The Amherst College Department of History, together with the college’s Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations invites applications for a full-time, one-year visiting position in Middle Eastern history at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2025. The teaching load for this position is two courses per semester. There is a possibility of renewal contingent upon the needs of the department and positive reviews of teaching and other responsibilities.  Preference is for a historian of the Arabic-speaking Middle East, with research specialization in any sub-area and time period. The candidate is expected to offer both lower-level survey courses and upper-level more specialized courses that would appeal widely to both majors and non-majors who are inter