JOB: Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies, University of Rochester

The Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester invites applications for a full-time appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies. This is a one-year position (with the possibility of renewal for one additional year) anticipated to begin in August 2022. The teaching load is 3-3.

The successful applicant will be a Jewish Studies scholar, specializing in any aspect of Jewish history (with the exception of American and Hebrew Bible) who can contribute to both our “Religion/Politics/Society” and “Texts & Traditions” tracks. Ideally, this candidate’s areas of interest would include Judaism in Central or Western Europe and/or Holocaust Studies. In keeping with the University’s strategic planning, a specialization in Jewish Ethics would also be welcome.

Deadline: 15 March 2022


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About Martina Mampieri

Martina Mampieri holds a double Ph.D. in History and Jewish Studies at the University of Roma Tre and the University of Hamburg. She is currently a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she works on her second book project on Isaiah Sonne. In 2018-20, she held other postdoctoral positions at Sapienza University of Rome, the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes in Paris, Harvard University, and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at Georg-August-University of Göttingen. She is the author of Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche, 16th cent. (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020) as well as several articles on Italian Jewry and books in the early modern period.