COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL AND JEWISH STUDIES

Columbia university institute for israel and jewish stydies announces a full-year post-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2009-2010. The fellowship will consist of a stipend of $50,000, with an additional $10,000 subsidy which can be used for airfare and/or housing. This fellowship is open to scholars in all fields not currently taught by our permanent or visiting faculty (see our website at www.iijs.columbia.edu).

Requirements are a Ph.D. granted between January 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009, and an excellent command of Hebrew. Fellows will be expected to be in residence at Columbia between September 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010, to teach one undergraduate seminar per semester, and to give one public lecture during their fellowship period.

Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and syllabus for a proposed course, and the names of three references VIA EMAIL ONLY to Ms. Malka Gold, mg27@columbia.edu, by February 15, 2009. If the Ph.D. has not yet been granted, please also include a letter from the academic sponsor attesting to the fact that it will be granted by 6/30/09. Please do not send any references or any other written materials or attachments. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer and encourages the applications of women and minorities.

This fellowship has been made possible by the Stanley A. and Barbara B. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund and by Lauren and J. Ezra Merkin.