"Assistant Professor - Race, Social Inclusion and Social Welfare Institutions - Berkeley Social Welfare"

The University of California, Berkeley seeks applicants for one tenure-track, Assistant Professor to join the School of Social Welfare. We seek a scholar who is, or is becoming, a leading voice on anti-Blackness and its impact across social domains, with a demonstrated commitment to advancing anti-racism within and beyond the academy, in the U.S. or globally. This scholar is attuned to professional social work practice in areas that center Anti-Black Racism, Social Inclusion, Structural Intersectionality, and Critical Epistemologies, and also prioritizes a focus on Social Justice and Structural Change within and across social services, institutions, communities, families, and individuals. The scholar may focus on anti-blackness in the US and the African Diaspora: abolition studies, critical race approaches to data science and mapping, anti-racism and anti-blackness, social inequality, racial socialization, racial capitalism, trans/queer/feminist theory, and critical disability studies among others.

University of California, Berkeley is committed to building a community of scholars whose work contributes to contemporary efforts to strengthen democratic structures that are currently in crisis. This initiative is especially interested in applicants whose research can contribute to theoretical, conceptual, and empirical understandings of how social institutions can provide for the safety and well-being of a diverse group of people in a democratic society as it reckons with its roots in racism, anti-blackness and white supremacy. We invite applicants with interdisciplinary expertise in critical epistemologies, like critical race theory, and the Black intellectual and Black feminist traditions. The position's duties include: scholarly experience includes a demonstrated commitment to this research arc and publications, undergraduate and graduate teaching/mentoring, and administrative service, practice and public intellectualism/partnerships along these lines.

UC Berkeley is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We encourage candidates who have had non-traditional career paths, who have taken time off for family reasons, or have achieved excellence in careers outside academia, to apply.

Qualifications

• Basic qualifications: A PhD or equivalent international degree at the time of application.
• Additional qualifications: A PhD from an accredited school or university, or equivalent as recognized by Office Of Social Work Accreditation (OSWA) or International Social Work Degree Recognition and Evaluation Service (ISWDRES); An established or promising record of substantial scholarly impact in their areas of interest; General expertise in the fields of social work and social welfare; Evidence or promise of high impact, funded scholarship.
• Preferred qualifications: An MSW degree with at least two years of post-MSW practice experience; Experience in direct practice, research, or/and teaching; Potential to secure resources for research; Capacity for interdisciplinary research and teaching; additional linkages to allied fields are also desirable (e.g., public policy, public health, social sector management, data science, law); Skills essential for mentoring students and engaging community leaders; Experience removing barriers and supporting the success and participation of all students; Evidence or future plans to show UC Berkeley's principles of community are reflected in their research, teaching and service; Commitment to participating in collegial teamwork and university citizenship needed for a range of leadership roles in a public institution.

Application Requirements

• Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of Research
• Statement of Teaching and Mentoring
• Service Statement
• Teaching Evaluations
• Publication/Writing Sample #1
• Authorization of Information Release