Department of History
University of California, Riverside
2025-2026 Academic Year

Position (s): The Department of History is recruiting for a Visiting Assistant Professor in African History.

Starting Date: July 1, 2025

Salary: Based on 100% annual salary of $74,600. Approximately $12,433 per course. (pending final budget approval) Appointment is eligible for renewal depending on need, funding and performance.

*** All appointments are contingent upon the appointee being able to provide, in accord with Federal law, evidence of authorization to work in the United States ***

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD in History, or a related discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience teaching African History at the college or university level.

Duties: The successful candidate will teach six courses over three terms, one of which will be at the graduate level.

Duties will also consist of advising graduate and undergraduate students in African History.

Courses of instruction:
HIST 30, Themes and Personalities;
HIST 137, Themes and Topics in African history: f: West African History to 1800; j: Ancient Africa; k: African from 1000 to 1880
HIST 138, African Cities in Modern History
HIST 218, The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Application Procedure

Applicants will be required to submit: a cover letter, CV, writing sample, a statement of research and teaching interests, 2-3 teaching evaluations, and 3 letters of reference.
Confidential Letters solicited via AP Recruit System Only – Applicant inserts reference names and solicits references from within APRecruit at time of application. Only completed applications that include the letters of reference may be reviewed by the committee.

Applications and materials will be submitted using UCR’s online application system located at http://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02073.

Applicants who use Interfolio may utilize a feature provided by the Interfolio Service to allow Interfolio to upload their letters directly into AP Recruit. Applicants can input an Interfolio-generated email address in place of their letter writer's email address. Interfolio refers to this as Online Application Deliveries. The following link on the Interfolio website shows how to set this up (http://help.interfolio.com/entries/24062742-Uploading-Letters-to-an-Online-Application-System).

To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by May 5, 2025.

Department Contact person: Marilyn Madrigal, Marilyn.madrigal@ucr.edu.

The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. UCR is a member institution of the American Association of Universities (AAU) as well as the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU). Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status.

For the University of California policies on Affirmative Action, Anti-Discrimination, and Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy, see below.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, State, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.
As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.

“Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
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About University of California, Riverside

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. University of California COVID-19 Vaccination Program Policy As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy. All Covered Individuals under the policy must provide proof of Full Vaccination or, if applicable, submit a request for Exception (based on Medical Exemption, Disability, and/or Religious Objection) or Deferral (based on pregnancy) no later than the applicable deadline. For new University of California employees, the applicable deadline is eight weeks after their first date of employment

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