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Bowdoin College. The in Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin College seeks applications for a tenure track appointment with an interdisciplinary focus in African American and African Diasporic traditions, starting Fall 2009. We invite applicants who relate their research and teaching to intellectual, philosophical and artistic themes in the humanistic disciplines. While we welcome applications from candidates with strong disciplinary training in the humanities or social sciences, we are particularly interested in candidates whose research training, trajectory, and teaching include a cross-disciplinary focus. Connections to History, Literature, Sociology, Religious Studies or Political Thought are preferred. The regular teaching load is two courses per semester. The successful candidate will join a revitalized program, committed, supportive colleagues and enjoy the benefits of an engaged and diverse student body. Ph.D. in hand by date of appointment is preferred; advanced ABDs will be considered.
Applicants should send a letter of application, c.v, and three letters of reference to: Olufemi Vaughan, Director Africana Studies Program Bowdoin College 7200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011-8472 Review of applications will begin December 8, 2008. Bowdoin is a highly selective liberal arts college on the Maine coast with a diverse student body made up of 28% students of color, 3% International students and approximately 15% first generation college students. Bowdoin College is committed to equality and diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural, socio-economic, and ethnic diversity of our college. Bowdoin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability status in employment, or in our education programs. Bowdoin College offers strong support for faculty research and teaching. We recognize that recruiting and retaining faculty may involve considerations of spouses and domestic partners. To that end, where possible, the College will attempt to accommodate and respond creatively to the needs of spouses and partners of members of the faculty. For further information about the college and the department, see our website at www.bowdoin.edu http://www.bowdoin.edu/.California State University, Los Angeles. The Department of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with specialization in Social Inequality, with secondary areas open, to begin September 2009.
Minimum qualifications include a Ph.D. or ABD in Sociology or a related social science field. A Ph.D. from an accredited institution of higher education is required for tenure. Candidates should provide a record of or potential for scholarly publication and activity in the field of social inequality, involving students whenever possible, as well as the demonstrated potential for effective teaching using a variety of methods. Candidates should also demonstrate an ability or interest in teaching in a multicultural, multiethnic campus. In addition to teaching, duties include student advising and committee service. The initial salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. California State University, Los Angeles, a comprehensive urban university and one of 23 campuses that comprise the California State University system, offers programs in more than 50 academic and professional fields. The campus is located in eastern Los Angeles, adjacent to the San Gabriel Valley, with more than 22,000 full- and part-time students reflecting the rich ethnic diversity of the area. The University is committed to student-centered learning, free scholarly inquiry, and academic excellence. For more information on the Department of Sociology, see http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/soc/index.htm Please submit an application letter, curriculum vita, official transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and the University’s Application for Academic Employment form. http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/hrm/forms/appl_emp.xls Employment is contingent upon proof of eligibility to work in the United States. Address application with required documentation and requests for information to: Steven Gordon, Chair, Department of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032-8228. California State University, Los Angeles, is an Equal Opportunity / Title IX Employer. In addition to meeting fully its obligations under federal and state law, Cal State LA is committed to creating a community in which a diverse population can live, work, and learn in an atmosphere of tolerance, civility, and respect for the rights and sensibilities of each individual. To that end, all qualified individuals will receive equal consideration without regard to economic status, race, ethnicity, color, religion, marital status, pregnancy, national origin or cultural background, political views, sex or sexual orientation, gender identification, age, disability, disabled veteran, or Vietnam-era veteran status. Upon request, reasonable accommodation will be provided to individuals with protected disabilities to (A) complete the employment process and (B) perform essential job functions when this does not cause undue hardship.Ithaca College. Ithaca College's Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-eligible, assistant professor, to begin Fall 2009. We seek a colleague with culturally and academically diverse interests and commitments to teach courses with global/international foci; we're seeking a fit with department strengths in inequalities, culture, and social justice. Candidates who employ critical/creative analyses and those with public sociology orientations/interests are especially encouraged. The position requires a rotation in one (or more) of Sociological Theory, Research Methods, and/or Introduction to Sociology. Ph.D. in Sociology is required by time of appointment. The ideal applicant will have a clear interest in teaching along with supervising undergraduate research and learning in a liberal arts environment. The department's goal is to encourage students to integrate a wide range of social issues. We are 12 diverse faculty, committed to refining our approaches to teaching and research.
