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Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Employer
Colorado College, Department of Anthropology
Location
Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Closing date
Nov 1, 2024
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Position Type
Pre-Tenure
Hours
Full Time
Organization Type
Academic

Job Details

The Department of Anthropology is seeking to hire a sociocultural anthropologist at the Assistant Professor level with research and teaching expertise in environmental anthropology and/or medical anthropology. Further, we are interested in applicants with expertise or a strong interest in developing skills in lenses of equity (e.g. critical race studies) and those who use community-based learning or other applied approaches that can take advantage of opportunities in the local region. We are committed to hiring someone in this position who will join and strengthen our department’s commitment to antiracism, equity, and inclusion as stated in our Department of Anthropology Anti-Racism Statement. This tenure-track hire would be expected to teach introductory and upper-level courses in sociocultural anthropology that contribute to our course offerings for the major and minor and the college’s General Education requirements. This hire would also share departmental faculty’s responsibility in regularly teaching methods courses appropriate to their subdiscipline and the department’s core requirements for the major: Anthropology (AN) 206 Doing Ethnography, AN215 Anthropological Theory, and AN315 Senior Capstone.
Colorado College is a private, undergraduate liberal arts institution. Located in downtown Colorado Springs, the College enrolls approximately 2,200 undergraduate students. One distinguishing feature of Colorado College is its Block Plan, in which professors teach, and students take, one course at a time. Each block meets daily for three and a half weeks, allowing for unique teaching and learning strategies. Professors teach six of the eight blocks in an academic year, and this schedule often includes one block dedicated to supervising senior capstone projects. The Block Plan lends itself to experiential, field, community-based, and project-based teaching. Funds and logistical support for such projects are available through the College and the Anthropology Department. For more information, consult the following link
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/blockplan/
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Colorado College seeks to develop an inclusive community, welcoming students and employees with a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, thereby enriching our shared learning environment. The College is committed to becoming an antiracist institution in all its policies, practices, and pedagogies. The Department and College believe that recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty committed to building an inclusive community strengthens and deepens our lives and scholarship.

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Our department offers an expansive outlook on human cultures, providing multiple opportunities for hands-on anthropological fieldwork, including field-based courses and lengthy field trips. The block system promotes creative teaching and rigorous expectations for reading, writing, and critical qualitative and quantitative analysis in anthropology. All four sub-fields of American anthropology are represented in our department: archaeology, which focuses on the material cultures and peoples of the past; biological anthropology, which concentrates on the relationships between culture and biology in the lives of humans and our evolutionary relatives; linguistic anthropology, which addresses both the formal complexity of linguistic systems and the role they play in regulating and negotiating social life; and sociocultural anthropology, which concentrates on contemporary peoples and their values, practices and organization. 

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