Asst Professor - TT

Asst Professor - TT

Job Title Asst Professor - TT
Job Requisition ID 24784BR
Division Emory College
Department 832090:ECAS: Women's Studies
Full/Part Time Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Minimum Hourly $ 0
Midpoint Hourly $ 0
Minimum Annual $ 0
Midpoint Annual $ 0
Job Description EMORY UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. Health and Humanities. Assistant Professor (tenure-track), beginning Fall 2012. Four courses per year, beginning undergraduate to graduate level. Usual advising, committee, and other non-teaching duties. PhD required. This position is
one of several new faculty appointments in the humanities made possible by support from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These interdisciplinary appointments seek to bridge humanistic
inquiry with other disciplines by applying its traditional principles to new fields of study; by
examining traditional areas of research and teaching by means of new approaches; and by
exporting principles of humanistic inquiry across not only the humanities but the academy much
more broadly.

Through this tenure-track position in Health and Humanities, Emory University wishes to add to
its strengths in interdisciplinary scholarship and is looking for an innovative scholar and teacher who will be based in the humanities but can speak beyond their discipline. Preference will be given to those candidates who have training in both the humanities and a health-related field and/or who can provide evidence of collaboration with a health-related field. The successful
candidate will be expected to collaborate with and benefit from associations with the many
health-related schools outside of Emory College. Broadly defined fields of interest appropriate
for this position include but are not limited to: biopolitics and medical technologies; history of
medicine and public health; philosophies of life and well-being; race, social justice, and health
disparities; literature and illness/health; and health and healing.

The successful applicant will have a tenure home in a particular humanities department, but it is
expected that their research and teaching interests will bridge different schools within the
University. This position is open to scholars across the humanities and arts, including African
American Studies, anthropology, area studies, arts and art history, communications, film and
media studies, history, all literature and language departments, psychoanalytic studies, religion,
philosophy, science and technology studies, and women's, gender and sexuality studies.
Additional Job Details Applications should include a cover letter that addresses the position description, current c.v.,
writing sample, teaching portfolio, and three confidential letters of reference. Email applications to Jamie Weems at mellon1@emory.edu. Nominations are invited.PLEASE DO NOT APPLY ONLINE FOR THIS POSITION. APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE DEPARTMENT USING THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ABOVE. Pending administrative approval, review of applications will begin on December 1, 2011; finalists will be invited for campus visits beginning in February 2012. Applications received by December 15, 2011 will be given full consideration. Emory University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply for this position.
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