Interested applicants should apply online (www.icjobs.org) and attach a cover letter and CV (initially this is all we require). Questions about the online application should be directed to the Office of Human Resources at (607) 274 1207. Review of applications will begin November 30, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Ithaca College is committed to building a diverse academic community and encourages members of underrepresented groups to apply. Experience that contributes to the diversity of the college is appreciated.Loyola Marymount University.
The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor, commencing August, 2009. Candidates for the position are expected to have completed the Ph.D. in sociology by that date. Areas of teaching responsibility will include environmental sociology, especially with a focus on globalization, global issues, urban issues and/or environmental justice. Candidates must have a demonstrated record of teaching, research and publication in environmental sociology. The teaching load is three courses each semester and will include introductory sociology courses. Reappointment, tenure, and promotion considerations will give special emphasis to teaching effectiveness, scholarly achievement, and service to the University. The Sociology Department currently includes nine faculty, with approximately 175 majors. LMU offers faculty housing assistance. Applicants should send: (1) a letter of application, (2) curriculum vitae (including email address), (3) academic transcripts, (4) three letters of recommendation, (5) evidence of teaching ability, research and publication, (6) and a statement regarding future research within the substantive areas noted above. Send these materials to Stacy Burns, Chair, Department of Sociology, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. To ensure full consideration completed applications must be received by December 1, 2008. Loyola Marymount University is located in a suburb on the west side of Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The University emphasizes excellence in undergraduate education for a diverse student body and has a strong institutional commitment to values which promote intercultural understanding and social justice. Loyola Marymount University, a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks professionally outstanding applicants who value its mission and Jesuit-Marymount heritage and share its commitment to academic excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. LMU is an equal opportunity institution actively working to promote an intercultural learning community. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. (Visit www.lmu.edu . for more information).
Loyola Marymount University.
The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor, commencing August, 2009. Candidates for the position are expected to have completed the Ph.D. in sociology by that date. Areas of teaching responsibility will include medical sociology, preferably with an interest in global health care issues, especially that affect communities of color, the disabled, and other underserved communities. Preference will be given to persons who could also successfully teach contemporary theory. Candidates must have a demonstrated record of teaching, research, and publication in medical sociology. The teaching load is three courses each semester and will include introductory sociology courses. Reappointment, tenure, and promotion considerations will give special emphasis to teaching effectiveness, scholarly achievement, and service to the University. The Sociology Department currently includes nine faculty, with approximately 175 majors. LMU offers faculty housing assistance. Applicants should send: (1) a letter of application, (2) curriculum vitae (including email address), (3) academic transcripts, (4) three letters of recommendation, (5) evidence of teaching ability, research and publication, (6) and a statement regarding future research within the substantive areas noted above. Send these materials to Stacy Burns, Chair, Department of Sociology, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. To ensure full consideration completed applications must be received by December 1, 2008. Loyola Marymount University is located in a suburb on the west side of Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The University emphasizes excellence in undergraduate education for a diverse student body and has a strong institutional commitment to values which promote intercultural understanding and social justice. Loyola Marymount University, a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks professionally outstanding applicants who value its mission and Jesuit-Marymount heritage and share its commitment to academic excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. LMU is an equal opportunity institution actively working to promote an intercultural learning community. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. (Visit www.lmu.edu . for more information).
Ohio University.
The Department of African American Studies, established in 1969 and among the oldest in the nation, seeks a dynamic and creative leader to continue a program of building for national prominence. In recent years, the Department has worked on reformulating its curriculum, hiring new faculty, and through the African American Research and Service Institute, has launched a program of collaborative research that explores the African American presence in the Ohio River Valley and the African diaspora in the Americas.
Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in African American Studies and/or a related field in the humanities and social sciences, and show evidence of extensive published research or creative activity in African American Studies and related areas. A minimum of six years of experience in teaching and/or administration in higher education is required.
University of California, Berkeley. Pending budgetary approval, the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks applicants for a full time, tenure-track position at the assistant professor rank in Comparative Ethnic Studies (Search #1304). We define Comparative Ethnic Studies broadly as work on more than one distinct ethno-racial group; work on intersections and/or co-constitution among race, gender, sexuality, and class; and work that theorizes race or ethnicity both particularly and generally. The candidate should focus on one or more of those areas. A substantive focus on either the US or international/transnational communities and linkages is appropriate. Field of doctorate is open (including interdisciplinary fields). The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications are due by December 1, 2008, for a start date of July 1, 2009. Candidates should send letter of application, CV, and three letters of recommendation (please refer outside referees to the University policy on confidentiality found at http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html and one writing sample or publication. On line applications are strongly encouraged http://ls-ourunit.berkeley.edu:80/sReg.php?i=201
University of California, Santa Cruz. The Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for two senior, tenured, full-time faculty members beginning July 1, 2009.
We seek candidates with an international research reputation based on innovative work that invites connections across disciplinary divides. Scholars coming from different disciplines, inter-disciplines, and other configurations of investigation and teaching are welcome in History of Consciousness. Questions about subjectivities, cultures, sexualities, ethnicities, histories, religions, and politics are all invited, as are deep ties between scholarship and other kinds of engagement in the world. Film and visual cultural studies, psychoanalysis, semiotics, social structural investigations, historical studies, ethnography, science and technology studies, literary studies, and poetics are all crucial to the History of Consciousness. Regardless of disciplinary background, candidates should have a comprehensive knowledge in the bodies of thought and practice relevant to their questions. We are interested in the ability to work in a range of languages, especially non-European languages. We seek mature, versatile scholars, who are committed to both theoretical and empirical questions and whose strengths extend, challenge, and engage with the diverse research cultures that characterize the department’s faculty and graduate students. The successful candidates will be expected to make a sustained and active contribution to the department's research output, exercise leadership in departmental development and administration, advise and mentor graduate students across disciplinary differences, assist in the development and management of the Ph.D. program, and engage creatively in the department's graduate and undergraduate teaching. The History of Consciousness Department is in the Division of Humanities, which also includes the Departments of American Studies, Feminist Studies, History, Language Program, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, and the Writing Program. The Division has a strong tradition of collaborative and interdisciplinary work, and we especially encourage applications from strongly qualified candidates eager to extend their teaching and research activities across departmental and disciplinary boundaries. The campus is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching and/or service. RANK: Upper Associate Professor through senior Professor SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent in a field that contributes to the mission of the History of Consciousness Department. The successful candidates must present strong evidence of interdisciplinary research activity; university teaching experience, preferably at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including doctoral dissertation supervision; and effective work to build and support academic programs. POSITIONS AVAILABLE: July 1, 2009 TO APPLY: Please provide the following: 1) Letter of application, including a discussion of past, current, and planned research; approaches to teaching graduate and undergraduate students; and approaches to program development. 2) Curriculum vitae 3) Representative publications, including one or two recent essays or chapters 4) Names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of three referees whom we may contact for letters of recommendation. Applicants are encouraged to submit a statement addressing their contributions to diversity through their research, teaching, and/or service. These materials should be sent to: Senior Search Committee C/O Professor Donna Haraway Department of History of Consciousness HUM 1, Room 415 University of California Please refer to position #330-09 in all correspondence. 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 CLOSING DATE: These positions will remain open until filled, but in order to be considered at initial screening the complete application (including supporting documents) must be postmarked by November 17, 2008. UC Santa Cruz faculty make significant contributions to the body of research that has earned the University of California the ranking as the foremost public higher education institution in the world. In the process, our faculty demonstrate that cutting-edge research, excellent teaching and outstanding service are mutually supportive. The University of California, Santa Cruz is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. We strive to establish a climate that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for the contributions of all students and employees. Inquiries regarding the University’s equal employment opportunity policies may be directed to: Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; (831) 459-2686. Under Federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as established by providing documents as specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. If you need assistance due to a disability please contact the Academic Personnel Office at 499 Clark Kerr Hall (831) 459-4300. This position description is available in alternate formats, which may be requested from Academic Personnel at (831) 459-4300. VISIT THE APO WEB SITE AT: http://apo.ucsc.eduUniversity of Cincinnati.
