African & African American Studies 2020-2021

Wiki page for Academic Jobs in African & African American Studies advertised during the 2020-2021 hiring season.

See also Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy.

Instructions

Please add jobs in the following format and order them alphabetically by institution.

1. Example University (State/Province, Country). Position Title. Specializations. Deadline. TT/NT. FT/PT. Link to Job ad(s). Updates: 

TT/NT: Tenure-track or Non-tenure track.

FT/PT: Full-Time or Part-Time

For the sake of user-friendliness, please do not add more detailed content of the job ad on this page. (This is a departure from previous years, when these pages tended to become difficult to navigate. The new guidelines are modeled on more user-friendly Academic Wiki pages serving other disciplines.)

Add updates to the end of each entry as they come in: Additional materials requested, video interview scheduled, campus visit scheduled, offer extended, offer accepted, rejection received.

Please post "Have you heard?" questions above, under Word on the Street.

Please contribute to transparency in the academy by adding yourself and your advisors to the Academic Tree project.

See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2020-2021 .

Jobs with 2020 Application Deadlines

San Francisco Community College (USA:CA). Instructor in African American Studies (Tenure-Track). No Deadline Indicated. Job Ad on Chronicle Jobs Updates: 

Santa Clara University (USA:CA). Open Rank Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty in African American Studies. Deadline: 30 October 2020. Job Ad on Higher Ed Jobs Updates: 

Smith College (USA:MA). Open Rank Tenure-Track or Tenured Professor of Africana Studies. Deadline: 30 October 2020. Job Ad on Chronicle Jobs . Updates: 

University of Bayreuth (DEU:Bay). Junior Professor (Asst. Prof. equivalent). African Languages and the Construction of Knowledge. Deadline: 30 September 2020. Job ad on university website Updates:

University of California, Davis (USA:CA). Assistant Professor of African Studies (Tenure-Track). Deadline: 30 September 2020. Job Ad on Higher Ed Jobs Updates: 

University of Hong Kong (CHN:HK). Assistant Professor in African Studies in the Faculty of Arts. Deadline: 15 July 2020. TT. FT. Job ad on H-Net  Updates:

University of Portland (USA:OR). Associate Professor/Professor for Development of Ethnic Studies (Tenure-Track). Deadline: 15 November 2020. Job ad on Chronicle Jobs Updates: 

University of Washington (USA:WA). Assistant Professor in African American Studies (Tenure-Track). Deadline: 1 November 2020. Job ad on Chronicle Jobs Updates: 

Washington University in St. Louis (USA:MO). Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies (Tenure-Track). Deadline: 26 October 2020. Job Ad on Interfolio Updates: