Assistant Professor of Anthropology

 

Job Title: Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Position Status: Tenure-Track

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Department: Anthropology

Campus Location: Main Campus

Job Summary

The Department of Anthropology is seeking to hire a sociocultural anthropologist at the Assistant Professor level with research and teaching expertise in environmental anthropology and/or medical anthropology. Further, we are interested in applicants with expertise or a strong interest in developing skills in lenses of equity (e.g. critical race studies) and those who use community-based learning or other applied approaches that can take advantage of opportunities in the local region. We are committed to hiring someone in this position who will join and strengthen our department’s commitment to antiracism, equity, and inclusion as stated in our Department of Anthropology Anti-Racism Statement. This tenure-track hire would be expected to teach introductory and upper-level courses in sociocultural anthropology that contribute to our course offerings for the major and minor and the college’s General Education requirements. This hire would also share departmental faculty’s responsibility in regularly teaching methods courses appropriate to their subdiscipline and the department’s core requirements for the major: Anthropology (AN) 206 Doing Ethnography, AN215 Anthropological Theory, and AN315 Senior Capstone.

Colorado College is a private, undergraduate liberal arts institution. Located in downtown Colorado Springs, the College enrolls approximately 2,200 undergraduate students. One distinguishing feature of Colorado College is its Block Plan, in which professors teach, and students take, one course at a time. Each block meets daily for three and a half weeks, allowing for unique teaching and learning strategies. Professors teach six of the eight blocks in an academic year, and this schedule often includes one block dedicated to supervising senior capstone projects. The Block Plan lends itself to experiential, field, community-based, and project-based teaching. Funds and logistical support for such projects are available through the College and the Anthropology Department. For more information, consult the following link https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/blockplan/.

Colorado College seeks to develop an inclusive community, welcoming students and employees with a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, thereby enriching our shared learning environment. The College is committed to becoming an antiracist institution in all its policies, practices, and pedagogies. The Department and College believe that recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty committed to building an inclusive community strengthens and deepens our lives and scholarship. Candidates who can contribute to these goals are particularly encouraged to apply.

For more information on the department, please visit: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/anthropology/
To view the department's antiracism statement, please visit: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/anthropology/about_us/our_department.html

 

Minimum Qualifications

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in anthropology at start of appointment with expertise in environmental and/or medical anthropology.

Preferred Qualifications

A demonstrated commitment to undergraduate teaching and research. A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism (ADEI) in the classroom, as a mentor, and as a researcher.

Application Instructions

• Application Deadline - last day to submit an application: October 20, 2024
• References will be contacted to upload a letter of recommendation when a candidate accepts a Zoom/Phone interview

Required Documents

1) Curriculum vitae
2) One to three sample syllabi
3) Names and contact information for three references. References will be contacted when candidates have advanced in the hiring process.
4) In lieu of a cover letter, please provide a brief response to a – d (below). Each response should be around one to two paragraphs in length, aiming for a word count of approximately 300 – 600 words for each response.
a. Why are you interested in the teacher-scholar model utilized at CC and many other liberal arts institutions?
b. Describe your current research
c. How do you envision using the college’s block plan schedule in your teaching?
d. How will you use ADEI approaches in your teaching?

Optional Documents

 

Anticipated Hiring Salary Range:

$88,500 t