Faculty of Philology

Position: Assistant Professor, or higher

Deadline: Jan 25, 2015

Reference number: PHILOL015

The Higher School of Economics invites applications for full-time, tenure-track positions of Assistant Professor, or higher, in the Faculty of Philology in Moscow, Russia.

We welcome candidates in all subfields and notably in:

• Soviet and post-Soviet cultural studies
• Digital humanities
• Slavic linguistics
• Caucasian languages
• Corpus linguistics
• Linguistic typology and anthropology
• Computational linguistics
• Neuro-/psycholinguistics.

The HSE is a young, dynamic, fast-growing Russian research university providing unique research opportunities.

Work conditions:

• Internationally competitive сompensation package, 13% flat income tax rate and  other benefits
• Generous travel support grants provided by the university’s Centre for Advanced Studies (https://iri.hse.ru/)
• Low teaching load
• Heavy emphasis on high quality research

Requirements:

• Recent Ph.D. in Slavic Languages, Literatures/Linguistics or related fields (e.g., Comparative Literatures, Computational Linguistics, History, Psychology, Neuroscience)
• Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is an asset, but not required)
• Ability and high motivation to conduct high-quality research publishable in reputable peer-reviewed journals and international university presses

Generally appointments will be made for an initial three-year period and upon successful completion of an interim review, contracts would normally be extended for a further three years until the tenure review.

Please provide a CV, a statement of research interest and a recent research paper via online application form. At least 2 letters of reference should be forwarded directly to the attention of CAS Academic Supervisor Martin Gilman at cas@hse.ru no later than January 25, 2015.