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Tenure-Track Position in Sociocultural Anthropology

Employer
Reed College, Department of Anthropology
Location
Portland, Oregon
Closing date
Oct 22, 2024
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Position Type
Open Rank
Discipline
Cultural Anthropology
Hours
Full Time
Specialty
Area Studies, Indigenous Studies
Organization Type
Academic

Job Details

REED COLLEGE Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track position in sociocultural anthropology to commence August 2025. The appointment will likely be made at the rank of Assistant Professor, but more senior applicants are also encouraged to apply.  We seek a teacher-scholar with research and teaching specialization in the Indigenous Americas. The position is attached to an endowed chair, the Ruth C. Greenberg Chair of American Indian Studies, which will be awarded in the event of tenure. We welcome a colleague whose research combines situated ethnographic and historical investigation and experience in relevant field language(s) with a macroscopic scale of inquiry. Theoretical expertise should include both contemporary approaches and broader historical contexts of the discipline and of Western social thought. Topical specialization open but we especially welcome applications from candidates whose research addresses some subset of the following: archaeology, gender and sexuality, linguistic anthropology, politics of indigeneity, settler colonialism, kinship and relatedness, history and/of anthropology, material culture, museum anthropology, or legal anthropology. Ongoing collaborations with contemporary Indigenous communities expected. Ph.D or ABD required. 

Reed is on the semester system with a teaching load of five courses per year. In addition, faculty supervise year-long senior theses, required of all Reed graduates. Reed College is a community in which cultural diversity is deemed to be essential to the excellence of our academic program. In your application materials, in addition to discussing your research and teaching, we welcome a description of how, as a scholar, teacher, or community member, you would contribute to interdisciplinary curricular initiatives in Native and Indigenous Studies on campus, as well as how you would engage and sustain the commitment to diversity and inclusion articulated in Reed College's Diversity Statement. Please submit a cover letter outlining your research and teaching interests and experience, a CV, and names of three references to Professor Charlene Makley, Chair, Anthropology Search Committee, at http://apply.interfolio.com/148383 by October 18, 2024. Preliminary interviews will be conducted on Zoom. For further information, please contact anthro.search@reed.edu. An Equal Opportunity Employer, Reed values diversity and encourages applications from underrepresented groups.

Company

The discipline is traditionally divided into the subfields of cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological (or physical) anthropology, and archaeology. Of these, we emphasize cultural and linguistic anthropology here at Reed. Cultural and linguistic anthropology explore the astonishing range and variability of human practices past and present, paying particular attention to language, race, gender, sexuality, class, and (trans)nationalisms and providing frameworks for contextualizing and analyzing them.

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