The Department of History at Utah State University invites applications for an entry-level, tenure-track assistant professorship in the history of the North American West. Field is open but preference will be given to candidates who have research and/or teaching interests in Native American studies and in the period prior to 1900.
Performances of reconciliation and apology attempt to erase violence that is arguably indelible. What ideological and therapeutic work does reconciliation do, under whose authority, for whose benefit, and with what limits? What would it mean to acknowledge the role of shame? How might the work of truth and reconciliation commissions be compared to other ways of shifting relations from violence and violation to co-existence? How does the work of apology stabilize social identities, conditions, and relations and how do indelible traces of violence work for and against those conditions, identities and relations?
Wellesley College invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American studies, to begin Fall 2017. Candidates should have received the Ph.D. within the past three years. Preference will be given to the fields of history, ethnic studies, American Studies, anthropology, and sociology.
Develop independent and externally funded research program focused on action research placing humanities research at the intersection of the humanities and environmental sciences. Work with the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC) partners and affiliates in developing interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects designed to promote mutual understanding, respect, compassion, and equity among people of the global community with particular emphasis on environmental equity.
The Environmental Studies department at Davidson College seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in Environmental Humanities with an emphasis in Environmental Justice. We particularly welcome applicants with doctoral degrees in interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities. To complement our existing strengths in environmental literature, we also welcome applications from those who specialize in environmental justice with degrees in other humanistic disciplines such as American Studies, Art History, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, and Religion.
We are seeking two complementary hires in the area of Mexico/Latino and Border Studies, understood in broad terms chronologically and geographically as well as conceptually/methodologically. Areas of interest for these positions include (but are not limited to) literary expressions of the border; Latino Studies; migration; performance studies; visual culture; bilingual socio-linguistics; creative writing; theories of border culture; gender studies.
The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech invites applications and nominations for a founding Director of the Virginia Tech Center for the Humanities. The College is establishing a Center for the Humanities as part of a renewed commitment to raising the profile and presence of humanities disciplines at Virginia Tech.
Reporting directly to and working closely with the Vice Chancellor – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion – Recruitment and Retention (AVC FEDI- RR) is responsible for providing academic leadership and direction in advancing the University’s goal of achieving and sustaining faculty equity, diversity, and inclusion in pursuit of academic excellence through comprehensive, inclusive, and strategic recruitment and retention.
The American University of Sharjah, an internationally ranked and accredited American-style university of 6000 students in the United Arab Emirates, seeks a full-time faculty member with specialization in English Literature to teach program courses in literature, general education, and critical writing in the Department of English. The Department of English is especially interested in candidates with such interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies as digital humanities, literature and the arts, law and literature, and literature and the environment or culture.
Teach lower-division US history survey, upper-division courses in Mexican-American history,
and other courses in the area of specialization, including but not limited to Latino/a history
and graduate seminars.