ALICE KAPLAN INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES
Visual Cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean
Northwestern University seeks to hire a tenured interdisciplinary scholar of the visual arts and related cultural practices of the Ancient Mediterranean World broadly conceived (ca. 1000 BCE to 400 CE), ideally including but not limited to the Greco-Roman world. Within these parameters, possible fields of concentration include Assyria, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and/or the Roman Provinces in Egypt or Asia Minor. Recognition of the interactive nature of the ancient world is essential; engagement with the Ancient Near East /Southwest Asia and cultural exchange between Mediterranean cultures and parts of southwest, south and/or east Asia (e.g. Silk Road encounters) is also desirable. We invite applications from specialists in visual culture whose formation has been in Art History, Archaeology, or Classics.
The tenured hire will be at the rank of either associate or full professor, and will be appointed jointly to the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and an appropriate home department. To apply, send a letter of application, CV, career overview, and a sample of published work directly to the name and address below in paper and (where possible) electronic form. Applicants should arrange to have three letters of recommendation (paper copies) sent to the same location. The application deadline is November 15, 2007. Direct procedural questions and electronic application documents to: hum@northwestern.edu. Hollis Clayson, Search Chair Director, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 2010 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2225.
Northwestern is an AA/EOE employer; applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged.