Faculty Recruitment
Assistant Professor
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis - Asian/Pacific/American Studies
The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) at New
York University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor working at
the intersection of Asian American, Asian diaspora, and/or Pacific Worlds
studies, construed in broad translocal, and/or postcolonial frame. The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in
a relevant social science/history field. For example: political geography,
immigration and cultural history, social psychology, and/or a specialization in
some aspect of critical social studies in the professions and/or applied
fields. The degree must be in hand by July 1, 2008, and the appointment would
be effective September 1, 2008, pending administrative and budgetary
approval.
While primarily serving the Department’s curricular programs
in Asian/Pacific/American Studies, the appointee to this position will
contribute as well to SCA’s overall intersectional project. We welcome applications, for example, from
individuals researching any aspect of politics and everyday life, including:
labor, popular culture, and consumption; health & society; visual or
creative (music, food, performance, etc.) analysis; community cultural
development; and critical race / sexuality studies.
Send letter of application and c.v. to: A/P/A
Studies Junior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Social and
Cultural Analysis, New York University, 41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor,
New York, NY 10003-4602. Deadline for receipt of applications is November 1, 2007. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Comparative Literature and Social & Cultural Analysis
The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department
of Social and Cultural Analysis seek to make a tenure-track joint appointment
of an assistant professor specializing in African diasporic literatures and
cultures with an emphasis on comparative African-American and Anglophone
Caribbean literature and culture. Appointment will begin September 1, 2008 pending budgetary and
administrative approval. Please submit a
letter of application, CV, and three letters of reference, postmarked on or
before December 1, 2007 to: Professor Awam Amkpa, Department of Social and
Cultural Analysis, 41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, New York University, New
York, NY NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.
Assistant/Associate Professor
Departments of History and Social & Cultural Analysis - American Studies Program
The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University seek to hire at the level of assistant professor or associate professor in 19th or 20th century American Studies, specializing in African American history or comparative race studies in historical perspective, to begin in September 1, 2008, pending budgetary and administrative approval. We especially invite applications from scholars with transdisciplinary and transnational interests, as reflected in the applicant’s research and teaching. Send letter of application and c.v. to: American Studies Search Committee, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, 41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003-4602.
Deadline for receipt of applications is December 1, 2007. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis- The Gender and
Sexuality Studies Program
The Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, which is part of
the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, at New York University
invites applications for an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position. The appointment will begin on September 1,
2008, pending budgetary and administrative approval. The appointment will be for a maximum of
three years. Candidates must have
completed a Ph.D. no earlier than three years before the date of appointment,
have a strong commitment to teaching, and be active in research on topics
pertaining to Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Special consideration will be given to candidates whose research focuses
on disability studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. The candidate is expected to teach three
courses per year. Please send a letter
of application, a curriculum vitae, a 20-page writing sample, a sample
syllabus, and the names of 2 scholars who may be contacted for letters of
reference, by January 15, 2008, to: Don Kulick, Director, Program in Gender and
Sexuality Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, 41 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10003. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis-Latino Studies
Program
The Latino Studies Program at New York University
invites applications for an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position (non- tenure
track). This is a teaching/postdoctoral position with a reduced course load (3 courses
per year) and a maximum term of three years. The appointment will begin on
September 1, 2008, pending budgetary and administrative approval. Candidates
must have completed their Ph.D. no earlier than 2005. We seek candidates doing
theoretically-informed research in Latino Studies. The Latino Studies Program
is housed with five other programs within the Department of Social and Cultural
Analysis. Thus we seek applicants whose research intersects with any of these
programs (Africana Studies, American Studies, Asian/ Pacific/American Studies, Gender
and Sexuality Studies, Metropolitan Studies) or with Native American Studies or
the study of indigeneity in the Americas.
Special consideration will be given to applicants who are approaching the study
of Latinos from a transnational/inter-American perspective. Please send a
letter of application, a curriculum vita, a 20-page writing sample, a sample
syllabus, and three letters of recommendation by January 15, 2008, to: María
Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Director, Latino Studies Program, Department of
Social and Cultural Analysis, New
York University,
41 East 11th Street, New York, NY, 10003. NYU is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Program Descriptions
American Studies
The Program in American Studies offers courses of study leading to
the degrees of Master of Arts
and Doctor of Philosophy. It is designed
to prepare students for advanced work and teaching in American studies.
Interdepartmental by definition, the student’s course of study is
arranged with the director of the program and the director of graduate
studies and includes seminars offered in the program and selected
courses offered in other departments, programs, and institutes.
The program’s committee is made up of faculty from
many of these departments. The program interprets “American” in a
broad sense to include assessments of the historical role of the
United States in the Americas and, more generally, in world affairs.
Inasmuch as the program has a regional focus, special attention is
given to studies in urbanism and to New York in particular, a global
city that comprises many world cultures.
