University of Puget Sound Hiring for Visiting Assistant Professor of Race at Washington, United States Full Time

University of Puget Sound

Visiting Assistant Professor of Race & Ethnicity
Job ID: 6813
Location: African American Studies
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Tempoary: Temporary

Faculty Posting Details

Appointment: A two semester Visiting Assistant
Professor position housed in the African American Studies Program
with a focus on race & ethnicity in the U.S. for the spring and
fall semesters of the calendar year, 2023.

Responsibilities:

Teach three courses in spring ‘23 and three in fall ’23. This
teaching will include two sections of AFAM 401: Narratives of Race;
one section of AFAM/LTS 320: Race, Power, and Privilege; two AFAM
electives which can focus on the primary content area of the
professor, with faculty mentorship for establishing such courses
into the curriculum; one first-year writing seminar. The University
of Puget Sound offers faculty the opportunity to teach in the
summer for additional compensation. If the candidate should desire
such an option, mentorship will be provided to support the
process.

Qualifications:

A doctoral degree (ABD considered) in Ethnic Studies or a relevant
field in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, and a commitment
to liberal arts education are required. We particularly seek a
colleague with training in Ethnic Studies for this visiting
position with approaches that are interdisciplinary, and even more
so, transdisciplinary, who deeply engages decolonial thought. Such
a colleague’s training would support the continued work of African
American Studies, in collaboration with the Race & Pedagogy
Institute, to bring the critical insights of the African American
Studies discipline to course content across the university
campus.

With this kind of intellectual orientation, such a colleague will
advance our relationship-making work and engagements with
differential publics within our campus communities. We highly
desire candidates with the theoretical foundations which allow them
to teach about, and engage, beyond one racially ethnic people.
Candidates trained in racial and ethnic intellectual foundations
that include, but are not limited to: Native American, American
Indian, and/or Indigenous Studies; Chicana/o Studies; Latina/o
Studies; Asian American Studies; and Oceania, Pacific, and Pasifika
Studies, are particularly desirable for this position. In this time
of intensified public calls to recognize and come to terms
simultaneously with the differential histories of peoples and
communities of color who are oppressed, we are looking for a
colleague who is ready to do the intentional work of critical and
reflexive inclusivity through a decolonial framework. To expand the
reach of our course content and expression of our intellectual,
collaborative, and community commitments, we welcome candidates
focused on Native American/American Indian/Indigenous, Chicana/o
and Latine, Asian American, Oceania, Pacific, and Pasifika, and
multi-ethnic communities, who are confident in teaching
ethnic-based content to our Pacific Northwest, small liberal arts,
student body.

In closing, we want to recognize the complexity of our call,
regarding content, timeline, and of course it being a visiting
position, and share our urgency and desire to support our future
colleague in transitioning to our campus, and as they continue
their career beyond.

Application Deadline: Review of applications will
begin October 17, 2022, with a goal of hiring for spring 2023, but
application reviews will continue until the position is
filled.

Required Documents:

Curriculum Vitae
Letter of Interest/Cover Letter
Teaching Statement
Writing Sample
Diversity Statement (see prompt
below)
Contact Information
for three (3) Reference. You will be prompted to enter the contact
information for all three (3) reference providers. The system will
automatically email these reference providers to request a
letter.

Note: In the online application system, please submit
curriculum vitae when prompted to submit resume. Additional
documents can be attached within the application.

Applicant’s Diversity Statement:

As a department and university, we are strongly committed to
creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, and working
environment for all. In the applicant’s diversity statement,
applicants should comment on their ability to contribute
meaningfully to our on-going commitment to be informed and
competent with regard to issues of diversity, equity, and
individual differences. We encourage applicants to reference the
University of Puget Sound’s current Diversity Strategic Plan (DSP)
at
https://pugetsound.edu/about-puget-sound-0/mission-core-values/institutional-equity-diversity
prior to writing this statement. While not an exhaustive list, the
following are some ways applicant’s can express their
qualification:

• Your lived experiences and/or identities that speak to the
  department and university’s commitment to inclusion and
  diversity;
• Demonstration of your awareness of inequities for
  underrepresented student populations in education, research
  experience, and other opportunities;
• Brief insights on why diversity is important at institutions
  like the University of Puget Sound;
• Infusion of diversity and diversity-related issues into your
  research, pedagogy, and/or service;
• Previous and/or current activities involving mentoring
  underrepresented student populations;
• Creative ideas or strategies you could enact as a member of the
  University of Puget Sound campus community to support the
  university’s DSP;
• Brief insights on how cultural competency increases one’s
  effectiveness as an educator and department/university
  colleague.

Compensation and Benefits:

Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor

Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Faculty
salaries at the University of Puget Sound are based on a common
salary scale based on experience. Assistant Professor salaries in
2022-2023 begin at $69,074 for an assistant professor in their
first year of full-time post-doctorate teaching.

