to aid teaching and research, with short essays, links to editions and translations of texts, images, and bibliography. Sometimes there will be news, tracking the best and worst of new publications in the field, and including reports from conferences and seminars.”

 

 

The History Blog

The History Blog

The History Blog is not always about medieval history, but it is still worth checking out. Articles are very well written and documented.

In its presentation it says:

“It’s a blog. About history. So I was sifting through reams of Google News Alerts, slightly miffed that there wasn’t some nice, handy blog that had already done all the sifting for me, when it struck me like the proverbial bolt of lightning that non-laziness is an actual option. Hell, if I’m doing it for myself, why not post the products for all my brothers and sisters in history nerddom? My interests are primarily European ancient and medieval, but I’m quite undiscriminating when it comes to history, so I’ll pretty much blather about anything that catches my eye. I also intend to make a note of all the topically relevant books I read, and a list of all the topically relevant books sitting in a pile glaring at me.My name is Livius. I shall endeavor not to suck. That is all.”

 

In the Middle - medieval blog

In The Middle

In The Middle is a medieval studies group blog written by Eileen Joy, Steve Mentz, Jeffrey Cohen, Mary Kate Hurley, Jonathan Hsy and Karl Steel

It lives by this observation by Deleuze and Guattari: It’s not easy to see things in the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes (– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)

Modern Medieval

Modern Medieval

Modern Medieval is a blog where The Middle Ages still have something to say.

This intermittent blog about the continuing relevance of the period known as the Middle Ages to the modern world and modernity’s continuing fascination with the “medieval, is written by Matthew Gabriel, Rich Godden, Larry Swain, Brandon Hawk and Jennifer Lynn Jordan