The Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, is seeking to hire the inaugural holder of a newly created Endowed Chair in Indigenous Arts Practices and Pedagogies. Situated on unceded and traditional Coast Salish territories, the Faculty intends the Chair to support the resurgence, and ongoing thriving, of Salish arts through education and the enactment of Indigenous arts as knowledge practices.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated strength and practice in Indigenous arts, education, and knowledges, and in Indigeneity and Indigenous community engagement. In the case of a tenure-track appointment, a scholarly track record of research excellence (which may include creative practices) is required. As well, this person will have demonstrated their potential for creating strong collaborations with Salish artists, their families and communities within the term of the Chair to further an innovative and high-quality research, teaching and/or art practices program, including the translation, activation and animation of knowledge in dialogue with Indigenous communities and knowledge holders.

The Faculty of Education recognizes and values scholarship in the fine and performing arts and its multiple forms of inquiry, research creation and making, including (but not limited to) performances, installations, exhibits and a variety of writing genres such as poetry, novel, creative nonfiction, memoir, and/or other forms that further and promote our understanding of arts scholarship.