*Please feel free to post widely. Application closing date: November 17,
2008
The Department of History of Consciousness at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for senior, tenured,
full-time faculty members beginning July 1, 2009. *
We seek candidates with an international research reputation
based on innovative work that invites connections across disciplinary
divides. Scholars coming from different disciplines, inter-disciplines,
and other configurations of investigation and teaching are welcome in
History of Consciousness. Questions about subjectivities, cultures,
sexualities, ethnicities, histories, religions, and politics are all
invited, as are deep ties between scholarship and other kinds of
engagement in the world. Film and visual cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, semiotics, social structural investigations, historical
studies, ethnography, science and technology studies, literary studies,
and poetics are all crucial to the History of Consciousness. Regardless
of disciplinary background, candidates should have a comprehensive
knowledge in the bodies of thought and practice relevant to their
questions. We are interested in the ability to work in a range of
languages, especially non-European languages. We seek mature, versatile
scholars, who are committed to both theoretical and empirical questions
and whose strengths extend, challenge, and engage with the diverse
research cultures that characterize the department's faculty and
graduate students. The successful candidate will be expected to make a
sustained and active contribution to the department's research output,
exercise leadership in departmental development and administration,
advise and mentor graduate students across disciplinary differences,
assist in the development and management of the PhD program, and engage
creatively in the department's graduate and undergraduate teaching.
The History of Consciousness Department is in the Division of
Humanities, which also includes the Departments of American Studies,
Feminist Studies, History, Language Program, Linguistics, Literature,
Philosophy, and the Writing Program. The Division has a strong
tradition of collaborative and interdisciplinary work, and we especially
encourage applications from strongly qualified candidates eager to
extend their teaching and research activities across departmental and
disciplinary boundaries. The campus is especially interested in
candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the
academic community through their research, teaching and/or service.
*RANK:* upper Associate Professor through senior Professor
*SALARY*: commensurate with qualifications and experience.
*MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:* Applicant must have a Ph.D. or foreign
equivalent in a field that contributes to the mission of the History of
Consciousness Department. The successful candidate must present strong
evidence of interdisciplinary research activity; university teaching
experience, preferably at both undergraduate and graduate levels,
including doctoral dissertation supervision; and effective work to build
and support academic programs.**
*POSITION AVAILABLE:* July 1, 2009
*TO APPLY:* Please provide the following:
1) Letter of application, including a discussion of past, current, and
planned research; approaches to teaching graduate and undergraduate
students; and approaches to program development
2) Curriculum vitae
3) Representative publications, including one or two recent essays or
chapters
4) Names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of
three referees whom we may contact for letters of recommendation. (All
letters will be treated as confidential documents; please refer to
UCSC's confidentiality statement at
http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/policies/confstm.htm.)
Applicants are encouraged to submit a statement addressing their
contribution to diversity through research, teaching, and/or service.
These materials should be sent to:
Senior Search Committee
Care of Professor Donna Haraway
Department of History of Consciousness
HUM 1, Room 415
University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
*CLOSING DATE: *
The position will remain open until filled, but in order to be
considered at initial screening the complete application (including
supporting documents) must be postmarked by the closing date of November
17, 2008.
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