"Associate Professor - Ph.D. and M.A. in Black, Race & Ethnic Studies - 2 Positions"

The CUNY Graduate Center invites applications for two tenured or tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Associate Professor, with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026. The primary appointment will be with the new Ph.D. and M.A. programs in Black, Race and Ethnic Studies, with a secondary appointment possible in a traditional academic discipline. Both positions are part of a Mellon Foundation-funded faculty cluster hire in Black, Race and Ethnic Studies at CUNY.

We seek scholars with strong records of research, funding, teaching, advising, mentoring, and a commitment to public outreach. Areas of specialization may include race, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality; the political economy of race and/or racial capitalism; state, power, politics, networks, and institutions; race, diasporas, and transnationalism; social movements, rights, and social justice; indigeneity, dispossession, colonial formations, and decolonial studies; theory, humanistic knowledge, and the social sciences; race, representations, and cultural studies; epistemologies, knowledge production, and political thought; art, aesthetics, and humanities; and histories of difference and cultural formations.

The Program in Black, Race and Ethnic Studies offers innovative and substantive approaches to the study of race and racial formations, the comparative examination of global blackness, and the study of ethnicity and ethnic formations on a planetary scale. Launched in 2025, this Ph.D. program brings together faculty trained in traditional disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, committed to pedagogy and training pioneering thinkers.

CUNY Graduate Center is the focal point for advanced teaching and research at CUNY, the nation's largest urban public university.

QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. degree in Humanities or Social Sciences or related interdisciplinary program. Candidates must have demonstrated scholarship, teaching success, and the ability to cooperate with others. Successful candidates should have published a well-received first book or equivalent.

COMPENSATION: $129,041/year ($133,558/year as of 9/1/26).

HOW TO APPLY: Submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching and mentoring statement, and contact information for three professional references as one PDF document through the CUNYFirst online application portal.