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program offers interdisciplinary courses focusing on the experience of Asian/Pacific Americans that cross the boundaries of literature, history, film criticism, art history, urban studies, and gender studies. By questioning established notions of "Asian," "Pacific," and "American," the A/P/A Studies Program seeks to facilitate greater understanding of the past and present as a means to better interpret the future. Most notably, A/P/A Studies is historically reframing Asian American history to include the first encounters of Asians and Americans, to the Manila-Acapulco trade in the mid-1600s. In addition to courses, the A/P/A Studies Program hosts curriculum development sessions which are also meant to rethink Asian, American and Asian American Studies. The sessions have addressed such topics as migration and diaspora, popular culture, pedagogy, experiential learning, and documentation.
Africana Studies
The Program in Africana Studies offers a wide range of courses on the histories, cultures, languages, economics, politics, anthropology of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and Pacific – from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. The Program maintains particular strengths in Pan-African history and thought and black urban studies. Pan-African history and thought incorporates the study of such literary and political movements as abolitionism, the Harlem Renaissance, Garveyism, the Negritude movement, black consciousness and black feminism and studies of colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial histories. Courses deal not only with the rise of such movements but also with the social, economic and political dynamics of slavery, colonialism, segregation and post-colonialism that provided the impetus and backdrop of political struggle and cultural production. The broad range of Africana Studies encompasses analyses of African people’s relations to a wide range of social, cultural, political and municipal institutions, from museums to public health, and public parks to music and sports industries, the mass media, the police and public schools. Courses also explore patterns of black migration and black ethnic identities, creolization, black cultural production, and questions of class, gender and sexuality within black communities as well as relationships with other ethnic communities. The program offers both an undergraduate BA and a Master’s degree, as well as a joint BA/MA in Africana Studies. It also maintains ties to the Institute of African American Affairs and Africa House, both of which run cultural and educational programming throughout the school years as well as to NYU in Ghana, which provides summer and semester-long study abroad opportunities.
Gender & Sexuality Studies
The undergraduate Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies is administered
through the new Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
and offers a broad interdisciplinary investigation of gender
and sexuality as keys
to understanding human experience, fully integrating the study of
gender and sexuality in its core curriculum, and insistently extending
the view beyond U.S. borders.
At
its core, the undergraduate Program encourages students to question
the meanings of "male" and "female," as well as of sexual norms,
in both Western and non-Western societies. Courses seek to unravel
the ways in which ideas about gender and sexuality shape social
roles and identities, in addition to the ways in which race, class,
and ethnicity function in the experience of gender and sexuality
within a culture. Gender and Sexuality Studies challenges the privileging
of some categories (i.e., male or heterosexual) over others, along
with the social and political implications of such hierarchies.
Our curriculum makes gender and sexuality central rather than peripheral
terms of analysis and seeks to complicate what is often presented
as "natural" or "normal" in traditional academic curricula.
The
Program offers an undergraduate major and a minor in Gender and
Sexuality Studies, the requirements for which are set forth in the
College of Arts and Science Bulletin. By its very nature, Gender
and Sexuality Studies enables students to combine intellectual inquiry
with lived experience. To this end, students are encouraged to participate
in internship opportunities and independent studies. Through these
initiatives, students gain professional experience as well as an
opportunity to test lessons learned in the classroom.
Students
come to Gender and Sexuality Studies with an intellectual curiosity
about the ordering of society and questions about their relationship
to it. Through critical inquiry and exposure to a broad range of
political and historical situations, many students go on to careers
in social work, government, law, and political advocacy, often pertaining
to gender and sexuality issues.
Latino Studies
NYU’s Latino Studies Program has a distinctive profile that develops
four elements that give intellectual weight and a distinctiveness to
it:
Strength in the arts. Latino Studies programs often have a
social science base. Here the strengths of both NYU and New York
make possible a program built around synergy among the arts, social
sciences, and humanities.
Research training. NYU’s program should be distinguished by its
ability to offer students training in research, both field-based and
archival, including opportunities abroad. This feature is particularly
appealing to students, and we know of no other program that has
it. Because a good deal of Latino-related research goes on
outside FAS, developing this dimension requires working across schools.
Co presence of Chicano and Puerto Rican Studies. The presence
of Chicano scholars offers the possibility of a comprehensive program
that draws on both the west coast Chicano side of the field as well as
the east coast Caribbean side. This will be particularly valuable in
the study of the burgeoning Mexican population in NYC.
Bilingualism. Benefiting from the experience of others, NYU develop
a program that approaches language through the study of bilingualism,
the politics of language, and the study of cultural texts. It should
offer students the opportunity to develop as bilingual scholars through
content-based courses designed to develop bilingual research abilities.
Existing resources in the Spanish and Portuguese department would
support such a project. The City itself is an inexhaustible laboratory
for language research and major projects on languages in contact are
underway here.
