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2025-26AY Dissertation Scholar Search – Department of Black Studies, University of California in Santa Barbara
University of California Santa Barbara
Department: Department of Black Studies
The Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for two Dissertation Fellowship Scholars for the academic year 2025-26. We seek Dissertation Scholars working in Interdisciplinary, Social Science, Humanities, and STEM disciplines whose research focus is specifically situated within Black Studies. The Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research and teaching. International applicants are welcome to apply. The twelve-month fellowship begins on 07/01/2025 and scholars are required to be in residence the entire fellowship period, during which time scholars are expected to complete their dissertation. The fellowship award is $43,888. Dissertation Scholars will teach one undergraduate course and present one public lecture. Dissertation Scholars will have the option to rent an unfurnished one-bedroom apartment in Graduate Student Housing.
Application Deadline: May 30, 2025
Do not post after: May 23, 2025
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associates Department of African American Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department: African American Studies
The Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, invites applications for a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associates. This is a one-year appointment with a start date of August 16, 2025, and is renewable for an additional year contingent on availability of funding, strong enrollments, and strong performance reviews.
Applicants must demonstrate promise for a tenure-track appointment at a research college or university, and their primary research focus must be in or related to African American Studies/Africana Studies. We are especially interested in scholars working in Black politics, or the social sciences broadly, but will consider excellent applicants in all sub-fields of African American Studies/Africana Studies. Proposed research projects should have the potential to make a significant contribution to the field.
Application Deadline: April 25, 2025
Do not post after: April 25, 2025
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of California, Riverside
Department: History
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
Application Deadline: May 5, 2025
Do not post after: June 2, 2025
Assistant to the Dean
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department: College of Fine and Applied Arts
The College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks to hire a Post-Doctoral/Post-Graduate Fellow in the area of contemporary Black Arts. The fulltime fellowship will be a 9-month appointment during the 2025-2026 academic year, commencing in mid-August 2025, with an option to renew for up to two more academic years based on an annual evaluation of performance. The Fellow will also be considered for a tenure stream assistant professorship at the conclusion of the fellowship. The position will be appointed in the Fine and Applied Arts unit to which their research or practice is most relevant, which includes the School of Music, School of Art and Design, School of Architecture, or the Departments of Theatre, Dance, Landscape Architecture, or Urban and Regional Planning.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
Do not post after: April 30, 2025
Career Track Assistant Professor of Practice
University of Arizona
Department: Africana Studies
The Department of Africana Studies, within the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC) of the College of Humanities, at the University of Arizona invites applicants for a Career Track Assistant Professor of Practice position with expertise in Hip-Hop Studies and Film (including Hip-Hop Cinema), from any region of the world beginning August 2025. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand by August 15, 2025. This is a one-year appointment, with the possibility of renewal, contingent on satisfactory performance review, funding, and departmental needs. We are particularly interested in a candidate with a history of excellent teaching experience in all modalities (in-person, online, hybrid), and sound familiarity with multi-media teaching technologies and platforms.
Application Deadline: The review date is April 25, 2025; applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
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Faculty in Black Sacred Music and Associate Director for the Interdisciplinary Program in Music and the Black Church
Yale University
Department: Institute of Sacred Music
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and Yale Divinity School (YDS) invite applications for a faculty position with the interdisciplinary program in Music and the Black Church who will also serve as its Associate Director. The successful candidate will be appointed at the rank of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, or Professor in the Practice, depending on education and professional experience, for terms of three to five years in length, beginning July 1, 2025. A candidate’s appointment is renewable upon successful performance reviews. The position is for a scholar and musician to teach courses and develop student ensembles (choral and instrumental) focused on Black sacred music with particular emphasis on the Gospel tradition, who will also share administrative duties for the program. Since its 2021 founding, Music and the Black Church has presented a host of courses, symposia, and concerts in addition to launching initiatives like the Church Music Skills program, which trains students in gospel voice, keyboards, and percussion. The successful candidate will provide musical and intellectual leadership by pursuing an artistic/scholarly agenda, guiding the overarching planning and development of the Program, supporting student advising, organizing events and lectures, partnering with other ISM and Divinity School programs, and fostering and strengthening connections with the broader Yale and New Haven communities.
