Visiting Assistant Professor Position at Oberlin College

The Comparative American Studies Program at Oberlin College is searching for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native and Indigenous Studies. Appointment to this position will be for a term of two years, beginning in the Fall semester of 2013 and will carry the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor. Among the qualifications required for the appointment is the PhD degree awarded no earlier than 2010 or in hand by July 1st, 2013. Application Deadline: March 15th, 2013.

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES OBERLIN COLLEGE
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT APPROVAL REQUEST
FACULTY NON-CONTINUING POSITION AVAILABLE
MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP FOR 2013-2015
COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

The Comparative American Studies Program at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term of two years, beginning in the Fall semester of 2013, and will carry the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor. The position is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The incumbent will teach courses in Native and Indigenous Studies. For this position, preference will be given to candidates with training in Performance Studies with research and teaching interests in comparative race and ethnicity, popular culture, transnational social movements, and gender and sexuality studies. The Comparative American Studies Program is committed to interdisciplinary and theoretically informed intersectional pedagogy at the undergraduate level. Faculty are expected to integrate issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and citizenship within comparative and/or transnational frames throughout their teaching. Successful candidates will also be expected to participate in the full range of faculty responsibilities. Faculty will teach two courses per year.
Among the qualifications required for the appointment is the Ph.D. degree awarded no earlier than 2010 or in hand by 1 July 2013. Candidates must demonstrate interest and potential excellence in undergraduate teaching. Successful teaching experience at the college level is desirable.
To be assured of consideration, letters of application, including a Curriculum vitae, graduate academic transcripts, a short writing sample, course syllabi if available, title and brief descriptions of 2-3 courses candidate could teach, and at least three letters of reference should be sent to CAST Mellon Search Committee, Comparative American Studies Program, King 141D, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 (Phone: 440-775-8982; fax 440-775-8644) by March 15, 2013. Application materials received after that date may be considered until the position is filled.
Oberlin College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the development of a climate that supports equality of opportunity and respect of differences based on gender, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation. Oberlin was the first coeducational institution to grant bachelor's degrees to women and historically has been a leader in the education of African-Americans; the college was also among the first to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who would contribute to the diversity of our faculty.
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CAST Mellon2012-13.docx