The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the study of Muslims/Islam in America to begin fall semester 2017 (08/28/2017).  We seek intellectually ambitious candidates with interdisciplinary aptitude, poised to become leaders in the field. A Ph.D. in Religious Studies or other related field is required by the start date, August 28, 2017.  Possible areas of specialization include, but are not limited to,

• History of Muslims/Islam in North America
• Religious experience or expression of Muslims in North America
• Social/political experience of the Muslim diaspora in North America
• Gender, race, class, identity issues related to Muslim experience in North America

Successful candidates will be […]

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP: https://www.ipsp.org/).  This project exists to ‘harness the competence of hundreds of experts about social issues’ and to ‘deliver a report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians and decision-makers, in order to provide them with the best expertise on questions that bear on social change.’ We Grace Davie (University of Exeter, UK) and Nancy Ammerman (Boston University, US), are the Coordinating Lead Authors (CLAs) for the chapter on religion, entitled ‘Religions and social progress: Critical assessments and creative partnerships’.  Altogether we are a team of twelve, including several ASR members.

The IPSP process – see https://www.ipsp.org/process – mirrors that of the Intergovernmental […]