The Critical Gender Studies Program <http://cgs.ucsd.edu/>and the Ethnic
Studies Department <http://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/>at the University of
California, San Diego
<http://University%20of%20California,%20San%20Diego>are committed to
academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student
body and invite applications for a tenure track faculty position in
Chicana/Latina Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at the rank of
Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2013 (pending budget approval).
We seek an interdisciplinary scholar working in any historical period,
whose research critically engages the lived realities of race, gender,
and sexuality in regional, global, and/or transnational contexts. We
welcome applications from scholars who hold a PhD in any field in the
arts, humanities, or social sciences, and who can demonstrate a
commitment to building equitable, diverse classroom and research
environments. The position’s teaching responsibilities will be divided
evenly between Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies.
Critical Gender Studies is an undergraduate program specializing in the
study of gender and sexuality in relation to class, race, ethnicity,
religion, and other important organizing structures of modern societies
within an intersectional and transnational framework. The program’s core
curriculum builds upon feminist scholarship and queer studies,
incorporating the interdisciplinary agendas, intellectual debates,
changing methodological practices, and major scholarly shifts that have
reshaped the fields of gender and sexuality studies over the last
decade. Our faculty includes scholars with appointments across campus
(in the arts and humanities, social sciences, engineering, health
sciences, and biological sciences); and we are committed to
interdisciplinary collaboration in pedagogy and research. As a small,
enthusiastic program, we attract dedicated students and faculty who
share a commitment to social equality, innovative scholarship and
critical thinking.
Situated in a region where the US-Mexico border zone, indigenous
national and tribal governments, and the Asia-Pacific interact to
produce a dynamic geopolitical location, UCSD’s Ethnic Studies
Department is a vibrant community of scholars committed to the
interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender,
sexuality, class, and dis/ability. The department’s innovative approach
represents a commitment to transnational, relational, and intersectional
methods for producing critical knowledge about power and inequality,
including systems of knowledge that have emerged from racialized and
indigenous communities in global contexts. Ethnic Studies is devoted to
creative, conceptual, and empirical research; critical pedagogy;
collaborations with a broad group of affiliated faculty; and social
justice projects developed with and for the university, our home
communities, and the broader public.
Salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on University of
California pay scales.
The deadline to apply is November 15, 2012.
Applications are accepted electronically at:
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF00224
Please include electronic versions of: an application letter, resume,
sample publications of no more than 50 pages, the names and addresses of
three referees and a separate personal statement summarizing past or
potential contributions to diversity (see
http://facultyequity.ucsd.edu/Faculty-Applicant-C2D-Info.aspfor further
information).
UCSD is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong
institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.
