Tenured/Tenure-track Position in Sociocultural Anthropology

NYU Shanghai is currently inviting applications for a position at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor in Anthropology. The position is expected to begin in September 2022. We seek candidates with a Ph.D. in Anthropology or a closely related discipline. A focus on the anthropology of China is preferred but not required. We invite candidates of all specializations to apply, but candidates with a focus in the Anthropology of Gender, Economic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, or Urban or Environmental Anthropology, are of particular interest. Candidates with these specialties would join an interdisciplinary Social Science faculty with research priorities in Health and Well-Being, Sexuality and Gender, Poverty and Inequality, and Urban and Environmental Studies, as well as faculty in Humanities and Global China Studies with research interests in Gender, Urban Studies, Geography, and Migration. We seek scholars with a strong record of research, or a potential for research for early career candidates.

Applicants will submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research, statement of teaching interests, and at least one writing sample via Interfolio. Additionally, applicants will be prompted to enter the names and email addresses of at least three referees. Each referee will be contacted to upload a reference letter through Interfolio.

Applications can be submitted until October 11, 2021. To apply, follow this link apply.interfolio.com/93639. If you have any questions, please email the NYU Shanghai NY Office of Faculty Recruitment shanghai.faculty.recruitment@nyu.edu. 

Terms of employment at NYU Shanghai are comparable to NYU New York and other U.S. institutions with respect to research start-up funds and compensation, and they include housing subsidies and educational subsidies for children. Faculty may in certain cases have the opportunity to spend time at NYU New York and other sites of the NYU Global Network, engaging in both research and teaching. 

About NYU Shanghai:

NYU Shanghai is the third degree-granting campus within New York University’s global network. It is the first higher education joint venture in China authorized to grant degrees that are accredited in the U.S. as well as in China. All teaching is conducted in English. A research university with liberal arts and science at its core, NYU Shanghai resides in one of the world's great cities with a vibrant intellectual community. NYU Shanghai recruits scholars of the highest caliber who are committed to NYU's global vision of transformative teaching and innovative research and who embody the global society in which we live.

NYU’s global network includes degree-granting campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, complemented by eleven additional academic centers across five continents. Faculty and students circulate within the network in pursuit of common research interests and cross-cultural, interdisciplinary endeavors, both local and global.

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NYU Shanghai is an equal opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity, and social inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from under-represented individuals in the profession, across color, creed, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, and gender and sexual identity. NYU Shanghai affirms the value of differing perspectives on the world as we strive to build the strongest possible university with the widest reach.