Puget Sound offers a generous benefits package. For more
information, visit: https://pugetsound.edu/human-resources/benefits

About African American Studies: It is an interdisciplinary
program that focuses on African American experiences, while
recognizing that other academic subjects bear importance on the
understanding of these experiences and should have a place in the
African American Studies curriculum. Within the interrogative mode
that guides African American Studies students in the program 1)
acquire sophisticated knowledge of African American and other
African diasporic experiences; 2) become conversant with local,
regional, national, international, as well as personal and
intersectional issues of race, power and difference, and recognize
the implications these have for equity in daily life; 3) cultivate
skills in analytic, transdisciplinary, reflexive, and
community-based research methodologies, and modes of written oral,
and multimedia communication allowing for the formulation,
articulation, and interrogation of ideas in private and public
spheres; 4) develop critical, intellectual, and ethical
perspectives that can guide and advance personal, educational,
vivid, political, and professional actions; and 5) engage and
elaborate nuanced understandings of the role of race in African
American life and also in broader social and institutional
relations in the United States, other parts of the Americas, and
elsewhere. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/african-american-studies

About the Race & Pedagogy Institute (RPI): is a
collaboration of University of Puget Sound and the South Sound
community that integrates intellectual assets of the campus into
the mutual and reciprocal partnership with local community
experience and expertise, and pursues the vision of education
students and teachers at all levels to think critically about race
and to act to eliminate racism. Alongside African American Studies,
RPI contributes to a transformative educational vision regarding
the work of re-envisioning the imperatives of liberal art modes of
education. https://www.pugetsound.edu/race-pedagogy-institute

About Puget Sound:

The mission of the University of Puget Sound is to develop in its
students the capacities for critical analysis, aesthetic
appreciation, sound judgment, and apt expression that will sustain
a lifetime of intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned
independence. Puget Sound is a 2,600-student, residential, national
undergraduate liberal arts college in Tacoma, Washington, drawing
students from virtually every state and several countries. 65% of
students live on the 97 acre campus and the remainder typically
live within a mile in the surrounding neighborhood. A low
student-faculty ratio provides students with personal attention
from faculty members who have a strong commitment to teaching. The
university offers 1,200 courses in more than 50 areas of study,
numerous experiential learning opportunities, 23 D-III varsity
sports, and extensive co-curricular and leadership opportunities.
Puget Sound graduates include Rhodes and Fulbright scholars,
notables in the arts and culture, entrepreneurs and elected
officials, and leaders in business and finance locally and
throughout the world. In 2012, Puget Sound was named as one of 40
schools in Colleges that Change Lives.

Puget Sound has a well-established Shared Faculty Appointments
Policy. More information on faculty resources can be found here:
https://pugetsound.edu/resources-faculty

University Diversity Statement

• We acknowledge the richness of commonalities
  and differences we share as a university community; the intrinsic
  worth of all who work and study here; that education is enhanced by
  investigation of and reflection upon multiple perspectives.
• We aspire to create respect for and
  appreciation of all persons as a key characteristic of our campus
  community; to increase the diversity of all parts of our University
  community through commitment to diversity in our recruitment and
  retention efforts; to foster a spirit of openness to active
  engagement among all members of our campus community.
• We act to achieve an environment that welcomes
  and supports diversity; to ensure full educational opportunity for
  all who teach and learn here; to prepare effectively
  citizen-leaders for a pluralistic world.

All offers of employment are contingent on successful completion of
all required background checks. All new hires will be required to
submit proof of current COVID-19 vaccination (including booster) or
receive an approved medical or religious exemption from the
university.

The University of Puget Sound is an equal opportunity
employer.

How to Apply
For complete job description and application instructions, visit:
www.pugetsound.edu/employment

About Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a selective national liberal arts college in Tacoma,
Washington, drawing 2,600 students from 48 states and 20 countries.
Puget Sound graduates include Rhodes and Fulbright scholars,
notables in the arts and culture, entrepreneurs and elected
officials, and leaders in business and finance locally and
throughout the world. A low student-faculty ratio provides Puget
Sound students with personal attention from faculty who have a
strong commitment to teaching and offer 1,200 courses each year in
more than 40 traditional and interdisciplinary fields, including
graduate programs in occupational and physical therapy and in
education. Puget Sound is the only nationally ranked independent
undergraduate liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one
of just five independent colleges in the Pacific Northwest granted
a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious academic
honorary society. Visit “About Puget Sound” (http://www.pugetsound.edu/about)
to learn more about the college.

As a strategic goal and through our core values, University of
Puget Sound is committed to an environment that welcomes and
supports diversity. We seek diversity of identity, thought,
perspective, and background in our students, faculty, and staff.
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