Details
Posted: 10-Dec-21
Location: Greenville, North Carolina
Salary: Open
Job Duties:
The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (
https://thcas.ecu.edu) at East Carolina University (
https://www.ecu.edu) invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track or tenured appointment with research broadly centered on the African American experience in the United States to begin August 2022. The successful applicant will join one of the following departments: Anthropology; Geography, Planning and Environment; History; or Sociology.
Scholars seeking a tenured position will be expected to have already established a record of funding, research, and publication nationally recognized by scholars in their field. Scholars seeking a tenure-track position must demonstrate this potential. Candidates must be committed to quality teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level and develop new courses related to the African American experience in the United States and to teach existing courses in their home department. Service to the university, community, and profession is expected.
This position is contingent upon funding.
Special Instructions To Application:
Applications must be submitted online at
https://ecu.peopleadmin.com and should include the following documents: (1) cover letter describing relevant qualifications including research accomplishments and goals, teaching and mentoring approach, and how the candidate will contribute to one or more of the interdisciplinary programs listed above; (2) curriculum vitae; (3) contact information for three current references. Applicants are expected to include examples of or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusivity in their cover letter.
Additional questions can be sent to search committee co-chairs Professor Dr. Bob Edwards (edwardsr@ecu.edu) and Assistant Professor Dr. Ryan Schacht (schachtr18@ecu.edu).
An official transcript and three official letters of reference are required upon employment.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Minimum Education/Experience:
A PhD in Anthropology, Geography, History, or Sociology (or closely related disciplines) is required; however, ABD candidates may be considered. Candidates with PhD conferred at the time of initial appointment will hold the rank appropriate to their record (e.g., probationary rank of Assistant Professor, or Associate Professor, or Full Professor). ABD candidates will be initially appointed with the probationary term rank of Assistant Professor and must have the terminal degree conferred prior to first reappointment. Qualifying degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions. Tenured candidates will have already established a record of effective and innovative teaching, research supervision, and engagement with students. Tenure-track candidates will demonstrate clear potential to establish such a record of teaching, research supervision and engagement with students.
Full time or Part time: Full Time
Position Location (city): Greenville
Position Number: 940278
Organizational Unit Overview:
East Carolina University enrolls around 29,000 students, with over 5,500 pursuing graduate or professional degrees and is a Doctoral/Research-Intensive University with a large health sciences component including the Brody School of Medicine (
https://medicine.ecu.edu/) and the School of Dental Medicine (
https://dental.ecu.edu/).
ECU is a member of the 17-campus University of North Carolina System and is located in Greenville, NC (pop. 95,000) and is the lead institution in the multi-institutional Coastal Studies Institute (
https://www.coastalstudiesinstitute.org). Greenville is a vibrant, growing, and diverse community that offers a college-town atmosphere, a temperate climate, and outstanding cultural and outdoor recreational opportunities along with an affordable cost of living (
https://www.greenvillenc.gov/).
The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (
https://thcas.ecu.edu/) is home to 16 academic departments, a number of research centers including the Center for Survey Research (
https://surveyresearch.ecu.edu/), Geographic Information Science Center (
https://geography.ecu.edu/gis-science-center/), the Center for Natural Hazards Research (
https://hazards.ecu.edu/), and the Water Resources Center (
https://water.ecu.edu/), as well as over twenty interdisciplinary programs (
https://thcas.ecu.edu/undergraduate-programs/) including African and African-American Studies (
https://aaas.ecu.edu/), Coastal and Marine Studies (
http://coas.ecu.edu), Environmental Studies (
https://environmentalstudies.ecu.edu/), and Gender Studies (
https://genderstudies.ecu.edu/). The College is committed to enriching the lives of students, faculty, and staff by providing a diverse academic community where the exchange of ideas, knowledge and perspectives is an active part of living and learning. The College seeks to create an environment that fosters the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body, faculty, staff, and administration and works to increase diversity and access to higher education for underrepresented groups by building an environment that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for diversity.
The successful applicant will join one of the following departments: Anthropology; Geography, Planning and Environment; History; or Sociology.
Departmental Descriptions:
- The Department of Anthropology (https://anthropology.ecu.edu/) offers both a BA and MA in Anthropology, and several certificates at the undergraduate level including Global Cross-Cultural Competency, Forensic Anthropology, and Cultural Resources Management. The department offers a holistic approach to culture, adaptation, and health to promote a better understanding of human diversity, both past and present. The department's faculty cover a wide spectrum of specialization, broadly representative of Anthropology's four-field approach to the study of the human condition. These include gender studies, medical anthropology, social-ecological systems, ethnoarchaeology, primate behavior, and human evolution. Shared across all faculty is an applied research focus and engagement in locally relevant research: from Black heritage studies to environmental justice to economic and health inequalities.
- The Department of Geography, Planning and Environment (https://geography.ecu.edu) has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research, student success, and community engagement. Our faculty make valuable contributions in a wide range of environmental and social studies through a geographical lens and cutting-edge geospatial technologies. Specific areas of emphasis within the department include climate change, coastal management and planning, sustainability and community development, geographic information science (GIS), environmental hazards, health disparities, and social/environmental justice related to race/ethnicity and gender. The department offers five B.S. degrees (Atmospheric Science, Community & Regional Planning, Geography, GIS & Technology, and Multidisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Environmental Studies) and two M.S. degrees (Geography and Planning & Development).
- The Department of History (https://history.ecu.edu/) offers a BA in History and minors in History and Public History. There are undergraduate concentrations in Historical Studies, Pre-Law, Public History, and Atlantic and Maritime Studies. The Department also plays a key role in the College of Education's BS in History, Secondary Education, as well as many Interdisciplinary programs in which faculty serve in leadership positions. The Department of History's graduate program offers MA degrees in both History and Maritime Studies. Several History professors possess extensive professional training in underwater archaeology as well as maritime history. The Maritime Studies Program (https://history.ecu.edu/maritime-studies/) has blossomed into a leading international underwater archaeology program.
- The Department of Sociology (https://sociology.ecu.edu/) offers a BA in Sociology, a BS in Applied Sociology, and an MA in Sociology, and is the home for the College's interdisciplinary Gender Studies program. Faculty research expertise covers a range of social inequalities from micro, meso, and macro perspectives using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with depth in gender, sexualities, and social movements. Faculty have a strong record of research and publication with undergraduate and graduate students. Almost half of our majors identify as people of color, and more than a quarter identify as Black. We apply our expertise in inequality through institutional and community engagement, which has been recognized by the ECU Diversity & Inclusion Award (2017), the Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Advocacy Award (2021), and our department chair's leadership role as co-PI in ECU's nearly one-million-dollar NSF ADVANCE grant to strengthen gender equity in STEM on campus (https://thrive.ecu.edu/).
ECU values a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourages applications from women, people of color, and historically underrepresented groups.
