The University of California, Irvine announces an open search for a tenure-track position to fill the Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies. The Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair is an endowed chair established for the purpose of teaching courses in Armenian history and culture, and creating a locus of Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. The University of California, Irvine seeks a dynamic colleague with a sound record of both scholarly achievement and successful teaching that embraces the full range of Armenian history and culture, including the relationship of that tradition to the wider region, as well as global context of the diaspora. The holder of this position is also expected to play a central role in further developing the Armenian Studies Program, which is housed in the School of Humanities.

The successful candidate must hold a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline and may be appointed in any of the following departments of the School of Humanities at UC Irvine: Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Film and Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Philosophy. We welcome applications from scholars in a position to contribute to a tradition of academic excellence and intellectual distinction at the University of California, Irvine.