The University of Chicago Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) and Divinity School invite applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar in religious and literary cultures of the Islamic World for the 2026—2029 academic years. This is a three-year, non-renewable appointment. The Postdoctoral Scholar will engage in research, curation, publication, and exhibition and conference planning. The Scholar will collaborate closely with ISAC’s conservation and exhibition preparation team and the Divinity School’s academic community.

The ISAC Publications department announces that ISACMP 3. Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period by Abbas Alizadeh, is now available for purchase and download.

ISAC Publications is pleased to announce that a monograph published last year in ISAC’s Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) series, An Armenian Futūḥ Narrative, recently won the the 2025 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies.

The ISAC Annual Report 2024–2025 is now available. Readers can download a single PDF of the entire 2024–2025 Annual Report. Individual sections of the report are available online at the ISAC Annual Report 2024–2025 webpage: https://isac.uchicago.edu/about/annual-reports/24-25_Annual_Report.