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I beg the list's forgiveness in advance for this tangental exercise; if anyone out there in the aether can help, I should be very grateful. I hope my cluttering up bandwidth does not overly inconvience the rest of you. I will be an ex-expatriate next year and am filling in those odd moments not wasted teaching or writing my thesis by applying for university teaching jobs back in the States. Unlike the AHA (shame!), the Chronicle of Higher Education kindly posts their job adverts on their web page (http://www.chronicle. merit.edu); the adverts invariably ask for a *dossier* or *placement file* as well as transcripts. My first question: under these circumstances, what is a dossier/placement file? Is there a difference? What goes in them? My second question: the only transcript I have is from my undergraduate days in a small town in Indiana. Do they really want to see that? Both my MPhil and (touch wood) PhD are from British universities, which don't have the silly things; as my PhD is all research, there would be nothing to record on a transcript if it did exist (except, of course, all the stuff I had to do in order to do the research: Latin, paleography, research methods... as well as the various classes I sat in on in order to escape the Library -- but no records were kept). So what do I tell them? My third question: I take it that the AHA is still the hiring fair for young mediaeval historians. Correct? Any advice for a future visiting assitant professor of history would be welcome; please feel free to reply off the list. many thanks, ~jon J. M. B. PORTER Department of History : University of Nottingham University Park : Nottingham : NG7 2RD : England t: + 115 951 3639 f: + 115 951 5948 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%