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Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology

Employer
Vanderbilt University, Department of Anthropology
Location
Nashville, Tennessee
Closing date
Dec 3, 2021

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Position Type
Pre-Tenure
Discipline
General Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Hours
Full Time
Specialty
Children and Youth
Organization Type
Academic
Level of Experience
Entry-level

Job Details

Description:  Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology                              

The Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor who conducts research on Latinx migration, with a focus on Latinx children and youth. We are open to applicants working with migrants from any region of Latin America and/or the Caribbean. Diverse and innovative theoretical perspectives are encouraged, especially those engaging critical childhood studies, critical border studies, or critical work on race and gender. While we are open to candidates studying Latin American/Caribbean migration in any area of the USA, we specifically encourage candidates working in the southern United States.

Ideal candidates will show strong theoretical and methodological approaches grounded in long- term ethnographic work. The candidate should possess holistic training in anthropology.

Candidates should have an active field research program that can involve undergraduates and graduate students, as well as a demonstrated commitment to community collaborations and public engagement. We seek a candidate with a strong record of external grants and publishing in refereed journals.

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Anthropology or a related field and demonstrate a deep commitment to our Ph.D. program, through training and mentoring our well-supported graduate students. Teaching load is 2:2, which will include an Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course, taught on a rotating basis, occasional courses for the curriculum, and undergraduate and graduate courses in the candidate’s research specialties. We are particularly interested in candidates who show promise in connecting with other research units on campus.

The College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University is a highly selective liberal arts college at the heart of a major research university. It seeks to attract a diverse student body of high promise and ability from throughout the United States and the international community. Its mission is to engage in significant and innovative research, scholarship, and creative expression in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, to offer distinguished, well-taught programs of undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, and to foster service to society overall.

Vanderbilt University is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer with a strong institutional commitment to recruiting and retaining an academically and culturally diverse community of faculty and to teaching students who are diversified by gender, race/ethnicity, and other social locations.

It ranks in the top 15 National Universities and is in the heart of Music City, Nashville, TN, which is consistently rated as an exciting and affordable place to live (https://www.vanderbilt.edu/nashville/).

Qualifications

Qualifications: PhD must be in-hand no later than August 15, 2022, when employment starts at the beginning of Fall 2022 term.

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit:

  1. a cover letter addressed to Dr. Norbert Ross, chair of the search committee, summarizing fit for the position.
  2. full curriculum vitae.
  3. a one-page research statement.
  4. a one-page teaching philosophy statement.
  5. a one-page statement describing contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion in research and teaching.
  6. contact information for three recommenders.

Submit these materials directly to http://apply.interfolio.com/94549 .

Questions: Please direct questions to Dr. Norbert Ross at norbert.o.ross@Vanderbilt.edu

Deadlines: We will begin reviewing applications on December 3, 2021, and continue until the position is filled.

Company

an•thro•pol•o•gy:  the broadly-based study of humankind that draws its methods from both the sciences and humanities and includes the fields of cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistics.Vanderbilt's Department of Anthropology emphasizes these subdisciplines to achieve a better understanding of the world, past and present. The members of the faculty are internationally prominent for their research and publications on the New World, especially Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Amazonia. The department maintains research interests and active field programs in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Argentina, and Chile. Members of the department and its students participate in the activities of the  Center for Latin American Studies , the  Center for Digital Humanities , and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities . These affiliations enhance and enrich undergraduate and graduate teaching of anthropology at Vanderbilt.

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