The Program in Jewish Studies at Yale University is offering a two-year Postdoctoral fellowship that will begin on July 1, 2026. Candidates for the fellowship must have a Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2026 and must have received the degree no earlier than 2023. You can read more about the postdoc program here, and you can read more about Yale’s Program in Jewish Studies on the new website.
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Yale Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Thought/Philosophy
The Program in Jewish Studies at Yale University is offering a two-year Postdoctoral fellowship that will begin on July 1, 2026. Candidates for the fellowship must have a Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2026 and must have received the degree no earlier than 2023. You can read more about the postdoc program here, and you can read more about Yale’s Program in Jewish Studies on the new website.
Manuscript Data Curation Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher for a 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship to support data creation and metadata management for the Digital Scriptorium Catalog.
Tenured full professor and Schusterman Center director position at University of Texas at Austin
The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin seeks a visionary and collaborative director, who will also serve as a tenured full professor on the Jewish Studies faculty and in a department consistent with their area of academic specialization
Call for Papers: Boundaries, Crossings, and Crossroads in the medieval Iberian world. Fordham University, New York, Feb 27-March 1 2026
Call for Papers: Conference on Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages
University of Oxford 20-21 April 2026
Tenure-track Global Medieval History Position at Hunter College, CUNY (New York)
The Department of History at Hunter College, CUNY invites applications for an Open Rank (full-time, tenure-track/tenured) position in Global Medieval History, 500-1500. The department is especially interested in applications from scholars whose research and teaching deal with medieval history in Western, Eastern, Central, or Northern Europe; the Mediterranean world (Southern Europe, North Africa, Eastern Mediterranean); and/or Central Asia.
Summer Skills Seminars
Enroll in a 4-day online seminar to improve your language or paleography skills. Hosted by the Mediterranean Seminar. Applications due April 28.

Advanced Summer School for Graduate Students: Inside/Out in Jewish Studies Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July 27–31, 2025
How is the inner life (in its emotional, cognitive, experiential, and unconscious aspects) understood in relation to the body and the self’s presentation to the outer world (intention/act; eating; sexuality)? How has space been constructed and conceptualized so as to create insides and outsides, private and public spheres? What is it to be “at home”—for an individual, a community, or a people—and what is gained and lost in being so? What are the ethical issues raised by the creation or erasure of a boundary between inside and outside? How might God or the world be thought of as inside or outside with relation to the other?
These and other questions related to the theme will be explored through the lens of Jewish history, texts, traditions, practices, and more. Graduate students at any institution worldwide, in any subfield of Jewish studies, past or present, are eligible to apply. The week will also include professionalization sessions to help students think about next steps in their development as scholars, and to reflect together on some of the challenges of academic life.