DESCRIPTION
POSITION DETAILS:
This is a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank beginning with the Fall 2024 semester.
JOB DUTIES:
- Demonstrate a genuine interest in high quality teaching and mentoring of a diverse body of students;
- Teach an upper-division, General Education, large enrollment course related to Latin American archaeology;
- Develop and teach upper division major courses in support of the major and the ABA Concentration, including a regional prehistory and an anthropological theory course in their specialty;
- Work collaboratively with faculty to support and contribute to the department as a part of the ABA concentration, which is strongly grounded in evolutionary theory, and committed to empirically rigorous, scientific research and student training;
- Develop a focused and productive program of original research that demonstrates inclusivity in the involvement of students and respect for diversity in the content and/or focus of the research topics. Engage in dissemination of research;
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Provide advising to a diverse body of undergraduate and graduate majors from a variety of backgrounds;
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Provide service to the department, college, University, and community.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated experience or potential teaching undergraduate students
- Demonstrated experience or potential mentoring graduate students
- Demonstrated experience or potential supervising students in field and lab research
- Experience and/or interest in the social, political, economic, and/or ecological dimensions of hunter-gatherer or non-state agricultural societies
- Analytical specialization that complements and integrates effectively with existing faculty’s expertise and perspectives, including but not limited to ethnoarchaeology, bioarcheology, paleoethnobotany, palynology, geoarchaeology, geographic information systems (GIS), or materials analysis
- Experience and/or interest in teaching graduate-level seminars
Questions about the job duties and/or qualifications may be directed to the chair of the search committee, Nathan Stevens nathan.stevens@csus.edu
