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I got some really good news last week - I was just granted tenure and promotion to associate professor at Ithaca College.
Last Thursday the Board of Trustees met and voted on the candidates for tenure, and on Thursday afternoon the dean called and let me know the good news. I just got the president's letter in the mail today.
It's been a long slog - I finished my Ph.D. in June 1995 and then went on to a series of short term appointments. My first job was actually in Ithaca, at Cornell, as a sabbatical replacement in the Near Eastern Studies department. I then went to Columbia for two years, having received a fellowship at the Heyman Center for the Humanites. That was a great experience; I really liked living in New York. The next year I went to Jerusalem for the year on a Lady Davis Fellowship, which was also great. Then, back to the U.S., and a year teaching at Vassar and then another year at Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania. I liked Bucknell but Lewisburg, PA is a really small town. Then the job at Ithaca College was advertised and I was hired on a three-year contract.
I started teaching at Ithaca College in the fall of 2001 (two weeks later were the 9/11 attacks, so it was a rough start). During my third year, a tenure-track position in Jewish studies was opened up. I applied for it and got it, and I'm in the sixth year of that contract. I'm very happy that I've finally gotten tenure.
Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Congratulations, Rebecca.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteMazal tov!
ReplyDeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteNow the fun bit begins...
Rebecca,
ReplyDeleteDid you know Robert Fortna or Deborah Moore at Vassar?
I knew Deborah Moore (who is now elsewhere, I believe).
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time and a very, very, very long time ago at that, I knew them both although I knew Robert Fortna quite a bit better. He was the advisor assigned to me in my major. I did not take any courses with Deborah Moore although I knew her. I have seen her on Public TV so I gather she has made a big name for herself.
ReplyDeleteI studied religion in college although my interest, back in those days, was philosophy and philosophy of religion (mostly with Professor Glass, whom I suspect would have retired by your time there).
Nowadays, as you probably have gathered, my interest is more directed to historical issues although that has not kept me from investigating religious issues most particularly as they relate to history - something that is much ignored by many historians as a pseudo-phenomena.
Congratulations! I don't think there should have been any doubt!
ReplyDeleteHi Jared - thanks! I didn't realize you were Antiquitopia.
ReplyDeleteThank you, all!
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