Posted: Jan 14, 2025
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Assistant Professor, African American History (Job # 155817 )

Full-time
Application Deadline: Feb 14, 2025
Humanities

Assistant Professor, African American History (Job # 155817)
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, early career tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor with a research specialization in African American history. The successful candidate can expect to teach two courses per semester (2-2 teaching load), have a robust research agenda, participate in service such as SHPRS faculty governance, and undergraduate and graduate mentoring; they will receive career mentoring from senior peers in ASU Humanities, including one senior peer in a related field. Time period is open, but specialization preference is the American Southwest/ West and migration or immigration history. Successful candidate will teach online and on-ground courses in African American and North American history including Ethnicity and Immigration, with an anticipated start date of August 16, 2025. This full-time, benefits-eligible, tenure-track position includes a path to promotion to Associate Professor and Full Professor. SHPRS strongly encourages candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

About the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

In 2008, the departments of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies joined together to create the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS), an academic unit of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We continue to advance Arizona State University’s goals of excellence, access and impact through award winning innovative research and a commitment to supporting students both online and on-campus. As the largest transdisciplinary school in the humanities at ASU, the collaborative environment of talented faculty and students aims to create leaders of change that understand the past, present and future.

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University

ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves

Required Qualifications:
•    Doctoral degree in history, or a related discipline, by the time of appointment
•    Evidence of research excellence
•    Evidence of successful instructional experience at the university level
 
Desired Qualifications:
•    A scholar who will thrive in an inter- and multidisciplinary environment
•    The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences 
•    Publications of original historical research
•    Research and teaching specialization in African American Southwest/ West, migration, or ethnic history with an emphasis on the U.S. or North America in global perspective
•    Evidence of successful online instructional experience
•    Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter

Application Instructions:
To apply, candidates must submit application materials online at http:/apply.interfolio.com/161715. The application deadline is February 14, 2025. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled. Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following application materials: 
1)    a cover letter stating qualifications
2)    curriculum vitae
3)    writing sample of no more than 8,000 words
4)    A two-page teaching philosophy statement: applicants are invited to detail how they have put the tenets of ASU’s Charter—centered on inclusion, accessibility, and success—into action and on the second page, two course outlines including methodological approaches and sample key texts
5)    contact information (name, address, email, telephone number) for three professional references 

Questions about this position should be directed to the search committee chair, Calvin Schermerhorn at [email protected].

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A background search is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. ASU’s full nondiscrimination statement (ACD 401) is located on the ASU website at https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401 html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX. 

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