Assistant Professor (tenure-track)/Associate Professor (tenure-track or tenured)
- Employer
- Ashoka University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- Location
- Sonipat, Haryana
- Closing date
- Nov 30, 2021
Job Details
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University invites applications for two faculty positions as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenure-track or tenured). We seek to hire candidates with a strong research profile, commitment to teaching, and enthusiasm for building a growing Sociology and Anthropology programme. Candidates should have a PhD in Anthropology, Sociology, or an allied discipline by the beginning of the appointment in August 2022. The research specialisation is open. The ideal candidate’s focus will complement existing faculty strengths. Applications from scholars with research interests and field sites outside India and comparative research projects are welcome. The annual teaching load is 2 courses per semester, with competitive options for research leave.
For full consideration, applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, research statement, teaching statement, 3 publications/ writing samples and the names of three references to Ashoka University's application portal on Interfolio by November 30th, 2021.
Candidates should have a PhD in Anthropology, Sociology, or an allied discipline by the beginning of the appointment in August 2022.
Company
The undergraduate programme in Sociology and Anthropology (SOA) at Ashoka University is designed for students interested in cultivating an intellectually rigorous understanding of diverse social worlds and processes as they emerge, stabilise, transform and dissolve all around us.
The Department acknowledges the unique relationship between sociology and social anthropology as it has developed and flourished in India. While our faculty is actively engaged in long-term fieldwork and ethnographic research across a range of subjects and sites, as a collective, we emphasise the critical empiricism, theoretical engagement and comparative approach central to our best disciplinary traditions In doing so, we continuously work at and move between multiple scales and modes of analysis: across the ‘micro’ and the ‘macro’, the ‘general’ and the ‘particular’, the ‘local’ and the ‘global’, the ‘social’ and the ‘technical’, the ‘material’ and ‘abstract’, and the ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’.
Our research and pedagogical practices also open up numerous possibilities for interdisciplinary explorations with students and scholars in allied fields of social thought and inquiry, including, history, economics, political science, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, environmental studies, computer science, planning and design, natural sciences, arts and aesthetics, law and media. This makes Sociology and Anthropology at once among the most grounded and fluid disciplines in the contemporary university.
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