American Studies 2020-2021

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

Last year's page: American Studies 2019-2020

See also Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, 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

Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)

Assistant Professor of American Studies (Latinx Studies), FT/TT

https://jobs.dickinson.edu/postings/5529

Applied: 1X

University of Nottingham (UK:Notts)

Teaching Associate in American & Canadian Studies. Generalist. Deadline: 7 August 2020. NTT. FT. Job ad on Jobs.ac.uk

Updates:

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

Assistant Professor of American Studies (Race and Carcereal Studies) FT/TT

https://www.theasa.net/jobs-opportunities/job-listings/assistant-professor-race-carceral-studies

Applied: 1X

Any updates? (12/18)

University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Open-Rank, Assistant (TT) or Associate Professor (Tenured) of American Studies

https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/295578/assistant-professor-or-associate-professor-of-american-studies-open-rank-/

Applied: 1x

Jobs with 2021 Application Deadlines

1. San Jose State University (CA, USA). Ethnic Studies. Interdisciplinary and/or comparative approaches, preferably with specialization in one to two of the following: (a) Oceania/Pacific Studies, (b) Critical Mixed Race Studies, and (c) Social Movements. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2021. (TT/FT). https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/498438/assistant-professor-ethnic-studies