Tenure-Track Positions in Asian American Studies, 2020-2021 (Application Deadline: Oct 26 2020)

Tenure-Track Positions in Asian American Studies, 2020-2021

Deadline is Oct 26, 2020

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16876

Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences seeks candidates for two tenure-track professorships in Asian American Studies. These hires are part of an effort to increase the number of faculty with global perspectives and expertise across core departments, with support from the Office of the Provost and funded by The Duke Endowment. https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/10/duke-university-asian-ame…

Candidates should be at the assistant or associate professor level; distinguished candidates at the full professor level will also be considered. The search is open to discipline and to field. Preference will be given to candidates whose work is centrally located in Asian American Studies while also substantially linked to other fields of inquiry such as literature, history, anthropology, the arts, sociology, political science, religion, film and media studies, indigenous studies, gender & sexuality studies, and comparative race studies. Candidates will be considered in the context of the hiring department, with an interest to increase the representation of these studies across arts and sciences. Candidates submitting materials by October 26, 2020 will receive full consideration. Candidates should submit a cover letter, cv, work sample (an article or a chapter), and three letters of recommendation. Candidates should also indicate their preferred primary department and, where applicable, the secondary department. Review of candidates will continue until positions are filled. Duke is committed to encouraging and sustaining work and learning environments that are free from harassment and prohibited discrimination. Duke prohibits discrimination and harassment in the administration of both its employment and educational policies. Duke also makes good faith efforts to recruit, hire, and promote qualified women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. Duke is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Program Background:
Duke’s Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) was established in 2018 in response to over twenty years of student activism on campus and the 2017 assessment prepared by Dr. Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia). Asian American Studies as an academic field emerged out of the Ethnic Studies movement in the late 1960s, and there are currently over 60 universities and colleges with regular course offerings in Asian American Studies. Most degree-granting programs are located on the West and East Coasts, and Duke, in 2018, was the first university in the American South to establish a program in Asian American Studies. In summer of this year, the Asian American Center at UNC was founded also in response to student demand. Nationally, Asian American Studies is a growing field with active professional organizations (such as AAAS), peer-reviewed journals, and leading scholars in the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts.
 
As a new program, Asian American Studies at Duke has the potential to lead the future direction of the field by being rooted in Ethnic Studies but also by envisioning new paradigms in the twenty-first century. The Cluster Hire in Asian American Studies aims to recruit Asian Americanists who can lead the program with a new vision and help strengthen core curricular offering in Asian American Studies at Duke.