Tenure Track Professor in Baltic Studies (Open Rank)
Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
Application
Details
Posted: 24-Oct-24
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Categories:
Europe
World/Global
Employment Type:
Full-Time Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty
Primary Field:
Asia
Salary Details:
Offered salary will be competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience, and dependent upon recruited rank.
Preferred Education:
Doctorate
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks a tenure-track hire (open rank) in contemporary Baltic studies, with a focus on security. The appointment begins August 1, 2025.
Applicants should conduct research in Baltic Studies and be capable of teaching on topics relating to recent Baltic geopolitics and societies, especially of Estonia and Finland, as well as other countries in the region. Teaching will be conducted in English.
Candidates should demonstrate commitment to excellence in research, teaching, public engagement, and program development of Baltic Studies within Indiana University’s world-class Central Eurasian Studies department as well as within the Hamilton Lugar School. Candidates should be able to demonstrate a capacity to design and teach classes appealing to range of students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Review of applications will begin immediately, with all applications received by November 1, 2024 being guaranteed full consideration.
Applicants at the assistant professor level must provide contact information for three (3) references, whereas applicants at the associate or full professor levels must provide contact information for six (6) references.
Applicant referees will receive an email link to submit their letters of reference directly to the search committee through the PeopleAdmin interface.
For questions regarding the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, please contact Professor Laszlo Borhi, search committee chair, at lborhi@iu.edu or visit the departmental website at ceus.indiana.edu. For questions regarding the application submission process, please contact Mr. Zac Muller, Assistant Director of Faculty Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, at zmuller@iu.edu.
Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on individual qualifications. Indiana University prohibits discrimination based on age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
Please note that this offer must also gain final administrative approval and is subject to the University's receipt of verification of your credentials and other information required by law, and on your furnishing the federally required documentation showing that you are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or an authorized alien entitled to be employed in the U.S. for the period of your appointment. Indiana University participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify Program to confirm employment eligibility. Upon acceptance of your offer, you will receive an email containing information on employment eligibility verification and the E-Verify process. This appointment is also conditional on a positive outcome of a background check, a part of the appointment process for all faculty and staff at the University as well as a misconduct review for prospective tenured faculty. You will receive an authorization/release form that you will be asked to sign. The misconduct review will occur before this offer is finalized, and the background check will be initiated and completed through HireRight, the default web-based system, once all appointment-related documentation has been submitted to the Business Office.
Apply at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25751. Application materials should include a cover letter, CV, career statement describing research, service, teaching experiences and teaching philosophy, samples of published, in-press, and forthcoming work, previous teaching materials and course evaluations, and contact information for professional academic references.
Basic Qualifications
Candidates must have a PhD degree or be ABD by the starting date of the appointment. Proficiency in a language spoken in the region is required.
Preferred Qualifications
Candidates from international affairs/international relations, political science, contemporary history, or sociology are preferred.
About Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University took its present name in 1993. It originally was founded as an Army Specialized Training Program for Central Eurasian languages in 1943, then formally organized as the Program in Uralic and Altaic Studies (from 1956 to 1965) and later as the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (from 1965 to 1993). The Department has long been one of the world's leading centers of academic expertise on Central Eurasia as well as the sole independent degree-granting academic unit in its field staffed with its own faculty of specialists.Our program provides students with the means to study in depth a region of specialization in the Central Eurasian area through mastery of one or more languages as well as the history and culture of a given region by means of a multidisciplinary approach. The graduate degree program combines two key features: (1) a Language of Specialization (LOS), which gives students access to the chosen culture through the voices of its people; and (2) a Region of Specialization (ROS), which includes courses on various aspects of the chosen culture. In addition, while becoming familiar with various disciplinary appr...oaches to the study of Central Eurasia, students are strongly encouraged to provide depth to their studies by thoroughly assimilating the methodology of a single discipline. The undergraduate degree program allows students to pursue one of two tracks: (1) Language and Civilization Track; and (2) Central Eurasian Track. The Department's programs offer exciting possibilities for study and research as well as wide-ranging opportunities for careers in academia, government, and international business.