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Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor
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Position Number: 4731648
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Liberal Arts - Ethnic & Multicultural Studies

Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor

About the Opportunity

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the college collaborates across the university, the Northeastern network, and partners around the globe. We are strongly committed to fostering excellence through diversity and enthusiastically welcome nominations and applications from members of groups underrepresented in academia. Successful faculty in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Strong candidates for this position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment.

The Department of History is searching for an open-rank Teaching Professor of History in Modern Japan/East Asian Studies to join the department in Fall 2024. We are seeking highly motivated individuals committed to excellence in teaching. This is a non-tenure line, but continuing and tracked position (Assistant, Associate, and Full Teaching Professor), with the possibility of progressively longer multi-year (3 year and 5 year) contracts.

The successful candidate should have demonstrable teaching experience and be able to teach across the history and Global Asian curriculum, including small department seminars aimed at majors and large lecture courses taken by students across the university. Courses will include modern Japan as well as a lecture course on East Asian Studies. Preference will be given for track record teaching in one or more of the following subfields: environmental history, digital humanities, and/or public history.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in the field of Modern Japanese History and Global Asian Studies. Graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses might be possible. The instructional load is three courses per semester for a total of six courses per academic year. The successful candidate will create course content and materials, and they will collaborate with colleagues to develop academic relationships within the university and the local community. Building relationships with students and service to the college and university are integral components of the position.

Qualifications:

Ph.D. in History, Asian Studies, or related field in hand by the appointment start date is required.
Evidence of teaching excellence, including student evaluations and sample course materials
Evidence of interdisciplinary expertise and capacity for collaboration across disciplines
Commitment to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Commitment to the continued development of Northeastern University's signature experiential learning model

Documents to Submit:

Applications should include a cover letter that addresses the applicant's interest in and qualifications for the position, a curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, a diversity statement, a model syllabus, and evidence of teaching effectiveness with complete sets of recent student evaluations, as well as contact information for at least three letters of recommendation.

In the diversity statement, please describe how you can support Northeastern's commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Describe how your teaching, service, research, and/or leadership (as applicable) has supported the success of students and/or colleagues; and/or describe the impact others have had on you as relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The application deadline for this position is December 15, 2023.

Questions should be addressed to Prof. Philip Thai, chair of the search, at p.thai@northeastern.edu

Position Type

Academic

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit https://hr.northeastern.edu/benefits/ for more information.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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