"Assistant Professor (Classics and Religious Studies)"

The Department of Classics and Religious Studies at Boston invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to join our faculty beginning September 1, 2026.

Applicants should have a PhD in Classics, and a demonstrable interest in spoken ancient Greek or Latin and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and the application of the latter to ancient language pedagogy. The candidate will have an interest in outreach to schools, an ability to oversee teaching practica, and be ready to teach graduate-level and undergraduate courses in the Classics and Religious Studies Department. The successful candidate will also contribute to interdisciplinary teaching in the College of Liberal Arts in Second Language Acquisition by collaborating with departments that specialize in modern languages such as Latin American and Iberian Studies, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

The research specialization is open within the broad discipline of Classics, but the department will give priority to candidates whose research complements current faculty research and which allows them to collaborate with other departments and potentially cross-list courses with them, either in SLA, reception, or digital humanities and the application of large language models to research in Classical languages, pedagogies, and literatures.

The appointment requires completion of the doctoral degree no later than August 31, 2026.

Application instructions: All applications must be submitted online at https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/listing/. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of completed work, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three recommendations, which address the candidate’s teaching and research. The review of applications will begin on November 15, 2026. Please direct any inquiries to the search chair, Peter Barrios-Lech, at peter.lech@umb.edu.

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact HRDirect@umb.edu or 617-287-5150.