Job Overview
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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure-track anthropological archaeologist at the rank of Assistant Professor whose research focuses on African and African diaspora archaeology.
The department seeks to expand its growing programmatic and research focus on applied and community engaged anthropology and archaeology. This position will contribute to strengthening our research profile and expanding training opportunities for students in these areas. The position entails teaching courses such as introductory archaeology and archaeological theory as well as upper-division courses in the individual’s area of expertise. The topics of such classes might include the historical archaeology of Africa and the African diaspora, community-engaged archaeology, and an archaeological field school.
Departmental resources include several laboratories, the Court Archaeological Research Facility, and funding opportunities to support their research through the Charles P. Taft Research Center. Other campus resources include the African American Cultural and Resource Center, an active Black Faculty Association, Latino Faculty Association, LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association, and Disabled Faculty and Staff Association. The University of Cincinnati also has a newly established Faculty Enrichment Center committed to helping further the success of its faculty members. Beyond the University, community institutions such as the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Cincinnati Museum Center offer opportunities for strategic partnerships.
Dr. Mariam F. Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. In 2020–21, she was a visiting associate professor of women’s studies and Near Eastern religions and a research associate of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. Ayad studied Egyptology at AUC (BA), the University of Toronto (MA), and Brown University (PhD) and was a tenured associate professor of art history and Egyptology at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, before returning to Egypt in 2011. She is the author of God’s Wife, God’s Servant: The God’s Wife of Amun (c. 740–525 bc) (Routledge, 2009) and the editor of Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy (AUC Press, 2022), and three volumes on Coptic culture, including most recently Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times (AUC Press 2024, available at: 
Dr. Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptology at UCLA and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Specializing in social history, gender studies, and economies in the ancient world, she received her Ph.D. in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. Her popular books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest books include Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches (Routledge, 2023) and Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches (The American University in Cairo Press, forthcoming 2024).
Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on the dynamics of Egyptian imperialism and royal ideology, the use of sealings in administration, the origins of the Napatan state, death and burial and the ethnic, social, and economic dynamics of interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is also an active field archaeologist, having participated in and led archeological expeditions to Egypt and since 1997 to Sudanese Nubia, where he currently co-directs projects focusing on the New Kingdom and Napatan Period cemetery and fortress settlement of Tombos and a nearby Kerma cemetery. Recently, he edited Origins and Afterlives of Kush, a special issue of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (2022).
