"Executive Director, Center for Historic Preservation, Tenure-Track Faculty"

Job Details

Job Title
Executive Director, Center for Historic Preservation, Tenure-Track Faculty

Department
Center for Historic Preservation

University Expectation
MTSU seeks candidates committed to innovative teaching, robust research/creative activity, and meaningful service. We also seek to attract culturally and academically diverse faculty who value working with diverse students.

Salary
The salary and rank are commensurate with education and experience.

Job Summary/Basic Function
The Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University invites applicants for a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track faculty position (#004050) as the Executive Director at the rank of associate professor or full professor. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Executive Director supervises a center of nine (9) faculty and staff members. The start date for the position is August 1, 2026.

MTSU seeks candidates committed to innovative, entrepreneurial leadership of its nationally recognized research and public service center in historic preservation, a Center of Excellence at MTSU since 1984. The successful candidate will have a recognized national reputation in historic preservation or public history, a record of scholarly achievement and professional accomplishment commensurate with tenure in MTSU's History Department, an excellent record of mentoring and teaching students, and demonstrated abilities to attract meaningful funding from external sources or donors.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading a research/public service center that builds and maintains reciprocal partnerships with property owners, communities, government agencies, and non-profits to achieve historic preservation and public history projects, programs, publications, or exhibits. Recruiting students for graduate study in historic preservation and public history.
• Identifying, obtaining, and administering external funding from governmental, non-profit, local sources, or donors.
• Partnering statewide with communities and institutions in Tennessee and its immediate region.
• Teaching two required graduate public history seminars per year.
• Mentoring and directing theses and dissertations for public history graduate students.
• Actively researching and delivering professional presentations.

Required Education
A terminal degree in historic preservation, public history, or U.S. history is required by the appointment date.

Documents Needed to Apply
To successfully apply, applicants must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, and statement of research or creative activities (as appropriate to the discipline) as separate attachments at the time of online application.

Special Instruction to Applicants
For more information about serving as a faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University, please visit our faculty recruitment webpage. If you need help applying, please contact Mitzi Dunkley, Faculty Recruitment Specialist, at (615) 898-5128. If you have position-specific questions, please contact Karla Barnes at Karla.Barnes@mtsu.edu.

MTSU offers a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to the following:

• Sick Leave
• Vacation Leave for Administrative/Classified Staff/12-month Faculty
• 13 paid University holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Retirement plans
• Optional 401K and 403B Deferred Compensation Plans
• Educational benefits for the employee and their spouse and dependents