Assistant Professor

The School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position with a focus on work, employment, and the empowerment of working people.

The School for Workers is a multidisciplinary department that embraces a wide variety of social science fields and subjects, including labor studies, the sociology of work and employment, working-class studies, history, globalization and its impacts on workers, work organization, unionization, workplace and community inequality, labor precarity, job quality, and the future of work. The department is in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.

We seek a faculty member who will combine rigorous research with a deep interest in outreach that engages people, communities, and institutions, and that results in real-world impact. The ideal candidate will produce relevant research that can be meaningfully applied to the benefit of working people and their communities in Extension-style community-based education and outreach programs.

Responsibilities

Duties will include individual and classroom teaching in Extension-style adult noncredit education settings, with potential for teaching credit-bearing courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; scholarly research in one or more areas of labor and working-class studies; and service to the department, college, university, and academic community, nationally or internationally. Through their work, faculty are expected to contribute to the department's program revenue requirements.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience in one or more fields such as: worker and community organizing, collective bargaining, research in the area of empowering working people, applied or community research, or university-community partnerships. Candidates will also be evaluated on a demonstrated track record of developing, promoting, and delivering education and outreach programs to diverse audiences. Proven success in writing and securing grants is highly desirable.