Month: August 2025

American U in Cairo: International Programs and Services (Egypt)

“JobSenior Director of International Programs and Services Office, American University of Cairo, Egypt. Deadline: 21 August 2025.

Reporting to the Associate Provost for Enrollment Management, the senior director promotes the global visibility of the AUC by implementing internationalization initiatives. The senior director oversees the day-to-day management of partnerships, institutional relationships and cooperation contracts with international universities and other institutions all over the world for the purpose of globalization. He or She enhances the international student’s experience at the AUC by launching the international students’ engagement plans to ensure the integration of international students within the AUC student body. The senior director oversees the exchange and study abroad program for AUC students to ensure the diversification of the international experience offered. He or She provides leadership and direction for International Programs and Services (IPSO) to deepen student knowledge and direct experience of the world and help them develop intercultural sensitivity. The job holder oversees the incoming faculty- led short study abroad programs at the AUC and ensures their integration within the AUC community to further enhance internationalization. He or She oversees market analysis, strategy formulation, annual planning, and implementation and evaluation of recruitment activities for study abroad and exchange students. This shall aim at increasing the number of international students, hence, promote for more internationalization of the AUC. He or She supports the Associate Provost for Enrollment Management in promoting academic collaborations like dual and joint degrees with faculty from other universities

U Cambridge: PhD Studentship: Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City (UK)

“Studentships“Ph.D. Studentship: Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City Studentship, University of Cambridge, England, UK. Deadline: 31 August 2025.

The UKRI-funded 5-year project, ‘Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City’, selected for funding by the European Research Council under its ‘HORIZON’ programme, is recruiting to its doctoral studentship. This is a fully funded full-time international studentship for three years, commencing January 2026. The prospective doctoral student will focus their attention within the broad field of the ‘Environmental and/or cultural history of Colombo’, ideally in the early modern or modern era. Given the project’s aim to generate dialogue between Sri Lanka and Europe, candidates applying from Sri Lanka are especially encouraged.

Colombo has a deeply layered imperial past. It came under a succession of European empires, Portuguese (first trading post in 1518), Dutch (1656-1796) and British (1796-1948). It was also pivotal to the early globalisation of Islam and has housed a series of diasporic and minority communities. This project interrogates how invaders and residents made a city in an unstable environment at the centre of the Indian Ocean, in which arose a diverse society, generating an abundance of cultural production and a sequence of violent politics. The four pathways of research are as follows:

  • In environmental terms, this multiply-colonised and repeatedly-engineered city is built in a wetland without a significant natural harbour;

  • In social terms, in a heavily nationalised state, the city has resisted indigeneity, as it is inhabited by many minority communities with long narrations of origin;

  • As for culture, Colombo was represented in keeping with recurrent motifs, as a site of transit across the Indian Ocean, including for enslaved and indentured labour as well as settlers;

  • And on politics, the heavy work needed, at the bridge of sea and land set one context for the rise of urban violence between communities in the midst of civil war in addition to sustained strikes and new political movements.

    At its broadest perspective, the project aims to develop resources with which to consider the pasts, presents and futures of this global South city as located within the remit of other global South cities elsewhere.

The doctoral candidate’s work on this project will fall under themes 2) environment and/or 4) culture. This five-year project is led by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram. The successful applicant will join a team of researchers, including postdoctoral fellows and an existing doctoral student. Their research will contribute to a wider collaborative project.

The doctoral studentship will pay full tuition fees at the University of Cambridge over three years. It also provides a maintenance allowance of £20,780 per year and a budget for training and research.

This studentship is only open to international applicants (excluding UK, including EU and EEA). Candidates applying from Sri Lanka are especially encouraged given the grant’s formal aim to generate dialogue on these research questions between Sri Lanka and Europe. Preference will be given to candidates demonstrating competence in both Sinhala and Tamil, with competence in one of these language for research purposes being an essential requirement for the successful candidate.