Application Deadline: Rolling
Do not post after: April 30, 2025
Assistant Professor, African American History
Arizona State University, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Department: School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, early career tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor with a research specialization in African American history. The successful candidate can expect to teach two courses per semester (2-2 teaching load), have a robust research agenda, participate in service such as SHPRS faculty governance, and undergraduate and graduate mentoring; they will receive career mentoring from senior peers in ASU Humanities, including one senior peer in a related field. Time period is open, but specialization preference is the American Southwest/West and migration or immigration history. Successful candidate will teach online and on-ground courses in African American and North American history including Ethnicity and Immigration, with an anticipated start date of August 16, 2025. This full-time, benefits-eligible, tenure-track position includes a path to promotion to Associate Professor and Full Professor. SHPRS strongly encourages candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
Application Deadline: February 14, 2025.
Do not post after: May 1, 2025
Associate Professor of Africana Studies (Public Health)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department: Africana Studies
The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for the tenured position of Associate Professor with specialization in Public Health, to begin August 2025. The position is fully located in the Africana Studies Department, with the possibility of teaching courses cross-listed with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (SAPH), the School of Social Work, and other campus units. Standard teaching load is 2:3. We seek an associate professor with a demonstrated record of excellence in applying interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to scholarship and teaching related to the field of Africana Studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a commitment to and record of advocacy on behalf of the field, and who has leadership potential to assume the headship of the department within a couple of years.
Application Deadline: TBD
Do not post after: TBD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tulane University
Department: Tulane University History Project
The Tulane University History Project invites applications for one postdoctoral fellow to begin by August 2024 (earlier start dates negotiable). This is a residential fellowship based in New Orleans, LA. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in history or closely related fields by start date. We especially seek candidates with expertise in any of the following areas: 19th or 20th century African American history, history of race and higher education, New Orleans and the Gulf South, or public history. Tulane University History Project is a long-term effort to research and develop a detailed history of the University and its campuses, with respect to its racial history and founding, including the impacts from segregation and slavery. It will cover the university’s founding as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 through the present day. The project will ultimately produce a nuanced, complex, and honest chronological biography of the university that engages its relationship with slavery, segregation and issues of racial equity. Tulane University is a member of the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Do not post after: Open until filled
Ethnic Studies Instructor
Irvine Valley College
Department: Education
The ideal candidate for this position is an equity-minded individual who understands the importance of creating opportunities in Ethnic Studies for students who have been historically underserved. Irvine Valley College seeks candidates who view the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility and who strive to reframe inequities as a problem of practice. In addition, the ideal candidate demonstrates a commitment to student-centered teaching practices, effective cross-disciplinary and cross campus collaboration, transparent decision-making, and purposeful service to the community. The ideal candidate will embrace the role of an educator who is continually learning anti-racist pedagogy and adapting to the needs of a diverse student population.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Do not post after: Open until filled
Director, Africana Studies
Lehigh University
Department: Africana Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University invites applications and nominations for a senior scholar and Director of the Africana Studies Program at the rank of Full Professor, effective August 15, 2024. This hire is a joint appointment between the Africana Studies Program and an appropriate academic department represented in the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University. The candidate should have a scholarly background in African American/Black Studies/critical race studies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Do not post after: Open until filled
Assistant Professor – Africana Studies and Global Health
University of Tennessee
Department: Africana Studies
The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant or Associate Professor of Africana Studies. African Studies has a 55-year history on UTK’s campus but recently transitioned to a fully-fledged department, with tenure-line faculty and a major, minor, and graduate certificate. The Department seeks a colleague, whose work focuses on Africana Studies and Global Health and whose research agenda encompasses a broad spectrum of scholarship and creative activity related to the Continent (and/or peoples) of Africa, the African Diaspora, and/or the African American experience.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Do not post after: Open until filled