The Washington and Lee University (W&L) Africana Studies Program welcomes applications for a visiting assistant professorship in Africana Studies that will begin July 1, 2024. For this position, we seek an individual with interdisciplinary training whose teaching and research engage with Africana Studies. Applicants should be prepared to teach Introduction to Africana Studies, a first-year writing seminar on a topic of their choosing, and upper-level courses in their area of specialization. Candidates whose teaching and research engage religion, health, food studies, contemporary music, or film are particularly welcome. At the discretion of the Dean of the College, this position can be renewed.
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Associate Professor ⎻ University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg
Description The Department of African Literature seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor. The department offers an undergraduate major in the literatures of Africa and the Black diaspora, as well as Honours, MA and PhD degrees. Read More …
Endowed Chair, African Diaspora Studies ⎻ Grinnell College
Grinnell College and Summit Search Solutions are partnering to conduct a national search for the Inaugural Endowed Chair of African Diaspora Studies. Recently approved by the Board of Trustees, with strong support from students and faculty, the African Diaspora Studies Read More …
Postdoctoral Research Associate ⎻ Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia
The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) seeks applications for Postdoctoral Research Associates. We invite applications from scholars whose research focuses broadly on Africa and the African Diaspora. This is Read More …
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship ⎻ Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia
The Carter G. Woodson Institute’s distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral students whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora. Scholars selected for the fellowship will relocate to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia to join a cohort of Read More …
Assistant/Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies and African Studies ⎻ Penn State
Click here to apply JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS: The Department of French and Francophone Studies and the African Studies Program at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, invites applications for an Assistant Professor or Associate Read More …
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies ⎻ Ohio State University
Position Overview The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is seeking to hire a scholar in Film and Media Studies for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Scholars are encouraged to apply whose research on the Read More …
Assistant Professor of English and Writing, The University of Tampa
The Department of English and Writing within the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Tampa invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Black Studies position to begin in August 2024. The University of Tampa is a Read More …
Associate Professor of African American and African Diasporic Literature, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for the position of Associate Professor of African American and African Diasporic Literature with tenure, to begin August 2024. Applicants with research and teaching interests Read More …
Assistant Professor ⎻ African / African Diasporic Literature ⎻ University of Missouri
The English department at the University of Missouri, a public land-grant research university in the state of Missouri, seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in African / African Diasporic Literature. The English department consists of 35 faculty members working in Read More …