Assistant Professor

UNC-Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill, NC

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill seeks a sociocultural anthropologist at the tenure-track assistant professor level specializing in the study of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and/or migrant communities. Topics of interest are those that, in line with the department’s Race, Difference, and Power program, view social identities and positions as connected to complex matrices of power grounded in racial, class, gender, citizenship, and other differences and inequalities. Research and teaching that engage the ways that technology, data science, AI and algorithms shape the experience of inequality is especially valued. Of special interest are scholars working in the Americas, with a demonstrated commitment to decolonizing, feminist, or participatory research methodologies.

Requirements

• Sociocultural anthropologist at the tenure-track assistant professor level.
• Specializing in the study of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and/or migrant communities.
• Research and teaching that engage the ways that technology, data science, AI and algorithms shape the experience of inequality.
• Scholars working in the Americas.
• Demonstrated commitment to decolonizing, feminist, or participatory research methodologies.
• Potential to teach in both small and large classroom settings.
• Potential to maintain active scholarly research programs (through publications and grants).

Nice To Haves

• Can provide research or internship experience for undergraduate and graduate students.

Responsibilities

• Teach in both small and large classroom settings.
• Maintain active scholarly research programs (through publications and grants).
• Provide research or internship experience for undergraduate and graduate students.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level