Cambridge University Reporter


University of Oxford

ONE-YEAR DEPARTMENTAL LECTURERSHIP IN BYZANTINE HISTORY

Applications are invited for a one-year, fixed-term Departmental Lecturership in Byzantine History, tenable from 1 October 2009. The appointment is to fulfil teaching needs arising from the award of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship to Dr Mark Whittow, and is non-renewable. Applications are invited from those with active research interests in any field of Byzantine history (c. 600 - c. 1500). The successful candidate will be able to teach broad themes within that period. The salary will be in the range of £28,839 to £30,594 a year.

Applications, with a full curriculum vitae, a list of principal publications, and a summary of research interests (one double-sided typed copy of each of these documents), should be sent to the Chairman of the History Faculty Board, Old Boys' High School, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL, by 12 noon on Friday, 19 June 2009, together with the names and addresses of three referees.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL HARTLIB (c. 1600-62)

Applications are invited for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford, tenable from 1 October 2009. The appointment forms part of the Mellon-funded project Cultures of knowledge: an intellectual geography of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters, which aims to explore early modern intellectual history through the medium of correspondence networks. In particular, the Fellow will be responsible for checking and publishing an online calendar of the letters of Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600-62), the Anglo-German reformer whose wide-ranging intelligence network extended as far as east-central Europe and New England.

The successful candidate will be based in the Faculty of History or English depending on her or his disciplinary background, and will also be affiliated with the University of Sheffield (where Hartlib's papers are deposited). The appointment is on Grade 7 of the University's salary scale, within the range of points 1-3 (£28,839 to £30,594 a year, fixed-term).

Further particulars are available at http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/jobs/index.htm, or may be obtained from the Board Office, History Faculty, Old Boys' High School, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL (email board.admin@history.ox.ac.uk). Applications and references (to be sent to this address) must arrive no later than 12 noon on Friday, 26 June 2009.