Director of Africana Studies Program, Texas A&M University
The Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University invites applications for the position of Director. This is a faculty position with appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level. PhD required. We seek candidates who have a strong record of research, teaching, and administrative experience in Africana, Diaspora, or related Studies. A joint appointment with a department outside Africana Studies is possible. Duties include teaching Africana Studies classes. The position will begin August 1, 2012.
The program in Africana Studies is housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The interdisciplinary program offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate. The Africana Studies faculty and curriculum are distinctively interdisciplinary and transnational. The program is currently composed of eight core faculty members, who hold joint appointments in our departments of Anthropology, Communication, English, Hispanic Studies, Performance Studies, and Psychology. More than twenty other faculty from an array of academic disciplines teach classes and participate in program activities as affiliated faculty members. All are engaged in exciting research that is advancing knowledge in their fields of specialty and raising the program to national prominence. For further information about the program, see our website at http://africana.tamu.edu/.
Texas A&M is a large and expanding research university located in Bryan/College Station, a growing metropolitan community with a clean environment, attractive amenities, a low cost of living, and close proximity to the large metropolitan areas of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. It holds the unusual distinction of being a land, sea, and space grant university.
Applicants should submit a letter describing their research, teaching, and statement of their vision for advancing Africana Studies at Texas A&M; curriculum vitae, one writing sample (article or book chapter), and names of three references. Address correspondence to: Africana Search Committee, 4456 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4456. Review of applications will begin January 2, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. Texas A&M University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and seeks to be responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Women and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Rebecca Hankins, Certified Archivist
Associate Professor
Africana Studies/Race & Ethnic Studies Resources Librarian/Curator
rhankins@tamu.edu<mailto:rhankins@tamu.edu>
http://library.tamu.edu/directory/rhankins
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives | 5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843| Tel.979.845.1951
979-845-5874 Evans Annex, Room 3.409G|
Fax. 979.845.1441
http://library.tamu.edu<http://library.tamu.edu/>
Oakland University
The Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University invites applications for the position of Director. This is a faculty position with appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level. PhD required. We seek candidates who have a strong record of research, teaching, and administrative experience in Africana, Diaspora, or related Studies. A joint appointment with a department outside Africana Studies is possible. Duties include teaching Africana Studies classes. The position will begin August 1, 2012.
The program in Africana Studies is housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The interdisciplinary program offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate. The Africana Studies faculty and curriculum are distinctively interdisciplinary and transnational. The program is currently composed of eight core faculty members, who hold joint appointments in our departments of Anthropology, Communication, English, Hispanic Studies, Performance Studies, and Psychology. More than twenty other faculty from an array of academic disciplines teach classes and participate in program activities as affiliated faculty members. All are engaged in exciting research that is advancing knowledge in their fields of specialty and raising the program to national prominence. For further information about the program, see our website at http://africana.tamu.edu/.
Texas A&M is a large and expanding research university located in Bryan/College Station, a growing metropolitan community with a clean environment, attractive amenities, a low cost of living, and close proximity to the large metropolitan areas of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. It holds the unusual distinction of being a land, sea, and space grant university.
Applicants should submit a letter describing their research, teaching, and statement of their vision for advancing Africana Studies at Texas A&M; curriculum vitae, one writing sample (article or book chapter), and names of three references. Address correspondence to: Africana Search Committee, 4456 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4456. Review of applications will begin January 2, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. Texas A&M University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and seeks to be responsive to the needs of dual career couples. Women and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Rebecca Hankins, Certified Archivist
Associate Professor
Africana Studies/Race & Ethnic Studies Resources Librarian/Curator
rhankins@tamu.edu<mailto:rhankins@tamu.edu>
http://library.tamu.edu/directory/rhankins
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives | 5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843| Tel.979.845.1951
979-845-5874 Evans Annex, Room 3.409G|
Fax. 979.845.1441
http://library.tamu.edu<http://library.tamu.edu/>
Oakland University
The Department of Communication and Journalism at Oakland University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor in Communication who specializes in critical cultural studies to begin August 15, 2012 pending final University approval. We seek candidates who work in one or more of the following areas: globalization studies-transnational flows and material culture; race and ethnicity studies in a global context; diasporic identities and communities. Preferred candidates are expected to have methodological training in ethnography, historiography, or political economy.
Oakland offers a newly established Master’s program in Communication. Candidates are expected to provide leadership in our MA program as well as direction in undergraduate curriculum development. Oakland University operates on the semester system, and the standard teaching load is five courses per academic year.
Teaching responsibilities will include both undergraduate and graduate courses, including our undergraduate core, multicultural communication. Candidates are expected to demonstrate a record of effective teaching as well as potential for a promising research agenda. Preferred candidates will possess a Ph.D. in Communication, but ABD will be considered.
OU’s 1400-acre campus is located in Rochester, Michigan, a suburban community 26 miles north of Detroit. The University hosts a residential theater company, maintains an art gallery and historic mansion, and provides an outdoor venue for summer musical events. It is convenient to many social, cultural, and recreational activities in the metropolitan Detroit area. For more information about the department, College of Arts and Sciences, and Oakland University, visit our website at www.oakland.edu.
Submit letter of interest detailing teaching interests and research program, curriculum vitae, research writing sample, statement of teaching philosophy and one sample course syllabus at https://academicjobs.oakland.
Oakland University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.
