MIT’s Literature Faculty is seeking to hire an entry-level tenure-track Assistant Professor in Contemporary Fiction, Film, and Media. Emphasis on global Anglophone fiction, with comparative work across national cultures encouraged.
Indiana University, Bloomington is pleased to accept applications for the CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of social science and humanities fields, including (but not limited to) African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Economics, Geography, Gender Studies, History, Native American Studies, Latino Studies, Media and Communications, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology.
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University will continue its Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Career Research Fellowship Program, “Thinking the Humanities in the 21st Century,” in 2017-2018. The Fellowship is directed toward teachers at four-year liberal arts colleges who have received tenure within the last five years. In 2017-2018 it will again welcome three outstanding scholars to the Whitney Humanities Center, where they will pursue research programs in any area of the humanities and related fields and enter into intellectual exchanges with faculty, fellows, and other visitors to the Center.
The Center for the Study of Human Health (CSHH) at Emory University seeks a Lecturer in Humanities and Health to begin fall semester of 2017. CSHH is an interdisciplinary liberal arts program that supports a BA in human health through innovative courses and scholarly endeavors with broad perspectives on health and the human condition. This position is open to scholars across the humanities, including art and art history, film, theater, and media studies, history, all literature and language departments, religion, philosophy, public health and gender and sexuality studies.
Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and
member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for a position as assistant professor of diasporic youth cultures to begin in the fall of 2017. We seek scholars with experience investigating young people’s cultural, social, and political engagements in and across community, national, and/or transnational spaces. We seek applications from scholars in the areas of childhood studies, critical youth studies, sociology of childhood and youth, or anthropology of childhood and youth.
The Department of History at California State University, Sacramento invites applications for a probationary, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mexican-American history to begin Fall 2017.
St Lawrence University seeks an accomplished and creative professional for the newly created position of Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion.
Applications are particularly welcome from individuals who have significant experience teaching across the liberal arts and who possess evident expertise in one or more of the following areas: public discourse and debate; classical and contemporary approaches to ethics, rhetoric, and/or politics; critical approaches to literature, social theory and/or cultural studies.
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in social justice and carcerality studies (an interdisciplinary field that examines confinement in settings such as prisons, reservations, and plantations; the social and cultural conditions leading to criminalization and imprisonment; and bodily coercion in border policing and human trafficking) to begin in Fall 2017. We are particularly interested in applications from scholars focusing on borderlands and Latinx or Chican@ populations, however, the area of specialization for this position is open.