Adjunct Assistant Professor in Art

Vassar College • Poughkeepsie, NY

15h • $46,500 - $46,500

About The Position

The Department of Art at Vassar College invites applications for a part-time, one-year position in the history of art of the Americas to begin Fall 2026. We seek an art historian focused on the visual culture, broadly construed, of the American hemisphere from Iberian Conquest to the Second World War. Recognizing the geographical and cultural extent of this field, we encourage transnational approaches, with broad expertise in the art of North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean. Questions around the fluid migration of the many artistic and religious traditions, the cultural encounters that produce new forms of hybridity, and the geopolitics of production, we expect, will inform the candidate's scholarship.
This is an academic year position (benefits eligible). It entails teaching one advanced seminar, and offering a series of 3-4 lectures in the team-taught survey, Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture. In addition, there will be one fall and two spring conference sections in the Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture included in the position (the equivalent of 3 one-credit courses per year). Available resources include the teaching collections of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, as well as the many collections and archives in the Hudson Valley and New York City.

Requirements

• PhD is required and must be in hand by time of appointment.

Responsibilities

• Teaching one advanced seminar
• Offering a series of 3-4 lectures in the team-taught survey, Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture
• Leading one fall and two spring conference sections in the Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture (the equivalent of 3 one-credit courses per year)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree