"Assistant Professor of Black Indigenous Studies, Department of Black Studies & American Studies Program"

Location

Washington, DC

Open Date

Aug 28, 2024

Deadline

Oct 04, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description

The Department of Black Studies and the Program in American Studies invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track joint appointment faculty position in Black Indigenous Studies to begin August 2025. We are interested in an innovative scholar and teacher whose work in the field of Black Studies and/or Indigenous Studies adopts intersectional and/or comparative approaches to the relationship between Blackness and Indigeneity in the U.S and the Caribbean. We have a special interest in candidates who have expertise in migration and diaspora; settler colonialism and dispossession; abolition and carceral studies; environmental justice and decolonial ecologies; spatial imaginaries and futures; and/or critical legal studies (biopolitics, rights, land and treaties, and intellectual property). 

The Department of Black Studies will be the candidate’s primary tenure home, and the candidate’s teaching and service load will be split 75/25 between the Department of Black Studies and the Program in American Studies. The successful candidate will have a standard 2:2 teaching load, while also pursuing an innovative research agenda and university service. Teaching responsibilities include both undergraduate core and elective courses and advising student research at all levels.

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in any field when research centrally addresses race and indigeneity; preference will be given to candidates with Black Studies or American Studies degrees.
• Evidence of exemplary research and teaching in their fields.
• Ph.D. in hand by June 1, 2025.

Application Instructions:

Click on Apply Now to submit the following required materials:

• Cover Letter
• CV
• Research Statement
• Writing Sample (15-20pgs)
• Three letters of recommendations      

Applications are due by October 4, 2024. 

For questions related to this position, please email LaMonda Horton-Stallings (lh855@georgetown.edu).

The projected base salary range is $90,000 - 100,000. Compensation is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s individual qualifications, experience, education, skills, and certifications, as well as the University’s business needs and external factors.