The Department of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati seeks applicants for two tenure-track positions to be filled at the rank of Assistant Professor. For the first position, we seek a scholar of race and ethnicity, with additional research and teaching interests in one or more subfields of sociology including the sociology of work, family, medical/health, social movements, urban, or social psychology. For the second position, we seek a gender scholar, with similar additional research and teaching interests to those noted above. The search for the race and ethnicity position is part of a larger cluster hire conducted by the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, involving the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Communication, and African and African American Studies. This faculty member will have an affiliate or joint appointment with African and African American Studies. The purpose of the cluster hire is to facilitate scholarship on issues of race and ethnicity and to enhance collaborations among faculty in these departments on projects of mutual interest. More information can be found on the University of Cincinnati website or the ASA job bank.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
The UMBC Department of Sociology and Anthropology invites applications for the position of department Chair at the rank of full Professor to begin in August, 2009. Candidates should have a distinguished record of scholarship, including external research funding as appropriate for their field. Other important qualifications include significant administrative experience and demonstrated leadership skills to guide the department’s interdisciplinary teaching and research visions in the context of its tradition of shared governance. The foci of the department’s research and teaching are in health and aging; diversity, gender, and culture in global perspectives; and applied research. The department’s 17 full-time faculty members support three undergraduate major programs (sociology, anthropology, and health administration and policy) with over 250 majors and an M.A. program in Applied Sociology with 60 graduate students. Faculty members also participate in integral ways in three interdisciplinary doctoral programs (Gerontology; Public Policy; and Language, Literacy, and Culture) and may be affiliated with the UMBC Erickson School and its Center for Aging Studies. More information about the Department is available at www.umbc.edu/sociology . University of Mississippi.
University of Mississippi--The Department of Sociology and Anthropology
( www.olemiss.edu/depts/soc_anth/) and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
( www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/) invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Sociology with a joint appointment in Southern Studies starting in 2009. We seek a sociologist of proven teaching and research ability in the areas of race and ethnicity whose work has relevance for understanding the experiences of minority groups in the contemporary U.S. South, and possibly the broader "global south." We are particularly interested in candidates whose work focuses on the African American context.
University of Missouri. Millsap Professorship of Diversity in Human Development and Family Studies
The Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) at the University of Missouri is recruiting for the endowed Millsap Professorship of Diversity in (HDFS). The department emphasizes diversity and seeks a productive scholar who specializes in diversity issues related to human development and/or family studies. The applicant should have demonstrated success in conducting an externally funded program of research and merit appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor, with tenure. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in HDFS or a related social and behavioral science. Duties include maintaining an active program of research; applying for external funding; providing leadership on diversity issues on campus and in the community; and teaching and advising graduate and undergraduate students. Salary is commensurate with experience, and the position includes supplemental monetary support for scholarly activities. HDFS does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability, status as disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam era, or sexual orientation. Review of applications will begin January 15, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled. Send a cover letter addressing qualifications and interests, vitae, reprints, and 3 letters of reference to: Mark Fine, Ph.D., Millsap Search Committee Chair; Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies; 410 Gentry Hall; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO 65211; finem@missouri.edu; 573-884-6301.