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.
- 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.
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See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2020-2021 .
Jobs with 2020 Application Deadlines
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:
Southern University at New Orleans (USA: La). Assistant Professor of English, African American Studies and/or Composition and Rhetoric. Deadline 1 October 2020. TT. FT. http://www.suno.edu/assets/suno/PDFs/Human-Resources/Position-Vacancy-Announcements/Position-Vacancy-Announcement---English_9.1.20.pdf . 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 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:
Wesleyan University (USA:Ct). Assistant Professor. African American & Afro-diasporic Literary Studies. Deadline: 1 Nov 2020. TT. FT. Job Ad on Chronicle of Higher Ed Updates: