The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College invites applications for a one-year, full-time Visiting Assistant Professor in social sciences or natural sciences to begin August 27, 2012. Area of specialization is open, but a strong preference will be given to applicants with research and teaching experience in feminist and queer theory and LGBT studies. Position is benefits-eligible and salary will be commensurate with experience. A PhD by time of appointment is required. Application deadline: March 2, 2012.
Standard teaching load is 3/2 (including introductory and intermediate courses); position is benefits-eligible and salary will be commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. by time of appointment is required.
Candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, graduate transcripts, list of three academic references, and a sample syllabus by March 2nd, 2012, to Dr. Jane Rhodes, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105 (rhodes@macalester.edu).
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
American Studies Teaching Application for Summer 2012
To apply for a summer teaching position, please complete the attached application. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, February 29th, 2012.
American Studies Teaching Application for Summer 2012
To apply for a summer teaching position, please complete the attached application. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Please note we will be offering AMST 3114 America in International Perspective for May Term this year. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, February 29th, 2012. The processes and selection criteria by which teaching assistant resources are distributed in American Studies are intended to seek balance among the following rationales: curricular needs, programmatic obligations, equity, and merit. The goal of the Department is that every graduate student will, at some point before graduation, have the opportunity to teach his or her own American Studies course. In accordance with University policy, the Chair of the Department ultimately makes staffing decisions.
Application attachment:
App Teaching Pool Summer 2012.docx
American Studies Teaching Application for Summer 2012
To apply for a summer teaching position, please complete the attached application. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Please note we will be offering AMST 3114 America in International Perspective for May Term this year. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, February 29th, 2012. The processes and selection criteria by which teaching assistant resources are distributed in American Studies are intended to seek balance among the following rationales: curricular needs, programmatic obligations, equity, and merit. The goal of the Department is that every graduate student will, at some point before graduation, have the opportunity to teach his or her own American Studies course. In accordance with University policy, the Chair of the Department ultimately makes staffing decisions.
Application attachment:
App Teaching Pool Summer 2012.docx
Child's Holding Our World Together February Events
Professor Brenda Child published her book Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking, 2012). She will discuss the book at two events in the coming weeks, one at Black Bear Crossings and one at the University Bookstore . 
The Circle presents an evening with nationally known Ojibwe writers David Treuer and Brenda Child at Black Bear Crossings on the Lake on February 20th, 2012 from 5:00 - 7:00pm. Click here for an event flyer.
The University of Minnesota Bookstores features Brenda Child on Thursday, February 23rd at 4:00pm at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union. For more info, please click here.
The Circle presents an evening with nationally known Ojibwe writers David Treuer and Brenda Child at Black Bear Crossings on the Lake on February 20th, 2012 from 5:00 - 7:00pm. Click here for an event flyer.
The University of Minnesota Bookstores features Brenda Child on Thursday, February 23rd at 4:00pm at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union. For more info, please click here.
Dillon's Essay in Radical History Review
Current graduate student Steve Dillon had his essay "Possessed by Death: The Neoliberal-Carceral State, Black Feminism, and the Afterlife of Slavery" in the latest issue of the Radical History Review: Genealogies of Neoliberalism, Volume 2012, Number 112. Click here for an abstract.
Murphy's Essay in Radical History Review
Ryan Murphy, PhD '10, had his essay "United Airlines is for Lover's?: Flight Attendant Activism and the Family Values Economy in the 1990s" in the latest issue of Radical History Review: Genealogies of Neoliberalism, Volume 2012, Number 112. Click here for an abstract.
Wiggins's Essay in World Film Locations: Paris
Current graduate student Ben Wiggins's essay on the film Story of a Three-Day Pass was published in World Film Locations: Paris (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Click here for more info on the book.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
IAS Forum on "Why Future Research and Teaching Will Be Interdisciplinary"
Join the IAS for "Questions Without Borders: Why Future Research and Teaching Will Be Interdisciplinary", a forum on why large research universities need to do more to offer interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate education. The event will be held on Monday, February 13th at 3:30pm in the Coffman Memorial Union Theater. Click here for more info.
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