[HASTS-jobs] Fwd: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position--East Africa/Horn of Africa--University of Minnesota

[Karen L Gardner]

Begin forwarded message:

From: William Beeman <wbeeman at umn.edu<mailto:wbeeman at umn.edu>>
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:13 PM
Subject: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position--East Africa/Horn of Africa--University of Minnesota


Job Posting
Assistant Professor
East Africa/The Horn of Africa

The Department of African American & African Studies (AA&AS) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in African Studies with specializations in East Africa and/or the Horn of Africa to begin Fall 2016. This position will be a joint appointment between AA&AS and one of the following units in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA)—History, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography.

Established in 1969, AA&AS is a distinct academic unit in CLA. Interdisciplinary in its approach to teaching and learning, AA&AS students are exposed to a wide range of ways of knowing that are fashioned out of the rigorous study of Africans, African Americans, and African descended people in society, history, culture, literature and arts. Moreover, a number of scholars and students in collaborating units are all advancing cutting-edge scholarship in African studies, and these units’ graduate programs are top-ranked. This joint appointment promises to buoy the African Studies Initiative currently underway within CLA and beyond.

Qualifications
Appointment will be 100% time over the nine-month academic year. Appointment will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor depending on qualifications and experience and consistent with collegiate and university policy. This position will be a joint appointment with the tenure home decided by the chosen candidate in consultations with the chairs of the two departments and the appropriate dean(s). The candidate will be expected to contribute approximately 50% work effort to each unit.

The ideal candidate will be a broadly trained comparativist in African Studies, particularly in one or more of the following areas: political violence, conflict and conflict resolution, gender, familial, and community relations, environment, health, migration, religion, international security, post-conflict governance and institution-building, history and prehistory, historical memory, and colonialism and postcolonialism. The candidates must be grounded in a discipline with a focus on Africa and the ability to work across disciplines. Ethnographically-grounded research is also welcomed.

The selected candidate must have a Ph.D. by the time of appointment. The candidates must have an established record of interdisciplinary scholarship, evidence of teaching excellence in undergraduate and/or graduate education, and demonstrated commitments to bring the study of East Africa and/or the Horn of Africa to the local and global communities of the African Diaspora through collaborative and community-engaged work, all the while advancing cutting-edge scholarship.

Candidates will be evaluated according to a) overall quality of their academic preparation and scholarly work, b) relevance of their scholarly research to the department's academic priorities and fields of inquiry, c) evidence of commitment to teaching and skills as a teacher, and d) strength of recommendations.

How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online at https://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/. Instructions: click the “external applicants” link on the left column and enter Job ID 305370. To be considered for this position, please click the Apply button and follow the instructions. You will have the opportunity to complete an online application for the position and attach (1) A cover letter and (2) A curriculum vitae. Once this step is complete, please add additional materials by accessing the “My Activities” page and uploading: (3) One article-length writing sample or the equivalent; (4) Brief statement of teaching philosophy to show evidence of teaching effectiveness; (5) Brief statement of public engagement to show evidence of commitment to collaborative and community engaged work; and (6) two sample syllabi.

In addition to the required documents submitted through the U of M employment system, applicants are also asked to arrange for three letters of recommendation to be emailed separately to aaashire at umn.edu<mailto:aaashire at umn.edu>. Applications are considered complete when all materials, including letters of recommendation, have been received. Additional materials may be requested from candidates at a future date. Review of complete applications will begin on December 7, 2015 and will continue until the position is filled. For the question about the position or the application process, please contact the Department of African American & African Studies at (612) 624-9847.

William O. Beeman
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
University of Minnesota
395 HHH Center
301 19th Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-3400
wbeeman at umn.edu<mailto:wbeeman at umn.edu>

academic website: http://www.williambeeman.com<http://www.williambeeman.com/>
blog: http://www.wbeeman.com<http://www.wbeeman.com/>
download publications: https://umn.academia.edu/WilliamOBeeman



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/hasts-jobs/attachments/20151104/661f6d3e/attachment.html