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Getting a Job

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Alan Mikhail
Alan Mikhail*
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University of California, Berkeley
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MESA 2005
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1: Celebrating 40 Years! , June 2006 , pp. 131 - 137
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2006

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1 I would also like to acknowledge and thank Mark J. Lowder of the MESA Secretariat and Sara Scalenghe for their help with the organization of this panel.

2 The MESA GSO maintains a listserv on which jobs are regularly posted. For instructions on how to join this listserv, please see: http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/gso.htm. Employment opportunities are also listed on the MESA website at the following address: http://www.mesana.org, use the “Jump To” menu and go directly to “Employment Listings.” The website of The Chronicle of Higher Education is perhaps the most useful source for job listings and general advice on the academic job market: http://chronicle.com/jobs. One should note that this website requires a subscription, though this is usually available through university libraries. The American Historical Association's listing of employment opportunities may be found at: http://www.historians.org/jobs/index.htm. The compa-rable website of the American Anthropological Association is: http://www.aaanet.org/ careers.htm. The American Academy of Religion posts employment information at: http:// www.aarweb.org/profession/career.asp. The employment website of the Modern Language Association is: http://mla.org/jil.html. Numerous other electronic resources provide academic employment listings as well as all kinds of useful information about the academic job search. For examples, see: http://www.academic360.com/, http:// www.higheredjobs.com/, and http://www.academiccareers.com/.

3 For more on cover letters and other documents to be included in the application packet, see: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/.

4 Instructive are: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/-teachcen/WUTC/TA/teach_phil.html, http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/sltcc/tipps/philosophy.html, and http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/ philosophy/Philosophy.html.

5 For useful suggestions about the kinds of questions one might be asked and that one should ask during the campus visit, see: http://sa_yoshi.at.infoseek.co.jp/profession/ IntvQ.html and http://sa_yoshi.at.infoseek.co.jp/profession/IntvQ.html. I am grateful to Shira Robinson for directing me to these websites.