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
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).
