Enure Track Assistant Professor

Description:

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, or Museology at the time of appointment. The successful applicant will be an effective teacher whose scholarship is grounded in community-engaged practices and methodologies and who has a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment. The position will have split duties – 60% as an Assistant Professor with teaching, research and service commitments, and 40% as Curator of the Anthropology Museum. The Curator will provide support for researchers and course instructors, who rely on these collections. The Curator will also be responsible for supervising the Anthropology Museum collections technician.

The successful candidate will teach core undergraduate courses in their area of specialization, and will develop new courses relevant to department needs. The successful candidate will establish an innovative program of research that has the potential for external research funding and dissemination through publication or research-creation. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to participate in Departmental and University service, and to make contributions to the broader community.

Applicants are requested to submit a complete application that will include (all documents combined in a single PDF):

• a cover letter
• a current curriculum vitae
• evidence of teaching effectiveness, including a teaching statement, sample course outline, and teaching evaluations, if available
• a statement describing past scholarly work and future research plans
• a sample of scholarly work (publication or research-creation)
• any other materials that the candidate considers relevant to their application