"Tenure-Track Assistant or Tenured Associate Professor in International Education"

About the Team

The Faculty of Education is consistently ranked among the top faculties of education in Canada and globally. It is home to award-winning educators, internationally recognized researchers, and socially engaged scholars. With a commitment to inclusive excellence, the faculty supports K-12 education, professional development, and advanced scholarship, shaping the next generation of teachers, leaders, and policymakers who make a difference in classrooms and communities.

Description

This position is part of the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA).

The successful candidate will be offered a tenured or tenure-track appointment with the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, which is in accordance with the Schedule A Academic Faculty Members Agreement, and offers a comprehensive benefits overview.

Location

This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton.

The Faculty of Education, Social Justice and International Studies in Education specialization, at the University of Alberta, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in International Education. The start date is July 1st, 2026.

We are committed to fostering community, belonging, and equitable access and believe that is integral to academic excellence. Relatedly, we value the lived experiences and epistemologies of racialized and colonized peoples in local and international contexts, as an asset.

The candidate will be joining a globally recognized research Faculty that serves teacher candidates at the undergraduate level and draws graduate students and emerging scholars from a range of fields, including K-12 education systems, government, higher education, the non-profit sector, community organizations, and social movements.

We seek to hire a scholar with a demonstrated and innovative program of research and teaching committed to community-based, anti-colonial praxes and critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches to theory and methodology. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research, and to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program.

Responsibilities

The day-to-day responsibilities of the successful candidate include:

• Research and undergraduate and graduate teaching. We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated commitment to research, teaching, and community service in any of the following areas of education: International Political Economy of Development, Critical Pedagogy, Social Justice and Social Movements, and Theories and Methodologies of the Global South.
• Contribute to teaching (2-2 course load)
• Supervise graduate students
• Contribute to administrative functioning as well as developing the existing strengths and horizons of the specialization of Social Justice and International Studies in Education
• Contribute to the administrative functioning of the Faculty of Education
• Participate in outreach in relevant scholarly fields (e.g. conferences) and community

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (commensurate with experience):

• The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree (successfully defended by July 1st, 2026) in disciplines such as (or a combination thereof) education, sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, political studies, gender studies, racial and ethnic studies, development studies and other related disciplines.
• Demonstrated and innovative, independent program of research and teaching grounded in community-based, anti-colonial praxes and critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches to theory and methodology.
• Proven ability to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program.
• Demonstrated experience in critical, interdisciplinary, and transactional approaches to theory and methodology.
• Scholarship and teaching focused on areas such as the international political economy of development and education, critical sociology of education, community-based political education, racial capitalism, and social movement learning in the Global South and its diasporas.
• We will give special consideration to those whose work is rooted in anti-/de-colonial South Asian, Black, Indigenous, and/or women of colour feminist, and/or disability justice frameworks.

Application Instructions

Candidates should submit a letter of application, a C.V., two-page research program statement, copies of three recent or representative publications (peer-reviewed and/or up to one public-facing piece of writing), a teaching dossier, and contact information for three referees who have agreed to provide three letters of recommendation. Consideration of applications will commence on the posting close date and will continue until the position is filled.