Opportunity Blog

The Florida State University Art History faculty and graduate students invite current PhD and MA students to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the 41st Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium. The symposium will take place February 28–March 1, 2025 on our main campus in Tallahassee, FL. The keynote speaker this year will be Elizabeth Cropper, Dean Emerita, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Symposium committee welcomes papers that represent an advanced stage of original research from all areas of study within art and architectural history and material culture. For complete details see https://arthistory.fsu.edu/sympo/

The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies will host the 2025 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library Jan 30–Feb 01, 2025.  This annual graduate student conference, organized and run by advanced doctoral students, has become a premier opportunity for emerging scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across all fields of classical, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies. Participants from a wide variety of disciplines find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry and its resources.

The 2025 conference program will include sessions relating to career diversity, professionalization, and rare book presentations in addition to the workshops and conference panels.

Click here for the full call for proposals.

The Division of Alumni Affairs seeks an Assistant Director of Student and Alumni Engagement, who will be responsible for the management, development, and organization of the alumni engagement events, outreach, and programs in the College of Fine Arts. The Assistant Director will connect current students with alumni to increase experiential learning opportunities, and build upon the College of Fine Arts infrastructure to develop and support alumni engagement and leverages alumni engagement best practices to advance relationships with the College.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and three years of experience; or a high school diploma/equivalent and experience equal to seven years. (Note: post-high school education can substitute for experience at the equivalent rate.)

This is an A&P position, open until filled. The hiring committee will review applications as received.

For more details visit https://jobs.fsu.edu. If you are a current FSU employee, apply via myFSU > Self Service. Search for job ID 58151.

Austen-Stokes Assistant Professor in the Art of the Ancient Americas (tenure-track)

The Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the position of Austen-Stokes Assistant Professor in the Art of the Ancient Americas, to begin July 1, 2025. We welcome applications from scholars specializing in the art, architecture, and/or material culture of pre-colonial North, Central, and/or South America, including the Caribbean.

 Ph.D. in the History of Art, Anthropology/Archaeology, or related fields required at time of appointment. 

Candidates should submit a letter of application, a current CV, and one article- or chapter-length sample of scholarly writing. Applications must demonstrate a strong research profile and a commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The cover letter should address how the candidate’s research approaches, teaching methodology, and/or public engagement would contribute to the university’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The ideal candidate will also demonstrate a commitment to the field’s development: the Austen-Stokes Professor participates in the recruitment and mentorship of the Austen-Stokes Postdoctoral Fellow (an endowed, two-year fellowship); organizes the annual Austen-Stokes Distinguished Lecture; and fosters student research, travel, and programming through designated, endowed research funds. Applicants should arrange to have three letters of reference sent on their behalf. All materials must be submitted via https://apply.interfolio.com/150650. Review of applications will begin on September 9, 2024. For further information, contact the chair of the search committee, Rebecca Brown (rmbrown@jhu.edu). For more information about the department, seehttp://arthist.jhu.edu.

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The Florida Department of State is advertising a Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act Coordinator position to assist with current holdings and future collections that may be acquired under 872.05, Florida Statutes (Florida’s Unmarked Burial Law). This is a fulltime Career Service position within the Bureau of Archaeological Research. The advertisement closes on 08/13/2024. If you would like to learn more visit here.

The Università di Salerno, Italy, offers fully funded scholarships for the PhD school in Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Art-Historical Research to students holding a foreign relevant degree. The call will open soon after June 15 on the following web page https://web.unisa.it/en/teaching/phd-programmes and will close by late July. 

The evaluation of the applications will be based on the: a) Academic, scientific, and professional curriculum; b) Degree mark; c) Letters of recommendation; d) Research project; e) Other research experiences. 

Interviews will be held – preferably face-to-face, otherwise online – in the first week of September.

The PhD school encourages the establishment of cotutelle with foreign tutors/universities.

For information, please write to Prof. Francesca Dell’Acqua (fdellacqua@unisa.it) for History of Art, and to Prof. Giacomo Pardini (gpardini@unisa.it) for Archaeology.

 

The Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) invites graduate students to submit paper abstracts for the 2024 Annual Cleveland Symposium, Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts. This two-day event will take place at the CWRU campus and the Cleveland Museum of Art on Friday and Saturday, November 22-23,  More details: https://arthistory.case.edu/cleveland-symposium/