Jobs
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FUNDING: The Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC, USA
Deadline: February 1, 2026
The Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellowship is open to predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars researching topics in American art who reside, work, or attend school outside of commuting distance from Washington, D.C. Researchers whose personal circumstances (i.e., financial constraints, employment conditions, care-giving responsibilities, or other limitations) preclude them from participating in longer-term residencies are encouraged to apply. Applicants must submit a statement justifying the rationale for a short-term fellowship.
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JOB: Tenure-Track Professor, Ancient Americas and Colonial Latin America, Texas
Deadline: December 1, 2025
The TCU School of Art invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Art of the Ancient Americas and Colonial Latin America. We seek a scholar whose research engages with the art, architecture, and visual cultures of Mexico, Central America, and/or South America. Scholars whose research spans across ancient and colonial periods are especially encouraged. The position comes with annual research funding. The candidate will be expected to actively participate in TCU’s close relationship with museums in the area, in particular the Kimbell Art Museum, but also the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and museums in Dallas. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including Introduction to Art History, and upper division courses and graduate seminars in their area of specialization; maintain active research agenda; contribute to departmental and university service; advise graduate and undergraduate students.
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JOB: Assistant Professor of Craft History, University of Arkansas
Deadline: December 1, 2025
The Art History Program in the School of Art, in Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Art History of Craft and Design. Applicants may specialize in any aspect of craft history and its intersecting fields, including the study of design history, decorative arts, material culture, handicraft, craft production and fabrication, or ephemeral cultural production. The position is open in terms of chronological and geographical specialization, but we are especially interested in scholars whose research connects with the arts and craft traditions of the Americas broadly. Interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transregional approaches centering overlooked or marginalized histories are particularly welcome, as is scholarship that critically engages the migration of peoples, objects, and practices through time and space.
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FUNDING: Oxford Art Journal Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers
Deadline: December 1, 2025
The annual Oxford Art Journal Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers launched in 2018, to coincide with the journal’s fortieth year of publication, and seeks to further enhance Oxford Art Journal’s international reputation for publishing innovative scholarship. The Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers aims to encourage submissions from British and international doctoral students, as well as early career researchers who are within five years of gaining their PhD. The essay will be on any topic relevant to art history and should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (normally including footnotes) in length. The editors will review all submissions to select the Prize winner and will work with the successful candidate to advise on revision of the manuscript for publication. The journal and Oxford University Press will advise the Prize winner on securing image permissions and may be able to make a contribution to image costs.
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FUNDING: The Frank Zurlino publication prize for early career scholars
Deadline: March 31, 2026
The Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig e. V., hereinafter referred to as freunde, and the editorial team of the Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, published in Cologne, are now accepting submissions for the annual »Frank Zurlino« publication prize for young art historians under the age of 35 (on the date of submission). The prize will be awarded for the first time in 2026 to a previously unpublished research paper on the topics covered by the yearbook that impresses the judging panel with its originality and scholarly rigor.
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JOB: Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Museum Studies, University of California, Riverside, 2025- 2026
Deadline: December 1, 2025
The Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Riverside, seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor to teach two courses in Critical Museum Studies during the 2025-2026 academic year. The syllabi should reflect the applicant’s research expertise–region and period are open–with attention to leading issues in the field of Collecting and Display broadly conceived.
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FUNDING: I Tatti/Museo Nacional del Prado Joint Fellowship
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year. Fellows will spend the fall term (mid-September to mid–December 2026) in Madrid, supported by the American Friends of the Prado Museum and the spring term (January to June 2027) in Florence. The fellowship is designed for early and mid-career scholars in the field of art history, with preference given to advanced research projects that address the relationship between Spain and Italy (including transnational connections and dialogues with Latin America) during the Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century.
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FUNDING: Research Fellowships, Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Deadline: unspecified
Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University is happy to announce that we are offering packages for Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows. This would be perfect for those who wish to do research in Thailand and Bangkok directly. It would be particularly suitable for those who study Buddhism, Thai and Southeast Asian history and politics and international studies, as well as anthropologists and sociologists. The college is situated in Tha Prachan campus, in the heart of the old city of Bangkok and near to Wat Mahathat and other important sites. Our college has a growing community of scholarship, having recently held successful conferences on Buddhist amulets, Jataka Tales and, soon to be, on Ghosts in Thailand.