Assistant Professor

UMass Boston • Boston, MA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure track assistant position beginning September 1, 2026. This position will support our undergraduate minor in Queer and Transgender Studies. We are seeking a scholar-educator with expertise in Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous Studies, and/or Transnational Feminisms. The standard teaching load for research-active tenure track faculty is two courses per semester, including courses in the candidate’s area of specialization in addition to rotating responsibility for required courses in the minor. Responsibilities also include advising students in the WGS major and Queer and Trans Studies minor. UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in hand or expected by August 2026, in a relevant discipline in the humanities, social sciences, or related transdisciplinary fields.
• Expertise in Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous Studies, and/or Transnational Feminisms.
• Ability to engage the diverse life experiences of the student body.
• Appreciation that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting.
• Ability to recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate training in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
• A strong interdisciplinary background.

Responsibilities

• Teach two courses per semester, including courses in the candidate’s area of specialization and rotating responsibility for required courses in the minor.
• Advise students in the WGS major and Queer and Trans Studies minor.

Benefits

• Tenure track position
• Support for undergraduate minor in Queer and Transgender Studies
• Standard teaching load of two courses per semester
• Advising students in WGS major and Queer and Trans Studies minor
• Commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals
• Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities during the hiring process

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree