Assistant Professor - Latin American, Indigenous Peoples/African Diaspora
Stony Brook University
Application
Details
Posted: 18-Sep-23
Location: Stony Brook, New York
Categories:
Latin America/Caribbean
Employment Type:
Full-Time Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty
Primary Field:
Latin America
Required Education:
Doctorate
Internal Number: 4602083
Assistant Professor - Latin American, Indigenous Peoples/African Diaspora
Location: Stony Brook, New York Open Date: Sep 14, 2023 Deadline: Dec 01, 2023 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of History at Stony Brook University, a public R1 institution with a highly diverse student population, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor focused on the History of Latin American Indigenous Peoples/African Diaspora, with a specialty in South America, Central America, or the Caribbean, but not Mexico.
The time period of the candidates' research is open, but preference will be given to scholars of themes including but not limited to: slavery, race, labor, migrations and the transatlantic world.
We encourage applicants with interdisciplinary training who situate the Americas in critical global, environmental, medical and/or ethnographic frameworks. We seek a scholar who is enthusiastic about mentoring graduate students and who will offer courses aligned with one or more of the Department's thematic clusters: Global connections, empire, capitalism; Health, science, environment; Race, citizenship, migration; Religion, gender, cultural identity; States, nations, political cultures. https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/history/grad/themes.html
The ideal candidate will also be an engaged teacher of undergraduate survey and upper-division courses on colonial and/or modern Latin America. Standard teaching load is 2:2. As a faculty member in History, the candidate will also be able to take advantage of connections with Stony Brook's Global Studies Major; Institute for Globalization Studies; Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies Center; Africana Studies Department; and other interdisciplinary programs. For details about the History Department and our undergraduate and graduate curriculum, please see: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/history/
Qualifications
Required qualifications: PhD from an accredited institution with specialization in Latin American History. The selected candidate should have their degree in hand by August 2024.
Preferred qualifications: Experience teaching undergraduate courses in person. Preferred: Field in Indigenous or Afro-Latin America
Writing sample (chapter or journal article of 25-40 pages)
List of three references with e-mail contact information
Only references of shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will be expected to provide a research statement and teaching statement with sample syllabus. The Department expects to conduct remote interviews with shortlisted candidates and host finalists on campus early 2024.
Review of applications will begin on November 1, but additional applications will be accepted until December 1, 2023.
Campus Description
Stony Brook University, one of four research intensive campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system, is widely regarded as its flagship. The University embraces its mission to provide comprehensive undergraduate, graduate and professional education of the highest quality, and its rankings bear that out. It is included among the top 1% of universities in the world by the 2018 QS World University Rankings and among the top 40 public universities by U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Colleges rankings. It is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, composed of the top 62 research institutions in North America. As Long Island’s largest single site employer, Stony Brook has nearly 15,000 full- and part-time employees, including more than 2,700 faculty and an estimated 26,800 students — 17,900 undergraduate students and 8,900 graduate students — and offers more than 200 majors, minors and combined-degree programs. The Department of Athletics supports 18 Division I varsity intercollegiate athletic programs that compete at the highest level within the NCAA. Located approximately 60 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island’s beautiful North Shore, Stony Brook is situated on 1,454 wooded acres, encompassing 13 schools and colleges; a Research and Development Park; world-class athletics facilities, including an 8,300-seat stadium and a 4,000-seat arena; and Stony Brook Medicine, Long Island’s premier academic medical center. Also part of the University is a teaching and research campus in Southampton, New York, which offers graduate arts programs and is the site of the Marine Sciences Center. In addition, Stony Brook has a role in running, and performs joint research with, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, NY, and the Humanities Institute, with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, Stony Brook sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
About the College
As part of a great research university, the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University incubates creative work and scholarship in fundamental disciplines, connecting with medicine, technology, public policy, culture, education, the arts, business and environment. As the liberal arts college for the campus, we help students and faculty explore diverse possibilities that exceed their initial expectations and prepare for a lifetime of learning and discovery. http://www.stonybrook.edu/cas/.
In accordance with the New York State Department of Health (DOH) regulation that all hospitals and nursing homes “continuously require all personnel to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” Candidates who are not already vaccinated must obtain the first dose of the vaccine within three (3) calendar days of acceptance of conditional job offer and must obtain any subsequent doses in accordance with the vaccine protocol. Candidates who are partially vaccinated, but not yet fully vaccinated, must complete their vaccination series within three (3) calendar days of job offer or in accordance with vaccine manufacture protocol, whichever comes later. The regulation also includes those who may be affiliated with or interact with employees of a hospital or nursing home. The regulation allows for limited exemptions with reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable law.
The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.
In accordance with the Title II Crime Awareness and Security Act, a copy of our crime statistics is available upon request . It can also be viewed online at the University Police website athttp://www.stonybrook.edu/police.
Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.
