Cultural Anthropology 2016-2017

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY JOBS - 2016-2017

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See also: Archaeology Jobs 2016-2017, Linguistic Anthropology 2016-2017, and  Biological Anthropology 2016-2017

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Johns Hopkins University (MD) - TT Asst. Professor - Cultural Anthropology - Deadline: 15 Sept. 2016
The Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland,invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in cultural anthropology to begin in Fall 2017. We seek applicants whose research critically engages one or more of the following areas: race, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, kinship, and urban ecology. Geographic area is open. Applicants should be prepared to teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels, to contribute to departmental development, and to collaborate with interdisciplinary programs within and across the Johns Hopkins University.

The Department of Anthropology is strongly committed to diversity and encourages applicants from underrepresented groups to apply. Appointment will be 100% time over the nine-month academic year (late August to late May). Appointment will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, depending on qualifications and experience, and consistent with collegiate and University policy.

QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand at the time of appointment and show evidence of an active research agenda. Advanced ABDs may be considered for appointment at the rank of tenure track instructor with the understanding that the Ph.D. will be conferred before start of the appointment.


 * APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two writing samples, and names of three reference letter writers. Application materials can be uploaded to the website by following this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/35027. Applications are due September 15, 2016.
 * Also posted at Womens/Gender/Queer Studies 2016-2017

===Portland State University (OR) - TT Asst. Professor - Sociocultural Anthropology - Deadline: 1 Oct. 2016=== The Portland State University Anthropology Department invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology, to begin September 2017. We seek an applied anthropologist with a Ph.D. (ABDs who will have PhD completed by Sept 15, 2017 also considered). The applicant should have demonstrated experience in developing applied research projects. Area of expertise is open, but North America, Asia or Latin America preferred. The successful applicant will teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, e.g., a general introductory course, theory and method courses, and graduate and undergraduate courses relevant to the applicant’s area of expertise. Applicants should demonstrate a strong record of teaching, publication, research, and securing external funding, commensurate with career stage. Ability to develop internships and engage students in community-based projects also desired. PSU has an MA/MS in Anthropology. Normal teaching load is 2-2-2, reduced in the first two years. (PSU is on the quarter system.) There is the potential for course releases through external funding.

Complete the on-line application and include a cover letter and curriculum vitae; provide the names and email addresses of individuals (minimum of 3) who have agreed to serve as references. References will not be contacted until you have been selected for further consideration.


 * Link to Apply: https://jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/18945
 * Review of applications will begin October 1, 2016 and continue until finalists are identified. Portland State University is committed to diversity in its hiring practices.

===Reed College (OR) - TT Asst. Professor - Melanesia/Oceania, Southeast Asia or non-Himalayan South Asia - Deadline: 16 Oct. 2016=== REED COLLEGE Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistic anthropology or sociocultural anthropology, preferably at the Assistant Professor rank, to commence August 2017. We are seeking a teacher-scholar of Melanesia/Oceania, Southeast Asia or non-Himalayan South Asia, with research specializations in one or more of the following: kinship, ritual, myth, materiality, visual anthropology, technology, infrastructure, or extractive industries. Theoretical expertise and teaching competence should include both contemporary approaches and broader historical contexts of sociocultural/linguistic anthropology and of Western social thought. Research should demonstrate knowledge of relevant field languages and a rigorous integration of theory with ethnography. Ph.D or ABD required. Reed is on the semester system with a teaching load of five courses per year and supervising senior theses. Reed College is a community that believes that cultural diversity is essential to the excellence of our academic program. In your application materials, we welcome a description of how, as a scholar, teacher, or community member, you would engage and sustain the commitment to diversity and inclusion articulated in Reed College's diversity statement ( http://www.reed.edu/diversity/index.html ).
 * Please submit a cover letter, CV, and names/addresses for three letters of recommendation through Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/35399 by October 16, 2016. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the November 2016 AAA convention in Minneapolis. For further information, please contact search chair Paul Silverstein at anthro.search@reed.edu . An Equal Opportunity Employer, Reed values diversity and encourages applications from underrepresented groups.

===University of California Santa Barbara (CA) - TT Asst. Professor - Political Anthropology - Deadline: 10 Oct. 2016=== The University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Archaeology, and Bioarchaeology (SAAB) Unit, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, appointment to begin July 1, 2017. We seek a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in political institutions, processes, and cultures, with particular emphases on race and ethnicity. Relevant research concerns include state formation and statecraft; the politics of race and ethnicity; intersectionality; indigeneity; human rights; migration and citizenship; environmental justice; ethnographic approaches to political cultures and institutions. Other topical approaches will be considered but research must be based on ethnographic fieldwork and demonstrate strong theoretical foundations. Familiarity with interdisciplinary methods, including historical perspectives, is also desirable. Geographic area is open.

We seek an anthropologist of politics and power, as attention to indigenous movements, the hegemony of neoliberalism, and the reconfiguration of practices and discourses of class, race, and ethnicity associated with shifts in the global political economy and the advance of neoliberalism have transformed livelihoods, workplaces, political and educational institutions, and our natural and built environments. Competitive applicants will engage new configurations of racism and racial formations, indigeneity and sovereignty, environmental and political activism and neoliberal institutions. Critical approaches to race and to the institutional apparatus of racism, racial formations and intersectionality in line with the American Anthropological Association’s current campaign to educate the broader public on the topic are welcome. We value as well scholars who promise to make innovative interventions in social and cultural theory based in original ethnographic research, and who have the ability to apply this research to addressing social problems in non-academic settings.

Candidates will be expected to teach the lower-division introductory course in sociocultural anthropology, upper-division undergraduate courses in areas related to the candidate’s specialization, and to contribute to graduate training in research methods and sociocultural theory.

To explore our sociocultural program and faculty, see our website at: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/graduate/specializations/sociocultural.

Applicants must have completed the Ph.D. at time of appointment. Please apply and submit via (https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00720): (1) a statement detailing research focus and experience; (2) a three-year research plan; (3) a one page statement on teaching aims and philosophy; (4) a curriculum vitae; (5) letters from three references; (6) and two article length representative publications or writing samples. Please direct any questions to Professor James F. Brooks, Sociocultural Search Chair, at (searchsc16@anth.ucsb.edu).
 * For primary consideration submit application and materials on or before October 10, 2016.

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